Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Is an abbreviation enough to save your sales team? Meet the MEDDIC sales process. . If you deal with buyers whose complex, internal politics and buying processes feel like a black box, the MEDDIC sales process gives you a clear path forward. It helps you qualify buyers so the right ones end up in your sales funnel.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

In sales, every day is a new opportunity to contact leads, close deals, and move closer to your target. However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. What is a sales audit? Sales Audit Checklist.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The Sales analytics category has exploded in recent years, both in number and diversity. Metrics are the bedrock of any sales function (in fact, one could argue that no enterprise function is tracked, measured and analyzed more than sales!). Here are 3 key sales metrics you may be missing: 1.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2020

As a sales leader, your team’s sales pipeline is everything. One of our core promises at Vengreso is to empower sellers to grow their sales pipeline by leveraging digital tools like LinkedIn ® to create more sales conversations online, building trust with prospects and then taking those conversations offline to build their pipeline.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 23, 2020

This methodology ensures that businesses follow a customer-centric behavior and align sales activities with customers’ decision-making process. Robert Miller and Stephen Heiman have urged salespeople not to lead with a sales pitch. Confirmation questions that help reaffirm the information collected by your sales team.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. “ Sales Enablement supports the sales team to move buyers to a decision point. Coaching skills for sales managers.

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MEDDIC

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

MEDDIC Academy, a Leading Global Sales Training Provider, today announced the registration of MEDDPICC as a trademark. We are determined to make this amazing methodology even more accessible to all, in an organized and structured manner, to the benefit of the sales teams who use it.

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SBI

MARCH 30, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? The two KPIs to measure are Win Rate and Win/Loss Ratio.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 6, 2022

I had not noticed it in common sales vernacular. In this article, we will explore the potentiality of a brand-new sales methodology, (I know just what the sales profession needs, another methodology) and what it would mean to be a perspicacious sales practitioner. Perspicacious Selling vs All Other.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CRM Basics: Marketing and Sales Concepts. Simply put, a lead in B2B (business to business) sales and marketing process is a person at a company who has an interest in your products or services. These leads are discovered, qualified, and handed over to a salesperson to go through a sales process. What’s a lead?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

I’ve often used the analogy that B2B enterprise sales professionals are the Olympic athletes of the corporate world. That said, try putting them in a front line B2B sales role focused on the complex sale at the enterprise level and see how that works out for you. Oh, sure, we throw money at the sales department.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Guest blogger Donal Daly explains how sales managers can become sales leaders. Then your sales force needs the right tools for success. Just as importantly, you need sales leaders , not just sales managers. He understands sales and has helped to create systems that sales managers and their reps actually use.

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SBI

APRIL 29, 2019

Software’s new look better allows users to map the people, priorities and progress of key accounts. Customer feedback drove this UI update, which has allowed us to modernize our look, improve our user experience and align with what customers have grown to expect in their B2B software. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Sales Tips: Grading Opportunities - Garbage In, Garbage Out. The major reason Sales Force Automation (SFA) failed was that technology absent process merely speeds up the mess. While often glossed over, the fact is that salespeople were the data entry people for SFA software. At that time I worked with a CRM vendor.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What rules your sales team – order or chaos? Do your reps follow a consistent and repeatable process that makes it easy to predict quarterly sales? Some of the best sales teams start that way. Some of the best sales teams start that way. It can be easily done by building a simple and repeatable sales cycle.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You’ve probably heard that automation helps both marketing and sales teams do their jobs—but that doesn’t mean they’re interchangeable. Does marketing automation serve a different purpose than sales automation? This increases prospect engagement and lead qualification prior to handing them off to sales. Nurture campaigns.

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Sales Automation Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 26

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You've established the various stages of your sales process. The concept that underlies all those points is known as sales effectiveness. Here, we'll go over what that means, how to most aptly measure it, some steps you can take to improve yours, and some of the best resources available to get the most out of your sales process.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

There are many moving parts in a successful sales organization. If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Why do we need Sales Operations? Average sales cycle duration.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 17, 2019

“Sales stack” is jargon for the technology/software salespeople need to do their jobs and communicate effectively with prospects. To determine what you need in your stack, start by looking at your sales process. At HubSpot, we use the Inbound Sales Methodology to help us frame our sales process.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales forecasting is foundational for any revenue organization. With accurate forecasting, sales teams can make smarter decisions about revenue generation factors, including goal-setting, budgeting, hiring, and prospecting. But all too often, sales forecasts aren’t accurate.

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Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement?

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Buyer Persona Demographics 75

SalesHandy

MARCH 30, 2020

There is always an untold story about the effectiveness of any sales strategy in an organization. The Salespersons are the ones who design the sales strategy of searching their prospects, connecting with them and close deals for their organizations. But how would they start creating a sales strategy? What is Inbound Sale?

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SalesLoft

APRIL 18, 2024

With more than 130 software integrations across your CRM, core business, and broader GTM applications — PLUS an open API — Salesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform connects your third-party data and applications in one place. Draft personalized sales emails that convert Today’s buyers expect more than a “spray-and-pray” email blast.

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Software Software Top of Funnel Intent Signal 98

Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement?

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Buyer Persona Demographics 52

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? The point of my last article was that the integrity of data determines how accurate CRM forecasts will be. Slightly more to the right would be Sales VP’s as they are more involved in the implementation. Forecasts don’t reflect “gut feelings” on transactions.

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Altify

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Tired of big, expensive software upgrades every few years? Often it starts not even as a Customer Success organization, but more as part of operations, or support, or sometimes an offshoot of sales,” Bob Slaby, Chief Customer Officer for Altify, said in the recent webinar Customer Success: The Revenue Team’s Secret Weapon.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Sales Call Tips. Start Sales Calls with a Bang. Just like sports, the use of science to develop elite performers also applies in sales. On the other hand, the use of science in sales focuses on two areas: the seller and the buyer. 15 Expert Phone Sales Tips. 15 Expert Phone Sales Tips. Use Awesome Labels.

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Troops

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Many sales organizations are spending a fortune implementing a sales process and training their team on it. After the training occurs, it’s not uncommon for everyone to get excited about the new things they learned, only to eventually revert to their old ways without the big sweeping change in sales execution leadership hoped for.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If sales data consistently led to revenue insights, life would be easier. But after collecting and analyzing sales pipeline data, revenue leaders still struggle to accurately forecast sales. Keep reading to learn more about revenue intelligence and seven reasons why it could be the key to predicting your sales future.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

Focusing on enterprise sales can be a great way to grow your revenue. After all, enterprise sales drive a lot of value. Adding those big logos to your customer roster is a great way to build credibility and grow sales. Sales reps going after enterprise deals must be ready to navigate complex selling scenarios.

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Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 52

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Visibility is everything in sales. If you can’t see where each deal is in your sales process and how long it’s been there, you’ll struggle to improve it. . That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . It also makes it much easier for you, as a sales manager, to forecast revenue. .

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Pipeline Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Decision Maker 118

Lessonly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— A new, scaling startup sales team requires hyper-attention under the best of circumstances. If you’ve been struggling with leading your remote sales team remotely, you’re not alone—it requires a lot of different skills and adaptability. This transparency around activity and outcomes is important for a new sales team.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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