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What 15K Demos per Year Taught Us About Converting Inbound Sales Leads

DiscoverOrg Sales

I’m now responsible for training, daily coaching, revenue – and my team hitting our numbers. We have the following goals for each SDR: 40 dials per day to inbound leads. 90-second “speed to lead” response time. Schedule same-day or next-day demos (much higher chance of them showing up). Hot lead qualification.

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Sales Reps Not Closing Sales? Try This

No More Cold Calling

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. They just gave a demo and the standard pitch. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. The Only Fail-Proof Prospecting System.

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10 Sales Training Topics to Help Your Team Get (and Stay) Sales Ready

Mindtickle

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers.

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5 Ways AI Is Transforming Sales Enablement

Allego

This article originally appeared in Training Industry. In addition, McKinsey analysts say, “AI can boost sales effectiveness and performance by offloading and automating many mundane sales activities, freeing up capacity to spend more time with customers and prospective customers (while reducing cost to serve).”

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10 Creative Examples of How to Use AI in Sales

Allego

Here’s how: Sales Prospecting: AI streamlines the way sales teams identify and score potential leads. By analyzing large sets of data, AI algorithms can quickly identify patterns and characteristics of ideal customers to make the prospecting process more accurate and less time-consuming.

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Stop Your AEs from Ruining Your Outbound Demos – An Actionable Guide

Sales Hacker

Let’s explore how to run top-notch discovery calls and avoid the biggest outbound prospecting mistakes AEs are making. I previously wrote a Sales Hacker article deconstructing Lead Qualification , where we explained the Buyer’s Journey, overlaid with human psychology and the “P-MAP” qualification criteria.

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

Number of opportunities Sales velocity opportunities do not equal the total number of leads. Opportunities are those prospects that have been qualified by your sales team. Qualified leads meet criteria such as having the budget or buying authority for your product or service. Get a demo What is a good sales velocity?