Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

If you are in sales, take a look at your email inbox now. I will post the results AND will be sharing aggregated responses when I talk about sales productivity at Dreamforce on October 14th (9AM at the Marriott Marquis if you are going to Dreamforce) There are no names attached to this survey – so please be honest.

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Survey Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Inside Sales 279

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In fact it was the topic I chose as part of the Sales Acceleration Summit sponsored by Inside Sales earlier this year. While I''m thinking of that summit, also check out THIS one - Sales Acceleration Technology Summit on 9/10. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Every sales leader is told, “buy this sales enablement tool – it will help you so much.” It is true that never before have we had access to technology, metrics, and science to assist us in doing our sales roles better than ever. For example take Salesforce.com which is the predominant CRM tool sales teams use.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Kudos to me for picking up on something bad happening – but unfortunate I could not have addressed it to at least have had a more valuable 20 minutes with a group of people who had been thinking of doom and despair during my talk. Do you have a worst sales story to share? I learned a couple of things that day: Do more homework.

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Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Inside Sales Sales 214

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. This is flawed.

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JULY 17, 2013

That happened for me on Monday at the Sales 2.0 Conference Boston – a gathering of sales experts, practitioners, sales leaders and sellers all coming together to talk about what is the latest in professional selling. Lots of sales leaders say this – and I have heard it for years.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

This is the time of year that if you haven’t had your sales offsite for your sales team, you are probably working to pull it together quickly and simply. Key takeaway about having a sales offsite is that it MUST be valuable to the participants. A survey was done by our friends at Vorsight about sales kickoff meetings.

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MAY 26, 2014

For the rest of us – Follow the Buyer: The most simple strategy to finding many more “probable” buyers is to implement the idea I talked about in the last post – Follow Up Strategies to Grow Sales – on how to create a stream of more likely buyers based on when they are new. Increase Opportunities.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Buyer 209

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JULY 30, 2014

For some of us it is easy to be social in sales, for others it is an effort, and for a third group, a confusing idea. I have been meeting more and more leaders in mid-market companies who are simply confused about the value of having their sales reps focused on social selling because they don’t see the payoff. Close More Deals.

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MAY 5, 2014

Think of the skills and attributes that make you great in sales: You need to be a language expert – being able to convey great messaging. You need to be a sales expert – in basic sales competencies. If you are on a sales team, do you have group goals about how the team is to improve? If not, why?

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MAY 5, 2014

Think of the skills and attributes that make you great in sales: You need to be a language expert – being able to convey great messaging. You need to be a sales expert – in basic sales competencies. If you are on a sales team, do you have group goals about how the team is to improve? If not, why?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2023

Sales teams use various methodologies, including MEDDIC, MEDDPIC, and NEAT, and often switch between them based on the dominant trend. In this episode of Sales Hacker, Richard shares how he approaches processes from creation to implementation. I’m of the generation where you didn’t Google s*it.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Initially for customers of Hubspot, the INBOUND event now attracts thousands of marketers, sales leaders, and business builders from around the world. I attend because even though I’m a business owner and sales focused speaker, blogger, trainer and consultant, what I really am above and beyond all else now is A PUBLISHER.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

These are real comments I have heard from sales reps in the past few weeks. On the other hand it is fun to put people in boxes and it seems easier if we can just group and label everyone. A couple of years ago, a sales manager I was coaching had labeled one of the sales reps on his team as “incapable of closing a deal”.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The great thing about the #reimaginework session was that it was a very small group in a low-key environment with little fanfare – just everyone rolling up their sleeves and sharing ideas. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Days turn into weeks into months when you are in a growing company in sales or sales leadership. Ask general questions in a small group – like, “What’s a little thing that would mean something to you this holiday season if anything were possible?” You are busy. Suddenly the holiday season is upon us.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this 25 minute podcast Steve explains: What makes a great sales team. How sales enablement needs differ within sales teams and how technology can help address this. How Kaizen can be applied to sales teams to improve their productivity. Steve began his career in software sales and has worked for IBM, HP, and Google.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this 25 minute podcast Steve explains: What makes a great sales team. How sales enablement needs differ within sales teams and how technology can help address this. How Kaizen can be applied to sales teams to improve their productivity. Steve began his career in software sales and has worked for IBM, HP, and Google.

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APRIL 26, 2013

I enjoyed participating in the quick fire roundtable, which was hosted on a Google+ Hangout by IBM. It was good to see all of the participants interacting and truly a smart way to see and hear a group of people discussing a subject. Lack of leadership support for adoption – success of CRM must tie in with sales methodology and process.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2018. CEO at Sales Gravy | Author | Keynote Speaker | Sales Acceleration Specialist.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Perhaps the biggest reason is that my guest, Debbie Dunnam , Corporate Vice President of Inside Sales at Microsoft, walks her talk. How did you get started in sales, Debbie? I always find it fascinating to learn how my guests end up in a career in sales. Digital sales transformation requires a shift in mindset.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. This event was unique because it only focused on sales development.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Setbacks of using a 2-Stage inside sales organization. CASE IN POINT: In the late 90s, SkyStream followed Cisco’s footsteps in infrastructure sales. 5 Steps To Building Your Go To Market Strategy.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are two other ways to organically connect with leads using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. In between the Zoom all-hands screenshots and kids-as-coworkers posts, I’ve seen plenty of actionable tips from sales leaders on how to manage remote teams , how to address COVID-19 in your selling and more. Events are out the window — for now.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Is your crazy busy schedule getting in the way of devoting time to regularly coaching your sales team? There’s never enough time in the day, and unfortunately, regularly coaching your sales team outside of quick 1:1s or during the drive on a way to a big meeting just isn’t happening. more sales. Outsource sales coaching.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 1, 2019

What Are The 6 Critical Steps To Developing a Successful Sales Strategy? Sales strategies aren’t born from thin air; rather, there are six critical steps to developing a successful sales strategy. Tyson group has been ranked by Selling Powers as one of the Top 20 sales organizations in the world.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2022. CEO at Sales Gravy | Author | Keynote Speaker | Sales Acceleration Specialist.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In this interview, I talked with Mandy Bynum McLaughlin, Director of Sales Development – Enterprise and Commercial at New Relic. For those women just starting out in sales or for those women who’ve not considered a career in selling, I started off by asking Mandy how she got started in a career in sales. About Mandy.

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DocSend

JANUARY 19, 2018

Are you losing customers in your sales funnel? Getting prospects into your sales funnel is good. You can’t afford to keep losing customers in your sales funnel after investing time, money, and other resources on inbound marketing and paid advertising to generate customers. Is it because your sales funnel is too long?

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales leaders are responsible for the success of a company. Marketing provides necessary resources, while sales is crucial to capturing valuable turf. Recruit, Organize, and Segment Your B2B Inbound Sales Team. He states with his first group of employees he made a mistake by constantly testing pay structure among other things.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Winning by Design Blueprint Series provides a step-by-step go to market plan for every part of the sales process, including developing a go to market strategy. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? You can apply this strategy anywhere that you need to generate interest and sales. Covering multiple segments.

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DocSend

APRIL 13, 2019

Are you losing customers in your sales funnel? Getting prospects into your sales funnel is good. But you shouldn’t stop there because there is another step—you’ve got to keep the prospects in your sales funnel. However, you can’t expect to retain every prospective customer in your sales funnel. Identify the problem.

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OutboundView

JUNE 25, 2019

In the B2B sales world, cold calling is very common, especially when organizations have a dedicated inside sales team. Both the sales and marketing departments are responsible for outbound emailing. Both the sales and marketing departments are responsible for outbound emailing.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2020

The state of business and sales today is uncertain. What we’re not talking about as much is the aftereffect of this crisis and prepping for what this will mean for sales. Repositioning your products and sales outreach in reaction to current conditions is critical. 4-Step Product Repositioning to Modernize Sales Outreach.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry. Clearly, if your team needs sales training, there's a lot of options out there. Best Sales Videos. Sales Videos by Well-Known Selling Experts. Companies spent approximately $2.2B

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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