Jonathan Farrington

DECEMBER 12, 2012

A 2009 DI study with 1600 corporate customers showed that customers attributed 33% of lost deals to things they feel were in the salesperson’s control. One of my clients said he has banned the sentence, “Sales are down because of the economy,” out of his sales team’s vocabulary. number of prospect calls.

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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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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

The bottom line message for vendors – if you want your sales proposal to be a priority, it needs to be justified in quantifiable terms. In response, most sales forces have instituted initiatives to help align with a more demanding and frugal customer base. The demand for business value selling is a fundamental and permanent shift.

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Vendor ROI Direct Mail Education 40

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 29, 2015

” That’s why the words you use matter and why business to business sales “pitches” fall flat. The lesson for business to business sales leaders is loud and clear: Choose your words carefully. This thinking was advanced by a 1967 study around communication. It turns out words—not non-verbal cues—dominate.

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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? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Best Sales Movies of All Time. Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Kurt Russell plays a hotshot used car hustler who dreams of running for state senate in Robert Zemeckis’s outrageous sales satire. Playing the manager in charge of doling out prospective sales leads, Kevin Spacey’s cold-blooded smarm has rarely been more effective.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

During the last two months, I have had the opportunity to speak with nearly 200 sales operations leaders from all over the globe. In nearly every introductory conversation, the discussion quickly turns to the path each person took that brought them to Sales Operations leadership. . The Evolution of Sales Operations.

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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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