SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2013

This time of year, Sales Ops leaders are often faced with a pressing question. Today’s post is about a simple approach to improve efficiency with current sales resources. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Reduce your cost of sales.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 17, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Participate and learn what top companies are doing to make the number in 2014. define our ideal customer profile (ICP) and the potential by territory. Background. Here are five. Hire slow, fire fast.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Who are they? Where can they be found?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. According VentureBeat’s summary of the 2014 CEO.com Social CEO Report “an annual survey that investigates the social media habits of business leaders, has been released. Sad but true.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 4, 2014

Sales manager with a new sales team. As most in sales leadership would share – the front-line sales manager is the pivotal job for building and sustaining sales success. And, perhaps the most critical time for any sales manager is when first taking over a new sales team. Talk with senior management.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Between 2014 and 2019, the increase in influencer marketing spend mirrored the decrease in print advertising spend. Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? A clear, defined niche.

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OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

How critical to sales success is the right SPM technology? Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions are a critical component of an organization’s core business, as it is the linkage between behavior and strategy. The answer is simple. The total market including all consulting and managed services is estimated to be worth $2.7bn.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. A short quiz for sales leaders – How much has the buying process changed in your market in the last five years? Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? The larger the number of new hires on boarded, the greater the impact.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In this article, we provide insights on how to build a product sales organization structure that yields results. We talk about optimal sales organixation structures of teams in your company. First, it is important that sales team structure roles are clear; second, it ensures successful achievement of both parties’ expectations.

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SBI

MARCH 25, 2015

For around 40 years, we’ve been prevailed upon to achieve uncommon objectives through the use of uncommon solutions. You can over-look a much simpler, more accurate, approach resulting in a lengthened sales cycle or one that stalls altogether. You can over-complicate matters and end up with under-performing reps or territories.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But, today we’re venturing into uncharted territory to discuss a recent—and necessary—trend in business data. Here’s what we mean: In the past, organizations mainly relied on static data to conduct sales, marketing, and operations. Consider these statistics: 40% of business objectives fail due to inaccurate data ( source ).

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But, today we’re venturing into uncharted territory to discuss a recent—and necessary—trend in business data. Here’s what we mean: In the past, organizations mainly relied on static data to conduct sales, marketing, and operations. Consider these statistics: 40% of business objectives fail due to inaccurate data ( source ).

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