Alice Heiman

MAY 19, 2022

People are bombarded with emails and sales messages. By using sales discovery to truly understand the prospect, you can build a relationship and partner with them to solve the challenges they’re facing. JodyGlidden, #CEO of @Introhive, joins #Sales Talk for CEOs to discuss how to approach sales discovery and win new #customers!

Face-to-face 136

Face-to-face Software Software LinkedIn 136

SBI

AUGUST 6, 2013

According to Gartner Group, Total Worldwide CRM Software revenue in 2012 was $18 Billion. But get ready to shake your head and drop your jaw; the same report reminds us that CRM adoption is less than 50% (poor adoption is around 74%). That means that $9 Billion worth of CRM investments in 2012 alone face a questionable return.

CRM 136

CRM PipelineDeals Face-to-face Sales Methodology 136

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. But CRM software quickly emerged as a burning issue and I made the comment that some research states 70% of CRM software implementations fail.

CRM 82

CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Score More Sales

AUGUST 6, 2012

Nearly 80% of companies polled in a new Big Data study find CRM ineffective at helping find external company information. Sales reps are searching as many as 15 different data sources for information on customers and prospects. CSO Insights surveyed 218 CEOs, CSOs, sales execs and managers during June 2012 in an online study.

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Data CRM Survey Study 197

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

This transformation is permeating all areas of the enterprise – from marketing to sales to product development and even finance and human resources. However, sales is also an area ripe for innovation when it comes to AI-powered solutions. While sales drives the bottom line, marketing helps sales find and qualify leads.

Marketing 274

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Analytics 274

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 28, 2013

Teaser: Even though $18 billion was invested in customer relationship management systems in 2012, many sales leaders continue to struggle to get value from their investment. The good news is there is a family of proven applications that provide compelling enough value for salespeople to use every day to get their jobs done.

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Maximizer CRM System Groups 166

SBI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Dreamforce 2012: A Spectacular Spectacle. I just returned from Dreamforce 2012. The recap lists some intriguing must –see sales tools that caught my attention while making my rounds visiting and chatting with vendors. It’s a not-to-be-missed event, even if you aren’t a salesforece CRM user. It’s a cloud Lalapalooza.

SalesForce 114

SalesForce Hotels Vendor Networking 114

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your 2012 Sales Plan. It’s a little late to begin planning your 2012 Sales Plan, but in a conversation last week with a reader of this blog, I realized there maybe others who have not formalized their 2012 plan. Sales Goals. 3.1.7 Sales Organization. Sales Strategy. Sales Cost Model.

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Hiring Collateral Lead Rank Trade Show 70

SBI

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Top Sales Tools of 2020 and the Digital Sales Revolution. Today, I’m announcing the solution providers I’ve selected for the final cut of the Top Sales Tools of 2020 list. I include more than 20 solutions that can make a huge impact on sales. December 8, 2020. Let’s take a look back over time.

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Top of Funnel Sales Tools Tools InsideView 169

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan When a salesperson fails to land a deal, sale or order which they expected, projected, forecasted and pre-banked, nine times out of ten, you can lay the blame on one of the following ten conditions: The salesperson did not have an effective sales process. There was no CRM application.

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Sales Process Banking Forecasting CRM 255

SBI

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

When I started Smart Selling Tools five years ago, I focused mostly on CRM. There were (and still are) more than 100 different CRM tools on the market. Since CRM is the platform for sales organizations, it’s important to have ways to compare offerings and to learn what to look for. That was then. SaaS changed everything.

CRM 84

CRM Tools Sales Tools Revenue 84

SBI Growth

JANUARY 15, 2013

Will upper management be able to rely on your sales revenue forecasts in 2013? Many Sales Ops leaders I’ve spoken with are proud of a +/- 10% forecast accuracy. Let’s say the 2013 sales revenue target was set at an even $500 million. Here's a way to make your CRM-based forecasts better and build your credibility.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Buyer Persona How To 267

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 23, 2012

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2012? Last week after a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. So if 2011 left a bad taste in your mouth, use the following ingredients to create a new recipe to make 2012 your best year ever.

Hiring 69

Hiring System Call-back Sales Management 69

Pointclear

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. To illustrate, Brian notes that in his book published six years ago, he said 90% of marketers didn’t have agreement between marketing and sales on basic things such as the meaning of the word, “lead.” But all it is is a canvas.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

Velocify

JANUARY 29, 2013

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. But how are their sales teams capitalizing on the flow of leads coming their way?

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Inside Sales CRM Leads360 Eloqua 71

Pipeliner

APRIL 3, 2018

As there are many, many books on sales management, so there are endless publications, articles and blogs on the subject of lead generation. from Austria in 2012 to establish Pipeliner CRM in America. The better your qualifying process is, the more qualified leads you’ll have for your sale team. Inbound and Outbound.

Lead Management 58

Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 58

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. ” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. On the marketing side, companies like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot, Silverpop and HubSpot are adding features that are nudging them closer to the sales side.

CRM 178

CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 178

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In sales we work hard to create mutual next steps with prospective customers and ultimately to help buying opportunities for these prospects – these buyers. Younger sales reps tend to be more used to an interruption-based work day filled with texts, chat, some e-mail and perhaps phone calling all as a part of their day.

CRM 238

CRM Outbound Tools Study 238

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data? Additional data sources.

Training 206

Training Penetration Government CRM 206

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Make 2012 Your Best Year EVER! Is the market going to be better for your products/services in 2012? Or will your sales team face another tough year to achieve their sales objectives? Make a change : repackage your products/services, alter pricing, even move the desks in your sales offices. Ken@AcumenMgmt.com.

Face-to-face 54

Face-to-face Social Media Webinar Metrics Motivation 54

Score More Sales

MARCH 20, 2012

Do you work at the front end of the sales cycle generating hundreds or thousands of leads over time for your company (or companies)? There is a search going on for the Top 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. See Sales Expert Jill Konrath’s video message about it.

Lead Generation 185

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B 185

Score More Sales

MAY 20, 2013

After being in sales for many years, I had an “Aha” moment. I don’t remember ever hearing about this idea in sales training (I’ve been through so many programs over my sales career) but I immediately knew it to be true when it registered in my head. I don’t even know where it came from.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back 250

Score More Sales

MAY 16, 2012

Do You Have a Sales Funnel? Are you part of a B2B sales organization proactively looking each week at what deals are in your sales funnel (or sales pipeline)? You have a robust, helpful CRM tool that gives you several helpful reports which you can review each week, and lists you can easily pull up on a just-in-time basis.

Opportunity 206

Opportunity Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel 206

Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2013

One big contributing factor to your sales success is in your follow-up. With many in sales, follow-up effort is focused less about them and more about you, your products, and services. If you master this, you can truly shine in sales. Most sellers do not follow-up enough. So why all the problems with follow-up?

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Follow-up Inside Sales Outbound Lead Rank 261

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution.

Pipeline 275

Pipeline Hiring Travel Top of Funnel 275

Score More Sales

MAY 11, 2012

Ashley Furness, CRM Market Analyst at Software Advice recently wrote about this very issue – teams of salespeople have received or will received tablets but do not have clear deployment plans. Furness asked 7 sales and technology experts what advice they would give to business leaders in this situation. Do you have a plan?

Marketo 214

Marketo Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 214

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. 18 Phone Sales Skills Tips You Can Use Right Now. It’s time to crank out a new list of phone sales skills tips.

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Negotiation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 276

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The 2013 Number came back from the Board for the VP of Sales. They expect a 20% increase over your “best case” 2012 finish. Regional Sales Leaders? VP of Sales Operations? If you answered anything other than #4 , revisit the value your Sales Operations Leader is providing. Who do you turn to for help? Not a “doer”.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Sales Operations Forecasting 303

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. ” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. On the marketing side, companies like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot, Silverpop and HubSpot are adding features that are nudging them closer to the sales side.

CRM 133

CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

SBI

DECEMBER 15, 2020

4 Ways Tech Can Support Sales During Conversations (Not Distract). Now that sales conversations have evolved, and gone more and more digital, there are dozens of types of technology that can support us and make our conversations even stronger. Prior to 2020, sales development reps used about 6 tools on average.

Conversion 127

Conversion Sales Cycle Energy Tools 127

SugarCRM

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Outdated and cumbersome, legacy CRM systems typically provide you with simple storage of customer data, and a few relevant fields and tasks for sales to follow up on. Simply put, legacy CRM systems are not up to today’s business standards, and they don’t fit the needs of most people in the modern workforce.

CRM 50

CRM System Trade Show Analysis 50

Velocify

JUNE 26, 2012

June 27, 2012 – I was reading a few articles on CRM in the past couple of days that got me thinking about how unique and flexible the technology world we live in truly is. Some systems are focused on doing one thing very well and for Leads360 that one thing is a B2C sales. B2B vs. B2C CRM. By Alyssa Trenkamp.

B2C 40

B2C CRM Leads360 Decision Maker 40

HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 27, 2015

    Written by Bruce Boyers for Pipeliner CRM Blog. Pipeliner CRM Blog is an exceptional resource for CEOs, Sales Leaders, Sales Managers and Sales Pros.   So begins our fascinating interview with sales innovator and sales linguist Steve W.

Pipeline 60

Pipeline CRM Ideal Customer Profile Social Media 60

The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2012

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Sales Process! Sales eXchange – 139. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. December 2011. November 2011.

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Sales Process Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel 238

The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Removing The Barrier From Sales – Sales eXchange – 107. Stored in Attitude , Listening , Proactive , Proactivity , Review , Sales eXchange , Success , execution. August 2011.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Vendor 265

The Sales Hunter

APRIL 6, 2012

How is your sales prospecting plan working for you? Unfortunately, this exemplifies the expectations of too many sales prospecting plans. Below are a series of questions you can ask yourself regarding your sales prospecting plan to help you gauge how effective it is and what areas you may want to change.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Referrals Intent 190

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales Force (Mis)Alignment. Sales Force Alignment , Tibor Shanto. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Sales Process. Hiring Sales Talent. Sales Bloggers Union.

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Pipeline Hiring Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 223