No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 2, 2014

All sales reps need coaching and guidance, but rainmakers deserve extra attention. The sales manager announces the top performers of the year. Applause resounds throughout the building as these sales champions are paraded like Superbowl winning gods across the sales floor. Drum roll, please. Want Proof? Is this correct?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 18, 2021

3 Sales Voicemail Statistics You Should Know. Are you leveraging sales voicemail as part of your prospecting process? There’s this dirty little rumor circulating the sales world that says voicemail is dead and gone this 2021. 80% of Sales Calls Just Go to Voicemail. Don’t hang up. Click To Tweet.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do. I’m including myself here.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

A call center uses a referral program to incentivize employees to refer their personal connections for open positions. To make the referral beneficial for both the company and the referring party, the call center offered a $500 bonus once the employee was hired and actively employed for 90 days. Super motivating right?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

That’s how my friend Stacey describes the way sales compensation plans have changed over the last 15 years of her SaaS career. Why do sales compensation plans have to be so complex? Sales compensation was set up to ensure that reps are suitably rewarded for their performance.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Women in sales have everything they need to succeed. It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams. The first is Sue, a successful field sales manager in a tech company. Comments were prolific.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting , it's more important than ever that you write concise, effective communication. Download Now Here are a few things to consider as you write an email that’d help you with sales prospecting. Check out our post about the best sales email subject lines if you want to see some of these tips in action.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or fully on board, it’s important to educate yourself about how sales reps are using AI.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. These are as follows: 1. Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. They can read a person’s emotions and pick up on unspoken concerns. Perceptive. Persistent.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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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. In your sales organization, this starts with your sales environment. A sales environment is a vague, intangible concept. Types of Sales Environments. I sure did.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. These are as follows: Interview Questions For Sales Rep Qualities 1. Perceptive Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. In the job market yourself?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2020

Sales contests are a great way to get your reps hustling and keep their heads in the game. But if you’re only leveraging them for short-term results, you’re majorly underestimating the heavy lifting they can do for your team, your sales org, and ultimately, your bottom line. Why Sales Contests? Get specific.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The last thing you want from a sales email is sleazy, spammy… or even sales-y copy. That might sound counterintuitive, but I interviewed Yuval Ackerman , email strategist, who shared her top tips for writing sales email marketing that don’t give you the ick! Gaudio’s sales emails receive: 36.3% click-through.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. These are as follows: 1. Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. They can read a person’s emotions and pick up on unspoken concerns. Perceptive. Persistent.

Hiring 138

Hiring Sales Cycle B2B Call-back 138

Nutshell

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s a tale as old as time: Your sales team isn’t meeting its goals. We’ve compiled six of the best strategies for improving sales rep performance based on real-world research and case studies so you can get back to hitting your benchmarks in no time: 1. The same can be said of fixing an underperforming sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The tenet Beane and the A’s followed enabling them to average more than 93 wins per year for the following eight years had two components: Discard highly valued “vanity” metrics that did not have a significant impact on winning baseball games. Structural incentives are those created by the structure of what’s being done.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The following week, the company’s 90-plus employees were told they would be working remotely indefinitely, as it became clear the global COVID-19 outbreak made office settings unsafe. Nearly 47% of workers cited social interaction with coworkers as their main reason for going back into the workplace. A survey of more than 3,900 U.S.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. There is no room for failure in today’s competitive sales landscape. It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For sales organizations, sales performance data can be a useful tool to drive strategic planning and increase performance. . Using a sales performance management (SPM) solution to analyze sales performance data, organizations can gain vital insights into the landscape they operate in.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At the same time, travel restrictions and pandemic protocols have prevented cybersecurity sales training teams from meeting in person.The result has been a surge in demand for scalable virtual sales training. 6 Ways to Enable Virtual Sales Training at Scale. It Must Be Tailored for the Specialty. First things first.

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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. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

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Salesmate

JUNE 9, 2020

Well, everyone wants the applause and incentives that are given when the sales quotas are achieved. Salespeople do not give enough attention to the initial stages of the sales process and suffer in the end with a poor conversion rate. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert into sales. What is a discovery call?

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Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile How To 125

Pointclear

AUGUST 27, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. So, you’ve had about 9,600 inquiries…were they called?”

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

Top earners in sales use top sales strategies to attain their success. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. Track interactions with leads and schedule regular follow-ups.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last week we explored gender bias in sales. Today, we’re continuing the conversation by celebrating a group of incredible women from a variety of sales organizations who have made their mark in the world of sales. In doing so, we hope to show the next generation of women that sales is a viable career path for women.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Nutshell

APRIL 28, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, professionals in nearly every industry have been forced to work from home in order to follow social distancing best practices. It’s important to set up a dedicated workspace in your home. Those who get enough of it sleep better and are up to 40% more productive.

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Highspot

JULY 23, 2021

Overfamiliar, aggressive, awkward – we’ve all been on the receiving end of a terrible sales pitch from a pushy seller. But sales pitches are so much more than an uncomfortable phone call or an unwarranted email. How can you maximize the potential of your sales pitch? How do you make a sales pitch?

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Jeff Shore

MAY 16, 2018

If you were in sales in 2005, things were booming. From the sales person perspective it was both good and bad. When the market is kind, the majority of sales people relax their behaviors. And then when the market dips, I get training requests to help teams “Get back to basics.”. We’re having a sale! Yes, and no.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2021

But how do you effectively leverage chat on your website that isn’t just another pop-up? Here is a breakdown of the six types of visitors you will see on your website, followed by steps for greeting each one via your chatbot or a team member. New guests are visitors at the top of the sales funnel. The New Guest.

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Salesmate

MAY 29, 2020

Every sales rep wishes to end their month on a happy note celebrating their wins. But sadly, for most of the sales reps, it ends with the disappointment of unfulfilled targets. Sales reps are often plagued with challenges that affect their sales results. Common sales challenges and their solution.

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Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Lead Rank 93

Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2020

And yes this means you have to shower, get dressed and organize your workspace if you work at home but you should be doing that anyway – so if you are doing calls in your sweats, or pajamas then maybe you should ask yourself how serious you are about your success – just sayin’… 3. Be good to know don’t you think?

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This blog will answer this question along with some other topics about CRM ROI, namely how to calculate the ROI, some basic sales and marketing KPIs to consider, and three effective ways to maximize your CRM return. The data above shows that Pipeline CRM’s clients experienced positive changes in their sales books. million annually.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’re researching business products and services online, purchasing via websites as much as they can, and foregoing interactions with sales representatives whenever possible. Of course, the shift to digital sales tactics has been underway for years. And 70% of respondents planned to increase their online buying in the following year.

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