Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2018

More of an art than a science, sales plays a critical role in almost all businesses. Yet, businesses rarely use best practices or proven sales process tips to increase success rates. We undertake this annual exercise not simply to highlight the best sales teams, but to ascertain exactly why they are so successful.

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Quota Sales Process Revelation Lead Rank 55

Chorus.ai

JANUARY 8, 2021

Let’s rewind for a minute and go back to January 2020 when we were reveling in anticipation for the year ahead. New Mobile Apps In today’s world it’s imperative to have quick-access to your sales toolbox right from your handheld device. 2020 was definitely one for the books. Check out more about this amazing update here.

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Revelation Analytics SalesForce Exact 104

SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

mobile tools can ignite productivity, shorten sales cycles, and provide. Reduce the time it takes to respond to a prospect’s interest from hours to seconds. It costs a small fortune to print sales materials and it’s a hassle to lug them around town. If you have a CRM system already, don’t just port it over to a mobile device.

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Collateral Revelation Trends CRM 115

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

Here’s an important, and often overlooked, fact about B2B sales and marketing: Your customer data holds all the keys you need to grow your business. To succeed, you need to trust the data and step into predictive sales. Many sales and marketing leaders try to get cute and overthink their targeting, messaging, content creation, etc.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Customer Lead Rank 76

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2013

We fill our time with activities—email, tweeting, research, CRM, more meetings–some with customers, more email, forecast and pipeline reviews, deal reviews, presentations, conference calls…… The list goes on. We complain about it, we look harried, we feel time pressured, yet we revel in the busyness.

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Revelation Fashion Conference Forecasting 86

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Part of sales is positioning yourself for a good outcome, whether you’re trading Pokémon cards on the playground or selling an analytics platform to digital marketers that lets them gain insight into campaign performance. To position ourselves for a good outcome, I chose to lead the sales team. 1) Improving Sales Conversations.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 98

Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 24, 2018

It is amazing that so many myths and stereotypes about selling and about sales people still resonate with so many folks. In 2018, we are decades removed from the shoeshine, plaid suit, risqué joke and flashy car loaded down with three ring binders of sales collateral. Use CPQ to Identify Prospects. Here’s an example.

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Revelation Engineering Collateral Demographics 48

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. Those that don’t — won’t.

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Ideal Customer Profile How To Churn Face-to-face 85

SalesProInsider

JULY 6, 2017

What do you need to accomplish in your sales efforts? From closing a sale, creating a lead gen campaign, sending a proposal…or even painting a room,; anything you need to get done is easier when you have the right tools…and use them correctly. I know this isn’t a home improvement blog, but this is also true in sales.

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Sales Tools Tools Revelation Lead Gen 60

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

“I need a report… ” is a phrase universally eliciting groans from every sales person—at least the good sales people. Bad sales people revel in these requests, because it means they get a momentary respite from prospecting, meeting with customers, moving deals forward, figuring out how to hit their goals.

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Report Revelation CRM Analysis 48

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” He went on discuss the selling distractions, arguing, “why would a sales person choose to spend their time on admin processes and things like updating CRM?”

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Up-Sell Revelation CRM Buying Cycle 52

OnePageCRM

APRIL 13, 2017

Having a clear understanding of who your customers are, what motivates them and what problems they need solved is the crux of any successful marketing or sales funnel. We sat down with the sales team and looked back over the last 6 months of sales in the CRM. What emerged was a revelation. HR knew the problem.

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Buyer Persona Buyer CRM Data 44

Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device.

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Sales Enablement Industry Marketing Video 62

LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While scanning the subject line, our prospects develop their initial impression of us. We may prevent such scenarios if we follow the following rules: Examine your prospect’s perspective – consider the value that your subject line provides the prospect. It is not designed to introduce the prospect to us or our firm.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Consumer 52