Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king. According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. Instead, you must understand how sales reps and prospects are (or aren’t) using sales content.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

Their signature on our paper would be a talking point for the rest of our sales career. We have our prescribed lists and territories. If we gained permission, we’d follow up months down the line with a relevant case study, when that prospect made any announcements or role changes, or if their company experienced any big news.

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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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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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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. The days of building a point solution in uncharted territory are over. So how do you get there?

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Openview

MARCH 7, 2019

After a sales meeting, do you ever experience a prospect ‘going dark’ on you? Everything felt like it should have gone great – the prospect seemed interested in the meeting, they asked the right questions, your sales pitch was stellar. During this pre-call, ask: Who will be part of the sales meeting? The Sales Pitch.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management. Use data to show sales reps their commissions in real time.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 18, 2016

The Sales Development Rep (or outbound rep) whose main goal is setting qualified meetings – has the hardest job in sales, in my opinion. It produces the lowest conversion ratio of any stage of the sales process and it’s a total grind every day. Most of us use about 10-20% of the functionality of whatever tool we use.

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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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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It’s conference season and everyone’s sales teams are in full-on appointment-setting mode, getting ready to meet with prospective customers and clients. If you’re new to the world of intelligent calendar tools, here’s a few reasons why Chili Piper is better than any scheduling solution you’ve ever used.

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The Brooks Group

JULY 7, 2017

No one knows how true this is more than sales professionals. Success in sales involves juggling many different tasks—some are tedious and time consuming, but simply cannot be avoided. If you want to maximize your sales reps’ high-gain selling time, have them look for administrative tasks they can eliminate, automate, or outsource.

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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. Sales Goals. 3.1.7 Sales Organization. 4.1.2 Territory definition. Sales Strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

They’re both excited about the tool, but worried about it. They want to use the tool, but they’re worried about the time that it will take from their day. It’s one that I know concerns sales people and managers, but most don’t have the courage to ask. As you know they’re already running full out.

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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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Showpad

JANUARY 12, 2021

Axiom saw a 28% year-over-year increase in the 12 months average sales compared to new hires who didn’t go through a formal onboarding program. Traditionally, new hires would prep for hours for a live roleplay with their territory leaders who would learn if they had the knowledge needed to be successful in a client meeting. .

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

In fact, in-person events ranked highest on the list, above tactics such as webinars/webcasts (66%), case studies (66%) and white papers (63%). Events are a great tool to have in your marketing arsenal. Done right, events are a powerful way to engage your target audience, accelerate the sales cycle and built brand equity.

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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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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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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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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

A Case Study-. 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. But before I detail their actions, the three things they did not do were: Add more VAR’s into territories creating too much competition.

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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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Xactly

MAY 30, 2018

Earlier this year, we teamed up with the Sales Management Association (SMA) to conduct a survey on sales territory design. More than 100 organizations participated in the survey and provided insights into how they design and plan their sales territories. Download Guide.

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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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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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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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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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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

To counter this macro change in buyer behavior, companies that rely on B2B sales are re-engineering their revenue supply chain. A case in point: auto manufacturing. Re-engineering the Sales Process. Clear understanding of territory and assigned leads. Ready, set … automate.

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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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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 23, 2023

Crafting the perfect B2B cold sales email is both an art and a science. Editor's note: This post contains an excerpt from the book The Predictable Revenue Guide to Tripling Your Sales , and is published here with permission. You want to create an exciting but credible (not spammy or sales-y) subject that intrigues recipients.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 28, 2020

Sales is, in large part, the art of capturing and keeping attention. I'm talking about sales aids. Sales aids are most commonly associated with healthcare and pharmaceutical sales, but the concept isn't necessarily specific to those industries. How to Create Sales Aids. Lead with that in your sales aid.

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PandaDoc

JULY 6, 2022

Many marketing and sales teams face this scenario far too often. When nurturing customers, it often becomes hard to understand where to start and where to stop, which is why tools like the sales funnel exist , helping you understand what stage your customer is currently at and why, and how to best qualify that lead.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, HSBC serves around 40 million personal, wealth, and corporate customers in 63 countries and territories. Our efforts were focused on enabling them, through technology and digital tools, to move faster and smarter. . RW: THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WELL-GROUNDED STRATEGY.

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Close.io

AUGUST 19, 2019

It’s an internal passion for competition that inspired many executives to start their careers in sales. Salespeople were so territorial that they wouldn’t make introductions on behalf of their colleagues even when they had a connection to a prospect’s company. Want to build and run a highly motivated sales team?

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