SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

When I first began evangelizing the concept of social selling in 2006, salespeople and their managers often gave me the side eye when I suggested that changes in buyer behavior meant sellers would need to evolve their sales approach and that social media would play an integral role in selling. Sales Success in Modern Sales.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

There’s a statistic floating around the internet that says the average inside sales rep only spends 33% of their time actively selling. I’m not sure if I agree with that figure but time management is an undervalued skill among sales reps. In sales, it’s easy to “look busy” and even easier to “pretend” we are doing work.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but here are some great companies to consider for your next sales job. ProfitWell.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Jill is an internationally recognized expert who is known for her fresh sales strategies and game changing approaches. She is also a frequent speaker at annual sales meetings, kick-off events, and professional conferences. 2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools. Don’t come in here. Absolutely.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. His focus is to accelerate peak performance fast.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The book Predictable Revenue is called the sales bible of Silicon Valley. It changed how the fastest-growing sales teams are designed. The book talked about outbound prospecting which can be a very predictable way to drive appointments and if you have predictable appointments, you can create predictable revenue.

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 16, 2012

Laws of Sales Attraction. Sales professionals must create magnetic appeal to increase closing efficiency. Our present global environment creates numerous obstacles that polarize sales efforts, form the proliferation of the Internet to advanced media. Sales attraction is discovering the true economic buyer.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%.

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Sales Training Advice

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Finding new ways to connect what you sell with those who are ready to buy is a constant challenge in sales. Even if you’re already hitting your sales targets, a good salesperson is always looking for ways to close more business in less time. Where we choose to be can have a significant bearing on our success in sales.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 3, 2012

Your sales leads are either hot or they’re not. My “Turn Cold to Gold” Webinar will show you how to make every lead a hot one and cover in detail this critical information that I promise will change your sales life forever…. • How NOT to use social media for referrals—and why you can’t hide behind the technology curtain. •

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Generating Awareness In order to start the engagement process with prospects, awareness needs to be created. Survey participants indicated that although prevalent, promotional e-mails, direct mail, sales representatives and general advertising were less effective at raising awareness of new solutions.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 15, 2024

These features enable you to do things like send abandoned cart emails and nurture prospects to conversion. Launched in 2006, this ecommerce website giant has solutions for various businesses—from small businesses and brands just starting to sell on social media to businesses that sell items globally.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 15, 2024

These features enable you to do things like send abandoned cart emails and nurture prospects to conversion. Launched in 2006, this ecommerce website giant has solutions for various businesses—from small businesses and brands just starting to sell on social media to businesses that sell items globally.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Death of a Salesman?

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SalesLoft

JUNE 16, 2016

The future of sales development is bright, and Sr. Today he’s sharing his 7 predictions for the future of sales development. — Prediction #1: Account-Based Sales Development will eat into Account-Based Marketing. Prediction #2: Sales development work will move off of Salesforce to another platform entirely.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Brendan Kamm , Co-Founder and CEO at Thnks. If you missed episode 118, check it out here: PODCAST 118: Building a Crisis-Proof Sales Culture to Weather Any Storm with Ernest Owusu. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Transferring knowledge to sales representatives, and then helping these reps more effectively share this knowledge with customers and prospects is the mission of sales enablement, and it has become a vital best practice to overcome Information Overload, fight Frugalnomics and take control of Internet driven Buying Cycles.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 09, 2010 Forrester announces Sales Enablement Conference focused on Selling into the New Economy We were excited to hear that Forresters first Sales Enablement Conference will be focused on Selling into the New Economy. • Where is sales enablement heading, and how do you get started?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? Todays buyers have more sources of information than ever including traditional, on-line and social media sources.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

This permanent shift towards frugal buyers has forced B2B vendors to fundamentally change the way they reach prospects and convert them to customers. Moreover, the executive assessments continually led to multiple projects / product sales at decidedly higher deal sizes. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

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