The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. The two reasons were: 1) The current test environment is all physical and is taking up too much space in the datacenter.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. A variation on the familiar “oh no, it is not the hardware, it’s a software issue” ya right.

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Pipeline Customer Demand Generation Agencies Hiring 227

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 29, 2017

First, RainKing and DiscoverOrg were playing in a very large market: B2B Sales and Marketing is a massive opportunity, so it was okay to have a competitor. For what we lacked in funding, staff, and experience, we made up for in hard work and determination. Ten years selling in the same market.

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Competition Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 251

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Market conditions 12 months ago were very different. Sign up for SBI''s free onsite research session here. Why This Matters— The size of your addressable market has shifted. You sell to a more informed buyer. Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Selling a Price Increase. Had I messed up? I was up at the crack of dawn and didn’t stop for twelve hours — fueling jets, inspecting engines, and inventorying aircraft parts. Sit in on a strategy session with your marketing team or a weekly budget update with a project manager. high profit selling.

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Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 168

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. Because HubSpot provided a solution that was completely unique in the market, we had no competition from other companies selling the idea of inbound. But by that time, we had a sizable lead in the market.

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Loyalty Inbound Skype Consumer 105

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Although these changes are often exciting, keeping up with the evolving technological landscape can feel like a full-time job. Today’s blog post breaks down some of the most impactful technological developments B2B selling has seen in the last few years. Here are five important ways technology has permanently changed B2B selling.

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B2B Social Media CRM Social Selling 225

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2020

With consumers and businesses navigating a challenging economy and sobering job market, many companies were focused on staying afloat. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , from 2008 to 2010 consumer spending decreased in the areas of food, housing, entertainment, personal insurance, pensions, apparel, and services.

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Remedy Consumer 91

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 25, 2023

You’ll also need to complete certain foundational steps to set your business up for success. Identifying a problem in an existing market. Focusing on niche markets. A niche market is a small, underserved segment of a large and established market. This is how the idea for Uber came about. The rest is history.

Scale 64

Scale System Lead Rank Small Business 64

SugarCRM

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sugata has a unique specialty in solving complex industry problems that create new business opportunities through channel ecosystems, which led him to found his company ZINFI in 2008. ZINFI’s mission is to solve the challenge associated with selling and marketing through the channel. Direct or indirect marketing practices.

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Channels Lead Rank Networking Ideal Customer Profile 49

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2018

They use every bit of data we give them and turn it into a way to market their products and keep us coming back. The rise of artificial intelligence has produced a huge range of new products, but in the sales and marketing world, chatbots are the new toy. Sales is an evolving industry, with constant market changes and new strategies.

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Sales Enablement Guarantee Sales Qualified Lead Inbound 96

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If you missed episode #178, check it out here : Why SDRs Should Report to Marketing. From 2008 to ’11, she acted as the co-general manager of the core business managing over 2,800 employees across the world and delivering profit on a $300 million P&L. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn. How to open a regional office.

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Hiring B2C Consumer Microsoft 76

Close.io

AUGUST 21, 2019

Founded in 2008, Twilio reached $100 million in annual revenue in 2014 and $600-plus million in 2018. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and perform other communication functions using its web service APIs. Go up there and talk about Twilio for 5 minutes.

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Customer Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Health Care 91

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 4, 2020

The way businesses sell is constantly changing, and many sales reps are facing impossible deadlines, strict accountability, dozens of curveballs with each deal, and pipeline scrutiny from all sides. Or when you have to hit a high goal without any marketing support? But if you can remain positive you have a huge competitive advantage.

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Positioning Hubspot Face-to-face Quota 140

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. And these numbers were up from past Gallup surveys.

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Insurance Insurance Commission Lead Rank 120

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Sales Videos by Well-Known Selling Experts. You might know him from The Little Red Book of Selling, the best-selling sales book of all time (and one of our picks for 10 must-read sales books for rookie reps). He published a best-selling book of the same name. Otherwise, you might spend all day on YouTube. 6) Dave Kurlan.

Channels 112

Channels Video Training Hiring 112

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

From marketing to accounting to logistics and beyond, entrepreneurs get to oversee the many facets of running a business. recession between 2008 and 2011, it has rebounded and is now back to pre-recession growth rates. Women were starting 40% of all new businesses, and persons of color made up 40% of entrepreneurs in 2016.

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Outsourcing Services Licensing Hubspot Small Business 111

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

From marketing to accounting to logistics and beyond, entrepreneurs get to oversee the many facets of running a business. recession between 2008 and 2011, it has rebounded and is now back to pre-recession growth rates. Women were starting 40% of all new businesses, and persons of color made up 40% of entrepreneurs in 2016.

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Outsourcing Services Licensing Hubspot Small Business 110

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Brent Adamson , who co-authored the foundational sales book, The Challenger Sale, and who has recently released The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results. . Finding and identifying a Mobilizer to help you sell within a large enterprise.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Enterprise Enterprise 55

HeavyHitter Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Martin: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics.

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Conference Call-back Sales Meeting Meeting 68

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 19, 2013

The VP had done his research: internally to the key stake holders, the sales agents, managers, IT department, marketing and HR; and externally to the insurance industry and even outside his industry. I visited 9 different CRM companies exhibiting their products all extolling the virtues of their software.

CRM 37

CRM Insurance Insurance Pharmaceuticals 37

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Marketing (6398). Software (1035). Selling Skills (528). Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Networking pricing price sales process selling video video sales tip MORE >> 44 Tweets SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013 Do You Have a Killer Communication Strategy? Sales (12918).

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Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Martin: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Selling in a Recession: The Value of E-Mail.

Penetration 60

Penetration Ideal Customer Profile Real Estate Distribution 60

HeavyHitter Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Martin: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Decision Maker Analysis 60

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Tools 45

The ROI Guy

MARCH 23, 2011

In a recent Harvard Business Review article , one of the most respected names in technology marketing and strategies, Geoffrey Moore discussed how diagnostic and benchmarking sales techniques can be used, particularly during a downturn, to help engage executives, open up new opportunities and unfreeze previously stuck sales processes.

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Sage Lead Rank Remedy Microsoft 67

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Analysis Microsoft 40

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. Because of the broad scope of prospecting, it requires varying sales and marketing techniques. For instance, software can be used to search and manage a prospect list.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 4, 2008

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Martin: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics.

Lead Rank 68

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hotels Harvest 68

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high-performing organizations across North America. I was young and dumb and didn’t know I probably shouldn’t start something like that right after the 2008 crisis. So I ended up doing my MBA and not going to medical school.

Scale 69

Scale Call-back Hiring Company 69

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To help you get started, I’ll share insights on how experts use Google Alerts to help them sell. I'll also provide a walkthrough showing you how to set up a lead-tracking Google Alert for yourself. There’s a plethora of reasons people decide to set up these alerts. Table of Contents What is a Google Alert? Bottom line?

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Google Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 101

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 18, 2019

A concrete growth strategy is more than a marketing strategy, it's a crucial cog in your business machine. Without one, you're at the mercy of a fickle consumer base and market fluctuations. A company's industry and target market influences which growth strategies it will choose. So, how do you plan to grow? But their incentive?

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Company Strategy Hiring Incentives 143

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Anything less is failure.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman. It’s all about understanding when people are in market versus in funnel. Every one of those apps is custom built from the ground up, and Instabase exists because we ask why? We’re on iTunes.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Scale Banking 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Anthony’s journey from sales to product to marketing. Now, he’s the new chief marketing officer at Front , which is another company that feels like it could be the next Slack or the next Gainsight, or something big in the B2B space; they’ve already got 5,000 customers, and they’re growing very, very quickly.

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B2C How To Scale Top of Funnel 54

Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So, let’s go ahead and get started talking about some of the questions and how we can help people think about this so that they can sell in a what I would call, the 21st century way of selling. That’s what’s going to do the selling for me. He was a marketing professor there and he said, “People don’t buy drills, they buy holes.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Trends Call-back 72

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

B2BSMX (Sales Marketing Exchange). Here, you’ll find the biggest names in sales, ops, marketing, and technology — gathered together for 3 days of transformational training and content. It always sells out, so don’t sleep on your tickets! AA-ISP Sales Leadership Summit. Sales Enablement Pro’s Sales Enablement Soirees.

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