Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Veronika Riederle , Co-Founder & CEO at Demodesk , a customer meeting platform company she launched in 2018 that’s bringing in seven figures with a global hybrid remote team. The virtual meeting space has barely begun to evolve. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. But before I give you the keys to the castle, let's learn more about cold calling and look at a typical cold call. (If What is a cold call?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 27, 2022

Software as a service (SaaS) companies, which represent more than a third of all unicorns , lead the trend. Back in the 1980s, we had to sell each customer a CD or hard drive containing the software. The cloud lets companies put software in a shared, public place, without major investments in real estate or infrastructure.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

year-on-year (YoY) growth of CRM adoption According to Gartner, at the end of 2017, the revenue of CRM overtook the place of database management systems (DMBSs), making CRM the largest software market in the world. Then, in 2018, with 16% growth, CRM easily became one of the fastest-growing software and leads the market until today (2023).

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gone are the days of cold calls and one-size-fits-all pitches. A well-designed program, paired with a robust training software , will empower your sales reps with the knowledge they need to deliver value and close more deals. The B2B sales process is a structured yet flexible journey tailored to meet the unique needs of customers.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Looking back, I can see how the choices they made and culture they created ultimately helped us become the winningest team in our volleyball club. An open space encourages collaboration and transparency, and it allows reps to shadow and learn from each other’s sales calls. (Yep, this was the pre-iPhone era.). Your team needs both.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

AI is no longer a construct of the future. 83% of sales professionals say that AI tools that analyze or simulate sales calls for training/coaching purposes are effective. Sales teams are using AI-powered tools that can simulate sales conversations for training or can record real sales calls and find insights into areas for improvement.

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CommercialTribe

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Adam and Kelly connect for a pre-call prep session. Adam and Kelly follow-up for a post call debrief after the call. Were you able to elevate the conversation beyond how our software is continually monitored?”. Were you able to elevate the conversation beyond how our software is continually monitored?”. asks Kelly.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 2, 2020

A few months back, I had a heart-to-heart with an editor on my team. I typically give him a quick call for feedback before I come into a situation with my "direct" hat on. Of course, it’s easy to look back and ask, "Did I handle that one-on-one the right way?" I can’t blame this person for being a perfectionist. Stay Organized.

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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. This will help them be a persuasive and engaging salesperson when meeting with potential clients. You never know when that person will come back and want more of what your company is cooking. . Face-to-Face Interview.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 2, 2017

Networking at tradeshows and industry events should be as much about gathering insights from non-customers as it is about meeting with current clients. Hunter had the sales force call on prospects throughout December, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s, when many people are out of the office.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mary specializes in leveraging modern learning techniques and tools to enable and train global software sales teams to achieve revenue objectives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. She’s a sales enablement leader with over twenty years of experience in the software industry, who began her career in sales at AT&T.

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LeadFuze

JULY 23, 2023

BusinessCommunication #ResponseStrategies Click to Tweet Crafting the Perfect Response to No-Response Messages When you haven’t heard back from someone, it’s natural to feel slighted. If they didn’t respond within this timeframe after an initial phone call or meeting, then it might be time for another outreach attempt.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. This often means sales is a 24/7 gig- taking calls at all hours and maintaining extreme schedules to suit the needs of the customer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Even in the pandemic, many B2B companies tried to adapt that approach to the new world order by simply shifting in-person sales presentations to video calls. Successfully navigating a digital transformation requires what the authors call “digital masters.”. People don’t have the same trust they had with businesses back in the day.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2022

Technology advances and the resulting intelligence that can be gathered through sales prospecting software like Crunchbase, make access to the tools for ABM marketing easier than ever. Collecting and digesting this information will help you construct a highly targeted and personalized ABM strategy to develop a relationship with the contact.

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Lessonly

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Welcome back to part two of our three-part series on The Great Resignation. This calls for a makeover. People crave consistent, constructive feedback from a trusted advisor. Today I sat through another meeting about workplace safety topics. So, what does great workplace training look like? Maybe she’s born with it.

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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. Average cold call conversion rate: How many prospects are your reps qualifying per call?

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DialSource

JUNE 21, 2018

How many times have you called them in the past month? Automation software can automatically update customer files so that you can prioritize who to contact, and how to contact them. If you’ve called multiple times this week, maybe it’s time to back off for a bit. Scheduling a Meeting. You’re Making Cold Calls.

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Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

To improve your sales effectiveness and make informed data-backed decisions, you need to conduct sales analysis regularly. It can involve conducting a strictly financial analysis based on the sales revenue generated and how it’s meeting your sales targets. Image source: inpaspages.com. Predictive sales analytics.

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Sales Evangelist

JULY 16, 2019

Jacob Wardrop is the sales director at an email management provider called 28Hands , which helps people who feel overwhelmed with the volume of email and they need a more automated way of handling it. Old school Jacob once worked as a sales rep selling software to the construction industry, and he was assigned a geographical territory.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. If not then you may be wasting your time but we will come back to disrupting the status quo later. Making this knowledge accessible in a way that’s easy to dip into and use before calls and meetings can be more problematic.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2019

But, the census data shows the number of planned wages (WBA) and high-propensity (HBA) business applications have not shown the same level of bounce-back. The failure rate for new businesses is somewhere around half, with about 50% calling it quits after the first five years. That's not so good. Why Businesses Fail.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

But it can just as easily be summed up in a few statistics: Per a survey conducted by the Association of Talent Development (ATD) in 2021, over a quarter (28%) of median sales people didn’t meet their company’s sales goals during the last fiscal year. The 15 Best Sales Training Programs.

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SBI

JUNE 18, 2013

In closing, Jonathan suggested that Heidi check back in two weeks’ time. If you conclude that the product won’t meet your needs, then you will pretty easily arrive at a purchase decision of ‘no.’. So when Heidi called back in two weeks, Jonathan wasn’t ready with a purchase decision. She asked about his time-frame.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

After leaving the military, Chuck went into business, working for an HR administration software company in operations. So when that door opened again at ADP to work with the team in the sales leadership development program, he moved back into sales enablement. allows me to dissect sales conversations post-call and diagnose issues.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This is where the right quoting software steps in to strengthen your CRM, fusing customer relationship management and advanced quoting processes under one roof. What is CRM with quoting software? This comprehensive software solution simplifies the creation of customized and accurate quotes or proposals for potential customers.

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Showpad

AUGUST 8, 2018

Pitches, meetings and client-facing conferences require preparation on the part of every member of the group, especially the rookies. While each rep did their initial stand and deliver early on, after running through onboarding materials their pitch should be much more polished and backed up with the knowledge they have learned.

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Link building outreach is the process of encouraging people online to link back to your website in order to build useful links from other websites. Link-building clubs are an excellent way to meet other link-builders and fast build links for your website, along with LinkedIn and email marketing. 5) Close : A CRM called Clos.io

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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. Don’t have Brainshark or other coaching software?

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 14, 2021

Appointment setting is a sales development activity where specialized reps follow-up on top of funnel leads or do cold calling. An appointment setter’s goal is to schedule a sales meeting between a potential client and a closing sales representative. They primarily do it via phone call. (Image Source: Valasys ).

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s called, ‘I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up.’ Find all the job sites, all the construction workers, and demo tools all day long to get them to buy. I love power tools, I worked with power tools, but I wasn’t a construction worker. But I pushed back.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 21, 2022

Check out Gong’s sales training software. It’s light on opinions and heavy on data-backed ways to get your entire team to win more often… just like your A-players. They’re not having discovery calls that just anyone can handle, with fresh-faced buyers who have straightforward questions. PS: Want more ways to “clone” your reps?

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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. Start with your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Stage 1 - Building Your Buyer Personas or ICP.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

When we treat social selling as the next big thing, as if it were a transactional cold call where we can achieve million dollar closing results with one or two calls, we take the sector backwards. Then take those learnings back to it. We gain the weight back and lose our shirts if we don't walk out of the casino.

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Artesian Solutions

JUNE 28, 2018

Worse still, they claim that as a result only around half of all sellers are meeting their targets. Likewise, there is no doubt that many sales leaders remain sceptical that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems will deliver a return on the substantial infrastructure and software investment required for true disruptive business transformation.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Software engineers can offer that the startup needs to the support and skills. These software work with the aid of online. The technology has been useful to check immediately after diseases that ended upn’t curable decades back. The mediterranean-diet, by way of illustration, calls for more fish ingestion.

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