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Market & Sales Intelligence — Why Both are Essential for Sales Teams

Zoominfo

Also known as competitive intelligence, market intelligence refers to data that give insights into market trends. Additionally, sales teams can uncover new opportunities with uncharted leads, industries, and territories. This is typically when marketing teams determine if these visitors qualify as marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

Are we assigning effective territories? By enabling Insights for ourselves, we quickly discovered a handful of important trends and leading indicators for rep attrition and how tenure affects performance. Are we creating competitive enough comp plans to attract and retain the right reps? Is our pay in line with performance?

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Can You Switch Hit For Sales Success?

The Pipeline

I remember when I first started working for a company back in the early 1990’s (before we had web mail), the company had two main product lines, and had the usual territories across the continent, primarily driven by geography.

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3 Ways to Optimize Sales Performance and Be Ready for the Coming Boom

Sell Integrity

Business investment has gotten off to a strong start in 2021, and experts expect that trend to continue. Here’s what he said: Be Ready for Virtual Sales Performance: As Bruce explains, this is a territory coverage play. Product knowledge and selling skills, by comparison, are much less predictive of sales success.

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If, When, and How You Should Leverage a Sales Gimmick

Hubspot Sales

But regardless of how absurd that comparison might be, it's still worth unpacking. Gimmicks come with a territory that can be tricky to navigate, and there are some precautions and potential pitfalls you should be mindful of. Maybe the most fitting example to demonstrate this trend is a tactic known as the flash sale.

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. The presentation was developed as a comparison to what is happening in 2026 versus ten years earlier in 2016. Sales Training – 2026. Let’s tune in and listen to what Dr. Beckett has to say. New Players.

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Lead Distribution Showdown: Chili Piper’s Routing vs LeanData vs Distribution Engine

Chili Piper

And combined with all of the Chili Piper’s features noted throughout this comparison guide, your leads are seamlessly routed to the right people. With any lead distribution tool, you’ll need analytics to help you spot trends and improve your routing processes. Lead/Contact Distribution and Routing. Related opportunity. Related contact.