InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A Sales Ops Playground: Dreamforce 2017. Dreamforce is the conference equivalent of becoming a sales ops professional and learning to use Salesforce for the first time. I was reminded of how the sales ops role is connected to every part of the GTM org and the potential that opportunity holds for the future of sales operations.

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SalesForce Sales Operations Scale Conference 54

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. As long as companies fill their sales people’s heads with more “Product Knowledge” than business skills, the challenge will persist. Vendors overemphasize selection criteria that aren’t important to buyers.

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Vendor Discount Insurance Insurance 255

The Pipeline

JUNE 4, 2019

Not a popular refrain among sales types, which may explain why nearly half of B2B reps will miss quota this year. In a world obsessed with ‘big,’ even more so than sales success, make it small may seem counter-intuitive. While I am not working with sales teams, I am buying. The B2B Buying Disconnect – TrustRadius 2017.

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Discount Vendor Quota Buyer 268

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

For today’s blog post, we put together a comprehensive list of the best articles about corporate events and event marketing. We tried to tackle every aspect of event marketing. Keep reading for our favorite event marketing blog posts! Events are a great tool to have in your marketing arsenal. Check them out below!

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In most instances or conversation this misuse (or abuse) of the two may not matter or have tangible consequences, but in sales, well, they do. An example would be ROI calculators or marketing contrived scenarios. These are not bad, but are usually product or vendor centric. Some believe they do this but they do not.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Trends that are here to stay.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thousands of unsuspecting diners recently received a free side of cyber terror thanks to point-of-sale malware, a malicious software designed to steal customer payment data. The malware struck Chipotle restaurants nationwide between March 24 and April 18, 2017. Chipotle is expected to partner with vendors to support these efforts. (1/17/2017).

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Consumer Vendor 186

Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. 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.

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Sales Enablement Industry Marketing Video 62

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Ten 2017 Sales Kick-off Meeting Ideas. . While working with a client last week it became obvious that we are moving into the time to finalize 2017 budgets, compensation plans and something most sales managers don’t take enough in developing their 2017 Sales Kick Off meeting. see previous blogs for ideas).

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

For the past decade, OpenSymmetry has published the Sales Performance Management (SPM) vendor guide to help organizations understand what options they have as it relates to implementing solutions to help improve the performance of their sales organization. Sales Comp Admin and Design. Candidate Assessment and On-Boarding.

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Vendor Territories Compensation SalesForce 40

Increase Sales

JANUARY 2, 2017

How many sales training programs focus on “building rapport?” ” Shouldn’t our sales behaviors be more intentional? ” To be successful in sales, one must have strong relationships with sales leads, prospects, customers, vendors and others. Do those feelings build trust?

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Cience

MAY 1, 2020

CIENCE has worked with over 750 companies since 2017, and we believe everything is possible in sales when outbound marketing is part of the Go-to-Market strategy. Outbound marketing is everything for sales now. Events are meant to start sales conversations between its’ attendees. Who Is At Risk?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There is a lot written about what has changed in sales, no doubt a lot has, but when you look at results, not much evidence. win rate is identical to the figure reported in the 2017 study. One of the subtle elements of sales success is the ability to have others make a decision. This is only about 10% of any given market.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Vendor Buyer 212

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Now is the Time to Build Your Pipeline for 2017. At this time of year it is not unusual for salespeople and sales managers to simply focused on closing business to achieve their yearly objectives, maximize their compensation plans and unfortunately drain their pipelines. This program continues in this manner.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Account Based Marketing Engineering Ideal Customer Profile Account 50

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Timing is everything in sales. In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. Broadly speaking, any industry change can be considered a trigger event and indicate a channel for making a sale. So what do sales trigger events look like?

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Social Media Google Hiring How To 105

SBI

JULY 25, 2019

Bigtincan Expands Tech Market Presence with Acquisition of Veelo Inc. Bigtincan , the leader in mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation, today announced the acquisition of Veelo Inc., a pioneer in sales enablement, to expand Bigtincan’s presence and offerings in the technology market vertical. WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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SAP Marketing Sales Enablement Inside Sales 78

Jeff Davis

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The theme was “Reimagining Sales Enablement”. As a keynote speaker and business coach focused on strategically aligning Sales and Marketing, I attended because I wanted to see what the future of Sales Enablement looks like. Status Quo Bias is real and it’s keeping your buyer from making a decision to buy. (via

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Sales Enablement Conference Buyer Vendor 88

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Trends that are here to stay.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2018

And from my experience helping businesses grow their sales pipelines with qualified leads through email, I’ve seen it continue to prove itself effective. Email’s role in vendor and customer-facing communication was cemented long ago. But email marketing is easy to do poorly — and increasingly difficult to do well. Let them know.

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Decision Maker How To Cold Calling Transportation 180

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

MAY 18, 2022

Two marketing professors from the universities of Miami, Ohio and Missouri-Kansas City interviewed 50-some buyers who had dropped existing vendors for new suppliers. From the responses, the professors concluded that the number one reason companies switched was that their vendor became complacent. Door #3: After-sale service.

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Account Vendor Journal Video 59

SBI

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Zuant Quantifies ROI for Event Marketers Worldwide; Kicks Off 2020 with Record Client Growth. Zuant’s success is based on the very real need to quantify event marketing investments. CMOs, event marketers and sales reps are spending considerable time and budget exhibiting at shows. Zuant CEO, Peter Gillett.

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ROI Industry Chemicals SAP 68

SBI

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner Names Modus in its List of Top Sales Engagement Platforms. Modus is a sales enablement platform that empowers dealer, distributor, and field sales success by ensuring predictable and instant access to the most effective sales content for any selling situation. This is where Modus thrives. About Modus, Inc.

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SAP Webinar Metrics Vendor Sales Enablement 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

The remote sales landscape is getting stuffy. Across the table (or buffering screen on Zoom), sellers are embracing digital sales and prospecting. Ahead, you’ll find three ways in which buyer intent will help level the playing field for both sales and marketing teams competing in a hyper-competitive environment.

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Buyer Intent Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel 99

SBI

JANUARY 24, 2019

Founded in 2005, Revegy more than doubled net new customers from 2017 for its SaaS-based subscriptions. Founded in 2005, Revegy more than doubled net new customers from 2017 for its SaaS-based subscriptions. In addition, Sales Hacker added Revegy to its 2018 Best Sales Tools list. “We About Revegy.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Sales Methodology Demand Generation 76

SBI

MARCH 26, 2019

BigTinCan Launches Industry’s First Sales Enablement Platform for Adobe. New solution designed for marketers will leverage Bigtincan’s AI-driven real-time automation, intelligently delivering Adobe assets to meet the demands of mobile sales teams. David Keane, CEO of Bigtincan. David Keane, CEO of Bigtincan.

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Sales Enablement SAP Marketo Sales Qualified Lead 85

SBI

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo Merge Brands to Launch Innovative B2B Data Platform To Power Go-To-Market Success. New ZoomInfo Powered by DiscoverOrg platform combines a robust suite of software tools with advanced machine learning and human research to enable sales and marketing teams to hit their growth numbers.

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Data B2B Intent Signal Marketing 69

SBI

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Smart Selling Tools Announces Top Sales Tools of 2019. the leading provider of information on sales software technologies (SalesTech), today announced the release of its Top Sales Tools of 2019 Guide: Final Cut. The Top Sales Tools Guide recognizes companies with unique capabilities for solving revenue-generating challenges.

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SAP Webinar Metrics Software Software 65

Openview

MARCH 5, 2018

Technology vendors have woken up to the reality that C-Level conversations are inevitable and necessary. President and CEO Michele Buck told Fortune in October 2017 that she plans to take Hershey beyond chocolate and turn it into an “innovation snacking powerhouse.” Cut costs or ratchet up R&D/marketing spend/hiring?

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Outsourcing Services Buyer Hiring How To 74

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. B2B sales prospecting in a nutshell. The more detailed and accurate your ICP is, the more resultative your sales will be.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Top of Funnel 98

SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Launches RevenueGrid.com, New Sales Engagement Platform that Goes Beyond CRM, AI And Redefines What Sales Engagement Tools Should Be. Through its unique, account-specific revenue signals and automated outreach, the enterprise cloud solution is promised to accelerate sales in a way that CRM and AI alone cannot. About Invisible.

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 84

SBI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A 2017 study conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) found that organizations that encouraged collaboration were up to 5 times as likely to have high-performing teams. When the standard knowledge repositories aren’t delivering answers, where do sales reps get their information? Company marketing materials?

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Face-to-face Knowledge Base Survey Study 139

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

Markets across all industries are becoming more crowded. This hardship, combined with the CRM transition to the cloud and the rise of digital selling, has created a mini gold rush for sales software fueled by abundant VC money. Last September, it introduced High Velocity Sales for inside sales. Categories Are Morphing.

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Scale Intent Data Lead Rank Forecasting 101

SBI

JANUARY 31, 2020

TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory. ndrew Gilman, Head of Marketing, NWN Corporation. ndrew Gilman, Head of Marketing, NWN Corporation. NEWTON, MA – JANUARY 31, 2020 TechTarget, Inc.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

With the right information in-hand, savvy sales pros and marketers might have seen it coming. Apache made users aware of the necessary patch in March of 2017, but Equifax did not address the flaw, which could have been prevented by a simple upgrade. Vendors, take note. That might be your solution. Management changes.

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ACT Data Hiring Decision Maker 120

SBI

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Chris Heinrich , VP of Enterprise Sales for Adobe Sign. Reduction in sales contract cycles by an average of 2 weeks.

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Microsoft ROI SalesForce How To 139