Increase Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Possibly there are far more limitations keeping the sales prospect from moving forward than one or two major obstacles? Our sales behaviors when they are aligned to the emotional, neuro pathways and experiences of our sales prospects can literally propel the sales conversation forward far faster. Share on Facebook.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, according to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , the number of businesses with a dedicated enablement function has increased from 19% to 33% since 2013. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. Training, training, training.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Published- March 2017. Published – May 2016. Published – June 2016. Published – January 2016. Published – November 2016. Published – April 2016. Get this sales management book on Amazon. The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness. Author- Kevin F. Sales Manager Survival Guide.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Here is what happened on December 6, 2016 (the names have been changed to protect our client, a Fortune 200 company): Voicemail left by our business development associate forwarded by the VP Finance to the Director of Risk Management (DRM). Prospect has multiple regions, each with their own process and nuances.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 3, 2017

2017 appears to be one of optimism if we believe a recent poll by Morning Consult. Are prospects seeing your energy? If your business growth or sales results in 2016 were not where you wanted them to be, what changes can you make to ensure different results in 2017? Where do I want to be by the end of 2017?

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. More than 86% of businesses surveyed in 2016 indicate that they plan to increase their upcoming email marketing budgets ( source )—and you should too. As you grow your email database , you increase the opportunity to reach potential prospects and customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

According to the 2017 Center for Exhibition Industry Research Index Report, the fourth quarter of 2016 was yet another sign the reign of trade shows is over. This may seem like a big blow to B2B marketing tactics, but the decline of trade shows presents a new opportunity to elevate engagement with prospects to new levels.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

CSO Insights’ 2017 Best Practices Study revealed that quota attainment—averaged across all geographies, industries, and company sizes—dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. Maybe they can even get referrals from those lost prospects. Hopefully they learn something from it. Ace out the competition.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2016

So, if you initiate an opportunity today, October 31, 2016, then on average, that opportunity will/should close on or around (a couple of days) January 31, 2017. So if one prospects and drives four new opportunities a week, they will have their one “right” opportunity each and every week.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

December 2016: A troubled client account initially said they would renew their DiscoverOrg contract. At the end of 2016, DiscoverOrg realized that there was an opportunity to increase customer satisfaction and engagement with an enhanced focus and approach. Get our survey-based 2017 Growth Drivers Report and find out!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

It’s prospecting that’s hard. According to research compiled by LinkedIn, 74 percent of all internet traffic in 2017 will be video, and 59 percent of senior executives would rather watch a video than read text. Account based selling teams find it increasingly challenging to reach their target prospects. environments.

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

She’s noticed she enjoys a high success rate when she talks to prospects 90 days before their contract renewal. While a tactic or technique may have been very effective in 2010, 2012, or even 2016, technology, industries, jobs, and people change. However, in 2017 email subject lines have a different purpose.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

We realized a few years ago that even if we provided our customers with the most accurate database of their prospective buyers with the deepest intelligence about what projects and initiatives they’re working on, what their technology stack looks like, and what triggers are coming down the pipe for them.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Prospect data is becoming ubiquitous, and as it does, organizations get smarter about personalizing their messages for lead generation. Instead, speak to each prospect as though he or she were sitting in front of you. Making Persona-Based Marketing Feel Fresh. In some ways, it feels like persona-based emails are still relatively new.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

Tito and host Colin Campbell also touch upon the concept of a sales champion and how to find the ideal champion within a prospect’s organization. Instead, focus on other characteristics when looking for someone to advocate for you within a prospect’s organization. I got lucky in the first couple of years of AltiSales.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

Trade shows offer a unique opportunity for organizations to form real, human relationships with their prospects that other marketing tactics just can’t provide. In 2016, after years of deliberation, ZoomInfo finally decided to hold our own sales and marketing conference—The Growth Acceleration Summit. Continue reading.

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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. Fisher Published : May 12, 2017.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2018

Plus, according to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study, only 49% of study participants had Sales Enablement Content Management solutions with adoption rates of 76% or better. in 2017 over 2016. Doing so allows Marketing to continually deepen their understanding of your prospects. Managing sales content.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Generative AI can help sales teams sell by gathering intelligence and creating outputs that save time and personalize prospect communications. McKinsey reports that between 50% and 60% of organizations use AI, double the 2017 usage rate. Prospect outreach (16%). AI outputs can be text, images, or even multimedia, like videos.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This is a time of the year as the end of Q3 approaches that many salespeople assess whether they can make their number this year or should slow some opportunities down to get off to a fast start in 2017. Let’s say you “sprint” the last few months of 2016. Make 2017 a better year by making these changes NOW.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With that economic domino effect affecting us all as 2016 begins to wind down, ending the year on a high note will be more challenging than ever. Remember that clients and prospects are seeking help and you’re in a position to both reassure and assist them. Never let a week slip by between meetings with prospects.

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Pointclear

APRIL 1, 2015

Saturn will backpedal to Scorpio again from June 14 until September 17 in 2015, but after that he''ll be in Sagittarius until December 19, 2017. You''ll need August through December to prepare for one of your biggest years ever in 2016. Saturn has moved from Scorpio to Sagittarius. What does all of this mean? I have no idea.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Sales Qualified Lead 100

Lead411

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One way to alleviate this anxiety is to reach out via multiple channels to find the best way your prospect or customer prefers to communicate. According to a Return Path study last year, analyzing 27 Billion emails sent by Americans between May 2016 and April 2017, 55% were opened via a mobile device.

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SalesLoft

JULY 17, 2019

There was one problem: we weren’t looking beyond 2016. You had to get your prospect on the line to understand what they were seeking. In 2016, everyone was scaling their SDR teams. Between 2016 and 2018, we started to see the downward crawl of the effectiveness of email marketing. We had cracked the code. We were winning.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 3, 2021

It means you’re targeting your prospects with your content and offers only if they are highly relevant to their needs. You’ll have an account for each prospect, and you’ll treat it as an individual market, crafting a specific marketing message to target it. SiriusDecisions conducts a yearly survey to evaluate the state of ABM.

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SalesFolk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Reaching a prospect has gone from roughly 7.2 years in 2016. It starts with accepting and acting on two important realities in 2017: 1. According to the 2016 Bridge Group Report, the average SDR currently supports 2.5 touches to over 8.3 attempts; the average SDR tenure dropped from 2.2 years in 2014 to 1.4

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Highspot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Since demand generation resides at the top of the sales funnel (in which prospects first become conscious of a product or service), they know that visibility is improved when buyers are enticed into taking that first step toward brand awareness. Ask yourself: What will prospects look for? Planning for interaction is a predictions game.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For example, according to calculations made by the writer for this blog post, male millennials had a decrease of workforce participation during 2017-2018 than any other group tracked. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Based on what I’ve heard from sales leaders, 2017 wasn’t much better. Relied on social media and email to communicate with prospects. He described his target prospect, and as luck would have it, I had the perfect referral.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Social Media 75

ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

Seller MUST: have a knowledgeable sales force that can be responsive to a buyer’s inquiries, engage with the prospective buyer, and be an “expert” who can guide the buyer through the buying process. #2: Ian Altman, Business Trends That Will Drive Success in 2017. 4] 2016 Training Industry Report. [5] 3] ATD Journal. [4]

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I just returned from Dublin where I spoke at SaaStock 2017 (what an amazing group of founders and investors!) Note: NetSuite has an inbound marketing engine and grew to an almost $200M/year company with no outbound prospecting. to share some of the lessons I learned while building out NetSuite’s BDR team. We were flying.

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Scale Lead Gen NetSuite Lead Rank 73

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

What started as a couple of college friends with an idea has grown over the years from 4 employees, to 20, to over 500 as of this writing – with revenue growth of over 50% from 2016 to 2017. Henry : Before we acquired Rainking [a DiscoverOrg competitor, acquired in August 2017] , the board would tell me to be more strategic.

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Altify

MAY 8, 2018

How many times have you, or one of your sales team, spent weeks with an existing customer, or new prospect, only to learn that one of the key influencers that you did not connect with had sent the sale in another direction? This holds true whether the sellers are in pursuit of a new customer, or seeking to expand in an existing account.

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Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Don’t make your prospect wait. There are several questions that most of your prospects/site visitors would ask. By the time the prospect gets to a human being, she/he has already received answers on their most urgent questions. Some of the conversations between your SDRs and prospects won’t happen, that’s true.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead B2B 56

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally in the last month of the 2016. Your chances of getting a deal pushed back to Q1 of 2017 is going to increase dramatically come December 19th. Your office isn’t the only one showing signs of holiday lethargy — your prospects’ probably are as well. Push Back on the Brush Off.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 28, 2017

Financial Peer Comparisons The Alinean Financial Peer Comparison Tool delivers one such tool, empowering your team to quickly compare any prospect with up to six of their closest competitors.

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Conversion Comparison Scale Decision Maker 49

The ROI Guy

MAY 11, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM) and Selling (ABS) methodologies are becoming more popular, with almost 40% of B2B solution providers now leveraging this strategic approach to better target and more personally engage with prospects. However, we find these targeting efforts falling flat with buyers. The survey produced 179 responses.

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