Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Check out this article published back in 2017: Marketing Qualified Leads Are Cool, But I’ll Take Product Qualified Leads Any Day. Pipeline better aligns with sales Tell your sales team you plan to double the number of MQLs, and you’ll likely be met with eye rolls. The result?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 8, 2017

If a salesman wanted to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn, you’d recognize the racket almost immediately. Here are just a few ways that unverified bargain contact lists can lead to sales drought rather than providing that rainmaker resource you wanted. You can’t afford not to know in today’s competitive sales climate.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2021

The most important skill for sales professionals? Making calls. Cold calls or warm leads, hot prospects or chilly receptions, making contact is critical. Data backs up this enterprise demand for skilled callers. Precall planning offers the chance to both boost prospect receptivity and reduce sales stress.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sales development representatives tend to think of the job as an important stepping stone in our careers , with challenges and opportunities that will shape the rest of our working lives. Find Your Groove Your workflow is the foundation of your day-to-day sales process that determines your productivity and future success.

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Sell Integrity

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. In many organizations, revenue has “fallen off a cliff,” as one sales leader put it, and companies are looking at where they can make cuts and recapture lost momentum.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

That doesn’t mean working life will simply bounce back to its pre-pandemic normal. Here’s where things stand as corporate America heads back to the office, according to some key members of ZoomInfo’s sales team. Or your leadership team has to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to do some call review.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Every time you use a selfish sales tactic, you’re destroying the trust between you and your buyer — but you’re not just hurting yourself. That’s when I see the salesperson strolling back in our direction.

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John Barrows

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

John Barrows wasn’t born a “great sales trainer”. The skills he teaches and the processes he implements into sales teams have an origin. Early on in his entrepreneurship, John attended many sales training sessions from several organizations. Our call to action (CTA) has to be relating back to a problem described in the content.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 6, 2020

Jim Benton was joined by Shianne Sampson , VP of Sales & Customer Experience at PetDesk for this week’s Weekly Briefing to discuss the data behind sales coaching in this new normal. Diving right in, they addressed the overall productivity of sales teams. I think now coaching is the backbone of sales.” Watch the Video.

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Julie Hanson

MARCH 3, 2022

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Actor. So if you’re unhappy or ill at ease in any way when you’re on video, your words may say “I’m happy to be here,” but your eyes, your face, or your demeanor will shout, “I can’t wait to get off this call!” Rather, like a mirror, the camera simply reflects back how you feel about it to your audience.

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The Pipeline

MAY 1, 2014

world, or as many around sales like to call it social selling, is to leverage a number of tools to improve and accelerate the quality of interactions, especially at the early part of the sales cycle. I can then initiate a sales-flow, either constructed or in response to the way things are unfolding. Tibor Shanto .

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Grant Cardone

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Alexander the Great set sail on a fleet of Greek ships to a narrow waterway in a part of modern-day Turkey called the Dardanelles. That’s why they stretched all the way to India and came back with more than just ships…but the entire Persian empire in their possession. Some of my friends even suggested I back off. In 334 B.C.,

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 21, 2012

Whether closing a direct sale or just setting appointments over the telephone , cold calling can be tough. In a cold call , you have but a precious few seconds to establish enough trust and rapport to get the prospect to allow the call to continue. What’s In A Word? Let me explain. I Am Different! The Triggers.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Rika Cuff , Senior Vice President of Scholastic and Champ Sales at Herff Jones, discusses the importance of sales leadership in sales culture development. Rika’s insights provide valuable lessons for sales leaders looking to create a positive and motivating team environment. Recognition goes a long way.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 29, 2018

My name is Jake Shaffren, Director of Sales here at DiscoverOrg, and today we’ll talk about the do’s and don’ts of voicemails. In this day and age, we have a lot of ways to connect: cold calling, cold emailing, social touches, etc. You can’t leave one voicemail, never call again – and expect a call back.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Who is Trish Bertuzzi and what is the Bridge Group? [3:00]. Sam Jacobs: On today’s show, we’re talking to a friend, an insightful author and leader, and an expert on sales, Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker.

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Highspot

APRIL 28, 2022

In our digital, work-from-anywhere world, sales teams have traded in the company office for the home office. Reps no longer have water cooler conversations or overhear their peers debriefing about calls. The water cooler may never come back, but technology can still bring the human element back to selling.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2023

As a sales rep, you straddle the space between helping your prospect find a solution that works for them and protecting your company’s interests. By the time you’ve reached the negotiation phase of the sales process, you and your prospect have a common goal: getting your company’s offering into their hands.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

Sales requires some detective skills. According to Colleen Francis, author of “ Nonstop Sales Boom ,” sales reps should walk away from prospects who can’t answer these three questions: What does success look like with this project? Sales reps are used to hearing “We don’t have the budget,” and “I can’t afford that price.”

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2019

Discussions will dive into topics related to sales, marketing, recruiting, business growth, and of course, data. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back in regularly as this information is subject to change. B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment. We welcome all sales, marketing, and operations professionals to join us.

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Bernadette McClelland

APRIL 16, 2014

What stops us in our success (whether we are a financial planner, a sales leader, a CEO in some corner office, an elite sportsperson, a foreign correspondent from the top TV network, a salesperson with a bunch of customers to look after and sell to), has nothing to do with how we do stuff. We know how to do stuff. And the engine is you.

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Bernadette McClelland

APRIL 16, 2014

What stops us in our success (whether we are a financial planner, a sales leader, a CEO in some corner office, an elite sportsperson, a foreign correspondent from the top TV network, a salesperson with a bunch of customers to look after and sell to), has nothing to do with how we do stuff. We know how to do stuff. And the engine is you.

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Engineering Lead Rank Lead Scoring Influencer 318

SalesLoft

JUNE 3, 2019

This week we are very excited to announce the launch of Hey Sale speople , a podcast hosted by the one-and-only Jeremy Donovan, SalesLoft’s VP of Sales Strategy and self-proclaimed sales nerd. Subscribe so you can follow along as he interviews the brightest minds in modern sales to bring you immediately actionable advice.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. from “The Sales Development Playbook” ).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2023

Sales is the transfer of conviction and inspiration: The person who is most certain during the interaction will win. Which means your sales conversation will either inspire in them the certainty to say yes — or it will reinforce their uncertainty, and they will say no. On a sales call, attitude and conviction are your two superpowers.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 9, 2020

One key area in which technology can be very useful is in sales training delivery. Leveraged the right way, virtual instructor-led sales training , or VILT, can bridge the divide between distributed teams and expert instructors without sacrificing quality. Quota-bearing sales professionals are under constant pressure to perform.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 29, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes My name is Jake Shaffren, Director of Sales here at DiscoverOrg, and today we’ll talk about the do’s and don’ts of voicemails. In this day and age, we have a lot of ways to connect: cold calling, cold emailing, social touches, etc. That’s mistake number one. Voicemail Don’ts. Leave five!

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Are you scared to make that cold call? Your heart is pounding fast, and your hands shake as you pick up the phone to call a random stranger. Will you be able to make a sale? If you’re nervous about making the phone call, you must listen to this week’s episode of the Sales Evangelist Podcast.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a sales rep, you need to tell the difference between opportunities that are just interested from those that intend to buy. But if you’re like most sales reps, opportunities that are just interested are getting into the pipeline more often. It can seem like a short distance across the bridge from interest to intent.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. They searched for female vs. male names and parsed the data to see how many LinkedIn members were female and in sales vs. male and in sales by industry. A future post will contain an interview with some of the top women in sales at IBM.

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Allego

AUGUST 2, 2023

How to Leverage AI to Optimize Sales & Drive Increased Revenue. The transition from sales enablement to revenue enablement has been a long time coming and marks another evolutionary milestone in how organizations approach revenue growth. As I said in my book, Sales Enablement 3.0: Buckle in and let’s dive in. …

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

Realized I didn’t want to do that forever, so I went back to school, got my MBA from the University of Minnesota Carlson School, spent 14 years in corporate marketing, 10 years with a small B2B-focused agency, then started my own consultancy in 2017. But I have reviewed some very interesting online tools for sales pros. So, Mailchimp.

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Social Selling Social Media Twitter Networking 101

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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