Crunchbase

APRIL 4, 2023

With the collapse of both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month, along with the sale of Credit Suisse to UBS , some finance leaders think a “ slow rolling crisis ” is coming for banks. Research shows that the building and construction sector accounts for 34% of energy demand and 37% of energy and process-related CO2 emissions.

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Selling Energy

AUGUST 12, 2022

There are not enough hours in the day to find every potential customer the old-fashioned way. Taking the time to locate and forge partnerships with non-competitive vendors or service providers is one of the best ways to maximize your time in finding new prospects. Here’s an example that illustrates the point perfectly:

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2021

It’s one of the most important components of sustained sales success over time. As a sales manager or director, you can only influence your team’s sales performance in two dimensions: Their skill set (what they can do) and their motivation (how repeatedly or passionately they do it). But motivation is far harder.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 5, 2012

Have you ever interacted with those sales people who have the my way or I’m off the sales highway? You can recognize those folks as they stay pretty much on script, truly do not listen to you and quickly abandon you for that next unsuspecting prospect. Credit www.sxc.hu. However, those engagements are fewer and fewer.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 4, 2016

As we work through the haze of celebrating the new year, sales people we can count on two things; first our new goals or quotas; second a barrage of posts and articles telling us how 2016 will be different, or trends that will impact us this year. into outputs ( Read sales ). By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2022

As a result, as the older generation retires and leaves the workforce, the use of the telephone for prospecting outreach–or cold calls–would decline. ” My mom is an amazingly high energy 91 years old (sorry to make that public, mom). Most of my prospecting and cold calling is leveraging multiple channels.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 31, 2018

Sales development is a passion of mine. Say what you will, I don’t consider the sales development rep (SDR) an entry-level role. And as more and more outreach becomes automated, more prospects tune out and you have to try harder to be memorable. In 2018, more than ever, you have to EARN that sales meeting. Only, it isn’t.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. FREE Resources.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As an outsider, I find watching the reaction to the elections in the States on Tuesday interesting from a sales point of view. To be clear, this isn’t one of those hollow “What can sales people learn from the USA elections?” Instead on Monday they’re Sales 2.0, Oh ya, take the order).

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Pipeliner

JUNE 30, 2019

There are two popular narratives floating around in the sales industry. One is sales is a numbers game while the other one says it is not. Sales professionals have always been told that sales is a numbers game but many sales experts have different opinions. Busting the Myth, “Sales is a Numbers Game”.

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Selling Energy

APRIL 27, 2020

Changes and challenges are inevitable when you’re working in sales. This is something we’re dealing with right now in an unprecedented fashion, but the outcome is always the same - businesses can survive if they roll with the punches and come up with creative ways to reach prospects.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2019

Recently, I reread an article by Brian Halligan, Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel. ” From a physics point of view it’s a little difficult to understand, basically the flywheel acts on energy applied through a shaft. It has become very fashionable to invent new terms to address concepts.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Your mother was right: Writing a thank you note can, indeed, make your sales business. Your Prospects Want to Know. Even if you don’t write business with a prospect now, they want to know you value their relationship, will continue to stay in touch, and connect them with your referral network. You can never thank someone enough.

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Apptivo

MARCH 25, 2022

CRM is not CRM anymore, it manages sales processes and increases the sales numbers by a significant percentage. You need to view a CRM solution as an effective tool in improving efficiency, boosting sales and turning leads into potential customers. Do you experience any slowdown in your sales?

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SalesLoft

JULY 31, 2017

Want to know the secret to the most effective sales communication? But how do you begin to understand your buyer and truly empathize with them throughout the entire sales process? If you start by researching your prospects with apps like LinkedIn, you can gather some relevant facts about your prospect.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 22, 2019

There aren’t too many jobs more difficult than effectively leading a sales force. Here are nine terrible mistakes sales leaders make and their cures. Not Modernizing the Sales Force : The world of sales has changed more over the last ten years than the preceding forty years. Win customers away from your competition.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) Cold calling is a way to engage prospects one-on-one to move them to the next step in the buying process. You have your list of names and phone numbers.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It seems to be fashionable to talk about creating “frictionless buying experiences?” Too much friction requires more energy to get things done. But the opposite is also true, in a frictionless or low friction environment, we can expend a huge amount of energy and not move. They aren’t our prospect or customers.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2012

It is about putting that sales pedal to the metal, and it has everything to do with traction. ” I sincerely believe the question is asked in this fashion, not because they lack knowledge of my consulting services, but rather theyask it because theylack both a starting point, and a direction. This gives me great insight.

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Zendesk Sell

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For the archetypical salesperson, any tactic or technique that leads to a sale is the right one, as long as it’s not outright fraud. And a prospect that can’t parry his tricks should either gear up or expect to become easy game. Thus, you can’t always trust your best intentions to be in line with your prospect’s best interest.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There aren’t too many jobs more difficult than effectively leading a sales force. Here are nine terrible mistakes sales leaders make and their cures. Not Modernizing the Sales Force : The world of sales has changed more over the last ten years than the preceding forty years. Win customers away from your competition.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I can speak from experience as I’ve made more embarrassing mistakes than I’d like to recognize, especially when sending automated email campaigns to potential clients or link-building prospects. Are you falling off your prospects’ radars? The best sales email is the one that gets read. THAT’S PRO. LEARN MORE. #3:

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Selling Energy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There are not enough hours in the day to find every potential customer the old-fashioned way. Taking the time to locate and forge partnerships with non-competitive vendors or service providers is one of the best ways to maximize your time in finding new prospects. Here’s an example that illustrates the point perfectly:

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Pipeliner

JULY 14, 2018

We are officially halfway through 2018, and it’s a great time to be in sales. This sales article provides actionable insights to help you understand the current climate of the business world, and leverage tools and skills to make this the best year yet. Where sales knowledge meets domain knowledge intersect is where value is created.

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Zoominfo

JULY 15, 2019

Think about all the times you’ve struggled to avoid an over-eager shopping mall vendor who tries to force a free energy drink or snack or random knick-knack into your hands. This leads prospects and customers to purposely go out of their way to avoid your company.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Think about all the times you’ve struggled to avoid an over-eager shopping mall vendor who tries to force a free energy drink or snack or random knick-knack into your hands. This leads prospects and customers to purposely go out of their way to avoid your company.

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SBI

APRIL 10, 2012

Tweet To stimulate your ongoing and by now thoroughly ravenous appetite for more delectable sales leadership fare, the name hovering up in the article heading will surely set this particular table in fine culinary style. It is either flat, flavorless, or flawed in some fashion. LESSON One. To be very blunt, it doesn’t matter.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 27, 2020

We’ll be looking at this in six parts: PART I: It Starts With Knowing Your Prospect. PART II: A Weird Visualization to Help With Sales. PART I: It Starts With Knowing Your Prospect. The goal here is to get to know the person behind the prospect. Think about your prospect like a new friend who you don’t know well (yet).

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a sales professional, you’re sending emails all day, every day. The lowest-hanging fruit is personalizing your subject line so it’s unique to the specific prospect. Marketing and advertising companies have the lowest sales email open rate. What if you’re below average and have room to improve? Maybe your current rate is 20%.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2019

I have helped dozens of up and coming sales pros to help them become better, more effective leaders. Like any other industry, I need to grow and refine my leadership skills in order to stay ahead in sales. Read on to learn more about leadership skills and how to hone them to improve your chances of crushing it in the sales world.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 27, 2019

For more than a decade now, many in sales have been neglecting what may the single most crucial activity necessary for producing sales results. That activity is prospecting , and it is what is required to open new relationships and create new opportunities. If you want success, you need to build the prospecting habit.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2022

Read on to learn everything you need to know about the metaverse and its relation to sales. What are metaverse sales? Metaverse sales are sales that occur within an online alternate reality world. However, sales that currently happen in the metaverse vary from the traditional sales you might be used to.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 20, 2021

Without these documented procedures, employees are forced to start from scratch every single time, leading to wasted time, energy, and money — along with stress on your team and customer frustration. Consider what your sales team does when it receives a lead. Examples of Process Strategy. Is it by phone? Is it by email?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

With the world of sales always growing and changing, businesses have to be sure to stay on top of the most important trends and processes, including the inbound sales methodology. If you’re wondering what inbound sales are, how you can make them, and what the relevant best practices are, you’ve come to the right place.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Whether you’re struggling to get sales prospects to buy into your message or you just want to make your sales presentations as effective as they can be, storytelling could be the answer. In a sales context, your character is your customer. Here’s how to do it well. Step #1: Start with Buyer Personas.

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