SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Plus, you’ll find advice on compatibility with other sales effectiveness drivers. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm. What can be done?

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InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

Sales rarely follows a linear path. Fortunately, many sales teams are improving coaching and executing using the new Guided Selling technology. While the term is not new, Guided Selling has recently gained momentum in the B2B selling world due to its ability to adapt on demand and scale coaching across an entire sales team.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. But it’s not too late to transform. Coaching Sellers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you work in sales and marketing, I’ll bet you think a company’s employee count on LinkedIn is the absolute best way to determine how many employees work at that company. Why is employee count important for sales? Sales and marketing professionals use employee counts to understand a company’s size. I would know.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Timing — He says, "Only a very small percentage of your territory is in an active buying cycle and looking for your product. That said, most of the companies you talk to will be looking to buy a product like yours in the next 12 months, so instead of pushing for a meeting, try to gather some timeline information.".

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sales is one of the few professions where we get to start over in the New Year. We should have deals we are working, moving the customer through their buying cycle. We know, at an organizational level, we get new goals, new comp plans, perhaps new territories, and, sometimes, new strategies. Those become almost rote.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

It's the end of the sales world as we know it. Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Sales drones are an amusing but eerie concept to me.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Too often, as executives look to improve sales performance, they look to doing something new or different. Any of these can improve sales performance, but the come with their costs. As in (1), these opportunities are low probability, but consume lots of sales time. ” Make sure your people are executing the sales process.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2016

There’s a famous quote from that seminal 1992 movie about sales, Glengarry Glen Ross , in which Jack Lemmon’s character, Shelley, contemptuously dismisses the contact data he’s been given: “The leads are weak!” So, what is a lead in a sales context? This is where sales intelligence can play a very important role.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

It seems I spend half my life in reviews–territory reviews, pipeline reviews, deal reviews. The first is to get a snapshot or status updated of the “state of the business,” whether it’s a deal, territory, pipeline, account–whatever. Then sales managers have to take the time to review them!

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. I’ll be the first to admit that you can probably find stats to the contrary, which just goes to show that sales and sales people are just as susceptible to hype as the next group. Sad but true.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2022

Sometimes, “getting more opportunities,” causes sales people to reduce deal/pipeline quality. ” But we could chase bigger sales of those products. Likewise, sales cycle impacts pipeline dynamics and health. It’s useful to see how these issues connect across the whole job of a sales person.

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SBI

JANUARY 29, 2014

One of the Oldest Tenets in Sales is Just Plain Wrong ” debunking the myth (or at least disputing it) that people decide with emotion and justify with logic. Myth #1: Sales is a Numbers Game. When today’s Sales Managers came of age, we were taught that making more calls is what leads to more sales. Is that not crazy?

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Pipeliner

MARCH 15, 2018

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.”.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 28, 2021

We have meetings on deal, pipeline, prospecting, account, and territory reviews. If we are meeting with customers, it could be agreeing on actions and next steps they, we, or together we might make in moving them through their buying cycle. As a manager, during reviews, the sales person always writes down the next step.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Sales Case. Configure-price-quote covers a lot of functional territory. Conventional wisdom tells us that the answer to this question is found within your sales operation. Your sales force can answer part of the question, but it cannot give you a complete answer. Establishing the need for CPQ from a sales perspective.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Sales Case. Configure-price-quote covers a lot of functional territory. Conventional wisdom tells us that the answer to this question is found within your sales operation. Your sales force can answer part of the question, but it cannot give you a complete answer. Establishing the need for CPQ from a sales perspective.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Taking the Path of Least Resistance. Marketing organizations by default now own the top of sales funnels. I suggest organizations step back and consider that buying cycles start in one of two ways: 1. Proactively when sellers (lead gen or general territory) reach out to prospects.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Tamara makes a tremendous point that seems to be too often lost on managers and sales people alike. Everywhere I go, we may be talking about opportunity planning/deal strategies, call planning, account/territory planning, even pipeline management; I see two parallel things at play: Managers are concerned about the completion of the plan!

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Should I Start Off With Inside Sales or Outside Sales? Are you new to sales and asking yourself the universal sales question, “Should I start off with inside sales or outside sales?” For some companies, the sales development reps are focused on the inbounds. For other companies, this doesn’t matter.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 4, 2016

Sales Tips: WHY Do Your Salespeople Hate CRMs? Implementing software within sales organizations such as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a significant undertaking ( What is CRM? ). CEO, CFO, VP of Marketing and VP of Sales realize high benefit with minimal disruption from implementing CRM.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Outstanding sales results depend on: – The ability to think from the customer’s point of view. Understanding the customer’s agenda, buying cycle and best interests. Another myth that can be exploded is that whilst customers value flexibility, being too flexible can undermine the sales relationship. . •

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SBI

MAY 28, 2015

Sales has institutionalized many tenets since the time it became an organized profession in the late 1800’s. People buy from people they like. A number of factors are affecting change on the sales process on both the buyer and the seller side. Myth #1: Sales is a Numbers Game. Sales is not a numbers game.

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 20, 2013

Outstanding sales results depend on: – The ability to think from the customer’s point of view – Understanding the customer’s agenda, buying cycle and best interests. Another myth which can be exploded is that whilst customers value flexibility, being too flexible can undermine the sales relationship. . •

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. From a sales person’s perspective, they get no value from it, but managers need it to make sure the business in control. At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 15, 2014

In order for you to appreciate the significance of that number, try and calculate the costs involved with all the pre-sales activity that you were involved in the last time you won a new client/customer – and now subtract that from the gross margin you claimed on that deal… significant eh! This is folly.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 10, 2014

As a consequence, sales success today demands a radical shift from the ‘peddler’ mentality of merely demonstrating products and expanding on their features. More often than not, a ‘flashy’ sales presentation alone alienates, rather than persuades. can undermine the sales relationship.

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The Bridge Group

MARCH 9, 2018

By way of orientation, their average deal is six figures and the sales cycles run 6–8 months. This included the heads field sales, marketing, sales operations, and sales development. Questions included: what departments are key to our sale? This is a Sales Qualified Appointment (SQA).

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Jonathan Farrington

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Outstanding sales results depend on: – The ability to think from the customer’s point of view – Understanding the customer’s agenda, buying cycle and best interests. Another myth which can be exploded is that whilst customers value flexibility, being too flexible can undermine the sales relationship. . •

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In order for you to appreciate the significance of that number, try and calculate the costs involved with all the pre-sales activity that you were involved in the last time you won a new client/customer – and now subtract that from the gross margin you claimed on that deal… significant eh! This is folly.

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Customer Face-to-face Account Margin 45

Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 29, 2013

As a consequence sales success today demands a radical shift from the ‘peddler’ mentality of merely demonstrating products and expanding on their features. More often than not, a ‘flashy’ sales presentation alone alienates, rather than persuades. can undermine the sales relationship.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In recent years, however, the business community has come to regard the sales call as an expenditure for which there are substitutes. For many companies telemarketing, video conferencing and direct e-mail, have made the sales call a choice, not an inevitability. Customer Focus Creates Competitive Advantage.

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Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 11, 2012

As a consequence, sales success today demands a radical shift from the ‘peddler’ mentality of merely demonstrating products and expanding on their features. More often than not, a ‘flashy’ sales presentation alone alienates, rather than persuades. can undermine the sales relationship.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Growth – more opportunities, higher sales velocity and expanding market segments – is the prize of victory and the successful growth hacking tactics of business to consumer (B2C) companies are becoming more popular in B2B. Identify a common set of target accounts for sales and marketing. Allow sales to prospect intelligently.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

And if the seller didn’t have a predecessor, they are developing their territory from scratch. Let’s focus on top sales executives. If we sell sales and marketing tools, we can use customer buying cycles as an indicator of how long it takes to agree on and define the solution. It’s unsustainable!

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LeadFuze

MAY 11, 2021

What is B2B Sales Experience. B2B sales experience is the experience that a business-to-business customer has while they work with you. This can include the process of how to buy, when, and what type of support they get, as well as any other interactions from your company. B2B Sales Vs. B2C Sales: 4 Differentiators.

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