Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2019

Author: Mike DeLeonardis, President, North America at beqom Seventy-nine percent of companies say that increasing sales productivity is a strategy they’re using to reach growth targets in 2019, but actually meeting this goal may be a challenge as only 35 percent of average-performing sales reps’ time actually goes to selling.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Vice President of Sales at ZoomInfo, Steve Bryerton, shares his thoughts on how to implement a Team Lead within your organization. Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of about 10 sales development reps. Before jumping the gun and hiring a seasoned veteran or promoting a rep from your (relatively) green team to sales manager, you should consider a middle ground: a team lead role for the inbound crew.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s that one terrible phrase that everyone in sales fears. Face it: You’re in a sales slump. Acknowledging that you’re in a slump, and that slumps are a fact of life in the sales industry, is the first step toward beating it. Let’s take a look at just what brings about a dreaded sales slump and what you can do about it.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. 9 sales enablement best practices.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

No matter the department, every single person in your company should understand sales because, at the end of the day, it’s everyone’s job to sell the brand. Marketing and customer support are specific departments that benefit the most from understanding the sales process. Call it “ sales rep for a day.”.

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Tenbound

JANUARY 3, 2024

Predictable Prospecting: How to Radically Increase Your B2B Sales Pipeline By Marylou Tyler & Jeremey Donovan Part 1: TARGET Chapter 1: Internalizing Your Competitive Position Conduct a Six-Factor analysis of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. sales leaders) 2- Gatekeepers: (e.g., 2- Trust (Why you?)

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Sales operations teams were once the unsung heroes of the sales organization. A recent Salesforce report found that 82% of sales professionals feel “sales ops plays a critical role in growing the business.” Furthermore, 82% feel sales ops is becoming more strategic. What is sales operations (Sales Ops)?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. This is why most SaaS companies eventually move up-market and start focusing on bigger deals. Related: What is Complex Sales?

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Companies spend a tremendous amount of time, money and effort every year to improve the productivity of their sales teams. The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. Second, they can determine which sales reps need the most help.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or fully on board, it’s important to educate yourself about how sales reps are using AI.

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SBI Growth

MAY 27, 2013

These companies are harvesting vast amounts of internet activity and point of sale data. Many of the B2B sales leaders simply dismiss the Big Data revolution. Within the next three years, the best B2B sales organizations will use “Big Data”. Too often we see CRM systems completely misused by Sales Organizations.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process. Overall Sales Strategy.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? A QBR is an executive business review of the previous quarter’s sales and a strategic planning session to build playbooks and forecasts for the upcoming quarter. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. isn’t ad-hoc.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Xactly

MARCH 29, 2018

Whether you’re in sales, finance, marketing, or IT, it’s important that your company can rely on you to get your job done and do it well. As a sales leader it’s important that you motivate your team because nothing kills employee morale like a bad manager. However, in sales, no leader wants to be considered a fool.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In all honestly, managing sales reps can be a challenge. Sales reps may share one common goal—closing deals—but managers need to understand different personalities, adapt to unique learning styles, and provide the tools each rep needs to hit (and ideally, exceed) their quotas. Give Credit Where it’s Due.

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Openview

MAY 30, 2018

We’ve all heard Tom Cruise’s famous line from Jerry Maguire, but showing your sales team members the money is often a complicated equation. In this guide, you’ll find tips for designing sales compensation packages that yield results and actually scale. Salary or Bonus-Heavy Compensation: Which Model is Best?

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 24, 2023

For sales organizations, these numbers are expressed in raw data we call leading and lagging indicators. Our white paper, The Ultimate Guide to Developing a High-Performance Sales Organization , examines six pillars of successful organizations. But they cannot be changed, at least not in your present sales cycle.

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Troops

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today, Andrew oversees multiple sales teams at Square. Andrew has been building out sales teams at Square for the last four years. Not just one sales team, but a bunch of them: Sales Development: global inbound lead qualification. Vertical Sales: full sales-cycle BDRs and AEs. How to Motivate a Sales Team.

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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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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

If you own a business, lead a sales team, or are otherwise interested in how best to create a solid sales ecosystem within your organization that is conducive to growth, this article on sales operations (sales ops) is for you. Team management made easy. What is sales operations?

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Crunchbase

MARCH 27, 2020

While every team is uniquely impacted, sales teams are facing an urgent need to generate revenue to keep businesses in operation. At Crunchbase, our sales and customer-facing teams have made this a priority, scheduling daily team stand ups to share customer feedback and concerns they’re hearing from sales prospects.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The best ways to generate sales leads. How to start generating sales leads. What we sometimes forget is, unless we keep the pipeline topped off, there won’t be any deals to close. That’s why, to hit sales goals, every business must figure out how to consistently put leads into the pipeline. Inbound strategies.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2021

A post-pandemic bounceback relies on a well-developed sales growth strategy. Either way, regaining (or retaining) a solid sales growth rate is vital for a sunnier 2021. What Is Sales Growth? Sales growth measures how much your sales team has managed to increase revenue over a given period. last year).

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Did you know that high-growth companies are more likely to be familiar with the different types of sales technologies on the market? Of the sales technologies listed, here are the 13 least known according to participants (in order, starting from the least known). 1) Sales Gamification. 2) Buyer/Company Intelligence.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 5, 2023

High-performing sales teams use data to make strategic decisions to take their sales to the next level. Sales key performance indicators are at the heart of defining which direction you’re moving in. Key performance indicators in sales drive success, but you also need to know what to track to avoid getting lost in the numbers.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance? Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 12, 2015

Gartner’s Tiffani Bova identifies three dangers looming over modern sales organizations. What is predictable is the challenges sales organizations face. Sales organizations are finding it harder and harder to deliver predictable revenue, and historical sales models are beginning to show cracks. Conference. Conference.

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PandaDoc

MAY 26, 2022

Is my sales strategy clear? It’s a vital question that all business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketers should be asking themselves on a regular basis. Here’s a closer look at how to write a sales strategy that works. How to write a sales strategy that actually works. Set realistic sales and business goals.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a lot to succeed in sales. And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional.

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Apptivo

MAY 26, 2023

What is a sales target? The benefits of setting a sales target 3. Things to consider before placing a sales goal 4. How to set realistic sales targets for your sales team? Tips to effectively communicate sales targets to your team 6. How to track sales targets with the help of tools Apptivo Sales CRM?

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Troops

APRIL 20, 2018

Looking for a thorough sales plan template to get your sales process moving? Perhaps you already have a sales strategy in place, but you’re not selling the volume of products and services you’d like, and you need to tighten up a few loose ends. First, let’s explore the elements of a sales plan.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey. Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Why is sales operations important? What is the difference between sales enablement and sales operations? Sales operations roles.

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