Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

He previously co-founded the cloud data pipeline company Stitch (acquired by Talend in 2018) and business intelligence platform RJMetrics (acquired by Adobe by way of Magento Commerce in 2016). Discussed in this Episode: Ecosystem-led growth is about leveraging partnerships to make your go-to-market teams more successful.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2015

With the New Year of 2016 just 5 days away, now is the time to begin to increase sales. 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. Here are some steps to ensure your path to a better 2016 sales year. Credit www.gratisography.com.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Social media is an integral part of every marketing strategy. However, there’s a myth that says B2B social media marketing isn’t effective. The sole reason is this myth that mentions the ineffectiveness of B2B social media marketing. So, how do you perfect your marketing strategy? Seth Price . Brittany Hardy

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This will add depth to your conversations and help you lead a better meeting. Turn the meeting into a conversation. Admittedly, it’s more difficult to achieve natural conversations over a video call. This will help spark longer, more natural conversations. Engage in topics outside of work where appropriate.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2017

There’s a lot of buzz around Sales and Marketing AI, but what is real and what is hype? What can we actually expect from AI in the sales and marketing technology in 2018? AI for Sales and Marketing Tech: High Expectations Meet Reality. Responses included: “AI will manage customer relationships through predictive marketing.”

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today Salesloft is excited to announce we are going Platinum at Dreamforce 2016. It would pour fuel on the marketing fire that engulfed the startup ecosystem. So we had to execute a guerilla marketing campaign that shattered all expectations and fanfare of the previous year. So, what’s on deck for Dreamforce 2016?

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dive into Coach Dan’s real and raw entrepreneurial journey, exploring the setbacks and triumphs, including a significant hurdle in 2016 that led to the loss of his marketing company. Coach Dan opens up about how he turned this setback into a catalyst for change, redirecting his focus to his true passion for personal development.

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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. Justin: The marketing side of the house is a little more developed than the technology side.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 14, 2024

Our conversation delved into overcoming setbacks, the journey of authenticity in sales, and the collaborative essence of entrepreneurship. Coach Dan’s Transformative Journey We started with Coach Dan sharing his remarkable entrepreneurial journey, navigating from a significant setback in 2016 to becoming a sought-after speaker.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 3, 2018

Author: David Sill, DiscoverOrg As sales and marketing professionals try to navigate a world increasingly crowded by new technology, which can admittedly automate and streamline many aspects of our work, sometimes there is simply no replacement for making a human connection. Use the live conversation to get even more information.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-03-01. Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions. Many sales underperformance problems are the result of serious skills gaps in three critical sales conversations - the very conversations they need to master if they want to close profitable deals that will get them to their targets.

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Nutshell

JULY 10, 2020

Real estate marketing online is the wild west. Real estate marketing is all about building your personal brand and creating an environment where your prospects feel comfortable reaching out to you, or “converting,” as they say in the biz. In the real estate marketing space, they’re the real deal. Be genuine. They should.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2019

More online users have turned to smartphones and tablets as their primary browsing devices, forcing web administrators to rethink their marketing strategies, particularly optimizing their websites for mobile. Multiple market studies have proved that AMPs rank higher on mobile than any other web pages. The future of AMP is looking up.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

At least 69 percent of businesses invest significant time and money into email marketing, according to a recent survey by business news website The Manifest. Crafting and targeting emails to personas boosts click-through and conversion rates more than 10 percent and drives 18 times more revenue than broadcast-style emails.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Fast-forward a year: AJ is now in a leadership role on an inbound sales development team with a remarkable 40% conversion rate from inbound lead to appointment set. This incredible conversion rate and the change in fortune of Anthony Johnson are two parts of the same story. When we began, it was 15-20% conversion rate (hot MQLs).

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Allego

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

During our conversation, Perry and I discuss three strategies sales teams should employ to accomplish those goals. That may sound basic, but often companies do not follow fundamental sales and marketing practices. The fact of the matter is, though, a CRM helps sellers and marketers identify, qualify, and track leads.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. That requires conversations and real-world relationship-building—skills that many salespeople have let become rusty. In 2016, it was 53.3 This time, 85.53 percent said yes.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

People who work with me know I believe in leaving your product in the car, makes for a better conversation. In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. The whole notion of “lead to, not with,” having the conversation lead to a product question. One of those is thinking.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 2, 2016

Ignoring business data especially when it provides additional clarity as to your marketing results and more importantly what changes are required is foolhardy. For solo entrepreneurs to SMB owners, marketing data is critical to further the attraction factor and building relationships. The Many ABCs of Marketing.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. Becoming part of the continuing conversation to stay engaged and relevant. Learn how to supplement the number of leads developed for them by Marketing. Want to pump the pipeline for success in 2016? For more information or to register to attend, click here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-13. Here are four tips to secure an initial conversation and stop leaving new business on the table. Here are four tips to secure an initial conversation and stop leaving new business on the table. Author: Mike Scher. Teaser: It takes an average of nine calls to reach a cold prospect for the first time.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

That’s why we want to meet you, our brand advocates , at Rainmaker 2016. We’re getting ready to shake hands, but in order to know exactly who you are, we looked to the advocate marketing experts over at Influitive to figure out the different places to find brand advocates. Join in the conversation! Our Critics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. Teaser: Social selling is using social networks to learn more about customers’ buying preferences and behavior, connecting with them and starting a conversation. Author: Paul Nolan. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

When your reps are able to connect with prospects who are delighted with the gift package, on the other hand, they can have the meaningful conversations that forge business relationships. Dozens of cold calls to uninterested leads a day can be demoralizing. An engaging gift will make your sales reps’ job easier, too.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

When your reps are able to connect with prospects who are delighted with the gift package, on the other hand, they can have the meaningful conversations that forge business relationships. Dozens of cold calls to uninterested leads a day can be demoralizing. An engaging gift will make your sales reps’ job easier, too.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

Author: Jake Shaffren The 2016 presidential election in the United States brought “fake news” into the vernacular of a growing number of Americans. If you only overheard a conversation, or read between the lines of a tweet from a potential customer, that’s not enough to kick off the sales cycle. It is not a new problem.

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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). DRM states in a conversation with our BDA: DRM heads up the global credit team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Author: Steve Randazzo Once upon a time, trade shows were deemed the kings of B2B marketing events. 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. an experiential marketing agency located in Missouri. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-10-31. The conversation began to slow. The conversation began to slow. Author: Peter R. Teaser: I’d set up a lunch meeting with the chief of vascular surgery and the office manager to work on sealing the deal. They fired multiple questions at me as we munched on our sandwiches. read more

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Pointclear

JUNE 9, 2017

Here’s another one: A services and technology company targeting the branding, design and advertising industry leverages PointClear’s account-based marketing services, including lead generation, qualification and nurture to keep their pipeline full of sales-qualified leads. The touch cycle resulted in 6 conversations … and 1 giant opportunity.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 14, 2018

Compared to its humble beginnings, social media marketing has become a staple in the B2B community with more than $5.4 billion spent on social marketing efforts in the United States alone in 2016 ( source ). Unlike other marketing strategies, calculating ROI on social initiatives can be difficult for a number of factors.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 24, 2022

As high performing sellers engage customers in collaborative conversations, they listen differently. Too many of us don’t recognize this, if we try to listen at all, we only hear what is being said, but often miss the most important part of the conversation, the real meaning of the conversation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Author: Jim Fowler Buzzwords don’t get much buzzier than account-based marketing. Marketers in the B2B space are all about it, and there’s data to back that assertion up. That’s why, as a marketer, you'll get more mileage from your materials by employing ABM to court many similar accounts rather than just one.

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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. What if you could pivot, tune and produce the right content and conversation guide dynamically?

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Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

I was fortunate in that my husband built mine for me (Sales-Meetings.com), we were early adopters of autoresponders for newsletters and before permission marketing, my database was fairly large purely because I was speaking where-ever I could – some would say, even at the opening of an envelope. That it was my turn to take my turn.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Over the last 10 years, inbound marketing has proven to be a great way to generate leads and acquire customers and help you hit your quota. But what if you don’t have a marketing department or your marketing team doesn’t practice inbound? Ping the client with a phone and an email and ask for a 10-minute conversation.

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2020

For companies’ sales and marketing teams, this could mean changing messaging, altering their inside sales strategy, or re-thinking the kinds of businesses they’re targeting. Most importantly, it helps foster a two-way conversation and creates more of a consultative experience for buyers, rather than feeling like they’re being sold to.

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