No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

percent of sales reps made quota last year. Cold calling doesn’t address the top two challenges that sales teams face. In fact, that’s why many buyers shy away from gated marketing content.). You call a lead that marketing has “qualified.” That means sales reps spend a lot of time on the phone, getting absolutely nowhere.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Amy Appleyard , the recently appointed SVP of Global Inside Sales at CarbonBlack. . Amy walks us through her background from being an SMB entrepreneur to leading large sales teams and why sales emerged as her true calling. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 4, 2019

Everyone knows that sellers need to prospect, qualify leads, demonstrate value and business acumen in their outreach to buyers, I kicked things off by asking Kristina what is happening in the market now that dictates what buyers want, so that sellers can better focus? You’ll hear what you can expect to when you attend the session.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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%. Personal example: our marketing pays $5-100 per contact.

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Green Lead's B2B

JUNE 1, 2022

Back in 2007, Linda and I had no idea we would have built a global pipeline generation company that the Fortune 1000 and some of the biggest tech firms in the industry would trust to generate their sale pipeline from high level Ideal Customer Profile leads (ICPs) to booked and confirmed Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs, or appointments).

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 49

SBI

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

But smarter teams with new approaches built on better insight are already driving better results and will drive performance to new levels in 2019. Inside sales organizations are experiencing a great deal of success. Make prospecting more efficient. Develop the personalized hooks your teams need to break through.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

He brings a diverse background in sales management experience spanning from startups to large public companies in both field and inside sales. If you missed episode 44, check it out here: PODCAST 44: From Sales Engineer at Salesforce to building a $100M company w/ Travis Bryant. The tenets of a great sales culture.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

Wes started his career at Sisense, becoming head of enterprise business development and ultimately director of inside sales for North America. As of January 2019, he moved on to leading the US sales team at Red Points. After four years, he didn’t like being stuck behind a desk, so he moved into SaaS. What was it?

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Mendix is currently hiring across a range of sales positions. Drift provides a conversational sales and marketing platform that allows businesses to better connect with prospects and customers. Klaviyo is providing better email marketing solutions for ecommerce stores. Currently, they are hiring in sales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

The Sales Hacker Top 50 Award Categories for 2019 Are: Sales Development. Sales Operations & Enablement. Account Executive/Inside Sales. Sales Leadership. Sales Development. Tyler built a massively productive SDR team and outreach system to grow the existing deal pipeline by 10x.”.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. 2018’s session did a deep dive into account-based marketing. September 2019 | Boston, MA & San Francisco, CA.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Interacting with humans intelligently.The Need for Artificial Intelligence in Sales The Need for Artificial Intelligence in Sales An estimated 33% of an inside sales rep’s time is spent actively selling. Artificial intelligence presents a compelling opportunity to improve this stat and level up your sales operation.

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Forecasting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hubspot 117

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then take a moment to celebrate all the amazing women in sales. Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders. 2019: LinkedIn’s #1 B2B Sales Expert to Follow. Perhaps the most recognized woman in sales, Jill Konrath, was practically the FIRST female sales leader. SVP of Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Call-back 90

Close.io

MARCH 28, 2019

So what can you do to ensure that your sales team has enough leads and the pipelines aren’t dry? The answer is: equip your team with sales-oriented tools. The best inside sales tools provide extensive reporting and analytics that allow sales professionals to quickly and efficiently do a deep dive into their prospects.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. In this article we’ll review the four main sales motions B2B SaaS teams use: Field sales ( outside sales ). Inside sales. Low-touch sales. No-touch sales. Inside Sales.

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Top of Funnel Examples Lead Rank ActiveConversion 111

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Note: these speakers are just in alphabetical order.

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Named one of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in California and Top 50 Sales and Marketing voices by LinkedIn, Bova has a unique experience in both sales execution and management. She has a dynamic approach of interpreting and solving business problems catering to all sales levels. . Cynthia Barnes. Hilary Headlee.

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Marketing, driven largely by traffic goals, developed all sorts of techniques to build inbound interest and send leads pouring in— but this increase in traffic also increased the number of low-quality leads.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 91

Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Well Robert Frost would be deeply frustrated with my answer, because when these two marketing strategies diverge in the woods, I pick both. To see my take on this topic, including who should use each strategy, watch the short video below where I tackle the question, “Outbound vs. inbound sales: Which should you use?”.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Best-selling author of Embrace Your Edge, Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Hang Black.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The evolution of Sales & Marketing into Revenue Ops & Customer Ops. Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Ditch your pitch – Bring new ideas to the sales meeting, be creative and think on your toes.

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Trends Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 99

Sales Hacker

JUNE 18, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. How to discover your secret recipe to sales success. And then, from there, I went to a higher view as part of a labs team taking a new product to market with video sales coaching. So, how much pipeline coverage do you need ?

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This alteration has changed the number of leads dramatically to a Total Addressable Market (TAM) of 1186. Total Addressable Market. When planning your sales development activities, you need to calculate Sales Lead Quantity to make predictions on revenues and scalability. Now let’s talk about… Sales Lead Quality.

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OutboundView

JUNE 30, 2019

Are you hiring inside sales representatives and wondering how much to pay them? Inside sales reps compensation amount and structure can be very difficult to figure out. This is because sales reps will follow the money, and so it’s important to incentivize the right behaviors. Well, you’re not alone.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This alteration has changed the number of leads dramatically to a Total Addressable Market (TAM) of 1186. Total Addressable Market. When planning your sales development activities, you need to calculate Sales Lead Quantity to make predictions on revenues and scalability. Now let’s talk about… Sales Lead Quality.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. You need empathy, grit, and drive.

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Sales Tools Tools Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 52

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. San Diego, CA and New York, NY (November 5, 2019) –. Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO.

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