Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. I was averse to it.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan First the links. The Huffington Post and the Hubspot Blog both published an article, by Dan Lyons about OMG and Kurlan and what it takes to succeed in sales. We recently evaluated a sales force where the salespeople had, on average, only 18% of the attributes of a consultative seller.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 29, 2013

Sales leaders will not Make the Number if they fail to rapidly onboard new talent. The sales environment is uniquely suited to take advantage of an innovation called “ gamification.” This post is for HR and Sales leaders who ask, "How can we accelerate the productivity of our new hires?". The Game: A Great Match for Sales?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Steve describes the situation when he arrived: “The state of business was flat with same store sales declining and acquisitions keeping the operating line flat. Our margin increases were coming from cost cuts and vendor renegotiations rather than increased sales.”. We hired sales resources with the right skills and experience.

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SBI

JANUARY 13, 2015

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The last thing you want from a sales email is sleazy, spammy… or even sales-y copy. That might sound counterintuitive, but I interviewed Yuval Ackerman , email strategist, who shared her top tips for writing sales email marketing that don’t give you the ick! Gaudio’s sales emails receive: 36.3% click-through.

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Troops

AUGUST 7, 2018

From 2011 to 2013, he spent time in both the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants farm systems and had, as he put it, “a cup of coffee” at the AAA level. Today, Andrew oversees multiple sales teams at Square. Andrew has been building out sales teams at Square for the last four years. Sign up for a free trial.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast?

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SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. The Sales 2.0 Conference.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration. Gamification.

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Tenfold

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The reality is that any effort to boost sales team morale at this point is going to be short-term. Sales gamification is a tried-and-tested strategy towards achieving an immediate boost in employee engagement, however short run. 71 percent of these enjoy spikes in their sales performance by 11 percent to 50 percent.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. TOTAL $19,547 from 322 sales. Book sales were constant but sales of the complete package increased by almost 50%.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This article was orginally going to be just a single paragraph, but it took on a life of its own as I wrote it. The most impressive element of the 2013 Red Sox is that what they lacked in talent, they made up for in chemistry, character, work ethic, intensity, commitment, and a rallying cry.

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The Sales Association

MARCH 9, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Bourke Are you stuck in the tradeshow rut, spending most of your time chatting to your neighboring exhibitor, catching up on your voicemails and wondering if there are potential leads wandering past your booth? Wednesday, March 9, 2011. by Michael F.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 18, 2019

Selling products online across multiple platforms. They're offered a valuable incentive to share it with others. New users sign up, see the incentive for themselves, and share with their networks. But their incentive? It worked like this: visitors to a pre-launch landing page signed up to receive email updates.

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

RELATED: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions: 3 Times To Step In (& How). But by 2013, everything began to crumble and Foursquare’s status among the app elite floundered. The extrinsic motivation of the badges and mayorships only provided a temporary engagement incentive for their users that ultimately wore off.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. TOTAL $19,547 from 322 sales. Book sales were constant but sales of the complete package increased by almost 50%.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 3, 2019

RELATED: How to Transform Customer Service into a Sales Machine. Use Social Selling to Engage with Your Customers. A loyal customer will buy from you even if you’re not on sale. This builds up your company’s image even without spending more on marketing. Capture, Case, and Fix Issues. Get New NPS Score.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As Managing Partner, she leverages her colleagues’ experience in sales process methodology, measurement and metric development, project management, and recruiting to build high performing teams for clients. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams. Hello Laurie!

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. Selling Is a Competitive Sport. 7 Sales Best Practices.

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