Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Many leaders take advantage of the holidays in November, December, and January to read the latest books about sales and leadership. Best Books to Read Over the Holidays. Sales Enablement: A Master Framework to Engage, Equip and Empower a World Class Sales Force by Tamara Schenk and Bryon Matthews. Salz’s book now.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 10, 2020

This is the first in a series of posts for sales leaders. There are a few common reasons sales organizations struggle to produce the revenue necessary to reach their goals. The activities that result in new opportunities all come from prospecting. Here is how you talk to your sales force about prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 19, 2021

If prospects like the outcome they will take interest in the process. But When prospecting, not selling, you should share the ultimate outcome right at the start. Foreign territory indeed, but not scary, very navigable, one just needs to try. Go to the last page of the book, give away the ending. What’s The Ultimate?

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 18, 2019

I made cold calls out of the phone book, more specifically, the business section of the white pages. I made calls all day, every day, minus the time I spent at meetings booked as a result of my prospecting effort. On Mondays, I would call the stack of index cards I used to keep track of the known prospects in my territory.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2020

This article is Part 1 in a series on leveraging intent data to book more meetings, accelerate deals, and ultimately crush quota! In this article, you’ll learn how to use the freemium model to book more enterprise meetings. Leveraging the Freemium Model to Book More Enterprise Meetings. Tactics: Collect Freemium User Data.

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

by Kathleen Robida LinkedIn is always buzzing with tips and tricks for SDRs to book more meetings and for Sales to win more deals. Who is using video successfully in their prospecting? However, what is rarely discussed is the critical importance of the Sales Development Representative and Account Executive partnership.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2013

There are 1000′s of books out there ready and willing to help sales people get to the next level. However, all sales books are not created equal AND becoming a bad ass sales person requires more than just studying sales. They cover all the different aspects required to kick ass in sales.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been an SDR , an SDR director, and now run a sales team at a startup. Typically, SDRs work from one of two territory models: Static territories based on geography or vertical or business segment. A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like. Introducing….

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 22, 2020

According to sources, SDRs should spend up to 90% of their daily activities sales prospecting. While prospecting remains one of the more tedious activities of a salesperson’s day, sourcing new leads is a crucial part of becoming a stellar sales rep. Most popular filters for sales reps. Lead a sales team?

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

Dating back to 1977, my entire career was as a B2B sales rep or I was managing a B2B sales team. A prospective client had a 3×5 card, generally with their business card stapled to it, and this was used to keep track of activities. More and better prospects. Where are we with sales forecasts? By territory.

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MJ Hoffman

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

I’m often asked what books I’m reading, or what I recommend as continued learning for sales reps. My favorite sales books are ones that I return to again and again. A mix of sales, business, and marketing books, these are titles I would recommend reps RUN (don’t walk) out to purchase. .

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Book Notice.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

Sales teams are under immense pressure as businesses navigate economic uncertainty and mounting customer expectations. They must do more with less and move quickly to close deals at a time when the B2B sales cycle has slowed. A few years ago, sales teams could rely on inbound leads to meet their quotas. The result?

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Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

My list of top sales books to read in 2012 consists of books that were published during 2011 and contain innovative, fresh ideas about selling, customer expectations, and how to improve your ability to win new business customers. The dynamic between sales person and buyer has changed in many ways over the last few years.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 5, 2014

Remote professional selling, or Inside Sales, is tough – lots of activity and not always a lot of revenue to show for it. Suddenly your first deal closes – or your first deal after a slump – or enough deals to get you to the next level in your comp plan – and wow, is sales great! He is known as the father of positive psychology.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. Book Notice.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, I will discuss how to leverage intent data in order to increase your chances of booking a meeting or closing the deal. In this article, you’ll find out how to book more meetings with enterprises by using the freemium model. The solution: intent data.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you ask most executives if they have a sales process , they’ll immediately say yes. But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. Having clear definitions for your sales process matters a lot.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2019

The skinny legs for many sellers are prospecting. Not much new in that, sales people have always preferred almost any other sales activity to prospecting. Specifically, direct prospecting , not indirect, not merely answering an inbound call generated by marketing. Complete The Sales Person.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. What is your sales process? First, it depends.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

The post The Three Waves of Sales Enablement by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. In Alvin Toffler’s book, “ The Third Wave ,” he talks about society’s transition from the Industrial Age (Second Wave) to the Information Age (Third Wave). The Second Wave: Territory Plans.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Sales is hard. An SDR team in transition. Everyone was assigned accounts alphabetically.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. If you’re thinking about a career in sales, you probably want to hear the cold, hard truths about sales and what it entails.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management. Related Posts: Do You Have The Pieces-Parts Or A Working System?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales managers are a rare breed. Most organizations employ one sales manager for every six to 10 sales reps. Making it to the sales management ranks indicates you occupy a spot that roughly 90% of your peers have not. So can sales managers. Congratulations. The job is challenging. Use data. ?Don’t

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

SPS — Sales Prevention Syndrome — is the great killer of salespeople. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. ” A desire to spend too much time preparing to make sales calls as an excuse to not actually have to call. You think your sales manager is stupid.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. Shrink Your Way To Success.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2012

I recently met a rep Jill, again a “70 percenter”, in her territory for years, but she was different than most reps in one respect, she loves to read sales books. Unlike most reps who refuse to read a book even when they get one free. The binary approach does not work for B2B sellers.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For stellar sales reps, their approach to work goes much further than hitting their number each month. If you’re ready to knock your sales career out of the park, it’s time to put yourself in the mindset of an entrepreneur, managing your sales market the same way you would manage a business. Imagine you own your company.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It has 850 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. One group particularly prolific is sales professionals. Sales leaders, trainers, and consultants regularly post articles that they distribute via their LinkedIn newsletter. Top 18 LinkedIn Newsletters for Sales Leaders. Published weekly.

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Smooth Sale

AUGUST 25, 2022

Typically, companies provide comprehensive training for their new representatives on how to acquire the initial sale, but omit building client loyalty and revenue. The essential yet overlooked part of sales training raises the question, ‘Are you building client loyalty? Imagine finalizing a sale to a large company.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

It infects the rest of our work: BDRs batch and blast outreach to book more meetings. How many times have you seen a rep work their rear end off only to create an opportunity that just keeps getting pushed out quarter after quarter as the prospects’ priorities change? Related reading: Your Sales Cycle is (Probably) Too Long.

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