The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Chalen Schoyer, Principal Sales Engineer at Spiff “Be confident in your negotiations. Whether that’s within a sales cycle or negotiating salary/benefits. Confidence comes from doing your research and knowing the market value. Erica Bukowski, Inside Sales at Evolve Vacation Rentals “Make the phone call.

Negotiation 69

Negotiation Face-to-face Hiring Lead Rank 69

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Obtaining a ton of qualified inbound leads can be a blessing for your sales team – provided they are enabled and opportunistic enough to take advantage of them. My former Ambition colleague Dan Nice once compared B2B sales and marketing teams to Allied Forces storming Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion.

Inbound 74

Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank B2B 74

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Cloudera has enterprise customers in every vertical market including financial services, public sector, telecommunications, retail, and healthcare. The company has been scaling rapidly, and in just three years has grown its sales operations from a team of 11 reps based in North America to almost 200 reps globally. Onboarding.

Sales Enablement 52

Sales Enablement Conversion Hiring Webinar Metrics 52

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Cloudera has enterprise customers in every vertical market including financial services, public sector, telecommunications, retail, and healthcare. The company has been scaling rapidly, and in just three years has grown its sales operations from a team of 11 reps based in North America to almost 200 reps globally. Onboarding.

Sales Enablement 52

Sales Enablement Conversion Hiring Webinar Metrics 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

But what does the structure of a B2B sales organization look like as we enter the next decade? What focus areas should Chief Revenue Officers be asking themselves as they plan out go-to-market motions. But before we do, let’s examine where things go wrong and address perhaps the most challenging problem sales leaders face: turnover.

B2B 200

B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 200

Keith Rosen

MAY 4, 2020

That includes managers in operations, marketing, finance, engineering, design, social media, accounting, procurement, inside sales, enablement, learning and development, and let me know if I’m missing any departments that may be unique to your business.” ” Jamie reflected. ” I asked.

Coaching 77

Coaching Course Retention Engineering 77

SalesHandy

APRIL 11, 2020

Here are the 13 tweaks and optimizations you can make to your current sales process to speed up your sales cycle in an effective way: 1) Generate more leads from best performing channels. It could be your product landing page, CTAs on blogs, social media, marketing emails, etc. 2) Have a tightly defined sales process.

Sales Cycle 52

Sales Cycle Top of Funnel Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead 52

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

Paid Content 98

Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 9, 2013

We create “functional units” in our businesses, sales, marketing, product management, customer service, and so on. We sales guys always like to blame the product guys for missing a launch date, or we blame the marketing guys for not generating enough demand. We know how to manage these things.

Energy 76

Energy Demand Generation Agencies Quota Engineering 76

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

But what does the structure of a B2B sales organization look like as we enter the next decade? What focus areas should Chief Revenue Officers be asking themselves as they plan out go-to-market motions. But before we do, let’s examine where things go wrong and address perhaps the most challenging problem sales leaders face: turnover.

B2B 100

B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 100

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

Paid Content 133

Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 133

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

How to reassess the market for now and for later. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to reassess the market for now and for later [31:43]. We’re about a $3 billion market cap company in the human resources space. But it wasn’t as a sales rep. Why don’t you run sales operations?”

SalesForce 78

SalesForce Video Call-back LinkedIn 78

Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers.

B2B 134

B2B Top of Funnel Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 134

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Each of these pillars represents the critical parts of sales and are the only areas leadership can control to move the number. Strategy: What’s the go to market strategy? Has the strategy taken into consideration the market opportunities and competitive challenges? Is it still aligned with the market trends and opportunities?

Revenue 156

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 156

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Alt – Marketing Campaigns Manager at Outreach. Lauren is an email marketing wiz and always has a trick or two up her sleeve to share with her sales colleagues. Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

Webinar Metrics 11

Webinar Metrics Cold Calling Marketo Hiring 11

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

Intended audience: Are you in the relevant industry, market, or role? On-Site Sales Training Programs. According to Hughes, “salespeople become ‘micro-marketers’ who personally own the process of creating sales pipeline.”. Online Sales Training Programs. 21st Century Sales Training for Elite Performance.

Training 144

Training Vendor Top of Funnel Workbooks 144

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Interacting with humans intelligently.The Need for Artificial Intelligence in Sales The Need for Artificial Intelligence in Sales An estimated 33% of an inside sales rep’s time is spent actively selling. Artificial intelligence presents a compelling opportunity to improve this stat and level up your sales operation.

Forecasting 111

Forecasting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hubspot 111

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Each of these pillars represents the critical parts of sales and are the only focused areas sales leadership controls that can move the number. Strategy: What’s the go to market strategy? Has the strategy taken into consideration the market opportunities and the competitive challenges? Do you have one at all?

Revenue 114

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Best-selling author of Embrace Your Edge, Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

Hiring 130

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move?

Scale 81

Scale Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 81

Markempa - Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For example, Corporate Visions recently surveyed 500 B2B marketers and sales professionals that 20% of organization content creators “just do what they think is best” with no overarching structure at all. How do you get internal collaboration to improve sales performance? It’s the new buyer.

Sales Enablement 61

Sales Enablement Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 61

Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Marketing, driven largely by traffic goals, developed all sorts of techniques to build inbound interest and send leads pouring in— but this increase in traffic also increased the number of low-quality leads.

Outsourcing Services 91

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 91

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Figuring out how and where to leverage my lifetime of knowledge and body of expertise to solve problems and challenges outside the sales world. Founder & Chief Sales Operator of Alice Heiman LLC. How long have you been in sales? . I’ve been in sales for over 25 years. How long have you been in sales? .

Hiring 90

Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Call-back 90

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. You need empathy, grit, and drive.

Sales Tools 52

Sales Tools Tools Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 52

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Due to rapid changes in buyer behavior and expectations, non-personalized content is now an unacceptable marketing practice.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Customer 52

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the top destinations on the web for all sales subject matter. How to Make Sales and Marketing Meetings More Effective and Impactful. Blogger Blurb: Max Altschuler and Gaetano DiNardi put out some amazing content over at Sales Hacker. Leah Bell is the Content Marketing Specialist for SalesLoft. WoodPecker.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

Zoominfo

APRIL 4, 2022

We would effectively go knocking on doors to meet the appropriate person at a facility,” says Rose Southwell, the company’s vice president of sales operations and marketing. The first phase of that shift was the trend toward inside sales, where reps spent more time on the phone than knocking on doors.

Data 130

Data Scale Face-to-face Lead Rank 130

Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

You would only need to pick one out of the hundreds of lead generation companies on the market, and you would gain comprehensive expertise in this area because you would know exactly what is essential—and what isn’t. Market research might be also tough. Your buying experience would be ten times easier. That would be fantastic.

Lead Generation 89

Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Paid Content Lead Rank 89

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

Well, in a previous life, I spent six years selling to, and thereby studying, Sales Operations. The movement from Field to Inside Sales resulted in a comparatively massive, “modern” tech stack. Engineered as much automation as we could in our sales process. If you sell it, you should know it, right?

Lead Rank 69

Lead Rank Coaching Hiring Sales Enablement 69