Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sales development representatives tend to think of the job as an important stepping stone in our careers , with challenges and opportunities that will shape the rest of our working lives. Find Your Groove Your workflow is the foundation of your day-to-day sales process that determines your productivity and future success.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 11, 2022

While these are all great for self-improvement, they are typically not geared toward elevating professional performance. For many salespeople, along with personal resolutions, it’s helpful to set new sales goals. First, select a long-term goal for the upcoming year. Just pull out your pen and paper and start writing today.

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Sales Goal Lead Rank Lead Scoring Motivation 118

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

” Surviving Tough Times, Things We Have Learned (early 2001 version) The past year has created new professional and personal challenges. Get the data, understand it, and face the music. Slowdowns are impacting many sectors of the economy. We see a lot of uncertainty. Massive layoffs are still happening.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 17, 2023

That makes establishing credibility central to the success of any sales effort. But maintaining that kind of trustworthiness and legitimacy over multiple sales conversations can be easier said than done — a lot of reps run into hitches, hiccups, and human errors that undermine their credibility with prospects. Let's dive in.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 12, 2024

Far from its fictional representations, though, it actually has practical, useful and beneficial day-to-day applications in sales. Sales teams are already seeing AI streamline workflows, coach reps, optimize prospecting strategies and more. What is AI in sales?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s not beat around the bush: nobody likes getting cold calls. Buyers are already short on time, and the last thing they want is to listen to another sales pitch. Here are our tips for both sellers and sales enablement leaders on how to make your sellers amazing cold callers. First things first: Is cold calling legal?

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Whether you’re a sales compensation manager struggling to get commission statements in order, or a sales rep trying desperately to hit your quota, the last month of the year often ends up being the most stressful. So, we figured it’s a good time to lighten the mood with some of our favorite sales commission memes.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How’s your sales team performing? Have you ever noticed that the better a sales team performs, the more detailed the sales leader’s answer is. Sales professionals often focus on positive details and avoid the negative, a phenomenon known as the ostrich effect. We are focused on solutions.”

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Babette Ten Haken

JUNE 30, 2020

Stories which, at least your clients know, are generic stories. Serving nothing more substantial than an inside-out marketing and sales purpose, via a pre-packaged library. Hit or miss stories come across as just that: part of a making-your-numbers-game. Stories you are not invested in, purposefully, professionally, emotionally.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

McKinsey Institute reports that one-fifth of sales functions could be automated with artificial intelligence (AI). Before you close this tab to panic-update your resume, wait till you hear which fifth: writing cold emails, entering call notes in your CRM, and scheduling calls. How much time?

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales make the business world go ’round, but data is the gravity that holds everything together to be cohesive and coherent. A good sales analyst will be able to create accurate forecasts within a 2 percent margin of error. This level of accuracy is not mere chance or luck; it’s the result of taking a data-first approach to sales.

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Vengreso

JULY 12, 2022

Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice! The past three years have seen radical shifts in the B2B sales landscape. From sales organizations having to go from in-person selling to virtual selling, to shifting how prospecting is done by leveraging online tools – there has been a lot to navigate.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales engagement is all about connecting with your potential customer or prospects to build a relationship and hopefully move them closer to wanting to buy from you. These days, a lot of sales engagement happens through social media, as more and more of your target audience is using social platforms in their everyday lives.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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Allego

MARCH 30, 2021

How are successful teams adapting their coaching to ensure sales reps can find and close deals despite the challenges of virtual selling ? With reps working remotely, sales leaders are often no longer physically in the same building for observation and mentoring of their team. This model is a four-step pyramid.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 11, 2022

Note: Our Collaborative Blog offers insights on ‘The Four Professional Services Every Business Needs for Success.’. But with the right team of professionals in your corner, you can set yourself up for success. This blog post will discuss four professional services every business needs for success. Accounting.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 16, 2022

Implementing the right sales pipeline strategy is an essential element of business development for any company. Without a proper process in place to build sales, prospects and leads will go cold, valuable insights will be missed, conversions will be limited, and your business will lose out on revenue. What is a sales pipeline?

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SalesLoft

JUNE 16, 2023

Even though they may have similar roles and goals, no two sales reps are the same. The SDRs and AEs who make up your team are all individuals, and they’re bringing their own approaches and levels of experience to the table. Why, then, are so many sales leaders treating them the same? When you think about it, it makes sense.

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Babette Ten Haken

OCTOBER 15, 2018

First of all, we are flattered that these customers contacted us. Now, a little bit of professional excitement and even mild personal euphoria are good things. However, our next steps regarding customers with potentially overstated stories become critical to the outcomes we produce. And lead us on and on and on.

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Smooth Sale

AUGUST 2, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Are You Building Professional Relationships? From day one on the job as an employee or upon approaching a prospective client, it is helpful and necessary to focus on building professional relationships with the people you meet. Questions are essential to get the conversation on the track we desire.

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Hiring Networking Lead Rank Lead Scoring 78

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. And 20% of startups get plain out-competed. Cutting non-essential expenses when your business is still new is critical. I’ll tip my hand here — I believe it can be disastrous to hire a sales team too early.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But for those who don’t, excuses fly for quitting to exclaim their track was not to be. But for those who don’t, excuses fly for quitting to exclaim their track was not to be. Photo by beate bachmann from Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Heed Life Lessons? The same applies to building a business.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3. Start a free trial 3.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. They are the ones who succeed in sales. What is the sales pipeline?

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Pipeline Buyer Persona Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 143

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. In many cases, just initiating the first contact doesn’t deliver any business growth.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. Then, we’ll give you a tour of the top generative AI tools for sales teams with highlights and pricing.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When your team is trying to close deals of a certain size with high-level clients, being a great salesperson may not be enough. Selling will only take your team so far. They’ll need to become consultants to get some deals across the line. The difference is in how sales reps help them solve it. Puts the buyer first.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Dogs greet you at the door, humor you in the conference room, nuzzle you at your desk. Now here’s a dog who really knows how to get around. Sales teams were targeting larger and larger customers, the kind who demand only proven business partners. Few things are as comforting as the presence of a dog in the workplace.

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Sell Integrity

JULY 2, 2020

Although we typically think about Behavior Styles in terms of aiding sales performance and communicating with others, they also provide valuable insights into our own motivations, preferences and strengths. Everyone is grappling with disruptions that affect us on both the professional and the personal fronts. Celebrate milestones.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s the same for sales and enablement teams. AI-enhanced tools act like digital assistants that automate processes and analyze content and data, allowing you to focus on more strategic functions and increasing your productivity. Modern User Experiences Like your customers, your sales reps want cutting-edge user experiences.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 3, 2022

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: How To Work From Home In 10 Easy Steps. Our collaborative blog provides insights on ‘How to work from home in 10 easy steps.’. But it can also be daunting to get started. This article will walk you through 10 easy steps to help you set up and manage your unique work-from-home career.

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Nutshell

JULY 10, 2020

Nutshell’s BOUNDLESS 2020 event was full of insights from big names in sales, marketing, and customer success. This writeup is based on a webinar interview of Christine Volden, a leading sales and CRM evangelist and the founder of SoulfulSelling.com. Christine has developed a sales technique she calls The Quiet Selling Method.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, Dreamforce came back with dozens of venues, hundreds of vendors, thousands of sessions, and millions of steps. In person is back…kind of! When you organize yours, be sure to allocate enough time for networking and human connection. It turns out that we aren’t done fixing sales processes.

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