DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. You Say “Tomatoes”.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2019

We have mad respect for the classics – but we’ve updated the sales reading list for 2019. Outbound Sales, No Fluff – by Rex Biberston and Ryan Reisert. The full title of this book is the first baller move of many: Outbound Sales, No Fluff, Written By Two Millenials Who Have Actually Sold Something This Decade.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

We’ve built required fields and automation of data transfer in SFDC (ie surveys that auto populate the key data, call sheets that tie data to opportunity & account, sales handoff that ties data to account for CSM, etc). Want to Build a Sales Engine? What have you seen work for your organization? Get Started with Free Data.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Sales intelligence is critical for lead generation. Join us as we examine 7 specific ways that this kind of intelligence impacts marketing and sales processes. Join us as we examine 7 specific ways that this kind of intelligence impacts marketing and sales processes. How to prospect at tradeshows with sales intelligence.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’m Monica Stewart from Skaled : A modern sales-consulting firm that helps increase the efficiency and effectiveness of sales organizations through the use of sales technology. tive Sales Demo. Read it: What You Can Do TODAY to Build Sales Pipeline for This Quarter. Welcome to another Whiteboard Wednesday!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Reporting structure/org charts (Sales loves).

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

We spend an enormous amount of time trying to hire sales professionals that we think are “A” players. . Watch the video: How to avoid an unfocused, inefficient sales team. Specialize sales roles. Specializing roles in the sales department helps build specific skills. Create a sales team mentality.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down. Process-oriented sales enablement. Marketing-generated awareness.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Even if you hit your sales goal, the new quarter is still a great time to take stock of wins and losses … AND start building your pipeline for a quota-crushing Q3. Just like exercise and eating your vegetables, building sales pipeline means doing the hard things now in order to reap a future reward. It starts today. Not always.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2017

So why is the sales profession still so far behind the curve when it comes to gender? In sales, women make up : 25% of salespeople in tech companies. 12% of sales leadership. Women usually remain in their sales role longer, decreasing turnover. And yet, women are vastly underrepresented in the sales industry.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 21, 2017

What we do in sales at DiscoverOrg is regularly run plays and campaigns that have immediate boosts on our pipeline. In this video we’ll explain how to use a few techniques in your B2B sales efforts. In this video we’ll explain how to use a few techniques in your B2B sales efforts. Let me explain these three plays.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

For years we’ve provided in-depth intelligence on the IT, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance departments of companies, but we wanted to talk to Sales Departments and specifically the leaders there. So, we’re selling to sales – that creates some unique challenges for us. Aligning Sales & Marketing. Crazy right?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Sales intelligence. For many years, sales and marketing teams turned to list providers for prospecting and lead generation. The answers to these questions — and many others — can be found in sales intelligence. Grab our new ebook: The Power of Marketing and Sales Intelligence – 7 Ways to Fuel Faster Growth.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 27, 2017

Jeb Blount, author and sales acceleration specialist, knows well how successful sales professionals (ultra-high performers) possess four types of intelligence that are tightly intertwined – each connecting, affecting, and amplifying the others: IQ : how smart you are. Ultra-high sales performers are smart people.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 17, 2019

?. Hey everyone, Jake Shaffren here, Director of Sales at DiscoverOrg. So the messaging should be tweaking and tweaking and tweaking the buyer’s opinion: Driving me HERE, through the sales cycle. Read the study: Which Data Points Predict More Sales? How much time am I actually spending perusing the web? The rest comes later.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

There’s a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization’s strategy and objectives: new customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting … just to name a few. But don’t forget about your sales territory plan. Expand with a Win/Loss SWOT.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Remember that last sale that you made where you ran into an objection? Objections are something we hate hearing in sales – but if we’re honest with ourselves, we realize that in order to sell effectively, we have to hear objections during a sale cycle. Step 1: Love sales objections. It’s tough, right?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I’m David Sill , Head of Sales Enablement at DiscoverOrg. Today we’re going to be discussing emotional intelligence; more specifically, four things that you can try to marshal your emotions towards greater sales success. We have this knee-jerk tendency to think, What if I don’t get this sale? What do I mean?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 8, 2017

Here are just a few ways that unverified bargain contact lists can lead to sales drought rather than providing that rainmaker resource you wanted. When email deliverability is weakened , your whole sales funnel loses its impact and unverified contact lists get email campaigns off to a bad start. Hidden costs just keep popping up.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I’m David Sill , Head of Sales Enablement at DiscoverOrg. Today we’re going to be discussing emotional intelligence; more specifically, four things that you can try to marshal your emotions towards greater sales success. Thus, we harp on, What if I don’t get this sale? So what is “emotional intelligence”?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer. She WAS our first woman in the sales department. I think really listening and asking those open-ended questions is a very important trait to have in sales.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

And there’s no question that B2B sales is a battlefield: Reputations, sales, and profits are lost and won. Nowhere is this more critical than in enterprise sales, where understanding an organization’s corporate hierarchy can illuminate the battlefield. Enterprise sales are also known as complex sales for a reason.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 25, 2016

Sales is tough and ongoing sales development is a never ending process. Take it from us – our sales and sales development functions are constantly evolving as we look to accelerate our record growth rates over the past few years. In even the fastest growing organizations, there is always room for improvement.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 31, 2019

” In sales, accuracy is paramount. This is most important when your sales team hears “news” about a target account – and that news seems to indicates that your prospect is about to make a purchase. In fact, many of the same tips that news experts offer for spotting fake news apply to spotting questionable sales data.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 16, 2017

I’m Steve Bryerton, Vice President of sales here at DiscoverOrg, to talk about how to bookend your demo in order to create a sense of urgency and commitment from your prospects. Get our free Outbound Sales and Marketing Strategy ebook. See How Accurate Data Can Supercharge Your Sales. Step 2: Create a sense of urgency.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The post An Agile Process for Sales Development appeared first on DiscoverOrg.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Reading Time: 8 minutes First things first: People buy from people first, product second , according to Director of Sales Steve Wernke. Here’s how to manage so much winning, with nine tips from our top sales closers. To make customers feel good about the sale, throw in three pieces of value, in this order: additional support.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Sometimes, that chat is a real, live sales professional, reaching out because they know what you’ve clicked on, when you clicked, how much you’ve read – and that the time is right to reach out. Welcome to the next generation of sales enablement chat. This is now “sales enablement chat,” and it’s powerful. Billy : Exactly.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2017

There’s a lot of buzz around Sales and Marketing AI, but what is real and what is hype? What can we actually expect from AI in the sales and marketing technology in 2018? AI for Sales and Marketing Tech: High Expectations Meet Reality. ” “Sales and marketing will be able to align around the right buyer personas.”

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Historically, sales professionals and marketers spent a lot of time chasing down prospects with a scant probability of getting an appointment, let alone winning business. Join us as we examine 7 specific ways that this kind of intelligence impacts marketing and sales processes. What’s the real “power” of sales Intelligence?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Sales is a crucible, burning away excuses and bad habits. Go back to the phones and meet sales goals by providing prospects with solutions. To help get you start on the right foot for 2017, we reviewed our blog posts from the past year to find those that stood out in their mission to put a spark in sales efforts.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2016

The idea of supercharging your sales is nothing new. Even if you’re the three-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton of Sales, you still need a top-performing vehicle, or in this case, a serious set of tools, to help you close. The Sales Dataset. Teams selling to Sales need this dataset to get a flying start.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 3, 2017

Evaluating and hiring a winning Sales Team is not unlike the process of evaluating character attributes in a video game. No sales rep is perfect in every category. Sales Team Attributes. The sales team attributes we assessed were: Adapting to change. Sales Skill. Sales Engineers, Account Managers, Farmers , etc.),

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 26, 2017

A lot of sales organizations today have a sales communication strategy that looks something like a black hole. The organization works hard to get lead data, either from their own marketing team, an in-house list from sales, or elsewhere (This is the most economical way to research.) How Closed-Loop reporting works.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 25, 2016

It’s the exact same bargain in sales. If you want to keep the sales cycle moving forward, you must earn that motivation, and storytelling is a powerful vehicle for doing so. I give you my time, and you ensure I remain motivated to move forward. Quid pro quo. People are busy. I used to represent a company that sold software support.

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