Close.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

No joke, we’ve spoken to CEOs who want to make money on outbound prospecting in 90 days, but when asked how long their sales cycle is, they answer “four to six months.” For example, if their market is commoditizing, what’s the company’s plan to adapt? Massive sales team growth. It’s not like testing a new marketing app.

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SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Over the last couple of years, many of our customers have been asking us to identify the go-to-market strategy, and specific execution points, around selling in teams. Here’s a basic framework for our case study format that you can start with. Account executives (your quarterbacks).

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. If you’re thinking about a career in sales, you probably want to hear the cold, hard truths about sales and what it entails.

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Openview

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Salespeople need to retain a lot of information and master the right sales skills to consistently hit their numbers. Reps constantly need to develop their product and market expertise, learn new company messaging and value propositions, and hone conversational skills to have more meaningful interactions with buyers. Communication.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

For today’s blog post, we put together a comprehensive list of the best articles about corporate events and event marketing. We tried to tackle every aspect of event marketing. Keep reading for our favorite event marketing blog posts! Events are a great tool to have in your marketing arsenal. Check them out below!

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. It’s your job to lead your team through the trenches and give them direction so they’ll know which markets or territories to target and how best to attack. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Six Best Practices in Sales Pipeline Management to Boost Revenue. The most important thing in sales is a strong pipeline. Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In the competitive world of sales, everyone is seeking the magic bullet that will accelerate revenue. But there’s a simpler way to increase market share: Make your sales organization more optimistic. Martin Seligman’s work with insurance company Metropolitan Life is one of the more famous case studies.

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SugarCRM

MAY 18, 2023

Our previous blog post discussed the core CRM features for sales automation. Although, traditionally, lead management is associated with lead generation, this blog post will mainly focus on how lead management features inside a CRM can break down siloes and create marketing and sales alignment within an organization.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data-driven marketers aren’t playing to win a hand or two. They’re playing to grow market share. The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Many leaders take advantage of the holidays in November, December, and January to read the latest books about sales and leadership. Sales Enablement: A Master Framework to Engage, Equip and Empower a World Class Sales Force by Tamara Schenk and Bryon Matthews. Wondering how you can leverage sales enablement to win?

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

Hiring and onboarding new members of your sales team can be complicated. Research from Clearslide and CSO Insights found that, on average, it takes new reps between six and nine months to get fully ramped up to the performance levels of established sales agents. Case studies will be perfect for this purpose.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only that, but for B2B sales, the desire for virtual communications extends to buyers. And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Coaching distributed sales teams and providing feedback. You aren’t alone.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2020

I don't know if you've ever thought about this before, but sales and professional wrestling don't have very much in common. Sales and professional wrestling can both be cutthroat. As you can assume, sales gimmicks are quite a bit different. Lowering prices in some way, shape, or form is the basis for a variety of sales gimmicks.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

However, while sales reps can’t avoid prospecting, they can certainly make it easier for themselves. Here are some Twitter lists you might want to create: Prospects within your territory that you want to keep tabs on. Bloggers and media that report on companies in your territory so you can find out about new companies.

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OpenSymmetry

APRIL 8, 2016

Sales organizations face a constant challenge responding to changing selling techniques and markets. In meeting this external change readiness challenge, businesses need to effectively manage internal changes to their organization, technology, and sales behavior. Meeting the Change Readiness Challenge.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your 2012 Sales Plan. It’s a little late to begin planning your 2012 Sales Plan, but in a conversation last week with a reader of this blog, I realized there maybe others who have not formalized their 2012 plan. 2.1.5 Key measurements (Market share, profit, growth, etc). Sales Goals. 3.1.5 Market Share.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? Making the leap from sales practitioner to sales manager doesn’t have as much to do with being a rockstar that boasts the highest close rate on your team—as it’s concerned with your ability to motivate, lead and elevate others to achieve more. Overseeing the organization’s sales training.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 28, 2013

I’m an unapologetic believer in the concept, “It’s your God-given right to 100% share of customer and 100% share of territory.” ” Everything I’ve been taught, everything I’ve taught or coached has been around maximizing the full potential in the “territory.” They quickly paled.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

” My knee jerk reaction was to provide one of my two standard responses, “It depends… ” or “It takes what it takes, man up (or woman up as the case may be).” It’s one that I know concerns sales people and managers, but most don’t have the courage to ask. It’s a good question.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Productivity , Questions , Sales 2.0 , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Selling to Executives , execution.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

A Case Study-. First, let me state their market was highly focused, sophisticated but considerably large, and they were not the major player. This firm in 6 years had a 20% growth rate in an industry that was growing 3% annually, they quadrupled sales and profits margins were double the industry norms. Marketing Planning.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In sales, as in life, communication is everything. In this article, we’ll focus on helping sales teams successfully collaborate. That alone will help you get more sales. Every member of a sales team has a specific role that drives the performance and progress. These four roles are crucial to a sales team.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The secret may surprise you… It’s as simple as a solid sales-to-service handoff. For several years, I ran account management at a marketing agency — a business model infamous for mismatched expectations and subjective quality of delivery. Keep reading to learn the formula for a good sales handoff process. Internal Handoff.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

As the Director or Manager for Sales Enablement, you’ve probably been more focused on tracking participation metrics, like a number of training sessions completed, amount of content produced, and so on (a whopping 48% of enablement managers track only that!). Measuring the impact of sales enablement on business metrics is not straightforward.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

As the Director or Manager for Sales Enablement, you’ve probably been more focused on tracking participation metrics, like a number of training sessions completed, amount of content produced, and so on (a whopping 48% of enablement managers track only that!). Measuring the impact of sales enablement on business metrics is not straightforward.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Are you in sales and looking to get promoted into management? Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Keep reading to get: Stories from 6 new sales managers.

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Sales Hacker Training

MAY 8, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Why mega deals aren’t just for sales superheroes. Hey, my name’s Jamal Reimer, and I am an enterprise sales rep at Oracle. Both were individual contributor roles as an individual sales contributor. What You’ll Learn.

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Rob Jolles

MARCH 20, 2023

Twenty-five year sales veteran Kurt Greening sits down with Rob and shares his thoughts on a variety of sales topics including why you are winning and losing business Originally Published: February 20, 2023 EPISODE NOTES In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you’ll learn: Not just learning from winning and losing, but the value of doing just that!

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Sales enablement is the process of making sales teams able to efficiently move customers through the sales process to the point where the customer can make a buying decision. This is, fundamentally, a technology and software question: What software is being used to share content with the sales team?

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The Sales Association

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Just because someone downloads a white paper or attends a Webinar doesnt mean they are even remotely interested in doing a sales call. After all, they got into sales because they like working with people. Wednesday, November 9, 2011.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. 9 sales enablement best practices.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Team processes.

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