Crunchbase

JUNE 30, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. However, this accelerated pace shouldn’t be confused with the actual digital transformation businesses need to succeed. While this approach seems like an obvious choice, companies often overlook one department that would be perfect for the job — sales.

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Showpad

AUGUST 9, 2022

And when you have the right content, you start conversations, demonstrate value, and address pain points with buyers in ways no sales deck can. . And nearly one-third of sales organizations reported that relevant content is completely inaccessible when needed. . So it stands to reason that the more content you have, the better.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. We heard somewhere that December 13 is Salesperson’s Day. Monday, December 9: Modern Sales.

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Allego

JUNE 8, 2018

Want to Mobilize your Sales Force Faster? Army veteran and Founder and CEO of About Face Development to discuss the application of video to modern learning for high performing sales organizations. Modern Learning with Video. Take a page from World War II history. Long before YouTube, the U.S.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. When to Hire a Salesperson.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. When to Hire a Salesperson.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The sales culture at your company determines your organizational success. Especially true when it comes to mastering the art of modern sales and driving the sales team to engage with today’s modern buyer. What is Sales Culture? Now, doesn’t that sound a bit like great sales culture?

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The ability to listen to an almost inexhaustible supply of training, case studies, and applicable tips via sales podcasts shouldn’t be taken for granted. From individual sales reps to Founders, there are so many great “shows” to help you become better at your job.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Applying proper strategies for sales via these platforms.

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Close.io

MARCH 17, 2020

There’s no stress quite like sales stress because there’s no career quite like a sales career. Sales is already a high-pressure, results-driven career. Let me explain: I was out walking one day, stressed about one thing or another, when a modern-day Confucius crossed my path. Really down. Break a sweat.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 3, 2019

Improve Your Sales Skills During “Windshield Time”. When I set it out to curate a list of the top 21 sales podcasts for 2019, I had two motivating forces in mind. Continuous Learning is Not an Option for Sales Professionals. Podcasts are an awesome way to contribute to continuous learning for any sales professional.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 1, 2023

Embarking on the journey of SaaS Sales Training can feel like navigating a labyrinth. The truth is, without proper SaaS sales training, scaling your software company becomes an uphill battle. It’s what sets apart those SaaS businesses that succeed from those having difficulty making it. Sounds familiar?

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ExecVision

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To meet those targets, sales and contact center leaders need to look at everything from their technology stack to current customer experience benchmarks. A good coaching program is no longer optional for sales and contact center leaders. There are thousands of tools on the market for sales teams and contact centers.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 1, 2020

Does your marketing team have a blog? Undertake SEO efforts for that blog? To truly succeed with inbound marketing, you need to layer in some outbound marketing and devote your time to a strong strategy to power it all. Inbound marketing includes efforts like blog posts, SEO, social media, and webinars. Host any webinars?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

This piece looks at how to harness the power of sales automation for customer retention with 5 ready-made, templated processes , and 5 best practices to consider on your automation journey. EXAMPLE: A customer moves into the ‘Won’ stage of our sales pipeline. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention.

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PandaDoc

MAY 30, 2019

A slow sales cycle is kryptonite to good sales teams. So, to be the best, you need to speed up your sales cycle. So, to be the best, you need to speed up your sales cycle. Hire better sales reps. Automate your sales process. Make the sales cycle dream work with teamwork. Bring in the big guns.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s well established that Gen X and Baby Boomer’s value career development and job satisfaction. To develop a coaching program that addresses the unique preferences of millennials, it’s important to understand how their behavior differs from other generations. Tie coaching to technology. How does this impact coaching?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s well established that Gen X and Baby Boomer’s value career development and job satisfaction. To develop a coaching program that addresses the unique preferences of millennials, it’s important to understand how their behavior differs from other generations. Tie coaching to technology. How does this impact coaching?

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. I'm not sure where sales prospecting went bad. My theory is that someone applied some math to this whole prospecting sales funnel-y thing and realized that spam is actually a decent prospecting method. This sad state of affairs is fully the fault of sales leaders -- including myself.

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SBI

MARCH 22, 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. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Ease of use. A unique suite of pipeline tools.

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MarketJoy

JULY 24, 2018

Sales Enablement is Not Sales Operations. In the sphere of sales, it helps to get your definitions down. You might have thought sales operations and sales enablement are the same thing – but there are important differences. What is Sales Operations? What is Different about Sales Enablement?

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

Sales will never be the same. This may sound extreme on the surface – but in reality, sales will never return to the way it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is a good thing. Many of the needed sales process changes were forced upon us as we adjusted to selling from home. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2024

If you sell complex, configurable products online, you will almost inevitably come to the realization one day that you need to add a CPQ tool to your software toolkit. This article covers the basics of CPQ implementation and guides you in the right direction on your journey toward more efficient sales. What is CPQ implementation?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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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! Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19!

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the last few months, endless sales teams have gone remote and learned to depend more consistently on digital tools. According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018. So, how do teams adjust to the digitally transforming sales landscape?

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Crunchbase

MAY 20, 2022

Is your sales team performing at its best? Personnel, expertise and cohesion are vital aspects of creating a top sales team that successfully converts leads into paying customers. One of the most impactful ways you can invest in your team is through sales enablement. What is sales enablement? Sales readiness.

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PandaDoc

MAY 24, 2023

Before we zero in on the important qualities of a sales enablement manager, we need to wrap our heads around the very definition of this role. We all seem to know what sales managers, account managers, and business development managers do — but who in the world is a sales enablement manager?

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Gong.io

AUGUST 8, 2022

That’s a big chunk of all your daily attention span spent on social every single day. But when done right, social media can still be a great tool in your sales arsenal. And how can B2B sales reps leverage it on various social platforms? message straight into a sales pitch. What is social selling? .

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Close.io

JULY 2, 2018

If you’re looking for an easy industry to succeed in, this would be last on your list. Eventually, someone decided to start adding more sales-specific features and the modern CRM was born. Up until that point we had been running an outsourced sales team for startups and Close.io Sales reps who actually use our software.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

An expert at developing strategic initiatives and tactical implementation plans, Laurie ensures the delivery of high quality, results-driven solutions to each of The Bridge Group’s clients. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams. Hello Laurie!

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Close.io

JUNE 17, 2019

Lots of people will tell you that outbound sales is a lost cause—that inbound is the only way to go, and that anyone doing outbound is wasting their time. Outbound sales is a staple tactic of successful businesses, and has been for a long time. You just have to use the right outbound sales strategies. What is outbound sales?

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