Crunchbase

MAY 3, 2021

Once you’ve narrowed down your customer list to those getting the most value from your product, it’s time to go trend spotting. Here are a few sample questions you can ask in these interviews to better understand the people and reasoning behind purchasing decisions: Why did you decide to purchase our solution?

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Qualification Territories 130

SBI

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Nancy: What’s the most important thing that today’s business decision-makers should look for (or ask, or consider, or solve)? Al: The biggest question today’s business decision-makers should ask themselves is – do we really understand our customers? Today, more companies rely on a networked approach.

Up-Sell 130

Up-Sell Decision Maker Forecasting Revenue 130

criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Consider what products and services they buy, their budgets, and your points of contact – both decision-makers and influencers. Does your solution align with market trends? Is there an opportunity for expansion, such as a new territory or a complementary offering? Here’s a simple example….

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Trade Show 98

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2016

Salespeople comb LinkedIn, check their rolodex of former clients, and pay attention to what’s going on in their territory in order to identify potential opportunities and contacts. For example, I receive daily alerts on new projects and trends within the CRM and SaaS spheres. What else can I do to spot sales “triggers”?

Lead Rank 120

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 120

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Expansion to new territories is never easy, but the coronavirus is providing a wakeup call for enterprises and established companies to start looking at how customers say they prefer you to sell to them. While that can feel like a B2C trend, your B2B shoppers and targets are doing much the same thing.

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Outsourcing Services Company Scale Transportation 67

SugarCRM

MAY 11, 2023

Product sales analysis, which involves the examination of product and sales data at the item level, can help manufacturers identify trends and opportunities that may otherwise go unnoticed. Shortening the Sales Cycle With Quotation, Proposal, and Contract Management Tools Manufacturers are often challenged by long and complex sales cycles.

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Industry CRM Construction Lead Rank 26

InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

But key steps in the sales process as well as best practices are quickly forgotten once a rep is immersed in their territory. . Your guided selling solution could prompt them to schedule a follow up meeting, engage with a decision maker or acknowledge it’s the dates are off and push the close date to reflect the true status. .

Scale 71

Scale Decision Maker Buying Cycle Up-Sell 71

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Inaccurate sales commissions paid in arrears, along with unfair territories, drive attrition — but replacing sales reps is disruptive and expensive. Meta on Data-Driven Decisions. But these are early days for data-driven decision makers, so stay humble and teachable. Reps who can address broader issues are more valued.

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Sales Enablement Data Hiring Decision Maker 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

You’ll be able to speak to any decision maker at any level about how you tie into what’s important to them. These require more investigation, but are useful in sensing a company’s general trend. As time goes by, you begin to figure out which signal creates success for you in your territory. General news.

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Hiring Promotion Sales Cycle Territories 92

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

Static Account Properties: region, territory, owner, custom properties, etc. Activities Required to Reach the Decision-Maker. Do you know how many meetings it takes to engage the decision-maker ? . Open opportunities closing this year with no decision-maker . Take Advantage of the Data!

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 62

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

Then search for the newly-hired decision maker, and send your pitch. Here are some Twitter lists you might want to create: Prospects within your territory that you want to keep tabs on. Bloggers and media that report on companies in your territory so you can find out about new companies. CareerBuilder. Zip Recruiter.

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Prospecting Hiring Journal Territories 78

Closer's Coffee

MAY 28, 2019

Now it involves technology, talent assessments, hiring and developing, consulting sales performance, competency design, compensation design, and territory realignment. Have there been any trends that you’re noticing in sales recently? Who’s the decision maker? Who is the economic buyer?

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Sports Hiring Trends Decision Maker 72

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And they don’t publish press releases proclaiming strategic expansions into a new sales territory, and they need new headcount to work that new territory. Understanding the context that surrounds business purchase decisions can help sales teams use the right language, sales approach, and emotion to tell the story.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Gatekeeper: Person in charge of communicating or preventing information from reaching a decision-maker; for example, receptionists or personal assistants. Decision-maker: The person in charge of making a final decision on the sale. Does the prospect fall within my territory? Goal: Get to a connect.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 142

Close.io

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Ability to communicate with Fortune 100 decision makers (typically SVP level+) [adjust this to whoever your buying persona is]. You enjoy the challenge of expanding new territory and executing a land-and-expand strategy. Ability to manage complex sales cycles. Confidence selling in both 1:1 and 1:many situations. A team player.

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Inside Sales Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 91

SBI

MARCH 18, 2015

Nancy: What’s the most important thing that today’s business decision-makers should look for (or ask, or consider, or solve)? Business leaders are inundated with information, including a plethora of reports and dashboards that claim to automate decision making. .:

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Up-Sell Revenue Sales Forecasts Forecasting 50

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

We may have account and territory goals/metrics. We have to look at our historical performance and trends in that performance. Look at trends in what you are selling–product categories, deal sizes and so forth. What trends/issues do we see in partner performance? Look at longer term trends.

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Quota Trends Churn Maximizer 92

Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a recent Emissary survey of executive-level tech buyers, 85% of recent, major tech purchases included a non-technical buyer with major influence over the final decision. But as you take a more vertical approach, you may need to include business-oriented decision makers. Vertical marketing best practice #6.

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Marketing Strategy Collateral Case Study 52

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

They should focus on history, solid data and previous trends as these will help you better understand what may happen. Sales reps and managers have a broader view of the pipeline than just their territory. Ask your reps about the quality of their leads, who they are targeting and how much time is spent with each decision-maker.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 98

Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

Focusing on the last five years, we’ve seen a trend in role specialization. You’ll find BDR/SDR roles reporting into Marketing about as often as to Sales, but the growing trend is moving them out of marketing and into sales. They reject leads that aren’t ready to buy today or where the Decision Maker isn’t served up perfectly.

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Inside Sales Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 31

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

My territory / opportunities are too small. This sales cycle involves too many decision makers and obstacles. Inbound marketing is the hot new trend. Our Targets Are Ridiculously High. Variants : My quota is insane. Our goals are unattainable. The objectives are unrealistic. Our sales manager is living on another planet.

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Ideal Customer Profile Cold Calling Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 86

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

When sellers can simply work from the reliable data in their CRM, they can reverse the trend of increasing overhead and get back to what they do best — selling. When the right decision-makers aren’t being targeted with a comprehensive sales approach, your deal loss rate increases and revenue suffers.

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Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Scale Lead Rank 130

HeavyHitter Sales

APRIL 16, 2009

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Furthermore, you should consider it a personal insult when a deal goes down in your territory that you aren’t aware of. Do you have the wherewithal to reach key decision makers? Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon.

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Penetration Decision Maker Sales Guarantee 60

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Productmarket-fit evaluation is essential to your go-to market strategy in any new territory you want to enter. Field sales (Account Executives) are what you need for high touch, complex B2B sales to larger enterprises where there is a greater chance of multiple decision-makers involved. Building a repeatable sales model.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Hiring Lead Rank 52

SalesLoft

JUNE 18, 2019

So what would happen was, we would come on to a job site and all the other reps would go straight to the ‘decision maker.’ John: There’s a whole trend right now going on in sales with design thinking. I love power tools, I worked with power tools, but I wasn’t a construction worker. But I pushed back.

Construction 45

Construction Call-back Up-Sell Tools 45

Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

This desire to be connected, and the availability of powerful Smartphones connected over fast wireless networks has laid the groundwork for a rapidly emerging trend in sales management; a fundamental shift to in the moment management of agile field forces powered by real-time, location based activity streams. Forms on the Fly.

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Coaching Wireless Retail Field Sales 41

Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

This data is also helpful in forecasting how current processes will hold up to emerging trends. Parsing out territories. The assignment of territories to individual sales representatives is a significant function often relegated to the sales ops managers. Setting sales strategy. Sales team structure. Enhance communications.

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Sales Operations Company Territories Sales Qualified Lead 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 8, 2018

You finally found a direct phone number for the perfect decision-maker – AND a hot tip that the company finally got funding in place to purchase a solution like yours. Welcome to Definite Creeper territory, where overzealous salespeople can easily tip their hand too much and make target buyers feel like they’re being stalked.

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Cold Calling Intent Data Prospecting Intent 241

SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation.

Up-Sell 135

Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 135

SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

So what would happen was, we would come on to a job site and all the other reps would go straight to the ‘decision maker.’ John: There’s a whole trend right now going on in sales with design thinking. I love power tools, I worked with power tools, but I wasn’t a construction worker. But I pushed back.

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Hiring Up-Sell Call-back Construction 63

Salesmate

MARCH 17, 2020

Or maybe you are planning to expand your startup and are gearing up to explore the unknown territory. It doesn’t matter if you are a B2B business, the decision-makers are individuals. Having the right profile helps you and your team create better messages that can be shared with these decision-makers on the right channels.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Lead Rank 125

Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

The big question for businesses is whether the trends we’ve witnessed in the 2020s so far will stick around for the long haul. The general day-to-day duties of an outside sales rep include: Traveling within various sales territories to meet prospects. Or, meeting prospects via call or video. Could your sales team be performing better?

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 97

SBI

APRIL 28, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation.

Up-Sell 54

Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 54

SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

We enable organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process by identifying the right leads, ensuring proper territory and quota distribution, enabling sales forces, automating quote and proposal generation, and streamlining sales compensation.

Up-Sell 50

Up-Sell Closing Lead Generation Revenue 50

Artesian Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2018

Likewise monitoring hashtags can help identify people and companies that are associated with a topic, trend or concept in the markets you serve. If they are launching a new product/service or entering a new market the company is venturing into uncharted territory, and this calls for different types of support and potentially new vendors.

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Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To 40

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

That’s because a lot of inside sales reps work with lower-value or smaller-scale products, so they can close a deal in little time and with less input from decision-makers. Generally speaking, inside sales have a shorter sales cycle. On the other hand, outside sales tend towards much longer sales cycles.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Scale Lead Rank 52

SugarCRM

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The data within this system is shared information for sales, customer service, and decision-makers. It’s the glue that binds together sales operations and helps your business grow by providing targeted information about accounts and customer trends. This can help decision-makers react directly to customer needs and wants.

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CRM SugarCRM Scale Enterprise 29