Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Prospects do not want to be sold to. To meet these expectations, modern selling leverages new tools and techniques, such as social selling and virtual selling , to achieve the same goal as traditional selling: create more sales conversations and increase win rates. What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Travel Social Media 122

Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Family Visits: A Return to My Roots Having visited my Mum in NZ, I realised there is something incredibly grounding about returning to your roots and having the deeper conversations. Conversations that perhaps for some reason you were never able to have when you were younger.

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Face-to-face Hiring Energy Call-back 195

Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

We used to be limited in the time we could spend with customers by the time it took to travel to meet with the customer. Mobile devices, email, Zoom, and so many other technologies help us reach prospect and customers more easily, eliminating travel time. Other tools helped us with proposals, demos, research.

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Proposal Travel Tools Up-Sell 87

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

Plus, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations. If there ever was a time for real, authentic sales conversations, it’s now. Not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. Do your salespeople?

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Generation Webinar Metrics 279

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Like any marketing or sales tool, promotional products are an investment. Whether you’re trying to attract new talent at a college career fair with a free notebook or get your foot in the door of an enticing prospect with a memorable gift, the best-case scenario is a give-and-take relationship that is established with a physical item.

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Sales Tools Tools Data Wireless 101

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives among this demographic like travel, sales leaders can improve their incentives programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. . Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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Incentives Incentive Motivation Demographics 227

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For sales or marketing professionals, planning go-to-market efforts in Europe and the UK without reliable B2B contact data and software solutions is like traveling without a passport: You’ll spend a lot of time and money, but you won’t get very far. You wouldn’t travel to a foreign country without your passport.

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Data Travel Intent Data Vendor 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives like travel among this demographic, sales leaders can improve their incentive programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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Incentives Incentive Motivation Demographics 227

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Even with the most advanced sales tools available, it’s expensive to sell stuff. It doesn’t matter if you are a hobbyist selling hand-tooled belt buckles on eBay or if you are a multinational corporation moving million-dollar earthmoving machines, the cost of selling is significant. Sales Tools Are Efficiency Tools.

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Margin Sales Tools Tools Sales Qualified Lead 66

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve now created four nurture streams (previously we had just one), segmenting prospects by job title and areas of interest as determined by our BDR team and through progressive profiling. On the other hand, we saved on travel expenses for the handful of employees needed to staff the event, along with the booth set-up costs.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Which are the sales books that will help sales professionals have more conversations and close more sales in 2023? The Objective Anyone of the books on my 55 Best Sales Books List should help you create more conversations, update your sales strategy for the new year, close more deals and/or help you become more successful.

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Paid Content Conversion Top of Funnel Hiring 81

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More than 20 years later, sales professionals are on the verge of another groundshift, this time to sales automation tools. Evidence suggests there will be increased adoption of this software and, similar to CRM, it will change how sales teams prospect and engage with leads.

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Face-to-face Sales Automation Scale CRM 130

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It is not uncommon for sales reps to travel around the world to win prospects with face-to-face meetings. A cold reach out during a tense situation could alienate the prospect forever. Diving deeper into customer data will help accurately measure active demand and allow you to target the most viable prospects in the market.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Chorus.ai

MARCH 26, 2019

As a marketer I've travelled a fair bit — about 16 countries and 30 states in the US, if my count is right. Because as a sales person: You travel much more frequently. Because as a sales person: You travel much more frequently. Conversation intelligence on the go with Chorus Mobile + Smart Playlists. The answer is here!

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Conversion Travel Call-back Hotels 48

Showpad

MARCH 27, 2019

More employees work remotely and travel regularly, making video conferencing, instant messaging, and other technologies a necessity for organizations to operate efficiently. . In response to this new environment, more tools are available on mobile apps. Mobile Sales Tool Definition. Key Benefits of Mobile Sales Tools.

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Sales Tools Sales Enablement Tools Face-to-face 40

Showpad

MARCH 27, 2019

More employees work remotely and travel regularly, making video conferencing, instant messaging, and other technologies a necessity for organizations to operate efficiently. . In response to this new environment, more tools are available on mobile apps. Mobile Sales Tool Definition. Key Benefits of Mobile Sales Tools.

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Sales Tools Sales Enablement Tools Face-to-face 40

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2019

To retain top salespeople, we need to change the conversation around rewards and work. . One way to support them is through AI-powered sales tools. But AI-powered new lead gen tools, such as Salesforce’s Einstein, are replacing customer-mining tasks, leaving salespeople free to pursue prospects and other high-value tasks.

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Lead Rank Incentives Incentive Nonprofit 254

Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

What skills and tools do reps need for success? Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects. Some methods inside sales reps use to engage with prospects include: Phone calls Video conferencing Email Social media Other online channels Conversely, outside sales reps rely on face-to-face conversations.

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Inside Sales Face-to-face Hiring Outside Sales 52

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Because travel is expected, you can anticipate greater compensation. By making a few more call attempts, sales reps can boost conversion rates by up to 70%. Email Marketing Gartner predicts that only 23.9% billion by 2025.

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Ideal Customer Profile Salary Hiring Lead Rank 116

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Data has become one of the most useful tools for both marketers and sales, but the two teams often don’t share this information or optimize it to help each other’s performance. Geotargeting: There’s probably a geographical component to the sales data, including customer locations, opportunities for travel, events, and trade shows.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 289

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2019

Did you know the probability of selling to a new prospect is only 5-20% ? Keep reading to learn how to use a custom landing page and hyper-personalization with your email marketing strategy , so you can beat the bland, copy-cat emails that fill your prospects’ inboxes. Why an Account-Based Marketing Style Wins.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Conversion Leads 73

SBI

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Two years ago, I wrote about the perfect sales tool and included a wish list of capabilities that simply didn’t exist back then. Admittedly, the perfect sales tool will never exist because the needs of sales organizations vary from company to company. The very definition of a perfect sales tool will therefore, be in dispute.

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Sales Tools Tools InsideView Field Sales 139

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It’s no secret, technology has transformed the way businesses communicate with customers and prospects. Modern sales reps rely on a variety of tools and technologies to conduct their work—including email, social media, video chat tools and more. The close rate for in-person meetings is 40% ( source ).

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Face-to-face Sales Process Skype B2B 225

Pipeliner

MARCH 8, 2019

A sales process is “a set of repeatable steps that a salesperson takes to take a prospective buyer from the early stage of awareness to a closed sale,” according to one definition. I recommend using them as teaching tools for Biz-Dev 101. It must precede every planned conversation. Well stated. Baby steps.

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Travel Sales Process Hiring Guidelines 71

The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2017

Those of you who have participated in my events or webinars, know that early on I encourage people who prospect for a living, to take pride in what they do rather than apologize for it. How well we transition that interruption to a conversation determines our success. This is the very reason HUNTERS are at a premium in the sales world.

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Ideal Customer Profile Travel Discount Webinar Metrics 210

Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 9, 2020

Use virtual tools to do more, in less time, with better outcomes Out of necessity, we are moving into a digital world in which almost every step of the sales process involves the use of virtual tools. Virtual sales include integrating all the virtual communication tools, both the synchronous and asynchronous.

Tools 52

Tools Face-to-face Video Channels 52

Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Ways Virtual Selling Can Benefit Your Business Virtual Selling Best Practices and Tips Virtual Selling Tools Virtual Selling Challenges What Is Virtual Selling? Unlike traditional face-to-face interactions, sales reps use digital tools to engage with customers remotely. It’s about doing more selling and less traveling.

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Quota Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile How To 52

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Sales teams need modern tools that deliver continuous learning, micro-learning, and learning in the flow of work. Most content management systems focus on storing just-in-time reference content such as slides, brochures, FAQs, and videos needed to educate prospects. And LMS software simply can’t provide that. Coaching and Feedback.

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Competition Collateral Software Software 117

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

Because Kate has something that Tom doesn’t have: Data — and the tools to wield it. Tom represents the old world of sales, which was limited by location, highly based on geography, and heavily reliant on how well he could persuade his prospects. Conversely, this means that competition is now everywhere. The Rise of Inside Sales.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Inside Sales Outside Sales 147

SendBuzz

APRIL 25, 2023

This reliance on digital solutions allows for more structured processes, less travel for inside sales reps, and easier organization compared to outside sales teams. B2B Inside Sales team commonly uses various communication channels, including phone calls, email, video conferencing, CRM tools such as Hubspot, CLose, ect and social media.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales B2B Face-to-face 52

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

People who work with me know I believe in leaving your product in the car, makes for a better conversation. In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. The whole notion of “lead to, not with,” having the conversation lead to a product question. One of those is thinking.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

A successful traveling salesperson wields the ability to take in their surroundings and use contextual clues to glean what they can about each prospect they interact with. Using these clues, the salesperson then tailors their sales presentation to each prospective customer’s particular wants and needs. Let’s get into it!

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Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Buyer Persona Marketing 150

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sending cold emails, leading prospects through sales calls, and following up all take time and articulation. In this post, we’ve compiled step-by-step instructions for how to write a sales pitch with ChatGPT, plus our favorite ChatGPT pitch prompts to get you started engaging prospects in no time.

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How To Insurance Insurance Travel 83

Close.io

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Which is a shame because LinkedIn is still one of the most powerful sales tools out there, especially if you are in B2B sales or marketing. Knowing this, my company came up with a 6 phase social selling process to help our clients create more sales conversations and build a sales pipeline with qualified leads on LinkedIn.

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Sales Qualified Lead LinkedIn Conversion Strategy 53

Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

And this can make all the difference when it comes to conversion rates. Data-driven marketing personalization also makes your prospects feel special. Here’s how you can use your CRM as an effective tool to personalize your marketing. You can see how many prospects make it from one stage to another and the ones who drop out.

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Campaigns Real Estate Ideal Customer Profile CRM 52