A Sales Guy

JUNE 30, 2014

Mark has done some amazing things at Hubspot and the data they’ve been gathering on sales and marketing is impressive. This post on email timing is a great example of connecting with prospects. According to some new data, this result was not a fluke. This is the opposite of our instincts but the data suggests it will work.

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Data Hubspot Lead Rank Lead Scoring 128

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. It is true that the economy has had a real impact on leaders ability to properly respond, but there is still room for data driven creative approaches.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Create campaigns for the sales team that, rather than offering “once-in-a-lifetime” discounts or “check-in,” instead offer a report with valuable data.

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Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Ideally in your line of questioning during uncovering these you should try and get the prospect to attach a monetary value to the compelling reasons.

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Pipeline Conference Cold Calling Hiring 255

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Marketing automation software generates the data marketers need to provide new levels of support to sales. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011.

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Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Prospecting. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. For Email Newsletters you can trust. RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Summing it up, the authors don’t believe relationship selling is all it’s cracked up to be, and they have the data to back it up. prospecting. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011.

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Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 163

The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. I am not sure Watson answered complex questions as much as to chew through reams of data with breakneck speed. July 19th, 2011. July 21st, 2011.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 267

InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” These variables should be taken in context with other data like customer needs and buying cycles. since 2018.

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Quota Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 81

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. The farsighted view is guestimated monthly, quarterly and annual revenue projections based on equations developed from limited, subjective data.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 198

The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Perform surveys, organize a focus group, and gain any amount of REAL consumer data. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011.

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Pipeline Meeting Webinar Metrics Strategy 216

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2018

If you’re in sales, you’ve likely seen the 2011 “ Lead Response Management Study. ” It analyzed three year’s worth of data,100,000 call attempts, six companies, and 15,000 leads and synthesized findings to bring salespeople scientific answers to age-old questions like “ What are the best days to call my prospects? ”

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Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Referrals Survey 110

Sales 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2012

One thing I really noticed, as a VP of Sales was how much time was wasted for salespeople on tasks like manual data entry into CRM systems. Sales people don’t want to spend their time keying in data to a CRM system. They want to be closing deals; they want to be connecting with prospects. Are your emails reaching your prospects?

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Social Media Study CRM Consumer 250

Allego

AUGUST 31, 2021

To ensure your sales enablement strategy is ready for future growth, you need to do three things: consolidate your tech stack, incorporate AI into your coaching strategy and look at your data. Globally, companies are averaging 23 different learning and enablement tools and platforms , double the number from 2011. . Look to Your Data .

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Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Face-to-face 90

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In a piece I posted on July 19, 2011 , I questioned another mainstream piece forecasting a dramatic decline in B2B sellers and the nature of their role. Just as it is hard to argue that many of those are mostly to man the apparatus, and capture data. On the surface, the predictions may have been wrong, more sellers than ever.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2014

A blog accompanying the podcast provides a link to this data. Read more about how B2B marketers will be able to directly reach customers and prospects via email on mobile devices. Half of all B2B emails are now opened on a mobile device, up from 46% last quarter (according to Yesmail in an article published in FierceCMO).

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Social Media Media B2B Decision Maker 223

InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” These variables should be taken in context with other data like customer needs and buying cycles. since 2018.

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Quota InsideSales Strategy Lead Rank 52

Highspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

While data is incredibly important, crafting a story around that data will give your message context and meaning that resonates with your audience. Science backs this up: studies show that seven regions of the brain are activated when listening to a story , compared to only two regions when listening to data by itself.

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Buyer Software Software Call-back 95

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 13, 2013

The whole process, if done correctly, should be as natural as asking prospects about their budgets. Qualify a prospect? There are typically questions you can monetize against a minimum number of something to determine if the prospect is worth pursuing. Economic-impact tools help sales professionals gather qualifying data.

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ROI Sales Qualified Lead Analysis Microsoft 235

Allego

AUGUST 18, 2022

It means your sales rep can work with their manager, peers, or trusted internal experts to develop the best solutions for my prospect. The global average of learning tools and platforms used today in a company is 23—double the number that companies were using in 2011. Sales reps alone use an average of six tools.

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Sales Enablement Vendor ROI Collateral 118

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2016

Are your sales reps still wasting time with cold prospecting—sending emails and social media requests to strangers who aren’t expecting to hear from them? These are the “pain in the ass” (PITA) prospects in your sales pipeline. New data from DocSend proves that gender diversity on sales teams also has a huge impact on business.

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Referrals Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead Hiring 136

Chili Piper

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, it was published in 2011. Do you realize how much has changed since 2011? With more data, companies can better auto disqualify bad fit leads so their sales reps can spend more time having better conversations with good fit prospects who are more likely to buy. The data spoke for itself.”

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Leads 80

HeavyHitter Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Best New Sales Book of 2011. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager » September 09, 2011. Modeling is the mind's ability to link like experiences and similar data into predictable patterns. Sales Tips.

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Decision Maker Penetration Influencer Sales Cycle 146

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 24, 2011

When you see a prospective customer, do you not first give a thorough examination and then recommend the needed prescription, just like a doctor? . Posting October 26, 2011. There is a good argument for the concept of the Art of Selling. Is Selling a Practice? We all know that much of professional selling has to do with the numbers.

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Face-to-face Study Exercises Analysis 301

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. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Objective Management Group (OMG), having assessed 700,000 salespeople, tells us that one key piece of data remains unchanged. So while the economy isn''t creating a confidence-fest, it shouldn''t be having any more of an impact than it has in the years 2011-2012. million people selling in the US alone. No hurry - we can see it anytime.

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Travel Decision Maker Insurance Insurance 251

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. Master Your Data Universe. ” With increased scrutiny of the value being delivered by marketing, CMOs need to dive into their data.

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Influencer Buyer Persona Lead Rank Case Study 162

Allego

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The global average number of learning tools and platforms in use today is 23—double the number that companies were using in 2011, according to industry analyst Josh Bersin. Asynchronous video will become more important than ever as a way for sellers to engage with prospects and share important information.

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Hiring Sales Enablement Coaching Video 93

Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I’ve spent many years selling in startups and small businesses and every time the biggest issue cratering the sales pipeline is getting enough meetings with appropriate prospects. My background before business school was in engineering so I love data. Here’s some cold calling data boiled down into time units. Baylor University.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 5, 2013

The Big Data buffet will lead to bloated databases and inaction rather than action! Big Data has the potential to “complexify” rather than simplify decision making and that could lead you to acting yourself into thinking and worse results rather than better results. I have been a data guy for over thirty years.

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Data Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Inbound 43

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 14, 2011

Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Posted by Tony Cole on Tue, Jun 14, 2011. He spends hours researching every available piece of data about the players and teams he is about to announce. Motivational (8). Motivational Speaker (6).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sports Webinar Metrics 168

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2020

These algorithms are fed large sets of training data and they are able to infer correct answers based on “learnings” from the training data, e.g., predicting which movie a user is likely to watch based on past viewing history. In a nutshell, AI is generally good at solving problems where large sets of training data exist.

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Benefit Tools Lead Rank Lead Scoring 85

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 22, 2011

Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Posted by Tony Cole on Wed, Jun 22, 2011. Register here to receive a free copy of Tony Coles e-book, The Best Prospecting Book Ever " target="_blank"> The Best Prospecting Book Ever. Motivational (8).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics eBook 136

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

That kind of connection requires that salespeople stand in the shoes of their foreign prospects. Prospects from countries like India or China are less likely to accept standard, non-customized services than those from, say, Germany or the UK. How to do this? A few suggestions: Dig deep into cultural differences to learn.

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Closing Face-to-face Workbooks Conference 198

Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2022

HENRY SCHUCK So it’s 2011. And we were selling a very similar, earlier version of the platform that we sell today, but really focused on company data and contact data. We would send out an email saying, “Is this data interesting to you? Where are you working? So you can think of it as early ZoomInfo.

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Construction Up-Sell Exact Objections 130

HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Best New Sales Book of 2011. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. To some marketing departments, selling is simply a series of steps that you guide a prospect through. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 113

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 16, 2016

A 2011 study by Facebook and the University of Milan, which mined data from the social media site’s 721 million active users, found that the number of intermediate links between two strangers—or “degrees of separation”—is now only 4.74. But in the digital age, we don’t need six people to connect us to Kevin Bacon or anyone else.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Referrals 120