Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? So everyone has the same sales potential. .

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Alice Heiman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

On this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs Podcast, Alice speaks with Steve Benson, the CEO of Badger Maps , the #1 route planner for field sales. Steve and Alice discuss the importance for CEOs to have a background in sales when starting out and growing their company. . 10:50] Building the sales organization in your company. [20:41]

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Nutshell

JANUARY 9, 2019

“We prefer to work off of spreadsheets” is one of those great lies that sales organizations like to tell themselves. Spreadsheets might be easy to use, but they don’t actually do anything to help you close a sale. Fortunately, Nutshell is built with Google users in mind. 16 sales process templates for B2B pipelines.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2022

Engage The new Gmail plug-in for Engage, ZoomInfo’s sales automation tool , allows you to access Engage’s email templates and variables directly from your Gmail inbox, as well as track Gmail activity in Engage and other connected CRMs. And sales engagement and automation runs well when it’s powered by solid data.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. One day, out of the blue, we got a message from a top-senior executive at Google. She was super excited: “This is EXACTLY what I want to do internally at Google. We didn’t know about enterprise sales. From B2C to B2B.

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 9, 2018

Congrats you have a brand-new “greenfield” sales territory! He figured out that we have about 150 relationships we can maintain (keep in mind this was not for sales people using CRMs etc. Most of the time business owners and marketing and sales managers define sales territories by classic demographics. “We

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Timing is everything in sales. In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. Broadly speaking, any industry change can be considered a trigger event and indicate a channel for making a sale. So what do sales trigger events look like?

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Close

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up.From B2C to B2B It was mid 2007. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

Like most sales teams I’ve been on, you’d find the Navy SEAL adage to be true: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. We can slow down to orient everything about our deal cycles to find the sales signals that make them sticky. Related reading: Your Sales Cycle is (Probably) Too Long. What’s a sales signal? Try This Instead.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 13, 2023

Industry leaders such as Adobe , Microsoft , Google , PayPal and Shopify are making big layoffs, with a large swath of cuts focused on their revenue teams. In January, Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce, and it was the sales team that faced heavy losses.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 5, 2014

Remote professional selling, or Inside Sales, is tough – lots of activity and not always a lot of revenue to show for it. Suddenly your first deal closes – or your first deal after a slump – or enough deals to get you to the next level in your comp plan – and wow, is sales great! He is known as the father of positive psychology.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results. Get started with this three-step process.

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Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

Midmarket companies and larger SMBs seem to fall into three camps: the ones who understand the power of social sales and actively work to build a plan of action, the ones who are coming around to this idea but not doing much yet, and those who are turning a blind eye and are missing a great window of opportunity. Keep Track of Your Buyers.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

If you don’t keep the leads coming in thick and fast, you run the risk of sales running dry over the next weeks. Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. Google Alerts’ for latest stories, reports, articles. MTD Sales Training. Improve your sources of fresh information. Industry Analysts.

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Allego

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In episode 31, sales strategist Daniel Perry shares an insider’s look at the fast-paced world of private equity. Learn how he helps companies “sell quicker, sell for more, or sell for higher valuation” by enabling their sales organizations to increase productivity and accelerate revenue growth. How do you set territories up?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2012

Trained the sales force and channel partners on the new product. Did you forget about enabling the sales force ? Where in your plan is getting your sales force ready to sell your new product? Who is responsible for Sales Enablement ? If you leave it to the sales force, it won’t get done. They’ve never had to.

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SalesforLife

AUGUST 8, 2019

Their sellers have thousands of accounts in each of their territories, and can’t possibly talk to all of the accounts in a territory. The missing ingredient that most companies haven’t focused on ,and frankly we hadn’t focused on here at Sales For Life, was social media marketing through paid media. Create scores.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

There is nothing more stressful than Q4 for a VP of Sales. We will use Sales Leader’s Q4 Critical Path Guide. Your Talent — How to improve your sales manager’s performance. You are strategizing with Sales Managers and reps. You know that there are certain things your EVP of Sales has no control over.

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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Are you confident the sales team’s people, money and time are accurately allocated for the upcoming year?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 3, 2014

Last week I had the pleasure of spending a day with Ken Krogue, co-founder of InsideSales.com , inside sales pioneer, and Forbes columnist It was great. A CSO Insights study found that companies who had put CRM into their sales process only increased revenues by 17%. In inside sales, leading indicators are effort and results.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Guard your time – a bit of advice given to me years ago by a wise sales manager that I’ve always worked to remember. Because of everything you do in your sales career, time is the one thing you cannot recoup. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

[Use the steps and your own terminology within your sales process to help your SDRs and BDRs enter clean, verified data.]. This is not so much a clean data issue but is so critical in moving your sales opportunities forward that it needs to be mentioned. Bad leads slow down your sales force. Increase Opportunities.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not only will those in sales be able to manage their territories this way but also sales leaders will have incredible access to data and insights – even being able to reinforce learning. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. Being the host of a podcast named #SellingWithSocial, you would not be surprised know that social sales trends are a top of radar issue for me. He provides very practical tips for making the most of the social sales trends that are happening right now. Take notes!

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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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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

When you love being a sales rep, or a business development rep, or a regional account rep, or a national account rep, you know it. First of all, you know that sales is admirable and regardless of the noise about how you should stop selling and start helping, or stop selling and start serving – you have been helping and serving for years.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying. Start with simple Google searches. If you are a sales rep in a company that is not supporting you with social tools, do it ON YOUR OWN. Do general search on the web. Learn about more complex searching.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 30, 2012

While it should be only on rare occasions, there are times when you will need to offer a discount and lower your price to close the sale. A well-orchestrated and properly timed price drop can indeed help close a sale. This is where most sales people blow it. Sales Person. “So, Sales Person. “I Sales Person.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2022

B2B sales and marketing teams need reliable firmographic profiles of their target accounts that will stay up-to-date amid the rapid pace of change in business. Data teams continue to struggle with outdated records and fragmented systems that, at best, result in unpredictable sales outcomes.

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Emissary

APRIL 20, 2023

Google the phrase ‘will there be a recession?’ Of all the VUCA elements, ambiguity is less of an issue for sales. After all, ambiguity is the very reason that sales exists. If there were clear buyers, discrete client needs and obvious solutions, sales as a profession would disappear. Clients have difficult problems.

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Vengreso

MAY 16, 2019

Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. Sales engagement is a fairly new term but one that every sales rep needs to understand and a skill they need to master. On this episode of #SellingWithSocial, I’m honored to have Mark Kosoglow, co-author of the book, “Sales Engagement” on the podcast.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. The same is true for companies in your geographic territory who fit one of your buyer profiles. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

If assigned a vertical territory of financial services I would do several things right away: look at who my existing and past customers in financial services are. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. The post Reaching Prospects appeared first on Score More Sales.

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