Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

We’re really excited to be able to provide our audience and network with even more high-quality content on all things go-to-market. This week I sat down and interview the VP of Sales at Crunchbase , Ang McManamon. Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below.

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Allbound

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Even for the most channel-centric companies, partner conflict is inevitable. Conflict can occur for various reasons such as pricing, poor communication, or even deals poached by the direct sales team. To increase channel sales, it’s vital to keep your product top of mind with your partners. Let’s face it.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Tom was a VP of sales before he, his wife and their technical cofounder started the company. He set out to solve some of the problems he faced around coaching as a sales leader. Tom understands that effective sales leadership starts with data. 24:55] Customer success and sales must work together in a team. [27:14]

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. What is Demand Generation? Does demand generation sound similar to lead generation?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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SugarCRM

MAY 28, 2024

Closely paying attention to your customer lifecycle allows you to better prepare and coordinate your sales, marketing, and service teams and empower them to turn one-time customers into returning customers. You need the right tools and data sets to work with to accelerate growth through your customers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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SugarCRM

MAY 14, 2024

You might think that marketing and sales alignment only applies to lead generation. You might think that passing nurtured leads from the marketing department to the sales department is the only time these two groups interact. You must align your marketing and sales departments to be a viable competitor in your industry.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Today we’re continuing this conversation by sharing a preview of our latest research on sales commission. While the data we uncovered is concerning, it’s not surprising. Today we unveil some of our findings and attempt to unravel what this data means. Let’s get into it.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With so many ups and downs this year, as well as company pivots and new long-term strategies, sales planning is more important than ever before for success. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a born leader to devise a master marketing plan or hit your sales objectives. plans to address market segmentation.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product marketing professionals (sometimes called solutions marketing) have a broad set of responsibilities, ranging from product launches and persona research to product messaging, go-to-market strategies, and more. See also: 5 Projects to improve your sales and marketing alignment with sales enablement.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this article, we explore the reasons behind the ostrich effect and strategies to overcome it, empowering sales professionals to embrace bad news and turn it into an opportunity for growth. Sales leadership during a market slowdown is an often written-about topic.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

To ensure consistent success, sales organizations must define their activities and processes. In addition, the roles of marketing and sales automation should be designated and measured throughout the sales cycle. Further, sales leaders must assess the roles of their teams, including BDRs and SDRs. Only 31.5%

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2020

For companies’ sales and marketing teams, this could mean changing messaging, altering their inside sales strategy, or re-thinking the kinds of businesses they’re targeting. Winning sales teams are able to apply data, such as how a buyer has engaged with a piece of sent content, to help them be more relevant in the moment.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

And that’s saying a lot, considering all the tech I’ve seen come to market over the years: the Web, computer games, digital music, cell phones, tablets (first generation iPad owner here), social media, and everything else we use today. Say Hello to Custom GPTs for Sales Gen AI creators aren’t resting on their laurels. To create images?

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Increase Sales

MAY 19, 2017

Social selling or social media selling whatever you want to call it is marketing using social media channels to deliver the message. This entire get on the band wagon for social whatever is sales quick sales fix for some and a quick opportunity to make fast bucks for others. Innovation. paraphrasing).

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s the subject of my latest Sales Talk for CEOs podcast, where Erik Frank – CEO and President of Tristate Amature and Electrical Works – shares the details on the major overhauls that are happening in his 101-year-old business. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations? About Our Guest.

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Showpad

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marketing and Sales traditionally operate as separate universes. By bringing both worlds closer together, Marketing and Sales can share information and insights that will result in customers feeling they are receiving solutions to their challenges and not just another sales pitch. Falling into the ‘black box’.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself. Jill Rowley.

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Allego

AUGUST 2, 2023

I’m seeing two growing, trending (no, not more layoffs) conversations across my social media channels recently. How to Leverage AI to Optimize Sales & Drive Increased Revenue. The Evolution of Enablement Sales enablement has long been recognized as a crucial, yet often misunderstood function within organizations.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 6, 2021

This team responsible for aligning activities and supporting sales, marketing, and service departments — all of which contribute to revenue growth. They focus within their departments to promote sales enablement , manage their teams, and ensure that goals are met. Use data to define relevant KPIs and communicate them with teams.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Within your sphere of influence, you can deliver results for sales leadership. Data Access / Availability: Does your group have access the right data to make good decisions? All the discussions about Big Data Analytics don’t matter otherwise. Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer Service need this alignment.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 21, 2021

He hosts The SDR Chronicles — a podcast and YouTube channel with over 100 episodes aimed at providing guidance, insight, and motivation to emerging sales reps. Ingram also serves as Director of Execution and Evolution at JB Sales — a prominent educational resource for sales professionals. Cynthia Barnes.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Technology that allows users to surface relevant content and intent data will rise beyond just early adopters. I know it’s in our upcoming Sales Engagement book in a big way. These are underutilized new (and old) channels worth testing as phone and email get even more saturated. Companies to watch: LinkedIn as a channel.

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Highspot

APRIL 10, 2020

Disney has helped to pioneer what it means to provide a consistent customer experience across various digital and offline channels. Modern Sales Enablement Drives Marketing and Sales Alignment. Post-rollout, sellers were spending 28% less time with CRM data entry and 23% less time working on low-value repetitive tasks.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Operations & Systems track brings data-driven frameworks and processes to support all revenue-generating teams. If “ops” is in your job title, then this track is for you: Revenue Ops, Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Success Ops, or Business Ops. Speaker : Pamela Lapeyrolerie, Digital Marketing Practice Leader at IBM.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

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. In no particular order, here are 35 leading women in sales you should be watching in 2023.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

?. Subscribe to Modern Marketing Engine on your app of choice. . Events have been a notoriously difficult marketing channel to measure when it comes to adding qualified leads to the sales pipeline. Learn how to measure contribution to your #sales pipeline from events. marketing #NEXT2020 Click To Tweet.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

Many sales skills apply to in-person sales, remote roles , and many areas of life and work. Becoming a good salesperson involves much more than simply knowing your product; it’s a rich blend of product and market expertise, meaningful dialogue, solution-based selling, and emotional intelligence.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 4, 2019

Everyone knows that sellers need to prospect, qualify leads, demonstrate value and business acumen in their outreach to buyers, I kicked things off by asking Kristina what is happening in the market now that dictates what buyers want, so that sellers can better focus? You’ll hear what you can expect to when you attend the session.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In an article published this week by Gartner titled Future of Sales 2025: Data-Driven B2B Selling to Drive Digital Commerce , they reveal, “ 60% of B2B sales organizations will transition from experience- and intuition-based selling to data-driven selling by 2025.” . Why does selling need to be data-driven?

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Nutshell

AUGUST 4, 2020

Below are the 30 best online resources for sales professionals to sharpen their fundamental skills and learn some new tricks. We’ve divided the list into three different categories for your convenience: podcasts, YouTube channels, and blogs. Sales YouTube Channels. Sales Insights Lab by Marc Wayshak. GET THE GUIDE.

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InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

Gathering resources at my stage in career involves the practice of active networking, user conferences, sales leadership groups, slack channels, above par googling skills, and sheer grit to piece together a resource pool. Good data is built from the ground up—same goes for a good data program. Business Analytics.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2023

For sales leaders unable to participate, there’s no need to worry. We’ve gathered all the latest sales information, offering you a comprehensive overview. In this article, we will unveil the latest Gartner sales data, along with our own analysis of its implications for sales leaders.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MAY 2, 2018

Much continues to change in the world of selling, and in this conversation, I talked with Allen Mueller, Chief Revenue Officer at the Miller Heiman Group about their data on what’s changing and what’s coming. As I do with most guests, we started out talking about Allen’s history and she landed in a career in sales. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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