DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

So, we set up training for recruiters to help them message and speak about the company’s strengths and differentiators just like we did for sales and marketing; the training involved role-playing, one-minute pitches, email messaging, cold call prospecting, and SLAs for response times. How Can You Improve Your Strategy?

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Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

As the year comes to a close and your team is busy trying to meet their Q4 target, don’t let prospecting for the new year fall by the wayside. Even the most skilled salespeople can’t close a deal if they aren’t capable of getting in front of the right people, so your team’s prospecting effectiveness should be your top priority for 2016.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. Versus the common practice of starting with the product, then shoehorning in the prospect. Absent the product; the only thing left to talk about is what does the prospect wants to do? One of those is thinking. Can’t join us live?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

In the last year alone, our data shows that the words “GDPR” and “Marketing” were mentioned together over 30,000 times on prospect calls. Adopted in 2016 and enacted in 2018, the GDPR was created to improve data collection, processing, and usage. Are you allowed to cold-call prospects in this country? What is the GDPR?

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Campaigns Data Account Based Marketing Consumer 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2019

They don’t want to be your first foray into their industry – they’re paying for your expertise, not to be your training ground. Build Targeted Lists for Prospecting. Building out targeted lists will help ensure your prospecting approach is relevant. Are you looking to simplify your sales strategy? ZoomInfo can help!

Lead Rank 140

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 140

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. 69% believe sales pros should use AI/automation for prospecting but avoid becoming overly reliant on them. 60% of sales pros say AI/automation is important to their overall sales strategy.

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Lead Rank Hubspot Microsoft Lead Scoring 108

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

At the beginning of 2016, Anthony had a heart-to-heart talk with his supervisor and was inspired during the company’s annual January Sales Kick-off. In August of 2016, DiscoverOrg’s leadership decided to split the sales in into dedicated inbound and outbound teams. “It Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My

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Inbound Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Outbound Sales Team 227

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2021

See, your prospects are a lot like lasagna. There are three distinct layers of questions that correspond with the needs your prospect has: First Layer Questions. You won’t get many specifics here like names, firm dates, or complete strategies. Organizing the questions you ask a prospect is a lot like making lasagna.

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How To Buyer Vendor Examples 134

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What you see in ZoomInfo today is a lot of the vision that I had for DiscoverOrg in 2015, 2016, but I never built a good enough engineering and product team to make that vision come to life,” Schuck said. So, he dusted off his old vision document and asked the new engineers if what he wanted was too hard.

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Engineering Hiring Software Software 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2018

Trust is at the center of every business strategy– without it, you’ll struggle to, develop relationships, win business, and retain customers. Transparency seems like an obvious essential in any brand strategy– but it’s often easier in theory than it is in practice. Don’t just reach out when you have a new product or service.

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Face-to-face B2B Loyalty Consumer 178

SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

They didn’t have a true target prospect list, or ideal customer profiles — and no, “everyone” is not your ideal customer. When you have less accounts, hope is not a strategy. The keys to training new generation ignition are as follows: Cloud Specific. Building Your Prospecting Engine. Once a week.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Buying Cycle Account 52

Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Your sales reps have a deep knowledge of how prospects can leverage your product, and they can craft customized plans about the best ways to do so. When it comes down to it, those are the only reasons prospects actually need reps. Are there specific features prospects always go crazy for, or competitors you consistently lose to?

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Analysis Report Churn Collateral 119

Lessonly

JULY 12, 2021

Some roles have felt fairly similar, but here’s what’s varied from place to place: sales training techniques. These employers not only differed in sales training ideas , but also in culture, mission, vision, values, you name it. Each one wanted to sell, close business, grow, and make that money, but training was consistently different.

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Coaching Training Cold Calling Scale 26

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 8, 2020

This type of software gathers customer and prospect data from multiple sources, runs it through machine learning models to predict which leads are most likely to convert, and presents the findings in the form of top-scoring prospects and accounts. Driving the success of your account-based strategy. Salesforce Einstein.

Lead Rank 98

Lead Rank Software Software Lead Scoring 98

Allego

JULY 29, 2020

Voya Investment Management, an Allego customer since 2016, uses the learning and enablement platform to share high-priority internal information to keep financial advisers up to date on market changes, collateral, and product messaging. We’re also using it for onboarding by creating training channels. Learn More.

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Video Face-to-face Conference Collateral 83

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Trust is at the center of every business strategy – without it, you’ll struggle to, develop relationships, win business, and retain customers. Transparency seems like an obvious essential in any brand strategy – but it’s often easier in theory than it is in practice. Don’t just reach out when you have a new product or service.

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Face-to-face Loyalty Consumer B2B 100

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …). It’s always been tricky for SDRs to balance quantity and quality when prospecting. SDR/BDR Skills for 2018.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 144

Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

Because I’m in this niche space in the sales process, I loved to hear my colleagues and company leaders discuss ideas, shortcuts, lessons learned and strategies that work. I can’t wait for 2016. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Nonprofit 120

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. However, what I did have was basic management training, skills, and education. If you were thinking you were going to rely on what you didn’t close in 2016, you are a little late to the party. Step 1: Timing.

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Revenue Territories How To InsideView 40

Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

When UberEats first launched in EMEA in 2016, my team and I found ourselves immediately confronted with the challenge of scale. This strategy gave our sales team much needed flexibility during peak periods. If you’re going to work with a third party though, understand that training is important.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Hiring Face-to-face 52

The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Our achievements this year included: Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Training Industry. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Selling Power Magazine. One way we do that is by delivering sales effectiveness thought leadership via the IMPACT Sales Training Blog.

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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. Unfortunately, many start to believe there’s only one “recipe” for a good customer.

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Buyer Persona Hubspot Account Guarantee 69

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Direct Prospecting at Interested Buyers. The truth is that fewer prospects are ready to buy than most imagine (or hope). The train either has not arrived yet, or has already left the station. Sales reps using this data can answer crucial time-saving questions in advance : What technology is the prospect currently using?

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Data Lead Rank Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 120

Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is important as it helps improve our business and sales strategies. He’s been working for tech companies, working at Chilli Piper since 2016. In sales, even before the first meeting, an opportunity has to be created to book a time and engage with a prospect. The prospect was left wondering who would get in touch and when.

Ideal Customer Profile 90

Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Customer Sales Qualified Lead 90

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. Here are some ideas and strategies for you to consider: Keep it in perspective. Doing the countdown adds urgency to the process for you and your prospects. Plot-closing strategies.

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Compensation Pipeline Vendor Sales Management 40

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2020

We talk about our selling process, we talk about techniques and things like prospecting, qualifying, objection handling, closing. I wouldn’t talk about prospecting, that’s meaningful to sellers in finding new opportunities. We embed a whole bunch of words that immediately put a chasm between sellers and everyone else.

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B2B ACT Construction Sales Methodology 91

The ROI Guy

JUNE 20, 2016

This has led digital transformation to become a core business strategy , with more and more CEOs leading digital transformation efforts personally. If delegated, the CIOs as next in line to take primary responsibility for the transformation strategy and efforts, according to Gartner.

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Lead Rank Government Margin Survey 45

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

GirlsClub helps women sales reps navigate the tricky path to sales leadership with their management training, mentoring, confidence building, and community. She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. Tonni Bennett – VP Sales at Terminus.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

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. and quota improvements of 6%.

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SalesForce Sales Cycle Study Sales Enablement 52

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Some of the worst selling I encounter comes from people selling sales stuff (services, consulting, training, software tools, etc.). This campaign started yesterday: Subject: 2016 is the year for Kcd Enterprises Inc. 2016 is the year of digital marketing and you need to get on board. 2016 the year of digital marketing???

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Campaigns Email Marketing Marketing Enterprise 48

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As companies seek methods of decreasing costs and improving operational efficiencies, technological evolution has made the inclusion of inside sales teams a core component of organizational sales strategies. This is according to 2016 research conducted by CSO Insights and ClearSlide. There is a higher turnover among the sales ranks.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 40

The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

If you really want your annual sales meeting to inspire, make sure that your motivational messaging is genuine and specific to your strategy. Keep this list of “don’ts” in mind when you’re planning your 2016 sales kickoff meeting. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier. Learn More.

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Meeting Territories Networking Motivation 53

Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

During the last 6 months we have surveyed hundreds of partners, the number one topic that came up was: prospecting, or building pipeline values so let’s focus on that! I have listed a few slices to chew on in 2016: Prospective clients have done their homework as to their issues and potential solutions via the internet or other relationships.

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Hiring Networking Benefit Pipeline 40

OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 19, 2016

It’s hard to believe that the 2016 Rio Olympic Games are coming to an end. Implementing a training module for on-boarding and career development workshops gives sales reps the opportunity to work on these personal traits and a clear vision of how they can supplement their individual selling characteristics. Incent to Drive Success.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Hiring 40

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. Finishing the year strong, and….

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Scale How To 40

Hubspot Sales

MAY 20, 2018

Not only do “checking in messages rarely garner responses, they can even turn prospects against their senders. These “just checking in alternatives simultaneously add value to the prospect while putting the salesperson back on her radar. Hi [prospect]. Hi [prospect], Do you [deal with X/want to improve Y]? Best, Jamie.

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Follow-up Hiring Webinar Metrics eBook 111

Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

By tracking these particular metrics, you’ll be able to identify the prospects that are most likely to convert, whether you need to improve a leaky pipeline, or if your offer itself needs adjusting. Take the sum cost of compensation, training, and support systems, then compare it to other ROI expectations across the rest of the business.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Forecasting 81