The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Watch any movie centered on sales professionals, and you’re likely to notice a recurring theme: competition. The sales reps in these films will stop at nothing to become the lone name atop a literal or figurative sales leaderboard – usually resorting to extreme tactics in order to be the best. billion by 2025, up from $9.1

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Your sales department can be experiencing slow business for a variety of reasons. For example, holidays or seasonal trends could cause your reps to close fewer deals. During periods of slow business, you can analyze the contacts in your CRM and examine the performance of your sales team. Collaborate with other sales reps.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2016

This book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone , by Stu Heinecke, is a must read for Executives, Sales and Marketing people on your team. First, as a Hall of Fame nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist, Stu’s approach in getting to the CEO/Top Person in any organization is creative yet logical.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The post-COVID-19 market puts even the most successful businesses, and the sales professionals they employ, in an unenviable position. The negative impact on your sales pipeline health can seriously affect revenue retention and put a business’ ability to survive in jeopardy. Risks Plaguing Your Deals? Download the Ebook.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) So, what does a typical cold call look like in sales? Cold Call Script Examples **The prospect's phone rings** Prospect: Hello?

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Pipeliner

JUNE 19, 2018

For example, in our own CRM space, we find that many enterprises today still have no real way to track sales. We know from having observed many companies—and having made many sales—that trying to operate a sales organization and manage accounts, contacts, opportunities and leads with Excel just doesn’t work anymore.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2018

As we tried to convince marketers that they needed to adopt a new way of marketing, I found it valuable to dig deeper into a prospect’s needs with relevant follow up questions, using our qualification framework as a guide. Examples of Active Listening. Here’s an example. Identifying Compelling Reasons for Change.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The best way to navigate these types of customer objections is by building a “ buying guide ” with your marketing team. It will include elements of social proof—for example, case studies or testimonials—and also outline the implementation process, including other stakeholders who need to be involved in a decision.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 18, 2013

In fact, you might have landed the starring role in the film titled, ‘Bad Hire, Bad Life.’ The plot is not a new one. Sales manager hires a new salesperson and has high hopes that ‘this is the one.’ Our marketing collateral is not good.” . “If The sales manager, desiring to be a good leader gets to work.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

To help you find the right ones, I invested a few hundred hours over the last few months sifting through dozens of these channels to create what I think is the first-ever guide to sales training video channels on YouTube. For a more thorough look at maximizing your sales productivity, watch “ Tips to Structure Your Day.".

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

In the film, Alec Baldwin's straight-talking sales manager arrives at a small business to motivate the sales team. For sales managers, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is a cautionary tale. Here's everything you need to know about setting successful sales quotas. Are sales quotas and sales goals the same thing?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We heard from Gong users in roles across Sales, Enablement, Marketing, and Customer Success. Let’s start with 6 suggestions from Sales Directors. 6 Gong Deals best practices from Sales Directors. Sales managers don’t like surprises. As we say all over our website (and marketing/sales copy), Unlock Reality.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You’d never, for example, put one into a Volkswagen Bug. Similarly, Pipeliner CRM is not a fit for every business—it is made for businesses with a dedicated B2B sales process, for midsize and larger companies that need a sales manager with a dedicated sales team. While it’s a marvel of engineering, the Porsche 3.5-liter

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Gong.io

JANUARY 12, 2021

Customer Success Manager, Red Reddy. Meet Adarsh “Red” Reddy, a film & technology enthusiast, a USC alum, and a guy who boasts “500+” LinkedIn connections. As a Senior Mid-Market CSM, Red uses Gong for note-taking, quick (non-email) escalations, points of interest, and personal growth. Go To Market (GTM) and enablement.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, you’ve vetted the state of the current job market in the midst of COVID-19, seen that there’s still plenty of available talent to add to your sales team, and made a new sales hire. Maintaining momentum in your sales funnel is key to ensuring the stability and, ultimately, the survival of your business.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When handled well, they can provide deep insights into how to close deals faster and at higher deal values by allowing you to smoothly navigate the sales process. They are especially critical today when markets tend to be competitive or emerging, which means more responsibility is placed on reps to make a strong case to buy.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Cold calling is probably the hardest thing to do in sales, and conditions in the market post-COVID-19 haven’t made it any easier. Cold calling isn’t naturally designed to make you successful, so sales development reps and sales reps need as much help as they can get to overcome obstacles and objections.

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DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

Take Lego, for example. Leveraging decades-long experience in children’s entertainment, Lego has created a catalog of mobile apps, video games, digital films, and streaming content that aligns with a new generation of digitally-enabled consumers. . Another example is Under Armour’s mobile app, Connected Fitness.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. SaaS B2B Sales. Currently, the SaaS industry is growing rapidly, thereby influencing the massive growth of the B2B market. In SaaS companies, marketers face challenges like attracting free users who can later be converted to paid.

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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. Here’s a simple example. Market research might be also tough. That would be fantastic.

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