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How Big Data Can Help the Sales Leader

SBI Growth

However, most Big Data examples concern large B2C companies. These companies are harvesting vast amounts of internet activity and point of sale data. Many of the B2B sales leaders simply dismiss the Big Data revolution. This creates a huge headache for every sales manager. Still, it’s completely subjective.

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Andrew Berger Built Square’s Sales Organization. Here’s His Advice on How to Motivate a Sales Team

Troops

B2B, B2C, retail, services—you name it, Square has customers. It is the work of the sales team to introduce the company’s solutions to companies of all kinds. If you’re searching for proven strategies for how to motivate a sales team, there’s a lot to be learned from what Square is doing. Square for Restaurants.

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The Pipeline ? ?But we're not IBM?

The Pipeline

The reality is that when you get beyond the largest companies, or the companies that have to play in the social space due to their nature, most B2B sales people do not use or need to use social media, mostly because their customers are not there, yet, they’re busy working. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union.

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The Pipeline ? Death Of Salesman 2.0?

The Pipeline

For me, and for all professional sales people, the piece has some short comings, not the least of which are it fails to address or distinguish the real difference between B2B and B2C; it fails to differentiate between transaction – interaction – purchasing and selling. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union.

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The Pipeline ? Prospecting With E-Mail

The Pipeline

Wim @ Sales Sells. If you are selling B2C (or even B2B) one of the best things you can do is give people a good reason to subscribe to your e-mail list and then provide value with every mail you send, slowly building relationship and trust. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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Exclusive Q&A: Neal Schaffer and Rutgers Business School Launch Social Selling Program

Tenfold

If their compensation is based around their sales and meeting targets and it can be proven that people internally are using social media in a savvy way and they have data to support it is actually aided to their sales then it becomes a no brainer that these people would want to utilize social selling. What are your thoughts?

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PODCAST 179: Cultural Insight on Operating a Regional Office with Paula Shannon

Sales Hacker

As a general manager in the Berlitz model, you’re responsible for sales. When I first expanded my career in the industry, I started as a global account manager, then regional sales manager then worked my way up to VP. The other one is a group that I worked with, called Sales Benchmark Index.

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