DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2019

“But actually that ‘noise’ is a powerful tool to target the right accounts – that is, if you know the tech stack of your target accounts ,” says DiscoverOrg’s Senior Manager of Sales Development. Own win rate increases by 300% when we know key parts of a prospect’s technology stack. Sales enablement software.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 17, 2014

How many of us studied sales in college? But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 17, 2016

Any sales professional who says it’s easy to keep up communication on social networks is either lying or doing it incorrectly. Your marketing department can help by providing relevant content to the sales team. But sales reps have work to do as well. But sales reps have work to do as well. Well, sales is not a party.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding. Sales Onboarding.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2022

Revenue intelligence sounds like a dream come true for any sales leader. Of course, you want more intelligence about how to predict and grow revenue. Behind its shiny wrapper and market buzz, we’ve boiled down revenue intelligence into four fundamental elements that actually matter to sales teams.

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Costello

JULY 23, 2018

Armen Zildjian, VP Sales, Drift. As you may have seen in our first collection of People > Processes articles, we featured mostly individual quota bearing sales professionals who serve their prospective customers relentlessly. He was able to experience sales firsthand and also saw how technology could intersect with sales.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. So, start clearing your schedule, and get ready for the best week of your sales career! COST : Nada.

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Groove.co

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Thanks to a new study by Beagle Research Group and Oracle , we now know that sellers would rather clean bathrooms and go to the DMV than update their CRM. Focus on what matters: building relationships When you got into sales, you probably had no idea just how much time you’d spend every day sending emails and booking meetings.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. What is a sales forecast? Of course, sales forecasts can also be woefully incorrect.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 10, 2015

You probably get a lot of the same prospecting emails that I get. Whether it’s someone trolling groups in LinkedIn, or somehow they’ve gotten your email address, I get dozens of prospecting letters each week. I see lots of sales people making huge mistakes with their use of references and prospecting value propositions.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Scott Armour. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The Flip Between Sales and Marketing [29:09]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scott has had a multi-decade career specializing in building and scaling sales organizations. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Prior to joining ITSMA in 1995, Dave held field marketing and sales positions with Oracle and Apple and started his career in 1984 as a market research analyst at The Ledgeway Group, now part of Gartner Group. Marketing Sales Alignment: The Benefits of a More Active Role for Marketing.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

If you're in sales or marketing, I'm willing to bet you answered 'no' to that question. Nowadays, a good scheduler has powerful sales integrations. Sales automation tools (ex. Provide transparency and flexibility for your team or prospects to schedule with you when they see you're free. Sales dialer. Beast mode.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Jordan Arogeti. Meka Asonye.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 1, 2022

Tools for sales reps can keep data on your customers readily available so your company can make decisions based on facts, not hopes or guesses. An educated sales department is a successful sales department. However, there are so many sales tools out there it can be tough to narrow down which ones are right for your company.

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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. Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! The folly of Sales 2.0 Let me make my case.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I posted this article about why sales cold calling is so bad. A new book on sales, How to Close Deals Like Warren Buffett , was launched today. Now they reveal the deal-making secrets of the Oracle of Omaha including 101 top deal-making maxims from a legend in his own time.

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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. What were some of her biggest takeaways from her incredible 16 year journey with Oracle? How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I posted this article about why cold calls are so bad. A new book on sales, How to Close Deals Like Warren Buffett , was launched today. Now they reveal the deal-making secrets of the Oracle of Omaha including 101 top deal-making maxims from a legend in his own time.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! The same calculus especially applies the sales team. In contrast, unleash a team of smart sales reps and success pours like rain. DoubleDigit Sales. RAIN Group.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

More important: Those 303 hours of social browsing are sales opportunities for you. Social selling is when sales professionals use their social network to communicate with prospects and develop relationships to solve problems and achieve sales goals. If you’re not, your prospects are wondering why.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Today, companies of all shapes and sizes still lack the technology needed to support their outside sales teams effectively. This article will cover inside vs. outside sales CRMs; the biggest challenges for outside sales reps, their leaders, and managers; time management; quota attainment; and outside sales technology.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 21, 2022

Strong communication skills will serve you well in any industry, but they’re especially crucial in the sales world. And establishing synergy among teams is really essential if you’re hoping to optimize sales outcomes and meet or exceed all of your sales targets. Sales and marketing? Tony : for a business to be effective.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2019

My team and I interviewed 50+ sales leaders at companies like Dell, Workday, Oracle, and Cornerstone. Based on what we learned, it’s clear the best sales teams practice proactive disqualification (DQ). In short, disqualifying prospects as soon as it’s clear the deal won’t close. An Overview of Proactive Ongoing DQ.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

More important: Those 303 hours of social browsing are sales opportunities for you. Social selling is when sales professionals use their social network to communicate with prospects and develop relationships to solve problems and achieve sales goals. If you’re not, your prospects are wondering why.

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Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Steve is an experienced leader in CRM and Sales Force Automation with a strong sales background obviously. To which type of sales does MEDDPICC® apply best? Steve : This is Outside Sales Talk, the best podcast for Outside Salespeople. Welcome back to Outside Sales Talk today. Why was MEDDIC Academy created?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris walks us through his habits, his principles, and his system for enterprise sales. Staffing a team of field sales, inside sales, and sales engineers in lockstep.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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Sales Hacker Training

MAY 12, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Patrik Svanström , Vice President of EMEA sales for Datadog. The questions a company or a sales team needs to answer in order to build an effective, adapted, and scalable go-to-market motion. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. sales-hacker to try it for yourself.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

CRM Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms aren’t strictly sales tools. Of course, some CRMs are more useful than others. In addition, mobile management features let you track ticket sales from any location. These tools answer top-of-mind marketing questions, such as: How are prospects finding my website?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms aren’t strictly sales tools. Of course, some CRMs are more useful than others. In addition, mobile management features let you track ticket sales from any location. These tools answer top-of-mind marketing questions, such as: How are prospects finding my website?

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Here are the best sales blogs in Slideshare form, or below the presentation are all the individual sales blogs with a little more detail. Sales Hacker.

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