Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

15, 2018 – Sales Hacker, the leading resource for sales innovation, acceleration, and the future of sales, is set to host The Revenue Summit , on March 1st, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Perfecting the SDR Playbook – How to Increase Sales by 800% with a Highly Targeted Outbound Process.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Top 10 Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018: We can’t find qualified prospects. Our sales process is broken. Cold calling is too hard. Our sales manager is living on another planet. I’m cold calling and emailing with too many prospects at once.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

If you’re in sales then you have likely seen “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Alec Baldwin’s iconic turn as a fire-breathing sales manager delivers the most anti-motivating motivational sales speech in movie history. It’s the same for salespeople in 2018. What they really want are the Glengarry leads. The qualified leads.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 27, 2019

For the topic of our first e-book, we decided to, well, start at the beginning: the cold and the cold email. The post Hiring and Training: Part 2 of Predictable Revenue’s Outbound Sales Learnings from 2018 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. Finally, take a hard look at your sales organization.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

According to buyers, the top ways to create a positive sales experience are: listen to their needs (69%), don’t be pushy (61%), provide relevant information (61%), and respond in a timely manner (51%) ( source ). 30%-50% of sales go to the vendor that responds first ( source ). Thursday is the best day to prospect.

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Contact Monkey

AUGUST 23, 2017

How to track forwarded emails in 2018. You need to know if you’re getting in contact with the right person, or if your emails are being forwarded to the sales manager at a different branch. No cold-calling with this email service! Click the button below to start tracking your sales emails today!

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2018. Jill is a sales force you need in your LinkedIn feed. Tom Hopkins. Simplified.”

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sales blogs to go to for insight in every sales role, from sales professionals to sales managers to sales leaders — aside from Salesloft.com, of course! For Sales Professionals: The Sales Blog (Anthony Iannarino) | Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, author, and sales leader.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Weren’t coached by their sales managers. Making quota means that account based sales reps must take responsibility for generating their own qualified sales leads and for having conversations that count. If they’re not getting support from their sales managers, they must demand it. These are all excuses.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Next was good old-fashioned referrals and networking, and then the newcomer LinkedIn, both through personal accounts and using Sales Navigator. Perhaps surprising was the fact that many people were still cold calling and using telemarketing. Video conferencing takes off for prospect meetings.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. I asked salespeople and sales leaders I knew if they liked to get referral introductions. I didn’t know what to call my company. I was debating between No More Cold Calls and No More Cold Calling.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve worked in marketing or sales over the past decade then you’ve most likely heard it said: “Cold calling is dead.” And yet, many of the most successful businesses still practice cold calling in 2020, and they won’t be stopping anytime soon. How is cold calling still viable? Warm Calling.

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ExecVision

APRIL 25, 2018

Let’s face it, most people are below average at starting a conversation from a fairly cold call. Most CAS calls range from lukewarm to stone cold. If you’re reps aren’t at the very least average at converting a cold call, don’t give them ConnectAndSell. Using their pre-call research! Conversion Rates.

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John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

The validity of the phrase “cold calling is dead” may be debatable in terms of making 100 dials with no information per day versus calling 20-40 targetted accounts and having a first touch by email or social, but phone as a channel is not dead. Top Takeaways from this Episode. Voice is the future.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Sales Prospecting Techniques. Old school prospecting like cold calling may still work at times but it’s a numbers game (it takes about 8 calls to get someone to pick up the phone and that’s just one touchpoint). Elements of Effective Sales Prospecting Strategies. Ad spend by 22%. How to Do Prospecting Right.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Then, in 2018, with 16% growth, CRM easily became one of the fastest-growing software and leads the market until today (2023).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Lauren Bailey was voted “Top 25 Most Influential Leaders in Inside Sales”? by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018. Her award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Therefore, it’s important to manage your time and plan accordingly. So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? How can you close out 2018 successfully? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Helps predict future sales trends.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Sales Blazers by Mark Cook. Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount. The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. Your Cheat Sheet to the Top Sales Books.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 8, 2019

According to the NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report , poor customer service costs businesses around $75 billion a year. Every part of your organization is responsible for providing excellent customer service and creating a great customer experience, including your sales team. Poor customer service has the opposite effect.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2020

Virtual sales groups give reps the opportunity to connect with other career-driven sales professionals from around the globe, empowering you to learn new skills from other salespeople who may not be in your immediate area. Check out these social media sales groups and start building your network anytime, anywhere.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

They feature in-depth, informative content that every sales professional must check out. Topics include alignment strategies, cold calling, sales team structure, and much more! Recommended Reading: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update). 7. Koka Sexton. And that’s why we love him.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sales Benchmark Index. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Sales Source. The Sales Leader. No More Cold Calling. The Center for Sales Strategy Blog. As a busy sales professional intent on meeting your objectives, you might wonder if you can afford to consistently read sales blogs. OpenView Labs.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

They feature in-depth, informative content that every sales professional must check out. Topics include alignment strategies, cold calling, sales team structure, and much more! Recommended Reading: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update). 7. Koka Sexton. And that’s why we love him.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

So this week, we’re sharing some of the runners-up: the folks who didn’t get a billion nominations, but who clearly crushed it in 2018. We searched through all of the reasons for nominations we received and picked out the stories about people in sales who do the hard work of elevating the sales profession.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018. Our research has found that now around 84 percent of sales professionals missed their quota in 2020. So, how do teams adjust to the digitally transforming sales landscape?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve seen quite a bit about sales productivity in the last few weeks. And for good reason—sales productivity is the theme of our 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit! And it’s for good reason—sales and marketing productivity is the theme of our 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit!

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This guarantees sales reps make the most efficient use of their time by only engaging with people with the highest propensity to convert. Because of the broad scope of prospecting, it requires varying sales and marketing techniques. Fortunately, modern sales prospecting tools can help sales reps rate a prospect’s “fit” for their offer.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 13, 2020

We use tools like Salesforce, Drift, Join.Me, ContactMonkey’s email templates, email tracker and mail merge, Asana, Trello, Slack, and DocuSign,” says Mark Gray, corporate sales manager at ContactMonkey. Research, along with administrative tasks, were the most time-consuming activities for sales reps.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2018

One message from a hiring manager can change the direction of your career in sales. So why not use your sales skills to sell yourself? According to a 2018 HR statistics report , “87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to check candidates.” Attended [Sales convention name] in Seattle this weekend. What an experience.”.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 27, 2021

Paying attention to these signals can help you personalize cold calls , video messages , and emails, and help fine-tune your outreach sequences to be more relevant, personal, and timely. Increase sales with advanced search, sales signals, and custom alerts. Related Crunchbase Pro searches. Employee Hiring/Layoffs.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

SpaceX (Rockets) - Did you know SpaceX has no sales team , aside from Elon Musk? I love getting cold calls and talking to salespeople. As a mentor, and as a sales manager, the first time I showed my team how I prepared for calls, they looked at me like I had six heads. Of course not. And frankly, I did.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s an example of the successful application of our methodology — CIENCE at INBOUND 2018 case study. Cold calling practice. Tips from one of CIENCE’s top-performing SDRs Ivan Vakulenko on how to make phone calls for B2B event lead generation: 1. Before making a call. Do sales intel!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Yes, I could have just done a bunch of cold calls and called it a day, but I chose to laser-focus and pool my energy into the account that matters most–that’s hustle. If you’re wondering how to become a VP of Sales, it’s first important to understand how much the role has evolved.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As Managing Partner, she leverages her colleagues’ experience in sales process methodology, measurement and metric development, project management, and recruiting to build high performing teams for clients. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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