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The Top Sales Tools of the Year – The Final Cut

SBI

The Top Sales Tools of 2017 Guide: Final Cut is where you’ll find the best sales tech for growing revenue. You’ll find detailed information on top selling tools for: Account-Based Selling. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Sales Enablement & Engagement. Closing Deals.

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Just Out! Our Top 20 Sales Tech Vendors to Follow at Dreamforce #DF17

SBI

Dreamforce 2017 is just around the corner. There are over 3,000 sessions scheduled—936 if you filter by role for sales operations or sales professional, and 179 if you filter by Marketing /ABM as a role. The other thing to keep in mind is that not every solution provider caters to marketing or sales.

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A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2018?

Pipeliner

Since my keynote program had been about creating a Menu for Your Life with many metaphors around cooking, I started thinking about what her sales management recipe should be. So, if 2017 left a bad taste in your mouth, use the following ingredients to create a new recipe to make 2018 your best year ever. Inspect what you expect!

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Transforming Sales: With Data, Sales Process, Engagement, Playbooks & Continuous Innovation

SBI

Even if the game is the same, every sales team plays by different rules, yet most Sales managers long to control each play of each game — often to no avail. Moreover, HBR states that out of all metrics Sales managers track, they only have control over meager 17%. reducing time spent on non-revenue-generating tasks.

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15 CRM Statistics You Need to Know

Pipeline

year-on-year (YoY) growth of CRM adoption According to Gartner, at the end of 2017, the revenue of CRM overtook the place of database management systems (DMBSs), making CRM the largest software market in the world. 77% of sales professionals say their organization plans to invest more in sales intelligence tools—including CRMs.

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How to Make the Perfect Follow-Up Sales Call in 2018

Hubspot Sales

A recent study by sales pro Marc Wayshak shows the phone is still the best tool in selling, with 41.2% of respondents naming their phone as their most effective sales tool. But once you’ve filled your pipeline with qualified leads, it’s important to call, call, and call some more. That answer is “ Yes. ”

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22 Things We Learned About the Sales Industry in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Although most sales teams don’t have an 1:1 ratio of inside to outside sales reps, they are gradually working towards this goal. Forty-seven percent of sales professionals were outbound sales professionals in 2017, with 43 percent doing inbound sales. This is the Year of the Sales Development Rep.