Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

To improve your sales effectiveness and make informed data-backed decisions, you need to conduct sales analysis regularly. It provides insights about the top performing and underperforming products/services, the problems in selling and market opportunities, sales forecasting , and sales activities that generate revenue.

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LeadFuze

JULY 8, 2021

Our post today will pull back the curtain and detail our 7-step interview process for hiring SDRs. If a prospect decides to go with the competitor because they are looking for something other than what you offer now, the salesperson must take it in stride. Don’t just have prospects fill out an application. Good question.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2019

“The reps are forecasting $1,000,000 this month,” I told my CEO back when I worked at InsightSquared. Well, what are YOU forecasting?” The Biggest Reason Reps Overestimate Their Forecasts. Most of the reasons reps are over-optimistic in their forecasts are psychological and are rooted in the nature of the AE job.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2018

Like any effective sales call, a sales manager should ask good questions and listen carefully. But being a sales manager isn’t just about sales forecasts and KPIs. Just sit back and listen. One thing I'd like to stop doing: "I've been emailing prospects when I really should be calling them. Very carefully.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

They won’t be reluctant to ignore cold calls, marketing emails, or business proposals if their criteria aren’t met. 5) More than 45% of CRM usage is for contact management and automation Every sales professional knows the long and winding road it takes for a prospect to sign a deal. This is where adopting a CRM becomes very helpful.

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SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The more elaborate “magical” tricks make use of smoke and mirrors not unlike how some people construct forecasts. Your prospects can’t be sure whether they’re the only sap that’s accepted your phone call, or signed up for a trial. The curse of knowledge was aptly demonstrated back in 1990 by Elizabeth Newton.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a concept of your target audience — otherwise known as your buyer personas — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. Good persona building will make prospecting and turning those prospects into qualified leads much easier.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ?

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A Sales Guy

MAY 1, 2013

Although many call it a leading indicator, if you notice on this chart consumer confidence rarely leads a return to growth, but rather responds to it. In 1980, 1981, 1990, consumer confidence started falling after we entered a recession and didn’t start moving back up until after the recession was over. Tough years.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And therein lies my point: The fallacy that 60+ hour weeks, chugging buckets of coffee, and juggling dozens of prospects at the same time equates to the magic formula of #winning. Well, think back to your first year in sales. They say hindsight is 20/20 , and when I look back, I see just how wrong I was. . But so what?

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a conception of your target audience — otherwise known as your ideal customer profile (ICP) — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. Step 3: Build a landing page with a persuasive call to action. Stage 1 - Building Your Buyer Personas or ICP.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ilan’s forecast for our world [25:24]. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, responsible communication for each prospect every time. I call it gap debt. I read his book called, Am I Being Too Subtle? Show Introduction [00:09].

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

What we do know is that there are too many under-performing salespeople on the planet – about 52% of the current sales population according to Aberdeen’s recent report, which I am about to digest in full – I’ll report back on the findings shortly. Closing – are they constructing successful campaigns and closing business?

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

To find the right balance, you’ll need to narrow in on the right set of key performance indicators (KPIs), connect them to your team and company values, and build quotas that back it all up. You will almost always find progressively fewer prospects at each stage. Here’s how to make sales data work for you.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2022

You're better off targeting a niche within your broader market — whether that be prospects in a specific location, of a particular scale, with a certain degree of buying power, or any other defining factor that sets them apart from their peers. Put together well-constructed, specific buyer personas. Churn Rate.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

The outcome of all our efforts from the past 90 days stares back at us while we try to make sense of what really happened and why. A QBR is an executive business review of the previous quarter’s sales and a strategic planning session to build playbooks and forecasts for the upcoming quarter. The end of the quarter is a daunting time.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 13, 2021

So-called "defensive industries" are often considered the most reliably recession-proof. Most people lack the necessary resources and knowledge to handle routine maintenance on their homes and automobiles — let alone major renovations, construction, or part replacements. Forecast carefully. Healthcare. You need to be pragmatic.

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Mindtickle

MAY 31, 2023

That would mean you need two perspectives: Construction What processes are required to build the road? Simply put, a sales pipeline empowers your sales team with the information they need to engage more empathetically based on what stage a prospect is in. This helps sales reps better understand what a potential buyer needs and when.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 10, 2022

It gives your managers and reps a single system of record for elevating rep performance during customer interactions, including: Call recordings. Call scoring and analytics. You’ve no doubt been on a call where a bot is recording the meeting. It makes it easy for reps and managers to quickly find information in calls.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Better still, imagine getting your prospects to tell you both who their key players are and all the gory details of their organization’s buying process –– and having it verified by the buyer before you even submit a proposal. You’d easily make your forecast the envy of the western world. RELATED : Stop “Closing” Your Prospects!

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

However, a well-constructed mutual action plan— supported by enablement and training— significantly reduces friction on both sides of the purchase decision. A detailed record for more senior decision makers who may enter the process later, showing due diligence and reducing the back and forth as they get up to speed.

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

CRM is critical in sales management because it smoothly aligns processes, elevates customer connections, facilitates data-backed decision-making, fosters collaborative efforts, and optimizes sales performance. It compiles all prospect and customer data into a single, easily accessible database. Why is it important in sales management?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

You have one chance at making an impression on your prospect before you get ignored. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Templates are time-savers, but if everyone else uses the same template as you and your prospect has 100 other emails like yours in their inbox, how can they differentiate?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. which activities are classified as COGS vs. S&M), cash flow forecast, etc. Heck, stand at the head of it.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Whether we like it or not, you have to agree: The development of improved AI and forecasting means sales is no longer an “artform” but a “science” The question is how to hire sales reps whose qualities match the trends seen in data and keep them on to continue building relationships with clients at scale.

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Artesian Solutions

APRIL 9, 2018

So looking back at our top ten characteristics , here are the key ways in which artificial intelligence technologies are disrupting and shaping the most successful sales leaders in 2018: 1. We discussed how star sellers look for signals that indicate a customer or prospect might need their help. Great listeners. Problem Solvers.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

Prior to using a CRM, they had no way of knowing who had previously reached out to prospects. Think for a moment, can you remember the names of all your customers and prospects? As a general rule, you need a CRM if you can’t remember the name of every customer and prospect you deal with. Do you need a CRM? Mobile access.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

Prior to using a CRM, they had no way of knowing who had previously reached out to prospects. Think for a moment, can you remember the names of all your customers and prospects? As a general rule, you need a CRM if you can’t remember the name of every customer and prospect you deal with. Do you need a CRM for sales?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

Today, we’ve got back on the show one of the best people we’ve had on the pod, Vice President of Sales Solutions for North America, Alyssa Merwin for LinkedIn. So Alyssa, welcome back to the show. It’s great to be back. Sam Jacobs : We’re excited to have you back. But now, we’re back to.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2023

Meaning that there can be anything from software enterprise sales to construction enterprise sales—the distinction is in who you’re selling to and not what you’re selling. In the discovery stage of the enterprise sales cycle, you’ll gauge prospective customers to see whether their business would be a good fit for yours.

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