Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Many sales leaders think they’ve put a simple sales process in place, but they get frustrated when their reps don’t follow it. That’s because the sales processes leaders come up with are often not as clear, actionable, or repeatable as they’d hoped. These 3 Sales Process Tips Will Make You Unstoppable.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2021

The instability and threats to survival so many companies are facing have resulted in longer sales cycles and increased executive presence on calls (up 53% from a pre-COVID-19 baseline). Sales Tools & Best Practices: The right tools and best practices to put your theory of sales enablement into practice.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 3, 2016

Sales Management Shouldn’t be a Horse Race. That happens because of many reasons; lack of good pure sales management training programs, lack of previous exposure to sales leadership mentors or poor management styles. It happens in so many aspects of the job of sales leadership. What do I mean?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I’m almost hesitant to click on a download for an eBook or White Paper. Where I have the problem is the Phone Call or the Follow Up eMail—-“I see you are interested in our solutions for…… ” You know what I mean. . It’s not for the inevitable box: Name, eMail, Company.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Business Acumen , Interview , Proactive , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , audio , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Leadership.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 16, 2022

When you can sort your prospects by lead score, you can help your sales team contact the highest value leads more effectively. Because lead scores are dynamic and changing daily, sales teams have an efficient way to determine which leads to follow-up with on a daily basis. Gain Context Before the Sales Call.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 22, 2014

You may not have the luxury of an LMS (Learning Management System). But that doesn’t mean you can’t create and serve up training content in different modalities. You can create PowerPoints, Prezi, videos or white papers to name a few. Remember, as the sales enablement leader, your sales reps are your customers.

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Pipeliner

MAY 12, 2021

Sales automation is about automating repetitive, time-consuming sales tasks that can be easily carried out by software, artificial intelligence (AI), and other smart devices. It’s like running your sales machine while you sleep and waking up to systemized processes that lead to a greater number of sales.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Simply promote the workshop by tweeting it to your friends, followers, neighbors, former lovers, etc. But to qualify and win the tweet has to include three things: The following tags – #ppmark #contest #toronto (all three tags need to appear in each tweet). A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Too often, as executives look to improve sales performance, they look to doing something new or different. It may be adopting a new methodology, new technologies or tools, changing your go to customer strategies. Any of these can improve sales performance, but the come with their costs. Focus on disqualification.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. We were honestly amazed at the great tools we found.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Company awareness : Sales reps must understand the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and values in order to navigate the right course. Sales skills : Salespeople should learn how to negotiate, craft a compelling sales pitch, engage in sales conversations, execute timely follow-ups, and close deals successfully.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Backed up by resources such as D&B, this information is useful for identifying a prospect’s financial health. This information is critical when looking for up- or cross-selling opportunities—establishing environmental profiles and understanding specifics about what the customer does to earn money. Campaign Management.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Success , execution. November 1st was a beautiful day up here this year, sunny, high 70’s, in fact so nice I had to treat myself to an afternoon latte.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. To help answer this question we have brought together top Focus sales and marketing experts to talk about the specific tactics that work for sales people today. In this Roundtable, we will answer the following questions: How does a salesperson turn a name into a prospect? Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The following Monday, I took inventory of all the people at the Monday opportunity review meeting, since this was a must attend all the sales people were there. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales Process.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. And so it is with sales, the very reason you want to have a process is to free you up to deal with the unexpected, and there is plenty of that in B2B selling. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. A couple days later, I gave it another go – slightly more aggressively to the point: Tweeted: Why is it I pay for a month’s worth of internet but your services are not up all month? A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Wednesday I posted a piece about the importance of working your sales cycle, not the calendar. I had a call from Bob, a director of sales with software company. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. My sales rep recently sold me the top of the line, lowest price product that would speed up my operations and limit my liability. My division’s expenditures went down and profits were up. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Cupid’s behavior may create some internal resentment as follow-through may not be this salesperson’s strong suit. What may happen is this loud voice may shut out others during important sales meetings as well as customers. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 6, 2016

July is Sales Leadership Month. As a sales leader you must always have a vision and action plans for a rolling six months, this is why July is the perfect month for anyone that has sales management responsibility—so why not name it Sales Leadership Month ! Did the quarterly sales training plans work?

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SBI

AUGUST 2, 2018

VanillaSoft was designed for the sales development professional, and their pursuit of these goals. Specifically, it provides the following capabilities which allow salespeople to be better, and faster, than they currently are: Our queue-based interface presents the next lead for follow-up.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. All for minimal cost of 8 out of 10 tweets being about how to make more money using “proven” methods on Twitter and social media, or how to get thousands of followers overnight; FOLLOWERS who couldn’t pick you out of a line up, much less relate or benefit from your tweets.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. But the smaller a company is, the more their internal people need to do and the less tools they will have to help them. Ask what their timeline is and schedule action items and follow-ups in conjunction with them.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 30, 2020

Showstoppers and deal breakers can pop up anytime during the selling cycle. In too many cases, the issue is only revealed following the loss of the sale to a competitor. These clues may include online behaviors such as white paper downloads, browsing product literature, selected video or other content perused on your webpage.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. There are steps to follow that can make prospecting easy and effective. Do Your Research -Organize yourself before you pick up the phone. Your phone call should be anywhere from 1-3 minutes and include the following: Identify yourself and your company. Home About The Pipeline.

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DialSource

JULY 8, 2020

No longer are businesses “experimenting” with the idea of inside sales — this method of selling is the new reality. . The Rise of Inside Sales. Last September, we published the white paper, The Rise of Inside Sides , which is now more relevant than ever. The clock-speed of business has now gone up an order of magnitude.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. If you are in sales and your mandate is to sell to companies within your geographical territory, you have probably faced a scenario similar to the one that follows. Copiers as an example, you may refer to document management at one end, and sell copiers to the other end. Free Resources.

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Not only did they never recover the cost of acquiring the account, but ended up paying a further $6,000 penalty for as long as the client maintained the service. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 15, 2022

When a sales rep asks us point-blank, ”What is the best way to follow-up with a prospect that goes silent?“ It’s a real question we hear often, and we know sales reps are not wanting to hear a vague reply like, ”It depends on your situation.” They are looking for practical advice to a real-world sales problem.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Even more so when you consider that the average manager waits much too long to take corrective action. One of the reasons for this is the difference in role expectation between HR and the frontline sales manager. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2015

Two of the hottest markets for “tools” are Sales and Marketing Automation markets. 10″s of billions are being spent to implement these tools. The best way and most efficient way to learn from these vendors is not to pay attention to what they say, or to read the myriad of white papers and other stuff.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. This is what I call the “Dentyne approach”, you know “four out of five dentists recommend” Well if four out of the last five shipping managers bought for specific reasons, addressing specific issues, delivered in a specific way, etc.; A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Sales are the infantry looking to capture valuable turf. In this follow-up to our Organic B2B Inbound Marketing Playbook , I teamed up with Outbound View owner Blake Johnston to break down the best practices for coordinating marketing and sales to convert your sales qualified leads to warm opportunities (and eventually deals).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

VPs of Sales know that their AEs’ quota should be 3-5x their OTE, so let’s take 4x as an average, that’s $0.25 Then we can add tools, data, benefits, insurance, office space, and the very important cost of management! We might end up at $0.40 Tools and data = $50K. for every $1 in ARR.

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