Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are 5 tips to create a profitable sales pipeline: Reverse engineer the number of opportunities your reps need to hit quota. Commit to forecast opportunities for the week/month/quarter. Ensure your reps take ownership for their individual sales pipelines. Summary: Stay on top of your sales pipeline metrics.

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JULY 22, 2014

Midmarket companies and larger SMBs seem to fall into three camps: the ones who understand the power of social sales and actively work to build a plan of action, the ones who are coming around to this idea but not doing much yet, and those who are turning a blind eye and are missing a great window of opportunity. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! In contrast, unleash a team of smart sales reps and success pours like rain. Great Sales Training = The Best Sales Outcomes. Sales Hacker.

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Pipeliner

MAY 18, 2019

If your sales training investment is not achieving the outcomes you expected, you are in good company. The problem probably isn’t the training program you chose. You probably made one (or more) of five common faulty assumptions about your sales training initiative. It happens pretty often. Don’t do that.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Inside Sales Rep. In an increasingly digital world, inside salespeople are the go-to for prospecting, nurturing, and converting leads remotely. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel. Image Source.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

This gives you MORE sales opportunities than if you did not optimize. If you leave your brand up to whatever anyone might find online, you are setting yourself up to potentially miss out on some big deals, opportunities, and partnerships that otherwise would come your way. They are having search engines find insight about you.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

She is IBM’s most prolific female inventor and a mobile software engineer. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities. image courtesy of IBM.com.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

Here are 3 examples that we frequently see sales and marketing leaders implementing to make a quantum leap forward: Inside Sales: Create a new Inside Sales function to serve an ever-increasing segment of customers who prefer to purchase on-line. The virtual training received high marks. What went wrong?

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JUNE 30, 2014

Our recipe for success requires that you be able to listen to the customer and flex in ways that help bring big opportunities and deals to closure. Conduct assessments to find reps consistent to what it takes to succeed in sales at your company. Train and coach frontline sales leaders. Increase Opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You are a seller and one of your big sales opportunities has stalled. Sales author Anne Miller gives us some examples: Hit? Kill Crutch Words – Inside Sales Power Tip 133. Sales Message Makeover – Inside Sales Power Tip 143. Increase Opportunities. 2 more resources.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Did you know you’re missing out on sales opportunities by having a poor mobile company website? This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

It is a missed opportunity and it is causing you to leave money on the table. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities. What are you waiting for?

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JULY 31, 2014

Now there are bigger and better ways – from tools like GageIn to data tools like Avention we can track new contacts at our prospective customer companies – a key way to grow opportunities. Ultimately you will want to do more than listening, but even if you just listened to look for new opportunities, your sales team’s revenues would grow.

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MAY 23, 2014

Can you see how this ONE idea could offer you hundreds of new, highly qualified opportunities by keeping in better touch with those buyers and prospective customers who know you or would warm up to you through knowing you are connected to the person they followed? Increase Opportunities. It’s a simple concept anyone can grasp.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

A well-meaning sales rep can ruin an opportunity by blurting out – trumpeting – all that you do and why you’d be great for them. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

[Use the steps and your own terminology within your sales process to help your SDRs and BDRs enter clean, verified data.]. This is not so much a clean data issue but is so critical in moving your sales opportunities forward that it needs to be mentioned. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Those of us in and around hundreds of sales teams know that it is not just about more women applying for sales positions – it is about the culture of the company, how interviewing is done, what job descriptions look like, and whether first line sales managers are trained in gender neutral communication, among other things.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Furthermore, the playbook aligns sales activities with broader business goals. It harmonizes sales and marketing to ensure focus on unified business targets. This is where a comprehensive sales development playbook is essential to success for startups and established organizations.

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MAY 15, 2014

What they often lack is permission, and proper training. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities. LR: What’s next in social? Expand Your Pipeline.

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JULY 23, 2013

For starters: How do you get trained in your company – in a methodical way, or as you fly by the seat of your pants? Training with reinforcement, such as follow-up coaching, yields more revenue to your company in the form of better trained sellers, more client retention, and longer employee tenure. Increase Opportunities.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Through a formal sales development program, you can not only strengthen your talent pipeline, but also empower the next generation of leaders and secure sales success at scale. Sales development is a separate (but related) category to sales training. How to Build an Impactful Sales Talent Pipeline.

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APRIL 29, 2014

What that means is that marketing dollars are being wasted, and the big guys are missing out on opportunities literally being handed to them. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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APRIL 26, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a panel where we discussed some of these things. Not enough employees with CRM seats – companies will selectively give certain individuals seats, such as all sales but no marketing, or inside sales but not outside sales (or vice versa). Increase Opportunities.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Here is another post written this year about how mobile helps sales reps sell. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Professional conferences are not only an opportunity to meet industry leaders -- and maybe do a little prospecting -- they’re also a way to break yourself out of your usual routine and pick up new skills. So we’ve compiled a list (in chronological order) of the top sales conferences you should attend in 2017 and 2018. Dreamforce.

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APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer.

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JUNE 25, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Ken Krogue is the co-founder of InsideSales.com, a company that offers tools and consulting to companies with inside sales teams. Ken truly is a leader in inside selling strategies. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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JULY 30, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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