Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

With conversational AI assistants able to do all four, today’s salesperson is freed up to spend more time closing business (and earning those knife sets). Martin worked as a field rep with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals before making the transition to enterprise software sales, business consulting, and launching two start-ups in healthcare.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 185

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

Join DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Shuck and Justin Withers, VP of Product Management and Marketing, for a conversation about what drives high-growth companies. Watch the video here, or read through the conversation below. And it certainly doesn’t exist in technology sales and consulting and software and hardware.

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Company Conversion Outbound Video 120

Vendor Neutral

JUNE 1, 2021

They’re engaging, value-driven conversations. Have a one-on-one, free-flowing conversation about the buyer’s needs and challenges—rather than blindly racing through a slide deck. Erik Mintz, DealCoachPro Erik has 25+ years of experience in the software industry. Success in the Hybrid Working Environment.

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Constant Contact Webinar Metrics Film Customer 52

Awarathon

AUGUST 8, 2023

“An AI-powered video roleplay software is one of the most effective sales tools for streamlining your sales process, assisting your organization in meeting sales quotas, and forecasting sales for the upcoming quarters online effectively.” It focuses on sales readiness through sales enablement and training. So who’s using Mindtickle?

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Video Ideal Customer Profile Forecasting Pharmaceuticals 52

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.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Costello

OCTOBER 1, 2018

She founded Avenue Talent Partners in 2015 to help startups develop and scale their own sales and client success teams. In our conversation with Amy, we discussed improving the sales process by seeing it through the eyes of the buyer. Amy recalled, “I was looking for a specific software product. It turns me off. Another call.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At the end of 2015, we realized to grow the way we had forecasted to our Board of Directors, we needed better data on our prospects and customers. Many times, although tools are designed to help the sales department, the budget for this type of software lives in marketing. Here are the top five: 1. Aligning Sales & Marketing.

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Data Engineering Call-back Forecasting 181

Allego

MAY 24, 2022

He was handpicked by Governor Charlie Baker in 2015 to develop a plan to put the MBTA on the path to long-term fiscal sustainability. Capital, and most recently, General Catalyst, where he served as a managing director and led investments in software and technology-enabled services companies.

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Scale Transportation Google Lead Rank 62

Openview

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

McCullough joined the firm in 2015 as Vice President of Corporate Development, helping create and execute M&A and capital raise outcomes across the portfolio, establishing relationships with best-fit strategic and capital markets partners, and leading portfolio exit planning. We’re excited to welcome him to the partnership in 2019.”.

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Promotion Software Software Enterprise 60

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

A predicted anemic increase in IT spending at the beginning of 2015 has now been replaced with a 5.5% Are your sales reps and channel partners arming influencers with the right conversations, storytelling and proposals to communicate and quantify your value in proxy? IT Spending on the Decline? decline (compared to a paltry 1.6%

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Decision Maker Marketing Proposal Channels 74

Mindtickle

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on the conversations with these industry leaders, practitioners, and TOPO analysts, it’s clear we’re making some progress toward creating better and more engaging experiences for prospects and customers. Read the Procore Case Study here.

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Scale Sales Enablement Case Study Hiring 66

Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

or #Industry40) business environment includes processes, software interfaces, equipment and machinery and people. In my work with clients who are wrestling with digital transformation for business growth, the machinery and software collaborate far better than their human co-workers. Seamlessly. Interoperably.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face SME Hiring 73

Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Recently Ian Altman published a Forbes article entitled – Top 10 Business Trends that will Drive Success in 2015. In 2015 and beyond your sales team will need to be able to sell consultatively at a very high level of competency in order meet customer expectations and to differentiate you from the other guys who have gotten the message.

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Consultative Selling Trends Selling Skills Training 99

Gong.io

AUGUST 11, 2021

Taking notes is so pre- 2015. Note: Gong launched in 2015. Taking notes while carrying on a truly engaging, dynamic conversation. Coincidence? I think not. For most humans, taking notes while practicing active listening is, well, not easy. Even harder? You know – the kind that gets buyers to feel heard. Happy reps. Happy team.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Video 62

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In 2015, an average of 5.4 While this seems like a reasonable and responsible premise at first blush, you can see how crafting, learning, and delivering customized conversations to nearly six different people with varying roles and responsibilities quickly becomes unmanageable. Here’s why. And it gets worse.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Agencies 100

Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

With worker productivity falling sharply in the last quarter of 2015 at the fastest pace in over a year (Source: U.S. Even though today’s sales CRM software is much improved from yesterday, it still was never designed to align, develop and nurture a forward thinking sales culture. No that solution is not found in any sales CRM.

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CRM Hiring Twitter Facebook 70

Mindtickle

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on the conversations with these industry leaders, practitioners, and TOPO analysts, it’s clear we’re making some progress toward creating better and more engaging experiences for prospects and customers. Alex Jaffe, Director of Sales Enablement, Procore. Read the Procore Case Study here.

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Scale Sales Enablement Case Study Study 40

Mindtickle

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on the conversations with these industry leaders, practitioners, and TOPO analysts, it’s clear we’re making some progress toward creating better and more engaging experiences for prospects and customers. Alex Jaffe, Director of Sales Enablement, Procore. Read the Procore Case Study here.

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Scale Sales Enablement Case Study Study 40

Gong.io

APRIL 15, 2022

This enables us to improve the skills of our reps, enhance the conversations we are having every day, drive greater customer success, and advance our vision of economic opportunity.”. The beating heart of Revenue Intelligence is what we call the conversational repository. . Biased one-on-one conversations. Patchy call notes.

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Revenue Forecasting Churn Lead Rank 62

Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The consensus was that IBM salespeople lost the ability to have conversations about business issues with non-IT executives. I found the results of a recent Software Advice™ study encouraging (Software Advice™ is a sales software reviews firm ). Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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Hiring Buying Cycle Education Software 81

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Although no number of lead prospecting tools can replace the value of the personal touch of relationship building, taking advantage of modern sales prospecting software is an easy way to cut down on tedious and repetitious tasks so you can close more deals. For instance, software can be used to search and manage a prospect list.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Vendor Neutral

JUNE 10, 2021

On the first discovery call, it is a conversation and NOT a presentation. EDT) to learn exactly what makes a sales presentation engaging and able to drive a successful customer conversation. Erik Mintz, CEO & Founder, DealCoachPro Erik has 25+ years of experience in the software industry.

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Buyer Constant Contact Call-back Energy 59

ExecVision

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Since our founding in 2015, we’ve worked with over 140 organizations to drive revenue attainment and solidify our place in the modern organization’s sales tech-stack. Now, with product momentum and growth investment from Edison Partners, we’re equipped to become a major disruptor in the conversation intelligence space.

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Closing Analytics Coaching Distribution 40

Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

Conversely, there are endless dilemmas about how AI will shape reality, raising serious concerns. So depending on the company size, hardware, software, or labor costs, be ready to spend from a few thousand bucks to several million dollars. In the Real World Back in 2015, Amazon used AI to collect resumes for hiring purposes.

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Data Hiring Guidelines Lead Rank 74

Lessonly

JULY 9, 2020

In 2015, she was named Rookie of the Year for the FIS World Cup. But unfortunately, later that same year, Morgan tore her ACL and injured her shoulder at the 2015 Junior World Championships. One final thing—Did you learn something from this conversation with Morgan? We’d love to chat with you! It would make our day!

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Intent Face-to-face Social Media Travel 26

Alice Heiman

JUNE 12, 2019

They felt the conversations had gone well, and when they sent the proposals, they thought the deals would close. in 2015 to 6.8 You can use Mutual Action Plans, a new software platform. In fact, his salespeople couldn’t pinpoint any specific reason as to why the deals weren’t closing. What were they missing? . in 2017.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Decision Maker Leads 117

Showpad

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sales automation software has become an in-demand solution among businesses of all industries and sizes. According to Gartner, the number of enterprises implementing AI software grew an astonishing 270 percent between 2015 and the beginning of 2019. . Deep data analysis and insights.

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Sales Automation Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 53

LeadBoxer

MARCH 28, 2021

We learned in 2015 that Millennials are now considered the largest generation in the workforce, passing Boomers. As everyone enjoys saving money, providing coupons can be a driving force for increasing conversion for your Millennial shoppers. As these numbers are relatively low, we expect those percentages to continue to grow.

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Strategy Customer Demographics Analysis 98

SalesLoft

JUNE 18, 2015

They set up a booth at Rainmaker 2015 and raffled off an Apple Watch to a prospect who booked a demo with them right then and there. and you should be able to increase your on-site booked demos and conversions. But what if you took it one step further, like ListenLoop, and used that raffle to set demos THAT DAY? Roger Wood.

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Conference Incentives Incentive ACT 52

Gong.io

MARCH 11, 2021

When we started Gong in 2015, our intent was to provide sales teams — VPs, managers, and reps alike — with the necessary tools to (a) make their people better, (b) execute on deals / save at-risk deals, and (c) better understand their market. Gong makes it easy to pick and choose the conversations that will help each new rep improve.

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Churn Customer Hiring Case Study 62

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

There are hundreds if not thousands of sales software applications to pick from. There’s no better place to learn how you can get more leads, motivate your sales reps, get deals signed faster, hold better conversations, convert more leads into opportunities, strategize, collaborate, forecast, follow-up, engage, AND close.

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Tools Territories Compensation Inside Sales 50

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

people in 2015, to 6.8 Selling software is more complicated than ever before. The challenge with riding solo on your sales calls is there’s only one person from your team reading the room, thinking on the fly, and looking things up as new information enters the conversation. First, buying cycles continue to involve more people.

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Sports Scale Up-Sell Follow-up 90

Highspot

MARCH 27, 2019

” 2018 saw investors pour $793 million into Seattle startups during the second quarter alone — the highest amount since 2015, and the second largest since the dot-com era of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Generation Z is entering the workforce, and they’re hungry for tech careers.

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Meeting Microsoft Nonprofit Face-to-face 40

Vengreso

JUNE 2, 2023

I have a bit of history with Dreamforce, and it started back in 2015 when I attended the event in person as a customer of Salesforce. It’s the largest software conference in the world and an unmissable experience for anyone in the Salesforce community. I couldn’t be more excited to be attending in person again this year.

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SalesForce Hotels Conference Call-back 59

Nutshell

AUGUST 15, 2018

A 2015 study of more than 350,000 salespeople from over 200 countries showed that the average consultative seller skill set was exhibited by only 48% of salespeople —a mere one percentage point higher than it was four years prior. Consultative selling is often regarded as one of the most effective sales strategies.

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Customer Consultative Selling Hiring Face-to-face 48

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

Bahar Gunes Scigaj Head of Revenue and Co-Founder, TalentGrid As co-founder of TalentGrid, Bahar Gunes Scigaj led the successful global expansion of her company, opening up new opportunities for software developers in Turkey and Eastern Europe. Building a sales function from the bottom up, she drove 5x growth in 2022.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

This way, I can keep calls on track and accomplish what I want to achieve, while making customers feel that they are in control of the conversation. Packaging the product as a solution instead of just a commodity or service also increases the likelihood of conversion. But always direct the conversation towards your value proposition.

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