Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Who has noticed that the sales landscape is changing at an accelerated pace and has no intention of slowing down? Are sales cycles either nonexistent or getting even longer? Have gatekeepers had some form of combat training? The problem is not you or the sales cycle – they are just symptoms of the real problem.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

If you’re like many sales reps, you accept this stall and become a willing participant in the follow up drama that ensues. This tells you how cooperative your prospect is, and so how cooperative they will be throughout the sales cycle.) Presenter: Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales. PROVEN SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2021

Outside of just crushing your quota, the most common way for you to increase your earning potential is by looking for a new sales job. Sales reps change jobs all the time. Changing jobs occurs more regularly in sales than in other professions because it presents reps with an opportunity to increase their earning potential.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion? Awareness Stage 2. Interest Stage 3.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Your sales team is working harder than ever to differentiate your product or service and close new business. Enter, the sales operations manager. Sales operations exists to help the team use technology effectively, implement training exercises, align sales and marketing, set territories, evaluate compensation plans, and more.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist Donald talks with Nicolas Sosa, an automation specialist at IBM, about how to make sure you book demos that actually show up. Gatekeepers do a very good job at gate keeping, try building a relationship with them. Be transparent with the gatekeepers. Why don’t people show up?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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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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Showpad

JUNE 24, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. What is enterprise sales? The bigger the company, the more gatekeepers reps have to go through to reach key stakeholders and decision makers throughout the sales process.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Along with actionable intelligence, guidelines for cold calls allow both sales managers and SDRs to tailor their sales processes.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2020

Every day you want to progress toward achieving positive sales performance. 68% of Salespeople Don’t Have Enough Time to Focus on Sales Activities. In the RFPIO Responder Survey, 68% of sales teams reported they don’t have enough time in their day to focus on sales activities. Project management. Collaboration.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Showing your customers appreciation is part of any great sales organization’s routine. It’s funny to me that people forget that sales is a social process. But, most B2B sales require humans to talk to other humans while understanding the buying process and determining problems that need to be solved. Is your sale complex?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Qualifying prospects is a critical step in the sales process. Using a sales qualification framework like BANT can help. We’ll also clarify how you can implement this framework and provide a list of sales qualifying questions that you can ask. BANT is a sales qualification framework that was originally developed by IBM.

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eGrabber

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you are selling products or services to B2B companies then, it is important to influence decision-makers which is the key to sales strategy. Connecting with the decision-makers from B2B companies shortens the sales cycle and helps earn a quick profit, which is being the goal of every salesperson.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gone are the days of the simple gatekeeper-sales rep relationship. Video has dethroned the phone as the communication channel of choice in most B2B sales situations—including internal collaboration, existing customer communication, prospect meetings, and vendor syncs. That’s huge for sales reps, especially enterprise sellers.

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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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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. B2B sales prospecting in a nutshell. The more detailed and accurate your ICP is, the more resultative your sales will be.

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ExecVision

JUNE 13, 2019

One of the most valuable pieces of data a sales leader can have is call dispositions. To further illustrate what call dispositions might look like, here are three examples from organizations with different sales motions: Outbound Prospecting (Cold Calling). Gatekeeper. Connected – Gatekeeper or Future Follow Up.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the digital age, most sales conversations occur remotely. Sales professionals must make an impression without the benefit of an in-person meeting, often making it more difficult to rise above the noise. Many a persistent sales rep has suffered due to not making the most of these crucial moments of initial sales engagement.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 11, 2019

Whether you’re a rep looking for fresh lead generation avenues or a marketer trying to help their sales team, I’ve rounded up some strategies for helping you bring in new B2B leads. How to Generate Leads for B2B Sales. Want to learn more about setting up a lead bot to help your sales team? Find your favorites below.

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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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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 4, 2013

A centerpiece for success in major B2B sales is getting the right message, to the right person, at the right time. If the right message is to be delivered to the right person at the right time , then sales people have to have superior networking skills. Still others are gatekeepers who can’t say yes, but can say no.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I’ve run thousands of outbound sales activities throughout my career, and through that, I’ve learned three secrets to cultivating a winning sales mindset. That’s just a fact in sales. This strategy has worked wonders for me in jobs asking for donation money, complex enterprise sales, and transactional selling.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jamal Reimer , Commercial Vice President at Saama and author of Mega Deal Secrets , a book about the principles that unlock the biggest deals of our career. Make good pre-sale connections. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In Step I of designing your sales process, you determined the total length of time of the optimum sales cycle. Then, in Step II , you designed the individual sales stages. Let us use a hypothetical sales person whose sales process looks like this: Suspect Indefinite. What is wrong?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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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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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2018

In business sales is the most important strategy. Without sales there is nothing else. So, if sales is such a vital business function, if it produces something as great as revenue, why do we struggle to do it? There is just something about the word “sales” that makes people cringe. Interesting question.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts. Honing-in on their top tier accounts.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 24, 2018

Many lessons were learned for methods of patiently following up in my sales career. The second year of sales, management hounded their teams to follow-up with the same prospect every day. Clyde’s motivator is that we similarly view sales and customer care. It didn’t take very long for the sales prospecting memories to arise.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

When unsuccessful, they create excuses for poor sales performance to avoid responsibility for their failure. In this article, we will talk about excuses for poor sales performance. Sales is a tough job. But this balance only works for competent sales professionals. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. At Abstrakt , we’ve scheduled more than 100,000 B2B sales meetings in the last eight years, so we have unique insight and hundreds of thousands of hours put into mastering this skill. Larger deal sizes.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

Sales and marketing teams start their account-based sales (ABS) and account-based marketing (ABM) programs with strategic intentions. They start worrying about how many touchpoints are sales and marketing hitting. This is why: Sales and marketing teams are getting account-based awareness vs. account-based revenue growth.

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Showpad

JUNE 23, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. What is enterprise sales? The bigger the company, the more gatekeepers reps have to go through to reach key stakeholders and decision makers throughout the sales process.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Coaching Initiatives - We built a robust sales coaching tool inside of Chorus, complete with scorecards that track progress over time, manager coaching behavior tracking, rep self-coaching metrics, recommendations of top-scoring calls to listen to, and more. Recommendations for Sales Leaders and Managers.

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