The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. Many will remember the 2016 buzzer beater Kris Jenkins of Villanova scored to win the championship. The crowd was excited, a once in a lifetime shot. But was it? Do a little digging and you’ll find that the buzzer beater was part of every practice. At the end of the practice so people would be as exhausted at the end of a game. Leave nothing to chance, prepare for every know or “should have known” scenario.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Lead generation is what drives growth for businesses around the world. But, let’s be honest. Lead generation is pointless if it doesn’t result in a prospect and a conversion. Before we dive into how to drive conversions, let’s first unpack the difference between a lead and a prospect, and how to turn one into the other. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data.

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Predictable Revenue

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Poor hiring processes play a big role in the inability to hire timely or correctly. We’d love to show you our hiring process so you have the right tools at the tip of your hands to start hiring for success. The post How To Hire Top Performing SDRs appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As a sales manager, here’s an easy concept to get your head around: sales performance improves when sales managers set clear expectations with each salesperson. Think about it, when sellers know what to do—and managers establish performance tracking metrics and leading indicators to monitor progress—life becomes easier for all involved. Simply put, when life is easier for a salesperson, they perform at a higher level.

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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unique partnership enables a faster, more flexible approach to sales training and enablement. SEATTLE, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that improves sales performance, today announced an expanded partnership with Corporate Visions , the leading provider of science-backed training and consulting services. Joint customers can now use the first-of-its-kind Highspot Marketplace to bring Corporate Visions’ expertise directly into their Highspot environments,

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Image by Karolina Grabowska: CC0 Licence. Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Our collaborative Blog offers valuable insights on, ‘Shady Dealings: The truth about why no one trusts your current e-commerce store.’. Integrity and trust are the essentials of all business and everything else that we do. The two elements forecast our outcome; done well, we will find success.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

powered by Sounder. And the key attributes of modern RevOps leaders are…. They’ve got to be boundary spanning. They’ve also got to bring that collaborative mindset to the entire organization. In this episode, we interview Anthony McPartlin , Principal Analyst at Forrester , about pushing the collaborative process around research creation out to the go-to-market function as a whole.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome to The Adapter’s Advantage : Breakthrough Moments that Lead to Success. Kate Holmes CFP, founder of Innovating Advice, consults with financial services professionals globally. In episode 33, she shares how she collaborates with her clients, the importance of pushing through your fears, and her advice for forward-thinking financial advisors.

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One of a Kind Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I recently read something that suggested “…the ideal sales training program should accompany a new rep through his or her first months on the job, lasting at least 90 days and as long as a year or more.”(1) Yes, this is a good start but in our extensive experience, we have found that ONGOING sales […]. The post The Importance of Ongoing Sales Training appeared first on One of a Kind Sales.

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Selling Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you are hoping to redefine and supercharge your value proposition, you’ll want to consider bringing up non-utility-cost financial benefits. As just one example, how many people trying to sell energy-related solutions actually take the time to quantify and monetize the value of improved productivity? All too often I hear a “salesperson” (as opposed to “sales professional”) say, “I told them it would make their people happier and more productive, but they seemed unimpressed.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

My friend Rene Voorhorst and I were having one of our periodic conversations. He’s been leading his team through a remarkable journey. We were talking about an initiative focused on deepening the strategic insights and value with their major customers. He relayed a story from one of his people. This salesperson was in a meeting with a customer, they were talking about a business strategy the customer was looking to implement.

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Close

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Imagine this: Your target customer signs up for emails and follows the sales funnel all the way to the end without issues. Great, right? Successful customer onboarding doesn't happen by accident. Here are some email tactics that optimize retention.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Not long ago, I was speaking with the executive team of a fairly large company. A frustrated CRO had invited me to help, he was struggling to drive some major changes in their go to customer strategies but wasn’t getting executive support. As timing would have it, the meeting was scheduled a few days after they had announced record growth, both in comparing YoY performance and current year growth.

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Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Too many retail brands are still using antiquated learning methods in their retail training, leading to sales associates not retaining information. Incorrect retail training contributes to the enormous turnover rate, which is almost twice that of the general labor force. Retail Training, unfortunately, often takes on the “data-dump” style of learning where sales associates are […].

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales training topics that actually get results can be challenging to nail down. There is the hard sales skills V soft sales skills debate not to mention social selling, customer profiling, outreach tactics and all the steps in the sales process. Still, research shows that expertise, talent, and the sales experience remains the top reason buyers choose a supplier.

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Awarathon

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Publish by: Sagar Pradhan, Growth MarketerPublish on: 10th Nov 2021 Are you ready for the next new normal? At many companies, the sales readiness technology has been either an ad-hoc, conservative scramble or an overly structured, formal coaching program where knowledge is assigned to sales reps in one go and quickly overlooked. Sales readiness has […].

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ClozeLoop

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ClozeLoop's B2B Sales blog keeps you up to date with the latest in sales management, sales techniques, and sales enablement. View our amazing post " Stop Creating So Much Content! Start Promoting it with Farzad Rashidi" by Hilmon Sorey.

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Apptivo

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Apptivo is pleased to announce the newest upgrades in our All-In-One iOS application’s latest version 6.3.9 in the App Store. This iOS release is mostly concerned with UI stability and security action upgrades. Apptivo has been continuously upgrading our applications in multiple platforms to ensure that they remain stable and accessible across all platforms seamlessly.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this Expert Insight Interview, Adeyinka Adegbenle discusses excellence in leadership and why finding your purpose is key to living a fulfilled life. Adeyinka Adegbenle is a former financial service professional, who became an author, excellence strategist, and coach. She is the author of Joab, King David’s Top General: Essential Lessons on Character.

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Vendor Neutral

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Want to increase the sales productivity of your team in a rapidly shifting sales landscape? Here are 10 tips to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and efficacy.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales are, first and foremost, about solving problems for people. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Amanda Abella, founder and CEO of Make Money Your Honey, a marketing and sales training company. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. The post 🎧 Sales Skills – Why you Need Them appeared first on SalesPOP!

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Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Marketers used to spend an incredible amount of time on tactical activities that are incredibly time-consuming and often quite ineffective. These activities were generally done in different systems and then combined manually to execute a campaign. The results varied and were difficult to measure accurately. To impact the quality and quantity of the leads marketing is delivering to sales, a marketer needs a complete marketing automation platform, which offers concrete solutions to the most common

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Eyeful Presentations

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Like any business worth its salt, Eyeful is passionate about its people. Combined, our Eyefulites provide the energy, expertise, passion, courage and commitment that keeps us growing at a remarkable pace. They ensure every customer feels special. They make the difference to ensure that every engagement with Eyeful is a positive one, from an email with a quick question, a call to discuss a project or a chat about Eyeful Credits with one of the finance team.

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s an issue as old as knowledge management itself: how do we know if our knowledge management process is succeeding? Measuring the success of knowledge management efforts can be tricky because of how abstract and intangible knowledge can be. But, if you’ve put in a lot of time, money, and effort into your company’s knowledge management strategy, it’s important to know whether the investment is paying off and has a positive and valuable impact on the business.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

??. In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Gianna Scorsone , GM/Head of North America at Aircall , where she lives out her dream to scale the channel program and to empower diverse employees and leaders. Join us for a rich conversation about answering to your employees and hearing their need for flexible return-to-work options. powered by Sounder.

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Appbuddy

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Our latest State of Email Live webinar featured another fantastic lineup of guests, including Kostas Karagkounis from Emarsys, Antony Humphreys from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (a valued Validity customer!), and Validity’s own Tori Garcia. We discussed the upcoming peak sales season , which is not only getting busier—it’s getting longer.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Henry Ford once said that “stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time” In order to generate enough money to keep your marketing campaigns going, though, it’s essential to make sure that you are achieving a healthy ROI for your efforts. To help you make the most out of your company’s marketing budget, here are five proven marketing strategies that are sure to boost your ROI.

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