SBI Growth

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When your territory is changed, it opens a lot of questions for Sales Reps. To answer those questions, we built a Territory Evaluator. This downloadable tool helps you evaluate your new territory in relevant terms: Selling time as required to meet quota. Why Territories Change. Where a Sales Rep Should Focus.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

Remember, prospecting is all about people. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in your lead generation system. That’s often a big part of a sales team’s lead generation system, and it requires you to be online. . The Most Important Part of Your Lead Generation System (Hint: It’s Not Technology). People do. .

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I allow myself to get sucked into discussions about CRM systems. CRM has been around for decades, one would think these discussions are a thing of the past. But don’t let their misinformed approaches to CRM limit your ability to maximize your own personal productivity and effectiveness. I’m so stupid.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Why is CRM lead management important? Benefits of Lead Management using Sales CRMs. Like water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink, sometimes businesses feel that there are leads, leads everywhere but not a prospect in sight. Why is CRM lead management important? Hence, CRM lead management plays a crucial role.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You’ve seen article after article telling you why you should implement a CRM , but the last thing you need right now is another piece of software to learn. CRM — or customer relationship management — refers to software that tracks interactions with prospects and customers. Why You Don’t Need a CRM. Image Source: Giphy.

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SugarCRM

MAY 18, 2023

Our previous blog post discussed the core CRM features for sales automation. In this blog post, we’ll touch on the key features of lead management within a CRM. So, let’s dive into the lead management features that can make or break a CRM. This includes simple execution and tracking features.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

A simple CRM can’t handle this level of complexity. It might sound like a simple task, but choosing an enterprise CRM solution is difficult. More often than not, companies end up with overly complicated systems that actually add more friction and complexity to the company. What is an enterprise CRM software?

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SBI

JULY 24, 2018

Sales reps love their CRM. Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. Sales reps do not love their CRM and see little value in it. Sales automation (CRM).

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

CRM worlds about compliance. Millions are invested in new systems–supposedly. Basically compliance is measuring, “are people using the system?” Reporting on who has signed into the system, how many times they’ve logged in and all the related measures are meaningless.

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Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2022

But unreliable data spread across siloed, disconnected systems too often impedes a team’s ability to achieve its revenue goals. Application programming interfaces (APIs) make it easy to connect revenue teams with high-quality data across multiple systems. That’s the value of ZoomInfo’s Enterprise API technology.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There are meetings to develop and execute strategies to respond to specific customer and prospect issues. For example, an issue in 100% of the clients I work with is CRM compliance. CRM has been in place for at least 30 years, and it’s stunning to see that CRM compliance is still a dominant issue.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But they can cause lead routing problems, inconsistencies within a customer relationship management (CRM) system, and most importantly, missed deals. Data Flows Among Tech Stack Layers Data flows through the three layers of the sales tech stack : Intelligence layer, where first- and third-party sources feed data into the system.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The more mature a business gets, and the more complex the prospective customer’s needs are, the more challenging it is to maintain that speedy response and personalized touch. Lead routing helps make sure the right prospects reach the right people, and at the right time, saving your business time and resources.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here are 10 ways you can improve your sales process optimization process by utilizing data from the CRM system. CRM is changing, and it’s going to be a big focuses in the future. Sales region / territory. Then work with these metrics across your CRM data to find trends. This will help you maximize revenue.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. Are you territory based or open territories? First, it depends.

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Pipeliner

JULY 23, 2022

The more critical and complex type of navigation is developing the skill for exploring unknown territory. The difference between “known” and heuristic navigation is the difference between Pipeliner CRM and other CRM systems. These are then programmed into the CRM as known objectives. Not Knowing. Responsibility.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Some examples are: ‘Friends’ within the customer/prospect.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Territories 120

SBI Growth

APRIL 21, 2013

He gets protective of “gray area prospects” who stretch across several regions. Every time there’s a territory rezoning he bellyaches. Or If you chop up my territory, I’ll look somewhere else. Because of this, prospects and existing customers don’t get the same level of service. CRM adoption? He is spread too thin.

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

Tom is pitching to you because his office is based a few blocks away from your house and your street happens to fall within his territory. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

By having a specific set of criteria reps should look for when qualifying leads, along with a consistent set of questions they can ask in initial sales calls, reps will be more prepared walking into their initial conversations with prospects, and can feel more confident when pursuing the right leads for their offer. Territory Management.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 3, 2014

Ken spent the day talking with customers, partners, and prospective customers about the ins and outs of remote, professional selling – also known as “inside sales” Here are some of my favorite takeaways in no particular order – just things that make you think a bit as you grow your sales career. L list / leads.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today I’m here to talk to you about something that we are hearing a lot from our customers and prospects. You have, of course, your CRM. You have content management systems, you have conversation and revenue intelligence tools, you have sales engagement tools for SDRs, and you have sales forecasting.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 8, 2020

While there is no one way to sell anything, a sales process helps to move your prospects through the funnel. In this section, your activities should focus on asking qualification questions and updating lead status in the CRM. The most important thing is that you are capturing the right information about leads in your CRM.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Few projects can have as big of an impact on your company as a successful Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation. And as you might suspect, planning a CRM project takes a combination of skills that go beyond most other IT projects. Maybe your CRM project is simply about increasing your product usage by unhappy customers.

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SugarCRM

MARCH 5, 2019

Few projects can have as big of an impact on your company as a successful Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation. And as you might suspect, planning a CRM project takes a combination of skills that go beyond most other IT projects. This is a tall order because CRM projects are truly unique amongst all other IT projects.

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CRM Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring 47

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth. Many avoid prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a sales professional, the rate at which you’re expected to guide prospects through the sales process and drive revenue for your company is likely increasing. In fact, doing so can help salespeople reach more prospects in less time and close more deals at a faster rate. HubSpot CRM. Best for: CRM that grows with your company.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

Most of these systems also come with the promise of automating mundane, repetitive tasks that make go-to-market teams more productive. gives ZoomInfo customers the ability to listen to and detect interesting activity on their websites, then engage with prospective buyers through intelligent chat experiences. Why We’re Acquiring Insent.ai

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Lead Rank 100

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

It will also ensure you have a solid foundation for growth, reducing the need to fix broken systems and bad habits later on. Where to Start: CRM. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM. This person will administer the system and maintain the database. Go-to-market strategy.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

CRM systems provide a place for contact, customer and activity reporting. Sales reps that don’t use CRM need to understand that this is not acceptable any more. More companies are adopting a policy that if something isn’t in CRM, it isn’t real. Daily discussions with prospects and customers are recorded.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. Systems Enhancement. A media organization recently created home grown CRM system. Accounts had to be entered in both systems, which required double the reporting. The homegrown system worked for tracking time and activity.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

Or are your field sales reps handling deals from start to finish within their assigned territories? Two salespeople might contact the same number of prospects. However, say one of those reps researches her prospects, writes personalized emails, incorporates trigger events, and crafts individual value propositions.

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Revenue Proposal SalesForce Lead Rank 122

Increase Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Most outside salespeople would tell you their most important priorities are finding qualified sales leads, getting in front of those prospects, closing the sale, and maintaining customer relationships. Two of the biggest time gobblers are schedule planning and administration, such as making sure the CRM system is up to date.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

So in addition to having multiple records for the same companies (both prospects and clients), there is another big area of bad data – as follows: Contact person is no longer with the company. Finally there are companies in the CRM system who: Have been acquired and now have another name. Contact person got promoted.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 23, 2023

Benefits of sales automation With a good sales automation system in place, your team can do more in less time while ensuring a consistent, streamlined sales process. You can use automated tools to quickly surface qualified prospects so that you can save time on research and instead focus on engaging with prospects and closing deals.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 5, 2021

Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. For the better part of my career as a CRO, I was frustrated with the quality of my CRM data. Neither the quantity nor the quality. Not the depth nor the breadth.

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