No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why the sudden interest in referral sales? Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Sales leaders have an ongoing challenge to get more qualified leads in the pipe, but seller access has evaporated. You can ask: During the sales process when you’ve added value. What’s old is new again.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Enabling sales reps to sell more and sell better is not an easy job — that’s why sales enablement departments (and an entire industry) were created. But sales enablement leaders can’t operate in a silo. They’re often small teams tasked with overseeing dozens or even hundreds of sales reps.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectable.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’m not looking forward to stepping out of my sales comfort zone this year, but I must. Sure, I can learn it, but it’s not in my sales comfort zone, and it’s not exciting for me. That said, I’ve committed to getting out of my sales comfort zone this year, and that means confronting my technology aversion head on. Let me know.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the next blog in our “Sales Enablement Defined” series, we’ll talk about sales prospecting and where it fits into the sales enablement ecosystem. We’ll also discuss sales prospecting techniques and best practices, and how they support sales enablement. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Pedro Correia, Sales Enablement Lead at IFF. In this interview, Pedro shares the innovative ways IFF is integrating technology into the sales training and content process , from information tagging to augmented reality and AI. We need to provide our sales teams with different ways to engage their customers remotely.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The global pandemic forced sales teams to change their processes and go digital. Organizations must adapt their sales strategies post COVID-19 to meet customer expectations. Whether you’re looking to implement a remote sales strategy or improve your current strategy, keep reading. What is remote sales? Image Source ).

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Author: Todd Handy Before we start, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page regarding the term “direct sales.” Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer.

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SBI

JULY 23, 2019

Transforming Sales: Why Sales Organizations Will Have to Consider Their Data Strategy. In this series, we ask SalesTech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. To participate in the next generation of SalesTech , sales organizations will have to consider their data strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. But first, we’ll dive into the benefits sales prospecting tools have for your organization.

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Mereo

JULY 14, 2022

According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers. times more likely to join a sales cycle meeting and became more engaged in online channels.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

But today, buyers put less trust in us than they ever have, market competition is fiercer than ever, and these traits no longer separate the best salespeople from merely good ones. These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. I didn't always want to go into sales. That generalization included me.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

But no matter where the idea originated, for several months the analogy of “sales is like a taco” has stuck in my head like a delicious kernel of elote. Tacos are universal and diverse just like sales. If we take this into the world of sales it breaks down a little something like this. The Taco Sales Cycle.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

That is how I think of sales and marketing alignment in the modern business environment. Traditionally known as the cats and dogs of the business world, sales and marketing are no longer two separate entities. Sales Has Always Been Hard. How Digital Selling Has Changed Sales. Create Market Segments.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2016

There’s a famous quote from that seminal 1992 movie about sales, Glengarry Glen Ross , in which Jack Lemmon’s character, Shelley, contemptuously dismisses the contact data he’s been given: “The leads are weak!” So, what is a lead in a sales context? This is where sales intelligence can play a very important role.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Account-Based Selling (ABS) is necessary to execute effectively on Account-Based Marketing (ABM). This blog focuses on stakeholders within an account and how sales teams can address them as audiences using Value Propositions as central content for ABM and ABS. Stakeholders within an Account. Characterizing Stakeholders. Buying roles.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Our marketing team sucks. The market is drying up.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2019

But long, complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. A lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! This is data too.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 18, 2022

Top sales leaders use sales battle cards to build their businesses. Sales leaders who want to maximize the effectiveness of their sales process and keep up with their competitors use sales battle cards to identify customer pain points and gain valuable market insights. What are sales battle cards?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2022

One expert community on sales and marketing used to email me a single daily update (I didn’t know why I needed updating daily, but I accepted it). I have lost count of the number of “coffee” meetings I’ve been offered, with a sales person offering a Starbucks card for participating in meetings.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 3, 2018

“Sales acceleration” is a good buzzword, but all it really means is “sell more, faster” … without saying anything about “How?”. We’re excited to announce our redesigned Outreach integration, which will make sales processes faster and easier than ever. Sales research – fast. There’s no single source of truth.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Yet, unless yours is among the 5 percent of sales organizations that have built referral selling skills, set referral metrics, and made referrals the way you work every day, you’re missing out on your biggest competitive tool. If you’re working too hard and still not getting the sales leads that you need, it’s time to change the game.

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Allego

AUGUST 4, 2020

Once controlled by a limited number of gatekeepers, content exploded horizontally across a huge number of new channels—YouTube, blogs, and social media to name a few. C-level executives could map business cycles and market changes and invest in inventory or labor to achieve their objectives.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In recent years, companies around the world have rapidly evolved their approach to sales to keep pace with modern buyer demands. There’s truth to the saying “better together” — especially in the world of sales. Tight alignment with your marketing and sales enablement functions will be a game changer.

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