The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

(CEB) At the enterprise level, there are as many as 10 members in the buying decision committee? IDC) The reality is that with more decision makers, your deals are getting more complicated, and as a result your opportunities are getting stalled, and those that close are taking longer to get approved.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A similarly scary statistic came from Docurated’s State of Sales Productivity 2015 study, which found that salespeople only spent 1/3 of their time actually selling. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. This is where sales enablement technology comes in.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

According to Blake, regardless of the individual prospect and their needs, the rep's ultimate task is to bring money in the door. Blake would never give up control of the sales process to a prospect. But abandon any strategies that involve force-feeding prospects a product they don’t want and don’t need.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 10, 2020

As recently as 2015, a sales pipeline was a rudimentary look at your ability to meet or exceed your quota on an aggregate basis. Meeting scheduled — typically referred to a scheduled introductory meeting where a salesperson would qualify the prospect and determine if they were worth pursuing. Discovery call.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

By attending this free webinar: “The 5 Secrets to Effective Cold Calling,” held on Wednesday, November 18th 2015 at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific, Register Now. Tip #3: Learn how to quickly engage the decision maker by asking them a question as early as possible. So how can you make cold calling easy?

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

MARCH 17, 2021

Experienced salespeople know that telling stories is a powerful way to get key points across to prospects. So, for example, when trying to influence a decision maker, don’t just talk about your product. 2015, January). But have you ever wondered why a good yarn is so persuasive? Rely on emotional language.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems remain the most critical, enabling sales teams to collaborate, managers to stay on top of business, and customer-facing people in other departments to share one prospect or customer record.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

These fictional characters usually have names, and they embody all the traits of your ideal prospects. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. In 2015, an average of 5.4 people needed to formally sign off on each purchasing decision.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I was listening to a conversation on Sports Radio about the desire to shorten baseball games in 2015. Nailing down the money they will spend - most proposals and quotes are for amounts that prospects have no intention of spending. Change the timeline - most salespeople extend the timeline when they ask when a decision might be made.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 1, 2021

You have to build a convincing sales deck that sells a vision of your prospect’s future. The best sales presentations lead your prospect on a journey through your product and leave your potential clients wondering how they ever did without it. Also, encourage higher decision-makers at the company to attend.

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

That includes tracking prospecting, networking, email outreach, calls, meetings, pipeline growth, deal velocity, and, of course, closed-won and closed-lost outcomes. In fact, this is why LinkedIn ® asked me to speak at their Annual User Conference in 2015 when I was formerly a VP of Sales. LinkedIn ®. Not Applicable. Seamless.ai.

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Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2022

In addition, we’ll walk you through how to use Crunchbase’s sales prospecting software to connect with decision-makers at these companies and close deals, all in one platform. Crunchbase User Tip : Want to find and engage with decision-makers at Medikabazaar? In this series, we help you find them.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 6, 2023

Verified contact data that helps your team connect with decision-makers Get a custom contacts package for your entire team and enable them to easily find contact information for decision-makers at target accounts. Talk to Sales 3. See Plans 4.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Your sales team has one month left to finish out 2015 with a bang. Are they on track to blow past quota, or still struggling to get cold prospects on the phone? Referral selling is the only business-development strategy that converts prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. Want Reps to Get Referrals?

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Actually much of this probably should have been started 30 to 90 days ago, but there is still time to make 2016 far better than 2015. When end of year bank statements arrive, then within a couple of hours you should have 2015 financially closed and ready to go to your accountant. What prospects did not end up as customer and why?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged. Why Change Now? – Why Your Solutions?

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 7, 2020

So much of modern selling involves knowing how to pitch to a prospect from afar — cold calling, discovery, follow-up through email. If you’ve made it into their calendar and have booked a meeting with your prospect, there's a good chance you can make this deal work! That’s all you should take for granted, though.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged, with little reason for optimistic spending growth predictions. YoY decline from 2014. increase compared to 2014.

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Cience

APRIL 2, 2020

In 2015, HubSpot published the result of their traffic research , stating that 46% of traffic that B2B companies across all the industries get to their websites is direct. But when the time comes, decision-makers will rather choose a vendor that engaged with them in the past. Direct traffic remains an enigma for marketers.

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Pointclear

JULY 7, 2015

My question to you and top industry experts is this: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? I am Abe Lincoln at ACME, and I am the ultimate decision maker. What about all the other prospects that remain anonymous?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Why salespeople need this book : It’s one of the best cold calling books on B2B sales prospecting—for both inspiration and insights. Fanatical Prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Compare that to Marketing tech stacks: an Econsultancy report from 2015 cited that half of the respondents were using 21 technologies in their Digital Marketing stack. DealPredict organizes prospective companies, and target buyers within those companies, on a scale of 0-5 stars. Predict the Race Before It Begins with OppAlerts.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It is a scary world out there and many fears exist; the future of the business cycle, new taxes that will hit in 2015, consumers of to their lively hoods and the fears of your sales team as they face another challenging year. Focus your sales team on selling to the business challenges of the NON-IT decision makers.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

If, for example, you are trying to close a complex sale, prospective clients probably won’t take your word alone as proof your company can seamlessly deliver on your proposal. You might need to bring along another senior leader to demonstrate how much your company values these prospects’ business. © 2015, Negotiating Women, Inc.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

That’s what I set out to find when I presented this question to fellow industry experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. You have to bear hug sales.

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 14, 2015

2015 has been a crazy awesome year of events and conferences in the B2B tech industry. Be like Sherlock Holmes in your visual discovery and find your prospects. You look like you’re a decision maker. Attire, gear, dress, logos. Connect on commonalities or friendly banter. Break the ice with flattery. “You

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SalesLoft

JUNE 23, 2015

The SDR is responsible for reaching out to prospects to set qualified appointments and schedule demos. — SalesLoft (@SalesLoft) June 16, 2015. SDRs hand off qualified prospects to the AE who then acquires the customer through product demonstration. . — SalesLoft (@SalesLoft) June 16, 2015.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Millennials are shifting into decision-making and leadership roles in the workplace and accounted for half of the B2B buyers in 2015. Once a well-designed eCommerce site begins attracting new prospects’ attention, it can start doing the work of converting customers by delivering the information they need to make decisions.

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MarketJoy

JULY 10, 2018

By moving the leads effectively through the sales pipeline, SDRs are more towards lead generation, appointment setting and focus on prospecting. The more genuine the conversation sounds, the more likely the decision makers will be interested in sharing their needs. Specialization is the key to score numbers in sales.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 7, 2015

When you examine your sales pipeline and compare your wins vs. losses, research from SBI indicates that an amazing 58% of deals don’t get lost to the competition, or end up in your hands – they result in “No Decision”. Have you diagnosed the challenges properly, showing the prospect that the issues are bigger than they imagined?

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 16, 2019

RELATED: Sales Email Secrets | Secrets Of Email Prospecting To Increase Open Rates. Close Your Sales Email By Showing Prospects the Next Step. To succeed in prospecting or lead generation, you need to have an effective sales email template. Make sure you know why your prospect should be talking to you. Define Your Goal.

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Growbots

MAY 22, 2018

SDR stands for Sales Development Representative and is a person that focuses solely on outbound prospecting. An SDR’s job is to free the sales executives of the time-consuming task of prospecting so they can spend more time selling to qualified leads. Master video prospecting. Prospecting tips. 7 Traits to Look For.

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Xactly

AUGUST 13, 2018

As a result, organizations can design balanced, fair territories that maximize sales coverage and prioritize top prospects and existing customers. On the other hand, a sales rep with a massive territory may not have the ability to effectively serve every customer and prospect. In 2015, the global annual rate of data production of 5.6

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Using the old sales adage, “Call high and call wide,” Rosenberg urges reps to go overhead to the decision maker when navigating a sale. Just when you think you’ve hit your call quota , emailed all the prospects you can, or your leads have gone mute — push harder. Our top pick?

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Tenfold

JULY 18, 2017

Marketing, on the other hand, involves all those actions that a business takes to reach and recruit prospects. The number of ‘touches’ a prospect requires to convert into a sale varies, though research suggests anywhere between three and twelve touch points. Podcast listening increased by 23 percent between 2015 and 2016.

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