Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year. The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Sales professionals who are doing their best work in Q4 are executing their sales processes to perfection.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2020

At work we tend to focus on the things we are held accountable for, achieving the goals we have in our jobs. At work we tend to focus on the things we are held accountable for, achieving the goals we have in our jobs. Are we achieving the results we should be achieving? Bolding is my edit).

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Xvoyant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Maybe we look at the New Year and resolutions the wrong way. We start with an end goal and work our way back to what we need to do to get there. What if we went about setting goals and resolutions in the opposite way? What if you started just 10% more opportunities—50 additional starts. Start 10% more deals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. When customers or other companies refer people to you, your company is viewed as more trustworthy in front of those leads, and because of that trust, you can expect a faster – and more successful – sales cycle. That’s a huge jump. The secret?

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Read any “how-to” guide, and 9 times out of 10 the first step is something having to do with planning or strategizing. The ultimate goal? Closing more sales. Automation works, but only as fast the sales rep can identify the correct person to reach out to, and how to contact them. Now, this is a very broad overview.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

In our recent white paper The Ultimate Guide to Sales Negotiations , we discuss how negotiations improve with consultative selling. By stressing long-term relationships over short-term sales, sellers should form partnerships and work with buyers to achieve the best outcomes. In addition, be alert to casually dropped names.

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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. Tap into their heart, their gut and their brains.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking sales performance is the only way to know how well you and your team are doing. Many aspects influence revenue growth – average sales cycle length , churn rate, and customer acquisition cost, to name just a few. This guide will explore 13 essential sales KPIs to track, measure, and report your sales efforts.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Consider this, Gartner says: “through 2015, 80% of social business efforts will not achieve the intended benefits”. This is done to understand your buyers goals and objectives. Eventually it will cost you your job.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

“When I first started at DiscoverOrg two years ago, I joined a group of six other Sales Development Reps (SDRs). We were all green to the role and new to sales in general. Fast-forward two years later : I am the manager of Sales Development. We have the following goals for each SDR: 40 dials per day to inbound leads.

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SBI

APRIL 19, 2018

As a sales leader, onboarding new hires quickly should be a top priority. When your sales ramp rate is poor, it’s a huge drain on resources that can prevent you from hitting annual targets. It costs your company time and money that it could put toward new hires and increased sales. What’s the outcome of a clear goal like this?

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Given how much investment companies make in coaching sales reps, it’s not great to know that, commonly, 20% of sellers generate 80% of sales. Imagine the ROI that could be achieved if every seller were empowered to reach their monthly sales quota. This is why you’ve invested in sales enablement.

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PandaDoc

JULY 1, 2020

Creating new sales opportunities and achieving stable growth is the goal of every company. Prospecting is the process of searching for potential buyers (the prospects) that are good fits for your service or product and then communicating with them in a way that moves them to the next stage of a sales pipeline.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s been reported by the Sales Management Association that the average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, only becoming productive after 11.2 Onboarding new sales talent is a huge investment for most organizations, and getting it right can be a make or break for your business. Put people before processes.

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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 my numbers reflected that.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 24, 2022

I’ll explain how — then dive into the 10 ways sales pros can give back. Why sales professionals should give back. As with all things in my career, I’ve always looked at goals with the angle of, “How do we get there faster and in a bigger way than I have before? How do I scale my success?”

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

This is a toxic combination for sales reps and their managers. Sales leaders that fall back on run-of-the-mill motivation techniques struggle to drive their reps toward aggressive growth targets. Invest in sales management coaching. Plan a sales contest. Sales contests are another engaging way to propel reps forward.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Choosing long-term and shorter term goals that will actually motivate your team is tricky, though. You have to strike a balance between stretching your sales reps and staying realistic. How do you set the best sales goals? What are SMART sales goals? Why do sales goals matter?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2019

I love taking trips to new places, but finding my way there can be a challenge. In many ways, technology, like Google Maps, is similar to sales management software. Sales management software provides streamlined tools for data entry and management to speed up this process. Free Sales Management Software.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? Read on to learn more.

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Nutshell

MARCH 7, 2023

Table of Contents What are KPIs in sales? Why should sales managers track KPIs? How to track and report on KPIs KPIs for Sales Managers What are KPIs in sales? Examples of sales KPIs include customer lifetime value, conversion rate, and number of new leads. Why should sales managers track KPIs?

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. You learned about the three critical success factors of enablement , how to l everage sales enablement for digital transformation and how your leadership is required to lead through change. For instance, sales enablement creates an ROI of up to 15.3%

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. I’m here to offer a few tricks to show you how to achieve this level of engagement. I consistently gets a response rate of 60% – and an engagement rate of 80%. The results speak for themselves.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals.

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LevelEleven

MARCH 23, 2020

Productivity is one of the leading indicators of profit for an organization, especially in the world of sales. Although managers would like to think their team members are spending 100% of their time closing deals, it’s more like 40% according to the LinkedIn State of Sales Report. The answer may surprise you. The good news?

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Allego

MAY 11, 2022

Those cold conversations, however, are powerful and are proven to be an effective way to set up meetings. Faster way to get meetings: With the right approach, you can get a prospect to agree to a meeting in about a minute. And if done well, high-performing sellers can achieve a 30% appointment rate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2017

What’s making the old ways the innovations of today? When ABM has been in use for at least a year, 60% of users reported a revenue increase of at least 10%, and 19% of users reported a revenue impact of 30% or greater. ABM is the perfect system when, as is often the case, you have to work with multiple buyers in a given sale.

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Xvoyant

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Modern Sales Environment. To say the state of sales today is radically different than it was in 2005 would be an understatement. And it isn’t just one part of sales that has changed. The modern sales team has added structure to the activities salespeople conduct to build pipeline and win business. By : Rob Jeppsen.

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KO Advantage Group

JUNE 4, 2020

The proposal in the sales process is the last moment we get to bridge our relationships from prospects to clients. Why do so many people confuse this document with everything that a proposal shouldn't be, or send it through the worst possible way "I'll email you something". The Client's Goals. Hey baby, want to get hitched?

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 28, 2022

For those sales teams ahead of their sales target, it’s going to be an enjoyable July 4. For those sales teams close to or behind their sales targets, it’s going to be a stressful end-of-quarter. It is hard to think of anything worse than going to work every day and not achieving the sales results you desire.

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In a B2B sales environment that is oversaturated with sales tools and technology, how sales organizations create and leverage an integrated sales approach is key. Our guest leads one of the most iconic sales training organizations in the world, so you know his insights will be both actionable and proven.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

Generative AI is advancing faster than any technology I’ve experienced. People in all industries use generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to create content, analyze data, write software, create sales strategies, develop employee training, manage teams, and more. Want a GPT for sales content? And now we have custom GPTs.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. The prospect may have shown interest, which means they’ve entered your sales funnel as a lead. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader?

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