Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Enterprise sales” and “fast” are two terms that don’t often go together. Once you start selling into the enterprise world, you’re greeted with more complex processes, more decision-makers, and slower-churning gears. So they need to make absolutely sure your solution is right for them before they pull the trigger.”

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 2, 2024

On “Sales Talk for CEOs,” Alice Heiman was joined by Mark Fershteyn of Recapped, whose journey from sales struggles to CEO offers a roadmap for innovation in sales strategies. Embracing Adaptability and Process Reflecting on his early days in sales where he was struggling and almost got PIP’d.

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Scale Strategy Hiring Pivotal 62

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

I thought it useful share a few of the things we have learned with our clients or observed in the performances of other companies over the past year: Down markets bring all past “sins” to the forefront. A bad economy and down markets immediately show the impact of bad decisions and poor execution. We see a lot of uncertainty.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring Churn 111

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. Some parts of the sales process remain disjointed and even with technology to streamline steps, teams could still be working in silos. 7 sales processes you can automate now.

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Revenue Proposal Sales Cycle Forecasting 85

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 5, 2014

I liked his profile—and the fact he sent me a personal invitation —so I accepted the connection, and we started a conversation. I was intrigued by his offering and wanted to learn more, so we spoke on the phone. The next words out of his mouth were: “Shall I send you a deck? Speed Up the Sale, Don’t Slow it Down.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Small Business 286

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 22, 2017

Today’s sales leader cannot just be someone who manages numbers and checks forecasts. Today’s sales leader has to lead, motivate, coach, align the team’s personal values to the business values and they must foster an environment of trust and momentum in order to create pace and results. How quickly they can respond to those problems.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Responding to proposal requests is a slow process that adds time to the sales cycle. For many businesses, the RFP process has changed very little over the years. When you add up the hours, it’s a costly process. Here are four RFP solution benefits you may be missing out on: The Advantage of Speed.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2023

Selling more, earning more, and one-upping your 2022 self. Me, you, everybody does. Which is why selling better always leaves you at the bottom. So what’s the alternative then? You can’t do what everyone around you has been doing. You need to sell differently. And adds an extra zero to my commission….

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation Targets 95

InsideSales.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Part of sales is thinking about your pipeline, your process, and how you can optimize or improve it. Qualifying more leads and closing more deals requires you to assess the black holes in your process, where it breaks down how it creates friction with customers. Most Lead Response Times Are Too Slow.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 9, 2018

Author: David Stott “Upsell current clients” has always been one of the mantras of the sales industry. Justifiably so, our clients rely on our system and their entire technology ecosystem to drive efficiencies and empower their teams to deliver more quickly for their own clients. Focus on speed, but not at the expense of quality.

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Marc Wayshak

MARCH 23, 2022

When a seemingly good sales situation seems to slow down for no apparent reason , it can feel like a sticky gravitational pull that can’t be stopped. And in some cases, the sale entirely slips through the cracks once momentum is lost. This is one of the most common sales challenges I hear about.

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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. To top it off, high performers can earn over $100,000 annually. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front.

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 98

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

And when you think about it, we are a car culture, and in addition to going from point A to point B, we do other things in the car. In driving nightmares like Toronto, sitting in traffic, you have a lot of time to think. It is also true that you want to talk about things other than product. One of those is thinking.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair. So, what is Sales Enablement?

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Sales Enablement Tools Top of Funnel Hiring 164

Increase Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Most major highways have 3 lanes for traffic, the fast, medium and slow. Just imagine your medium to small business (SMB) also having 3 sales lanes respective to your sales process, your sales leads and even your business growth. Now is not the time to be playing “increase sales” catch up.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. So knowing how to use the two in coherence with one another is critical. Employ HubSpot sales routing.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a post for any Sales Leader considering or using a buyer-driven sales process. During many of our training events for a sales process rollout, we’ll get the question “So I should just identify the buyer’s stage and go from there?”. It’s tempting for the sales rep to give in. The answer is No.

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

There are ways to speed up your sales process, many—if not most—are unhealthy. You can rush through the process, not giving the conversations your client needs to have the appropriate time and attention. There are ways you can create velocity in your sales results.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Deals rarely slow down then close. The pace of the communication accelerates as you get near closing. As they draw closer to making that commitment questions crop up in their mind. They want to be sure they are making the right decision so they ask questions. So the pace of communication speeds up.

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Sales Cycle Pipeline Closing Forecasting 279

Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

So, what began as a convenient two weeks stopgap between speaking engagements on the east coast of the USA, ended up being the best gift I could give myself – to walk the Camino de Santiago – solo – through Portugal and Spain and be the only pilgrim with no guide book. And what can I share to help put perspective in your world?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

As your company grows, you may find you have less resources available for closing each opportunity. Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. See also: How to speed up your sales cycle in 2023 2.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Sales Forecasts 98

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2017

Author: Lance Walter, CMO, Capriza Under more pressure than ever before, today’s sales organizations are tasked with figuring out how to drive revenue, ensure accurate forecasting, deliver great customer experiences, and shorten sales cycles, all with less time and resources. One thing is clear: Sales is in need of a mobile makeover.

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Discount CRM Collateral Case Study 149

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Human Resources owns a growing piece of the budget pie – but how do you break in? What keeps the CHRO up at night? If employees are the customers of HR, what does that mean for the selling process? How can a salesperson get the attention of decision-makers in the HR department? Workplace services. Compensation.

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 12, 2023

Selling more, earning more, and one-upping your 2022 self. Me, you, everybody does. Which is why selling better always leaves you at the bottom. So what’s the alternative then? You can’t do what everyone around you has been doing. You need to sell differently. It’s a classic mindset.

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation Targets 52

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2019

As a result, 90% of sales leaders cite information overload for missing quotas. So much so that 57% of sales representatives surveyed in 2018 missed their sales quotas the prior year, according to Forbes. To make matters worse, nearly half of a sales representative’s time is spent on administrative tasks.

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Marketo Analytics Quota Sales Qualified Lead 159

Allego

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sales and marketing teams are reaping the benefits of this technology, as vendors add generative AI capabilities to their sales enablement platforms. Sales and marketing teams are reaping the benefits of this technology, as vendors add generative AI capabilities to their sales enablement platforms.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Revenue Buyer 71

SBI Growth

JULY 19, 2013

This question comes as a natural follow up to most decisions. Whenever you make change, risk is sure to follow. This is the life you lead as VP of Sales. And it’s a process you’ll need to be familiar with. Fortunately, we can help with this. Why Change in Your Sales Strategy is Necessary.

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Guarantee Exercises Follow-up ROI 296

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 20, 2019

For this to mean anything worth exploring, you would have to believe that there is a way to be slimy in sales. Give Up Straight Pitching. What can make one appear slimy is the way they view the outcome of their effort; in this case, it is “making the sale.” In the popular vernacular, you might call this insight.

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How To B2C eBook Groups 110

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 3, 2013

A year ago at this time, you decided what sales improvement projects to pursue. You are looking back wondering if you got a return. Did the project help you make the ''13 number? You are asking the same one. Download the Sales Leaders’ Execution Guide here. A detailed plan to drive sales rep adoption.

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Groups Follow-up SalesForce Training 297

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. They''ve been talking about doing this for years so one might ask, what''s different this time? When I was a kid growing up in the 60''s, a baseball game was expected to last no more than 2 hours. The conversation is never-ending and the solutions are so very simple.

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Sales Cycle Proposal Decision Maker Sports 199

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 19, 2019

For this to mean anything worth exploring, you would have to believe that there is a way to be slimy in sales. Give Up Straight Pitching. What can make one appear slimy is the way they view the outcome of their effort; in this case, it is “making the sale.” In the popular vernacular, you might call this insight.

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How To B2C B2B Groups 107

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Before you get into this episode, you’re probably thinking about some special tactics and crazy work-ethics that are going to get SDRs to 225% of quota, but that’s not what Armand is thinking about. He’s using very practical processes and trying to simplify the whole ball game of sales to make it easier.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 16, 2021

As we know, sales is a very communicative role that often requires in-person conversations to build relationships and read body language. And having business development calls or sales team meetings from the kitchen table while family members are whirling around isn’t an ideal work environment. Upgraded Home Office and Equipment .

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 26, 2017

Even if you’re not aware of your body language, other people you are with are. The signals you give unconsciously may affect the other person unconsciously too, and if they are negative signals, it could affect the process of communications without either of you understanding why.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

I’ve had instructors go through a “fight,” using the slow forms of Tai Chi, then do exactly the same thing at full speed. As you practice, you learn individual movements that are linked to create a form. Depending on the form you are doing, it may be 37 – 108 movements in the form.

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Government Examples Exact Up-Sell 87

Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

No matter the age, the country one is from, or gender, we can each contribute ideas that enhance our agenda for moving forward. No matter the age, the country one is from, or gender, we can each contribute ideas that enhance our agenda for moving forward. The four-year-old asked me why our skin appears so differently.

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