The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Chalen Schoyer, Principal Sales Engineer at Spiff “Be confident in your negotiations. Whether that’s within a sales cycle or negotiating salary/benefits. Erica Bukowski, Inside Sales at Evolve Vacation Rentals “Make the phone call. Confidence comes from doing your research and knowing the market value.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

This role-play sales training is especially valuable for those transitioning from field sales to inside sales. This type of role-play scenario allows reps to practice sales conversations remotely with other team members or their managers. Negotiation. Great sales reps are skilled negotiators.

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Negotiation Exercises Objections Coaching 72

LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes. 3 The Sales Podcasts.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. Field Sales vs. Inside Sales. Only 1 percent are entirely inside sales.

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Distribution Selling Skills Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? There are two things business owners and executives need to focus on when deciding how they want their outbound sales program structured: cost, and the type of customer you’re trying to attract. The Four Costs of In-House Sales Development. Software costs.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Here are the 30 most eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-melting sales stats we’ve ever uncovered. Sales Stats for Prospecting. Sales Stat #1: DON’T use ROI in cold emails. ” A lot of sales blogs say you should do it (good ones too!). Sales Stat #3: DON’T ask “Did I catch you at a bad time?”.

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Cold Calling ROI Call-back Negotiation 93

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2019

I enjoy closing deals that I know will bring value to the prospect's life and business. I enjoy initial discovery calls because they're like a puzzle I'm trying to solve to discover what the prospect's pain points are and if my solution can solve for those issues. I love to be in front of prospects or presenting over video.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

Specific job responsibilities will depend on your company, but an entry-level sales development rep typically uses their communication skills to generate leads, build customer relationships, convey benefits, and hopefully sell a product or service. Negotiation skills are a must, as well as a strong ability to connect with people.

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Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 77

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

An award-winning author and highly sought-after keynote speaker, Konrath provides practical and modern strategies in her videos to help sales teams generate and close more leads. To drive home the importance of silence in sales (especially when it's uncomfortable), I often recommend the video “ Stunningly Unused Sales Technique."

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Channels Video Training Hiring 112

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

If you don’t have your inbound web strategy in place, outbound sales will have to work harder to find prospects and nurture them. A solid inbound web strategy also includes nurturing, but if you don’t have marketing tools then outbound sales will have to manually nurture as well. Negotiations. Prospecting.

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Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, he is running the sales organization at a company called Pangea, which scales up tech companies to expand into the EMEA market. If you missed episode 111, check it out here: Prospecting and Researching in Today’s Brave New World with Peter Wooster. What are your prospective, current customers doing on the ground?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or

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B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 200

OnePageCRM

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The management team at OneLaw (A Legal practice management software company) believed there was a better way of streamlining their daily operations and decided to do a complete company-wide systems overhaul. As OnePageCRM, came highly recommended by a friend they were confident it would be a good match for their sales process.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

With technologies that facilitate search and easy price and product comparisons, a prospect and an order touch multiple points in the distribution channel for most products and services. . This is too abstract for determining sales tasks and channels requirements. Sales tasks also differ within the same category.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Is sales new to your students? Sam Jacobs: What did you fall in love with about it?

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or

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B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 100

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Sales Source. The Sales Leader. The Center for Sales Strategy Blog. But the real question is: Can you afford not to read sales blogs? The Best Blogs for Sales Reps.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Cold Calling Social Selling 145

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! But it's actually a profound commentary on the decadent global state of interrupt and push-button selling, a condition that social sales has allowed some to slip into. I prefer a cell phone to show localized caller ID so prospects actually pick up.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Understanding your ideal persona takes the guesswork out of things like sales prospecting and cold outreach. This community is made up of regular sales professionals just like you! Sales requires a perfect balance between hard and soft skills. What is this tool? Why is it important? SalesHacker Content Library.

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Resources Webinar Metrics Hiring Hubspot 79

Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers.

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B2B Top of Funnel Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 134

Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2018

Chatbots, AI, machine learning -- sales, like other industries, is changing rapidly, thanks to technology. But, at the end of the day, you still need to nurture prospects, close deals, and hit your quota. AI, machine learning, and automation will greatly assist the sales force. Sales training isn’t the answer.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 140

DialSource

JULY 24, 2020

As you adapt to manage your remote sales team , focusing on an inside sales approach, it’s important to consider what your field agents can and can no longer do. What Field Sales Associates Can’t Necessarily Do at the Moment: Manage and negotiate with prospects, face-to-face, particularly in a trade show setting.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Mastering the Complex Sale. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Outbound Sales, No Fluff. Fanatical Prospecting. Combo Prospecting. High-Profit Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting. The Seller’s Challenge. The New Handshake. Top of Mind. Smart Calling.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

Close.io

MARCH 28, 2019

First, your sales team needs to be great at identifying good prospects; second, they need some serious Jedi skills when it comes to closing the deal. In this post, you are going to learn some ways that technology is giving sales pros superpowers, allowing them to work more efficiently, close more leads and achieve better results.

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Scale Face-to-face Consumer Video 48

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? Own your power.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

While the funnel is centered around the awareness, consideration, and decision stages of the customer’s journey, the circular flywheel focuses on attracting, engaging, and delighting prospects, leads, and customers. This journey was divided into three sections: But the sales funnel is no longer the best way to look at your buyer’s journey.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SaaS Sales Techniques to Improve Your Revenue. Jim Steele’s Strategies to Improve Sales Teams for Better Results. What is SaaS Sales? SaaS sales, or “Software as a Service” sales, is the process of offering cloud-based services through a system monitored and updated by an external provider to customers.

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SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Sales development training: Build the skills of your team. Sales development analytics and goals. Other great tools and software to use. 4 important sales development FAQs. Overview of sales development. The conversion rate average for lead generation in the software industry is just 5-10%. What to track.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 91

Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Cold Calling Tips From Sales Pros. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. Velocify found that the average number of cold calls to a single prospect to close a deal is six. It’s only the beginning of the sales journey.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker 79

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Before you can analyze a sales job, you need to know what to look for. Industry and career path: Are you interested in working for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies? On the other hand, if you go into manufacturing sales, you’ll probably be responsible for handling deals from start to finish. Account Executive (AE).

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Past speakers include hostage negotiator Chris Voss and TED Talks speaker and graffiti artist Erik Wahl. Intriguing!

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Better still, imagine getting your prospects to tell you both who their key players are and all the gory details of their organization’s buying process –– and having it verified by the buyer before you even submit a proposal. How to use a mutual action plan to improve your sales process. RELATED : Stop “Closing” Your Prospects!

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Forecasting How To 81

InsideSales.com

MARCH 11, 2020

Middle of sales cycle: Try working around the objection and find the root cause. End of the sale: Find out why and use it as a learning experience. Prospect Hates You. If it appears like they hate you, pass them to another sales rep who’s better suited for this type of prospect. Asks How You Find Them.

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Objections Cold Calling Decision Maker Hiring 58

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The dean, the faculty of the college of business, and I believe our university needs a sales minor to compliment its business degrees. SVP of Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. How long have you been in sales? . I have been in sales for almost my entire professional career. How long have you been in sales?

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Call-back 90

Close.io

MAY 20, 2019

In this guide, we’ll run you through everything you need to know about sales KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and metrics and then highlight the 18 essential sales KPIs used by top sales teams around the world to court better prospects, close more leads, and boost their bottom line. The case for KPIs and Sales Analytics.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Churn 88