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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales run through the phone, website or customer portal focused on the smallest opportunities and the long tail of lower-value accounts. And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models.

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What is a Sales Engagement Platform? Let’s Debunk Some Myths

SalesLoft

Sales engagement software is uniquely positioned to drive organizational success, particularly for teams closing deals through a combination of pipeline generation, account-based strategies, and opportunity management. Omnichannel touchpoints indicate sellers are using more channels than just email.

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Do Your Sellers Have A Future?

Partners in Excellence

And then, if you have a complex sale that has a longer buying cycle, one wonders how you possibly build a pipeline and manage these long cycle opportunities effectively. It takes time for sellers to ramp to full productivity, so there’s huge lost opportunity during that time.

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Persona Based Selling: Sales Messaging Begins with the Customer

SalesLoft

Where do they land in the entire buying cycle? There are a few core personas in the average buying cycle: the Champion, the Influencer, the Decision Maker, and the Executive. The sales manager at a 100 person company could be the decision maker. Are they an influencer? Are they the champion?

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SalesPOP! Top Contributor Spotlight: Janice Mars

Pipeliner

and sales, the importance of asking the right questions, on reaching executives early in the sales cycle, seeing through the customer’s eyes, and the most important sales challenge of 2018. Additionally, I am honored to be part of this exclusive group of sales thought leaders who are all at the top of their game.”. “I’m

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Sales Process is a Big Deal! (Part Two)

Pipeliner

A sales process includes all the steps that are taken from the time a prospect indicates interest in a product or service to their acquisition of that product or service and beyond. Sales cycles differ based on various factors such as industry, sales or distribution channel and the nature of the product or service.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

For Millennials and others looking to leverage LinkedIn or Sales Navigator at the core of your strategy, I would highly recommend dropping everything and reading Neil Rackham 's books like SPIN Selling. Where I'm going with this is that Trigger Event selling is a science irrespective of technological channel. It's not rocket science.