RAIN Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Sales enablement teams regularly struggle to provide sellers with the skills and tools needed to get results like building pipelines , closing sales , growing accounts , and increasing win rates. It's a challenge to ensure sales training achieves desired outcomes, whether sales enablement is a team of one or many.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. They searched for female vs. male names and parsed the data to see how many LinkedIn members were female and in sales vs. male and in sales by industry. A future post will contain an interview with some of the top women in sales at IBM.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As businesses grapple with evolving consumer preferences, increasing competition, and unprecedented volumes of data, the quest for the most effective AI sales solutions has never been more critical. So, don’t let the wrong sales solution make your business growth chart stagnant. Start by defining your objectives.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Jonathan Webb, vice president of sales and marketing at KI, a Wisconsin-based office furniture and design company, says millennial and Gen Z workers value the community and collaboration that come with a common office space. The office as a recruitment tool. Sales reps are ideally suited to work from home. Webb told Monster.com.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2023

What are your plans to make this your best year in sales ever? Here are three things I did all those years ago that changed my sales career, and my life, forever: #1) For the first ninety days in 2024, make a commitment to listening to at least ONE call a day. 3) Invest in, study, and use the scripts in this book.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales organizations always look to gain a competitive advantage. Despite these unsettled times, one thing remains constant: every organization wants to improve its sales performance. Despite these unsettled times, one thing remains constant: every organization wants to improve its sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. Here's the burning question: Does AI have a place in sales, and how does it affect our current sales processes?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. They were assessed with OMG''s tools, and assembled into 5 teams, all selling the exact same product. Sales DNA is a score that represents the power of the selling strengths possessed by an individual.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Buyer intent data tools make it easier to identify the when and how of a potential prospect’s consideration for purchasing a specific product or service. Tracking target accounts with these buying signals can streamline the selling process for your sales teams with data-driven efficiency. How to use Buyer Intent Data Tools.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

**This post is part of a series based on Showpad’s 2021 Modern Selling Study. To dig into all the data, visit the study homepage. Showpad’s 2021 Modern Selling Study found that sales enablement has become more important since the start of the pandemic. In this study summary, we’ll focus on the global data.

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PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

The psychology of sales can reveal all this and more. There’s no doubt about it: understanding customer behaviors and the reasons behind them can not only help you close deals but is a surefire way to keep buyers happy and fulfill the dreams of every sales lead. What is sales psychology? Is it pure luck? Sparkling marketing?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 24, 2024

Over time, we've improved the tools we use to track that activity, from call sheets to spreadsheets to CRM. But if all we do is capture the data and not study the data, what's the point? Studying the data allows you to identify where the bottlenecks in the sales process occur.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 7, 2024

Looking at successful case studies of customized digital marketing for small businesses offers a better understanding of its importance. Studying these marketing success stories can equip marketers with the tools to mimic and adapt these winning strategies. Notably, a local bakery saw a considerable transformation.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While this sounds appealing, especially for time-strapped salespeople, there’s a catch: not all AI tools are created equal. Here, I put three AI tools to the test — ChatGPT, ChatSpot, and Copy.ai — to see which one writes the best cold email. Good catch – and yes, OpenAI powers all three tools. Let's dive in. all use OpenAI?

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 24, 2020

Sales organizations always look to gain a competitive advantage. Despite these unsettled times, one thing remains constant: every organization wants to improve its sales performance. Despite these unsettled times, one thing remains constant: every organization wants to improve its sales performance.

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Nutshell

JULY 25, 2023

Improving your sales numbers requires a healthy helping of cold hard data—the kind of data that only sales tracking software can provide. With a quality sales tracking platform, you can easily tell which of your sales strategies are working and which should be kicked to the curb. Why is sales tracking software important?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For years, sales and marketing teams have been spending money to buy lead generation tools and contact data to grow their email marketing database. Today, there are so many choices and tools that promise to accelerate growth and build your pipeline, it can be overwhelming. When does quality beat quantity?

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Salesmate

JANUARY 24, 2021

Just like every important element of our lives, technology has changed the face of sales. Both – Businesses and customers have grown comfortable with sales inside an office. With inside sales, businesses are putting more effort than just selling their products. So what exactly is inside sales? What is inside sales?

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A sales leader asked me yesterday, “What do we do with the sales reps that are not following up on the 50% of leads coming in that don’t get called more than once?”. This fact is from research previously done by Leads360 , a cloud based leads management and sales automation company. This must stop.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. Understanding how your customers are evolving and determining whether your sales team is keeping pace. This tool has been around for a few years now. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Imagine the wealth of information you’d gain if you were able to listen to sales reps’ calls with prospects. A better option is to use a conversation intelligence tool. Using AI, conversation intelligence tools provide enhanced visibility into the buyer journey. 3 Ways Product Marketers Can Use Conversation Intelligence Tools.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 29, 2019

Case Studies and campaign recaps are powerful tools to help sell success. Selling Success Using Case Studies. This helps in many areas as it relates to driving performance o n your sales team. When managers share individual wins with their team, it can boost morale, spark ideas, and motivate others to do similar work.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

Case studies and testimonials are useful to have on hand. Consider creating a library of customer stories your sales team can use to share targeted and relevant content with your prospects via your website and sales proposals. How to Ask Your Customer for a Case Study. These email templates will come in handy.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

What does Sales Case Study means? The focus of a case study should be on how your company helped someone, not about the success or failure of your business. Sales case studies give you the opportunity to show your product in a way that is most appealing. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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SalesLoft

JULY 11, 2023

With so much on the line, you can’t afford to waste precious time and money juggling dozens of single-purpose sales tools. Your sales organization needs a way to get more out of its team, time, and tech. Read on to learn about how the current tools of the sales trade can negatively affect your business’s costs.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. Now there is a new tool to satisfy this need. At the end, I’ll provide a tool to help your team leverage LinkedIn sponsored updates. Online tools are available to guide your team through suggested bid ranges, including the minimum bid.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

This topic centered on the sales rep’s dilemma. We thought a Q & A blog would add value to quota-carrying sales reps. Genesys recently implemented a new Sales Process which is aligned to buyer’s journey. Regarding the sales rep’s dilemma, the new Sales Process was utilized differently than you’d expect.

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The Sales Heretic

MAY 13, 2020

Stories and case studies are powerful sales tools. They give us opportunities to showcase how wonderful our product or service is. They provide proof of our abilities and enable our prospects to see themselves benefitting just as our previous customers have. There’s just one problem with them. Everyone’s stories are the same.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Overloaded sales managers often struggle to find time for coaching.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 2, 2020

In our “ Customer Experience Best Practices Study ,” researchers from Miller Heiman Group explore the business case for investing in a customer experience strategy to drive revenue performance. Get the Study. Our study uncovered four key ways that Leaders differentiate themselves through their customer experience strategy.

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Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In the digital age, the quality of work can be influenced by the tools used. So, if you want your sales team to be more productive and win more deals, you must equip them with the right tech stack. A LinkedIn study shows that almost one in every four salespeople uses sales technology every day. The reason?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Used right, case studies can boost your deal closing ratio by 70% and your sales by 185% — making them a valuable addition to your sales enablement library. Not so much on how to use them in your sales process. The value of a case study. How to use case studies in the sales process. What not to do.

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SalesforLife

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

With incredible past insights on WHY execute a digital sales transformation, Mary Shea and the team have now begun reviewing social selling tools. Forrester continues to lead market research on the topic of social selling.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2020

Over the last few weeks, we have tracked ZoomInfo’s database of over 14 million companies and +30,000 technologies to see what digital tools companies are adopting. Digital Tools Growing During Coronavirus (and Post-Pandemic Predictions). Since January 30, we have seen a 21% increase in the adoption of electronic signatures tools.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. Sales enablement, and sales enablement tools, help them do just that. It’s no wonder that Gartner expects sales enablement budgets to increase 50% by 2027. All three pillars rely heavily on sales enablement software.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One significant trend is customer journey automation, which involves utilizing specific tools to streamline interactions. This article will highlight the importance of implementing these tools in your company. With these tools, businesses can ensure a more seamless and personalized customer experience.

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