The Pipeline

JANUARY 7, 2016

million in revenue, and your 2016 quota is $1.2 Number of real prospects required to generate a REAL proposal. Number of people/companies you’ll need to engage to land one REAL prospect. . Number of people/companies you’ll need to engage to land one REAL prospect. For simplicity, let’s say you closed 2015 with $1.05

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Proposal Quota Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 120

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. My team uses Vidyard -- an easy-to-use tool that lets you quickly create videos using your webcam and screengrabs. It’s always been tricky for SDRs to balance quantity and quality when prospecting.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 144

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When I retired from the Boston Ballet in 2016 due to an injury, I didn’t think body language would ever play as much of an important role in my life again. As sellers, it’s up to us to seize the tools at our disposal. An AI-enabled coach. Boy, was I wrong. Sales + the pandemic = video.

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Video Face-to-face Real Estate Intent 113

The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve rounded up the 7 most popular articles of the year in hopes that they will inspire you to tackle your biggest sales challenges in 2016 and make it your best year yet. 17 Point Checklist to Measure Your Team’s Sales Prospecting Effectiveness. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier. Learn More.

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Journal Territories Groups Coaching 40

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our solutions focus on the following: Coaching : Replicate what works by turning objective, data-based guidance into coachable moments for managers, peer-to-peer coaching, and self-driven improvements — without any drama. Get the tools and insights you need to implement your sales strategy. What tools are they using?

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Revenue Customer Call-back Churn 62

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. During her training sessions, she shares both the science and working tools that you can use immediately to enhance performance both for yourself and your team members. Nicolette Mullenix – Sr.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

Chorus.ai

MARCH 29, 2019

It was 2016 and I was managing a team of reps at InsightSquared during a period of rapid growth. The talk track is not meant to represent an entire 30-45 minute conversation with a prospect. For example, a highly educated prospect needs to be handled differently than a prospect whose brand new to your category and product.

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Hiring Call-back Hubspot Engineering 48

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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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is according to 2016 research conducted by CSO Insights and ClearSlide. Two areas of opportunity and competitive advantage are training and coaching. Could this be a factor in why only 46 percent (2016 Sales Comp Survey, Alexander Group) to 67 percent (the Bridge Group) of inside sales reps are achieving quota?

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 40

The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Keep this list of “don’ts” in mind when you’re planning your 2016 sales kickoff meeting. The Sales Territory Planning Workshop coaches salespeople on the best strategies for developing sales plans that they can implement, track, and measure for success. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier.

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Meeting Territories Networking Motivation 53

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 22, 2019

In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals. It’s also your responsibility to communicate and coach teams to put good sales behavior into practice. better than one who receives no coaching.

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Incentives Incentive Banking Call-back 68

The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Building pipeline so that their team is on track for a good 2016. Identify bite-sized prospecting efforts that can occur in between calls and meetings without a big time commitment. During the most intense weeks of our sales year, it becomes difficult to find the time for prospecting activity. Prospecting Skills

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Scale How To 40

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Copyright: 2016 Portfolio Penguin. Dealstorming,” by Tim Sanders, offers up a timely message for organizations that sell—especially those bedeviled by volatile pipelines and disappearing prospects. This requires both collaboration and a process that accelerates how quickly we level up in the prospective sale.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Decision Maker Engineering 81

Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The tactics range from trash-talking competitors to truly abusive behaviors against prospects themselves. Combine this with an increasing pressure to achieve Unicorn status and a flood of venture-capital investments and sales teams, the enablement teams seeking to support them, and the prospects are caught in a perfect, negative storm.

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Social Media Education Up-Sell Competition 21

Hyper-Connected Selling

APRIL 19, 2017

Well here’s what people have done when I sent them a note: Loved getting a handwritten note from the very best professional Networking coach himself. — Konstanze (@Konstanze) November 2, 2016. If I run across a prospect that fits into your demographic, I’ll let you know. Hey @dfishrockstar I love getting mail.

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Networking Hotels Referrals Demographics 45

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

If you’re looking for insight from Trish on sales development, she recently chatted with Dan Hersch on the Engaged Prospect podcast. . After serving as an aviation executive at JetSuite, vice president of sales at Flexjet, and holding numerous other sales positions, she now offers executive coaching and sales training services nationwide.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 5, 2021

And actually, we started around 2016 and now with the most recent fundraising, which was in June 2019, altogether we raised 300 million, which is quite huge, especially by European standards. And also, how do you continue to coach the team on being differentiated as more and more teams are using similar technology tools?

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Scale How To Cold Calling Sales Cycle 119

Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As a result, consultative selling can help your team build deeper, more individualized relationships with each prospect while working to solve customer needs through compassionate insight. In fact, as far back as 2016, buyers were already expressing a preference for collaborative sales experiences without the standard “hard sell” tactics.

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Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

Welcome to Rainmaker 2016! And now, in 2016, we’re Atlanta’s Best Place to Work. He’s set up with a basic tool set: SalesForce.com, a desktop dialer, a whiteboard, post-its. . With Salesloft, Jack was able to work in a live feed, connecting, qualifying, and converting his prospects in one pane of glass.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Scale Top of Funnel 52

InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

In place of “management by walking around”–digital tools, instrumentation, and metrics. Very few of us have gone so far as to suppose our seasoned enterprise reps want or need new digital tools to get their jobs done. They may use a personal cell phone to follow up on customers and prospects. CRM–not optional.

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Face-to-face Travel Call-back Infor 94

Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device. In addition to sales coaching , they need onboarding, learning, and sales content. And last year was a pivotal year for us.

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PandaDoc

MAY 24, 2023

The sales enablement manager is an essential element in the sales process and is responsible for equipping sales teams with the necessary information and tools to excel in their role. Do sales enablement managers and sales managers have anything in common? They sure do.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 52

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Although Hubspot specializes in sales, marketing, and CRM tools, they’re best known for coining the phrase inbound marketing. SalesLoft offers a suite of sales engagement tools to help reps form better connections with their prospects, analyze their sales process, and much more. Watch a recording of the webinar here. ExecVision.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 206

Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Other great tools and software to use. Data source tools. Standalone email tools. Standalone calling tools. Lead scoring models may differ a little depending on the company and industry, but in general, points are given based on different attributes and behaviors of the prospect. What to track. How to track it.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 91

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As a result, consultative selling can help your team build deeper, more individualized relationships with each prospect while working to solve customer needs through compassionate insight. In fact, as far back as 2016, buyers were already expressing a preference for collaborative sales experiences without the standard “hard sell” tactics.

Consultative Selling 52

Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Although Hubspot specializes in sales, marketing, and CRM tools, they’re best known for coining the phrase inbound marketing. SalesLoft offers a suite of sales engagement tools to help reps form better connections with their prospects, analyze their sales process, and much more. Watch a recording of the webinar here. ExecVision.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 170

SalesLoft

MAY 3, 2018

After all, the information you discover using these 6 Easy Ways to Research Sales Leads could be what gets your foot in the door with a prospect. Being informed about a company’s history, what their industry looks like, and discussions that have taken place are all critical pieces of information to know before reaching out to a prospect.

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Research Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 52

SalesLoft

MARCH 10, 2016

The dust had just begun to settle at the end of Rainmaker 2016, the largest sales development conference in the world. And more leads come from targeted and intentional prospecting. Remember Process Before Tools. The leader who buys a tool first, and waits to create a process is doomed. Be intentional.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Intent Account 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. 150 of them share their best advice and career-defining “aha moments” below.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

SDRs (also commonly called business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first part of the sales process: Researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads. You’ll spend most of your time speaking with potential prospects, so you may not want to become an SDR if you’re not comfortable talking on the phone. Account Manager.

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Hiring Salary Engineering Compensation 133

SalesLoft

JUNE 16, 2016

Enabled by rigorous training, a depth of knowledge and next-generation tools, SDRs will become a channel for valuable content all their own. The ability to effectively prospect and deliver cadences cannot be from within Salesforce. Prediction #3: SDR leaders will use automated data analysis to coach and forecast in real-time.

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Account Based Marketing SalesForce Lead Rank Analytics 52

MEDDIC

APRIL 1, 2020

The foundation of MEDDIC Academy was based on an observation that Complex Enterprise Sales Learning environment is old and misses modern tools. But when it’s not possible and when we need to keep training and coaching our sales forces, the VILT (or Virtual Instructor-Led Training) is the best next choice.

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Face-to-face Travel Exercises Enterprise 69

Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. However, every day, we see tons of blog posts and articles stating that outbound prospecting isn’t efficient anymore. Hello Laurie!

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Outsourcing Services Inside Sales 50

Artesian Solutions

APRIL 9, 2018

We talked about how top performing sales people take the time to learn about their customers and prospects, and answer some all-important questions – What’s important to them? Sellers that use tools to advance their understanding of the customer and enhance listening skills are pulling away from their peers. Great listeners.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM system, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. A CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool is software used by sales and marketing teams to track the interactions you’ve made with your contacts and customers, and manage follow-ups. Do you need a CRM?

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Segment 49

OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM for sales, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. A sales CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool is software used by sales and marketing teams to track the interactions you’ve made with your contacts and customers, and manage follow-ups.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Segment 39

InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Unless these sales leaders understand what this digital buying process is, along with the buying patterns and behaviors of prospects , they run the risk of clients removing them from their list of considerations. . Such was the claim in a 2016 TechCrunch article. After that, the rep should stop contacting that prospect.

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