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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Fast forward to 2013. But most of my client engagements were in-person until 2018. In 2018, I was referred to LinkedIn Learning. Why I made referral selling my life’s work. The year was 1996. I had no name for my company, but I knew my focus.

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The 20 Best Sales Movies of All Time [Updated for 2018]

Hubspot Sales

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Charged by his firm with training a younger replacement, an unlikely friendship develops between the cross-generational partners, culminating in their unexpected visit to a rundown massage parlor, where a second chance at love just might await our widowed hero. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

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Artificial Intelligence: Where Exactly Are We Going?

Pipeliner

A voyage he had to make first by ship from Rotterdam to New York and then by train from New York to Chicago. The iPhone, which began the smartphone revolution, was introduced in 2007, and a 2013 survey across nine emerging economies found that one in four adults ages 18 to 34 owned a smartphone. Just look at the smartphone.

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4 Trends Putting the “Value” Back in Value-Added Resellers

Hubspot Sales

SaaS spending across the entire business has grown between 75-100% each year for the past six years, according to Blissfully’s 2018 Annual SMB SaaS Trends Report. Take this example from HubSpot’s own UI (user interface) in 2010 versus 2018. HubSpot Landing Page UI, 2018. And it’s not just happening across sales and marketing.

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Four Ways to Win More Deals through Sales Enablement

Miller Heiman Group

That’s because sales enablement is a framework for predictably increasing sales productivity by providing content, training, and coaching to sales professionals. The survey additionally found that 61 percent of surveyed organizations had a dedicated sales enablement person, program, or function in 2018, compared to only 19.3

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The 25 Sales Leaders You Should Get to Know in 2020

Crunchbase

Abel’s wealth of knowledge in the software as a service space is demonstrated by not only his success at G2, but his previous work; he founded and led BigMachines, a leading SaaS CPQ company, to its acquisition by Oracle in 2013 for over $400 million. CEO of JBarrows Sales Training. Scott Barker. Head of partnerships at Sales Hacker.

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Diversity: 3 Benefits of Building a Diverse Sales Team | Donald Kelly - 1402

Sales Evangelist

A study of the Harvard Business Review in 2013 showed that organizations with sellers who share the same ethnicity as their clientele were 152% more likely to understand their clients’ needs better. It improves employee engagement A Gallup poll in 2018 shared that companies with engaged employees achieve 4x the growth of their competitors.

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