Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Newer sales reps get more leverage to speak up after they have consistently engaged prospective clients, booked meetings and closed business. The worst news can be packaged in a way that it is constructive and helpful rather than scathing complaints and condemnation. Sales Pros Affect Change. Increase Opportunities.

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Ideal Customer Profile Construction Up-Sell Twitter 194

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Customer business challenges/opportunities: Issues that customers face or opportunities to improve the way they do things that can motivate prospects to engage. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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Conversion Ideal Customer Profile Customer Face-to-face 107

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 1, 2011

The Sales Manager is always looking for better performance from a team, and in order to get that, you've got to give a little. Here are four things you, as a Sales Manager, need to give your team if you want to get more production out of them: 1. That's what having impossible sales goals are like. Believe me, it works!

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Inside Sales Motivation Sales Management Construction 33

Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2020

Your organization can kick-start this process by constructing a journey map to highlight gaps that, if resolved, would enable you to deliver more positive defining moments and exceed customer expectations. Stakeholders from sales enablement, sales and service should use VoC data to guide their approach to easing customer tension.

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Strategy Customer Face-to-face Loyalty 78

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

LevelEleven

AUGUST 7, 2018

You have been promoted to sales manager. Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? The traits that make all-star salespeople usually don’t directly translate to the skills needed to be an effective sales manager. Congratulations! Steve – Be curious.

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Hiring eBook Inside Sales Construction 48

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 16, 2016

Top Characteristic Part Six is difficult for many sales people to develop and practice, yet it’s one of the most important of skills to cultivate. And it is: Top Characteristic Part Six: Learn to build rapport before, during and after a sale. Years ago, my first sales manager (my older brother, Peter), taught me an important lesson.

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Referrals Construction Prospecting Conversion 120

Groove.co

MAY 31, 2018

Wondering how to create sales processes that grow with your company? We’re co-hosting an exciting webinar where we’ll take a deep dive into how some of the most successful companies are defining sales processes that foster rapid growth and empower their teams. It’s on Wednesday, June 6 at 11 am PT — come join us!

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Webinar Metrics Sales Process Construction How To 20

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved. Marketing and sales are aligned. Mike Weinberg, The New Sales Coach , Principal. The first is the proliferation of inside sales reps whose job it is to make these calls – taking that responsibility away from account executives.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling B2B Ideal Customer Profile 100

Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2020

From the field to inside sales, from enablement to management, sales has seen its share of change, and savvy pros are always ready to roll with it. That consistency will allow your remote team to shape their day constructively — and maintain a good work-life balance. What do you want to dive deeper on?”. Read the Article.

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Revenue Face-to-face Construction Video 73

Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They once simply executed pricing inside of an ERP pricing matrix, but now they are responsible for analyzing marketing trends, conducting competitive research and sifting through customer buying patterns to determine optimal pricing that drives profitability. And sales reps might like dropping in on important deals.

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Distribution Infor Face-to-face Hiring 97

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Hiring Oracle SalesForce 52

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

In talking with a wide number of sales pros in the last week it hit me that our profession keeps us somewhat isolated. This is what we professional sales coaches do, however, you should be able to find a business professional who you can bounce what you say every day off of just to get THEIR idea. Increase Opportunities.

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Inside Sales Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 215

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 7, 2012

Management, and particularly sales management, operates on and obtains its results from the staff that are managed. Information coming to Sales Managers is of all kinds – from verifiable facts to rumor. Having both the desire and the ability to ornate and develop constructive ideas. • Are great sales managers born or made?

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Policies Face-to-face Inside Sales B2C 35

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. Is it still aligned with the market trends and opportunities?

Revenue 156

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 156

Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Gone are the days when B2B sales were about making a hundred cold calls a day or visiting clients in person. Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. We’re going to help you also understand the B2B sales processes, strategies, and more.

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B2B Top of Funnel Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 134

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 71

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Inside sales. Low-touch sales.

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Top of Funnel Examples Lead Rank ActiveConversion 108

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2013

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. Is it still aligned with the market trends and opportunities?

Revenue 114

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

At the beginning of March, we announced the winners of the 2nd annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards, presented by Bravado. We searched through all of the reasons for nominations we received and picked out the stories about people in sales who do the hard work of elevating the sales profession.

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Hiring Scale Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 96

Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? Though there are influential salespeople who are at different points in their careers, they all have a love for sales and a deep sense of industry knowledge.

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Influencer Industry Hiring Social Media 82

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move? Where do many go wrong?

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Scale Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 81

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Over the past 12 months, I’ve talked with hundreds of sales reps, sales leaders, and ops people about sales process, and a few patterns emerged. In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about mutual action plans, from what they are to how you can use them in your sales process to save time and create more wins.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Forecasting How To 81

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What do complex sales and the radioactive decay rate of atoms have in common? Ask yourself this question, how many opportunities have hit the "half life" and are hiding, decaying in your pipeline? Many call this striking while the iron is hot when opportunity knocks, before dying on the vine. Simplicity emerges.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Pivotal Face-to-face How To LinkedIn 72

Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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Training Revenue Lead Rank Retention 52

Markempa - Inside Sales

JULY 1, 2012

Carrying any mistakes, assumptions or a bad attitude from one call to another is a sure way to miss out on opportunities for qualified sales leads. Whatever was done or said by one decision maker should not affect the next company’s opportunity to have a pleasant, unbiased conversation.

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