Allego

JUNE 10, 2020

Before March 2020, at least 70% of sales calls were virtual, according to Forbes. As the country begins to reopen, we’re still far from business as usual—especially for sales teams. In-person meetings, sales kickoffs, and training sessions simply aren’t happening. Record Calls for Coaching.

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Hiring Sales Methodology Call-back Video 108

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

Plus, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations. If there ever was a time for real, authentic sales conversations, it’s now. What do businesses typically do when clients stop buying and the sales pipeline dries up? How can I help you?)

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Generation Webinar Metrics 279

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. And technology can either help or hinder those connections.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

His sales reps were able to focus on delivering better, more meaningful content without spending as much time on training as before. Why seek out a new sales tool anyway? For JW and the Cisco sales team, there wasn’t a compelling event that forced them to assess Salesloft. His team needed something more efficient. “To

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Vendor Sales Technology Face-to-face Benefit 52

SBI

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Nancy Nardin I first started curating and categorizing sales technologies in 2010. There wasn’t much of a market back then but that has changed drastically in the eleven years since. I’ll write a separate post on the history of the Sales Enablement category and why we made that decision. That role is Presales.

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Enterprise Enterprise Inbound Sales Enablement 180

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With the sales enablement industry exploding, why is it that B2B and B2C companies still struggle to hit quota? Because despite all of the sales technologies, improved sales methodologies, advanced sales training – there still seems to be a disconnect between how modern sellers sell and how modern buyers buy.

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Top of Funnel Quota Trends B2C 116

SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

Software (like CRM), training (skills and product knowledge), coaching, and good sales processes are all key. In business, snags cause deals to be lost at the last minute, cold-calls to not convert into meetings, forecasted deals to get pushed. Why Reliable CRM Data is the Source of all Fast Flowing Revenue Streams.

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CRM Data Revenue Ideal Customer Profile 122

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sales Enablement expert Steven Wright provides a metaphor for onboarding by describing two completely different experiences of doing the same thing – boarding a plane. Calling all cattle. Glass of wine, munchies, a look at the New York Times and boarding is called. So what does this have to do with sales onboarding and training?

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Hiring Training Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 52

No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2018

Here’s what you might have missed last month from No More Cold Calling. Every sales rep asks that question, and surveys of sales leaders confirm that getting leads in the pipeline is their top challenge. Reps have KPIs for cold calling, sending emails, and making connections on social media. No phone calls.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 180

SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. .

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Hiring Face-to-face Video Distribution 164

SalesLoft

JULY 11, 2023

Sellers face a daily battle to close every opportunity and renewal, and prospects regularly don’t show up to meetings, or worse — back out of committed deals. With so much on the line, you can’t afford to waste precious time and money juggling dozens of single-purpose sales tools. billion on technology for their revenue teams !

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Sales Tools Tools Face-to-face Sales Technology 52

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sales Enablement expert Steven Wright provides a metaphor for onboarding by describing two completely different experiences of doing the same thing – boarding a plane. Calling all cattle. Glass of wine, munchies, a look at the New York Times and boarding is called. So what does this have to do with sales onboarding and training?

Hiring 49

Hiring Training Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 49

Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

The problem is that for too long, sales managers have relied on a one-size-fits-all coaching playbook and hoped for the best. Not only should sales coaching be personalized to each rep, but it should also be backed by data. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools?

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Coaching Data Sales Coaching Conversion 95

Score More Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Then I work to help them, along with their manager’s support to have enough confidence and a message to make outbound calls to prospective buyers. Even with all the advances in sales technology tools, for sales reps to be successful they need to have some communication basics.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back Outbound 241

Highspot

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this guide, we’re pulling back the curtain to show you what goes into defining, achieving, and maintaining sales excellence and will answer such questions as: What is sales excellence? How do you measure sales excellence? How Do You Achieve Sales Excellence? Sales technology. Sales culture.

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Lead Rank How To Sales Enablement Analytics 98

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’m not looking forward to stepping out of my sales comfort zone this year, but I must. For me, it’s learning new technology. I love technology when it works, but I also find it frustrating. I’d much rather talk than text and have a video call than a phone call. What sales comfort zone is holding you back?

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Referrals Gatekeeper Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 156

SBI

MARCH 1, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. .

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Face-to-face Apparel Chemicals Call-back 94

SBI

AUGUST 14, 2018

“I’m a salesperson by training and by enthusiasm,” says Nancy Nardin, founder of Smart Selling Tools and co-founder of Vendor Neutral. “I I believe in sales, I love salespeople, I love the art of selling. We caught up with Nardin recently to talk to her about the state of sales technology, and her latest endeavors.

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Top of Funnel Vendor How To Sales Technology 95

SBI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But it is overwhelming were you really try to map out all of the technologies and all the categories that we would put under this umbrella of Sales Enablement technology and it’s pretty overwhelming. Where are we in the big journey we call Sales Enablement technology? I think we’re at risk.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Vendor Ideal Customer Profile 139

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Whether you’re assessing new potential customers and buyer personas, catering to existing customers, refining your onboarding process, or evaluating sales training methods, you may find that best practices have shifted. The new sales best practices best tailored for COVID-19 fit into several categories.

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ROI Buyer Persona Churn Follow-up 118

SBI

AUGUST 10, 2021

With the uncertain economy, the rise in hybrid teams due to the pandemic, and tightening budgets, it’s more important than ever for companies to equip their sales teams to produce at the highest level. At the same time, as the demands on sales organizations change, sales enablement efforts must evolve to keep pace.

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ROI Sales Enablement Hiring Maximizer 85

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 3, 2017

The competitor in me quickly hit the “Back” button so I too could optimize my vehicle based on the attributes. In addition to the finding that prospecting weakness suppressed growth, our growth survey found that high growth organizations were twice as likely to believe cold calling was alive and see great results from it.

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Hiring Revenue Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 18, 2015

Are out-of-date prospecting systems holding you back? Now imagine a sales world where you only meet with clients who want to meet with you —a world where you never have to cold call, send prospecting letters, pester strangers on social media, or entice clients with special offers. ” Don’t you love hearing that?

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Referrals Cold Calling How To Call-back 120

Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

The problem is that for too long, sales managers have relied on a one-size-fits-all coaching playbook and hoped for the best. Not only should sales coaching be personalized to each rep, but it should also be backed by data. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools?

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Coaching Data Sales Coaching Conversion 52

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Is your team tired of cold calling? Some people say it takes seven to 12 touches for sales reps to reach their prospects? The #1 challenge sales reps face is getting to decision-makers quickly. But when sales organizations put referral programs in place, reps don’t need to jump through hoops to get meetings.

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Referrals Meeting Scale Cold Calling 120

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The explosion of sales technology and access to capital has made the fight for buyers’ attention incredibly difficult. Even the best sales organizations plan for only 60% of their sellers to hit quota – and this number has been declining for the last decade. Option 2: Beat back the chaos. Buyers expect more. .

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Revenue Face-to-face Quota Channels 52

SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

Their teams are complaining about their compensation plans, unrealistic quotas, and the fact that they need engineering to put one more feature in place so they can make that big sale they are counting on for the quarter. Where do their teams, and themselves, need ongoing training? Coaching skills for sales managers.

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Allego

MARCH 10, 2022

On a recent Sales Hacker Panel: Mastering Virtual Selling , three virtual sales experts discussed why virtual selling is a skill, one that needs to be taught as part of an organization’s sales training. The pandemic revealed that whatever industry you work in, everyone needs virtual sales training.

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How To Video Selling Skills Proposal 62

Showpad

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If you go into it thinking you’re going to have a hybrid approach with some digital capabilities but also the traditional path of print marketing and everything else, people will fall back on what they know and are comfortable with.”. When I moved back to the U.S., We also use it internally to train ourselves.

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Lead Rank Industry Lead Scoring Leads 98

SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Inside sales reps who engage prospects with a personalized pitch see better open rates, have longer conversations, and book more meetings. But migrating from a traditional cold calling model to one that requires a high-level of customization can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated inside sales environments.

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Inside Sales Data Lead Rank Hiring 102

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 23, 2018

A Complete Guide to Putting the “Social” Back in Social Selling. Gartner research backs this up, suggesting that social engagement is the more appropriate term. Pitching Strangers When you invite people to connect on LinkedIn and then immediately hit them with a sales pitch, you’re breaking all the rules of social selling.

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Social Selling Social Media Referrals Lead Rank 218

Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2019

Keep reading for a passive/active approach to sales technology and 3 ways to approach tech stack design for your business. The Truth About Sales Technology. New technology should do one of two things: Support your sales process (lead routing, sales engagement, etc.). 301: expert level training.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale Hiring 60

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Time for Sales Hacker’s Annual Top 10 Sales Trends and Predictions for the Future of Sales in 2019. Due to the proliferation of modern sales technology and people’s love of it, I added a new element this time. You know, since it’s extremely apparent that the sales technology landscape keeps growing like wildfire.

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Trends Direct Mail Intent Data Channels 104

Gong.io

APRIL 14, 2021

If you’ve been following our podcast journey, then you’ll know that we launched ‘Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast’ back in 2019. Being able to really understand and empathize with what’s going on, and then be able to come back with something meaningful and relevant. . Psychologist. ENDURANCE. . . .

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Call-back SAP Revenue Sales 118

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 15, 2022

Every good sales leader wants to empower and coach their team to become highly productive. But most managers come from an individual contributor role and are given woefully inadequate training and support. Related: The Best Sales Managers Don’t Chase Revenue: 6 Steps to Get Goal-Setting Right. That’s not coaching.

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Top of Funnel Cold Calling How To Funnel 74

Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2018

Buyers who were initially contacted via cold call spent the most money with your organization. Then, based on the number of reps you have and the number of people within your target audience, you predict you could double revenue just by hiring ten more outbound sales reps. Data can be applied to every aspect of your sales strategy.

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Data Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 170

Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

Think about this scenario: Your organization is ready to invest (or renew) hundreds of thousands of dollars (or perhaps millions) in your sales technology stack and tools for your team, but the executives and the finance department want you to calculate the ROI to justify the expense of each tool. How quickly will the company see ROI?

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ROI Sales Tools Tools How To 122