The Pipeline

JULY 9, 2019

Every journey has a beginning, middle and an end, and this is true for a buying cycle and sales cycle. And while it may work for Zen and motorcycles , in sales, it is not about the journey but the destination, the win. Everything we do as sales professionals needs to maximize that end and ease the journey for all involved.

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Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking services to identify prospects, build relationships, and close more deals. In social selling, sales professionals are playing the long game instead of eyeing immediate returns. It essentially means, “being genuinely helpful online and maybe selling eventually.”

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As salespeople, we frequently come across what looks like the latest in a series of game-changing, disruptive sales automation technologies. As sales leaders, we love tech. This article explores the risks of overreliance on technology and how too much technology can hinder sales performance. Reduce Redundancy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2020

Author: Dan Templeton No one wants a stagnant sales team. On the other hand, the thought of scaling a sales team can seem overwhelming and difficult. . If your company is approaching the growth stage, it means that your organization has already identified a steady income base, a monetization procedure and proven sales techniques.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, RevOps teams play an active role in supporting every function that drives revenue growth, from sales to marketing to finance to customer success. They require collaboration platforms or channels that your sales, marketing, and customer success teams understand and consistently engage with. Audit your tech stack.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Bringing your team together is certainly one thing, but doing so in a manner that won’t roll their eyes is another. Moreover, the formulaic idea of people having to come together to canoe, stack blocks together, or play word games in a circle can feel pointless, as fun as it is.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

And with this, business’ want a consolidated rev tech stack with deeper capabilities infused with AI. So that has many of us questioning which direction we should be heading toward in our modern day revenue tech stack? Happy Saturday GTM’ers. Hopefully you’re not in your inbox right now and you’re out enjoying the long weekend.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 19, 2018

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking sites to identify prospects, build relationships, and ideally, close more deals. Social selling is more than just a hot trend, it’s an essential part of the modern sales process. LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Ready to get started? Keep reading!

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For sales teams on the early edge of digitizing their operations, big data sounded like a way to get every piece of information needed on prospects. For sales teams on the early edge of digitizing their operations, big data sounded like a way to get every piece of information needed on prospects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

From the marketer’s point of view: you get more precise with your messaging and personalization, gain a better view of your total addressable market (TAM) , spend your budget more efficiently, and improve your reporting. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals.

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Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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. If you’re looking for the best sales tools for your team, we’ve gathered a list to give you a head start.

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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. An SDR team in transition. And it showed. “I

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DocSend

JUNE 21, 2022

Identifying warm leads, building meaningful prospect relationships , and managing sales processes can be a lot more challenging in virtual environments than in-person settings. This type of inefficiency is an absolute no-go for fast-moving sales teams. Our recent research highlighted that virtual selling is here to stay. Top Zaps: .

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2020

95% of B2B sales and marketing professionals are already using LinkedIn to connect with potential prospects. During this time you can also refine your messaging to ensure the people you’re connecting with are suited to your sales strategy. This provides a more complete and accurate view of what’s happening in your market.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 7, 2022

Every organization I work with has everything a sales organization should have in place. We go down laundry lists all the programs, tools, processes that are in place: CRM and the classic “sales stack?” Check, every sales person has access to Sales Navigator. Sales process? Onboarding?

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Apptivo

JUNE 1, 2021

Further, you can save your time by creating a work order from another existing work order, thereby reducing the effort involved in adding the same information repeatedly. The biggest drawback of conventional methods is that you have to put additional effort to manage the process. Simplified Creation Process. eSignature.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“I don’t think many of us come into sales management because we want to be CRM jockeys, right?” said Adrienne Loper , Senior Inbound Digital Sales Leader at enterprise powerhouse IBM. We’ll take a look at how Salesloft boosted IBM’s ability to invest in their sales reps and drive more consistent results.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In deals ranging from the transactional to the complex and at any point in the sales process, chances are someone will scrunch their face, purse their lips, or straight up shake their head. For example, “What if you do nothing and another storm hits Davenport, your main distribution hub?” Budgets are projections.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2022

Sales professionals have been selling over the phone and video for years. So why does it feel like we’ve entered a new age of sales? But the reality is traditional rapport in sales began to shift even before the pandemic began , with reports showing buyers only spent about 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2023

It’s easy to find thought leaders on LinkedIn giving tips on using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. But when one of my reps was struggling to book meetings in Q1 this year, I couldn’t find a comprehensive guide to LinkedIn Sales Navigator — so I decided to write it. If Sales Navigator is connected to your CRM: Choose ‘My CRM Accounts.’

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s become pretty impossible to escape those themes, particularly if you’re a small business owner or on a sales team. We’re reaching another inflection point as businesses navigate how to do more with less during macroeconomic headwinds. The Case for Taking Your Business (& Sales Transactions) Online.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2021

G2 Crowd has ranked 381 CRM tools that you can view based on user satisfaction, popularity, and – most usefully – G2 Score. If you’re not sure where to start with building your app stack, GetApp also makes it easy to access custom recommendations for your industry and business size. Taking time to research CRMs is worth the effort.

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Highspot

APRIL 28, 2022

In our digital, work-from-anywhere world, sales teams have traded in the company office for the home office. Recently, Highspot and Gong deepened our integration , so you can share examples of great sales calls with your teams and get a more complete view of buyer engagement. Technology can also help bridge gaps.

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Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. The Sales Coaching Paradox. So where’s the disconnect?

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Close.io

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Managing your sales pipeline in Close is now even simpler, thanks to our new, customizable Opportunity Pipeline View. Close has always been focused on helping sales teams efficiently manage high volume sales processes. What if your team has very long sales cycles that can be notoriously difficult to keep track of?

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 9, 2018

The end of the year is fast approaching and 2018 is already promising to be another huge year for sales readiness. As the pace of sales accelerates, buyers become even more knowledgeable and industry dynamics continue to evolve rapidly, so there’s no time for sales organizations to slow down. of Mindtickle “.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2018

A sales process is a document that attempts to bring a roadmap, some objective order to an otherwise all too subjective affair. It is not a divine document passed on to Chuck Heston by a white-bearded guy or your VP of Sales. By Tibor Shanto. Following the process blindly is not a recipe for success. Slaves To The Clock.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 7, 2019

Author: David Sill In August 2017, the DiscoverOrg sales team was working at top speed, well aware that Q4 was right around the corner, when our CEO announced the acquisition of a formidable competitor, RainKing. A sort of panic set in: this meant merging two sales teams that had been accustomed to going head to head. It isn’t easy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2017

Your VP of sales looks at you out of desperation and asks if there is anything marketing can do to help accelerate the pipeline/improve the win rate? This is the reality marketers know, but often fail to comprehend when they view their website conversions rates. Yet this is not enough. What About the Other 90 Percent?

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Here’s my interview with Filip Witkowski of Crescendo a sales enablement solution that delivers easy content management.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Identify which channels and sources provide all your leads and reveal how they stack up – then tailor your marketing strategy to get ahead. It’s the time of year when many of us spend time in reflection, thanksgiving, and preparation for the 365 days that lie ahead.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 17, 2019

“Sales stack” is jargon for the technology/software salespeople need to do their jobs and communicate effectively with prospects. Having the right tools in your stack is the best way to support your reps, so that they can do their best work. To determine what you need in your stack, start by looking at your sales process.

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LevelEleven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The point of Salesforce gamification is to motivate your team and put emphasis on the most important sales behaviors that will drive deals through the pipeline and increase team performance. Onboarding is streamlined by gamification because new hires have a distinct view of the behaviors necessary to reach their goals. Leaderboards.

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Emissary

JANUARY 5, 2022

To position your products for success, shape your sales strategy around a nuanced understanding of the pressures driving these companies and the cultural or technical challenges they face. In the P&C insurance vertical, the internal drivers for enhanced backend tech may vary from one organization to another.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 20, 2022

But what if one tool helped unify your department’s sales process? On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by the CEO and co-founder of Scratchpad, Pouyan Salehi, to discuss how sellers can utilize Scratchpad to eliminate their sales stack drag. Eliminate sales stack drag. The end goal?

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 20, 2022

But what if one tool helped unify your department’s sales process? On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by the CEO and co-founder of Scratchpad, Pouyan Salehi, to discuss how sellers can utilize Scratchpad to eliminate their sales stack drag. Eliminate sales stack drag. The end goal?

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Identify which channels and sources provide all your leads and reveal how they stack up – then tailor your marketing strategy to get ahead. It’s the time of year when many of us spend time in reflection, thanksgiving, and preparation for the 365 days that lie ahead.

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CRM Enterprise Enterprise Report 62