SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

This blog post is for the small company CSO or VP of Sales. If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. CMOs and marketing professionals constantly talk about how Content Marketing will increase leads and drive more revenue.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. These are buyers who are a good fit for your products or services. . So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2018

Technological advancements can transform any industry or job function overnight — including B2B sales. If you fall behind on the latest and greatest in tech, you fall behind your competitors. The goal of B2B selling is to reach prospects and form meaningful connections with them. Don’t let this happen to you!

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Highspot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Customers crave fast, clear, and hassle-free buying experiences. Lengthy sales pitches often fall short. But with SNAP selling’s concise and customer-centric approach, you can enhance sales performance by reducing stress and focusing on needs. What Does a “Frazzled Customer” Look Like?

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2022

After all, isn’t qualifying a prospect a type of discovery? Qualifying prospects is an essential part of the sales process. Chief amongst this is determining whether the business is the right fit for your organization. After all, there’s no point investing in prospects incompatible with your products and goals.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Whether your sales process relies on inbound leads or targeted outreach, whether you’re a big company or small, whether your sale is complex or simple; inbound sales is relevant. What is inbound sales?

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

As a sales leader, helping your reps increase sales is likely high priority for you. One simple way to accomplish that is to coach your reps to ask better open-ended questions. Conversations created by open-ended sales questions build rapport, define needs, identify motivators, and uncover budget.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? 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. How to overcome these challenges, you ask? However, human judgment and oversight will remain essential.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

The sales methodology is like a set of rules for how you sell your products or services to customers. You need to define your methodology before anything else, including the sales process. Otherwise, your sales process will be applied differently by each rep on the team. Command of the Sale.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If you read Peter Theil’s Zero to One (which you should, check out my reasons why here ), you will come across a short section where he tells budding entrepreneurs how to market, sell, and distribute their new idea. Rather, it looks at the important trends in how to sell. Where the Internet Wins. Little need for explanation.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a Winning Sales Incentives Program.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For dyed-in-the-wool, traditional sales reps, consultative selling can sometimes seem intimidating at first. This should come as no surprise, especially when you consider consultative selling takes the “normal” sales process and, for all intents and purposes, turns it on its head. Intrigued but slightly dubious?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. Celebrate taking time off to be with your family, kids, pets, friends, or alone with your thoughts. Imbalance is okay.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2023

How much damage can it do? Perhaps more troubling, the research firm reports that 60% of businesses don’t really know how much poor-quality data costs them because they don’t actually measure the impact. Segmenting: Uses data to categorize leads by persona, territory, lead score , and any other criteria.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For dyed-in-the-wool, traditional sales reps , consultative selling can sometimes seem intimidating at first. This should come as no surprise, especially when you consider consultative selling takes the “normal” sales process and turns it on its head. For a consultative selling approach to succeed, sales reps have to stay curious.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

They seek to uncover and capitalize on any edge they can find to help them win more deals. Sadly, the "edge" that most sales technology promised to give them is actually hurting their relationships with buyers, and a chance at the elusive sale. But reps didn't hold all the power -- they needed prospects too.

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Costello

JANUARY 9, 2019

When we speak with marketing agencies about using our sales playbook software to sell their own services, one of the questions they always ask us is, “What questions should I ask my prospects?”. In total, we gathered sales qualification questions from 26 experts, as well as the answers they expect to hear from their prospects.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 16, 2019

To truly uncover what your buyers want and need, your salespeople must be experts in asking open-ended questions. Use this guide to understand open-ended questions and the best ways your salespeople can use them on sales calls. Open-ended questions are an important tool at every stage of the sales process.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Pipeliner

JULY 8, 2019

Sales professionals know to find and leverage differentiation. Remember, differentiation only becomes value once a customer understands it and connects to a customer-desired outcome. A key point that many sales and marketing professionals often miss is that non-differentiating information drowns out your unique aspects.

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SalesHandy

AUGUST 22, 2022

Most businesses dedicate a large sum of their resources toward lead generation rightfully so as it can help boost sales and increase ROI. If you go after prospects that are still early on their buyer’s journey, and not at the decision-making stage then it will be difficult to make a sale. What Is Lead Generation?

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Lead Rank Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 52

The Spiff Blog

JULY 27, 2023

The SDR, or Sales Development Rep, is undeniably the backbone of many successful sales organizations. SDRs play a vital role in building business, managing inbound inquiries, booking meetings, qualifying leads, and prospecting. Despite these hurdles, SDRs are a driving force behind sales growth and revenue generation.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a lot to succeed in sales. You need to know your customers intimately. And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! You need empathy, grit, and drive. You need to resiliently bounce back from rejection.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding how to hire a salesperson for a startup is critical — it’s one of the first and most significant investments you’ll make. When I first dipped my toes into the startup scene, I was tasked with assembling a sales team from scratch. It’s this blend of audacity and insight that you’ll need in your corner.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This list of sales statistics to boost selling results can also be used to shape your sales strategy implementation. Sales statistics and data are factors now important in defining any selling activity or investment from social selling to inbound sales. GENERAL SALES STATISTICS. As soon as 2024, over 3.0

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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