SBI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. This week I interview Umberto Milletti, CEO of InsideView. Nancy: What does InsideView do? What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations?

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2018

In order to contact prospects you need to have their contact information. This is the first post in the more practical area of actually doing this prospecting thing. During the posts about preparation I told you about getting your prospect profile together. I imagine you are in sales to sell things. Social calling helps.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

courtesy of InsideView. A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying. They just set a first meeting with this prospect company who earlier would not interact with them. HELPFUL: Download InsideView’s Twitter for Social Selling Guide here.

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Emissary

JANUARY 19, 2023

In today’s busy, competitive business environment, it can be difficult to find and contact the best prospects – and then deliver messaging that resonates. With the right sales intelligence tools, you can accelerate and better inform your sales process.

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LeadBoxer

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s no secret that to make sales, you need to know your individual prospects inside and out, from the size of their company to their most recent source of funding. Most sales reps are extremely busy communicating with their leads and working to close deals. That’s where sales intelligence tools come in.

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SBI

DECEMBER 29, 2014

2015 looks to be the most exciting year yet for sales and marketing solutions and for those who seek to improve their revenue. 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14. Read more… Top Marketing Tools. You’ll find them and more in our new Top Marketing Tools of 2014 guide.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this post, I want to tell you about something that boosts prospecting results: trigger events. A “trigger event” is when something changes in your prospect’s world. Change is good for you when you’re selling as when something changes in your prospect’s world, it often creates a need. You get these from sales tools.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When identifying qualified leads, building relationships with potential buyers, guiding customers through the buyer's journey, and closing deals, every bit of information about your prospects helps. However, sales reps don't always have the time or resources to collect all of that information. Where does sales intelligence come from?

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SBI

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Two years ago, I wrote about the perfect sales tool and included a wish list of capabilities that simply didn’t exist back then. Admittedly, the perfect sales tool will never exist because the needs of sales organizations vary from company to company. Is there a perfect tool for individual scenarios?

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2018

In my last post I shone a light on the fact that to prospect you need to have a good prospect list. In this post, I want to tell you about something that boosts prospecting results: trigger events. A “trigger event” is when something changes in your prospect’s world. You get these from sales tools.

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SBI

APRIL 27, 2021

26 Top Sales Software to Drive Growth in 2021. By Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools. The pace of innovation in the Sales Software market is accelerating. Top Sales Software. That’s why I’m excited to announce our annual Top Sales Tools awards. This year, I’ve organized the awards into 6 categories.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 7, 2014

He’s writing some excellent stuff about modern sales and marketing over there. As timing would have it, Louis just updated me that he has a new (free 83-page) ebook out of interviews with sales and marketing leaders. Louis asked about the usefulness of Sales 2.0 You get these from Sales 2.0 Closing Prospecting Sales 2.0

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

If you’ve read my stuff before, you’ll know I have one basic prospecting framework I’ve been harking on about for the last 4-5 years. It’s a framework aimed at getting you access, setting up those oh-so-important initial sales meetings. Given that this is now 2014, Sweetspot is an iPad first (and only at the moment) tool.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 7, 2013

I’ve been a Sales VP and a President of a company. I’ve also been a sales rep in various levels and industries most of my life. This experience has helped me recognize when duct tape is the tool of choice. Sales leaders that have been putting these decisions off run significant risk of being exposed in the near term.

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Fill the Funnel

MARCH 6, 2014

The impact of technology in the sales profession is profound, altering everything from strategy, tactics, process and the buyer expectaions and actions. My focus in this post is on Business-to-Business sales, though many of these apply to the consumer sales arena as well. The Gatekeeper. Preparing Quotes and Proposals.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

There are usually a few events each year where this happens and in this case, it was Boston this week for the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ( AA-ISP ). Barsi, InsideView (I thought more folks read – and deleted emails from their phone, either way – CRAFT SHORTER messages!). Always be prospecting.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On’s streamlined user interface puts first-rate marketing tools at your fingertips, making campaigns and programs easier and faster.

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2021

By Lisa Smith, InsideView. It’s a well known fact: buyers today don’t have the time or patience for generic marketing messages and sales pitches. Firmographic data can help you find prospects that look like your ideal customers. Wouldn’t it be great to know which of your prospects use the complementary systems?

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SBI

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Smart Selling Tools community knows about our weekly Executive Interview Series. Everyone wants to know how and whether a sales technology will help them sell more, in less time, at the right price, or with less cost. We refer to those as the 4 Golden Goals of sales organizations. Pretty cool, right? Sounds scary, huh?

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Mike, who is a B2B sales guy asked me a great question: “WHY DON’T MORE SALES REPS PRACTICE ASKING FOR REFERRALS AFTER THE SALE…. Just like most humans, many sales professionals fear rejection. Asking for referrals as a regular part of a company’s sales activities requires organization, process, and a plan.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2011

InsideView nailed it by titling its Sales Intelligence blog “ Why Cold Calling is the Bottom of the Barrel ”. Finally, a Sales 2.0 company states that cold calls are dead.Yet, many sales people continue to cold call. Compare cold calling to referral sales. Your sales process shortens. This is why Sales 2.0

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Many “experts” sit around and preach about how you must add researched insight into every prospective interaction with a potential buyer. The same people urging lots of data and insight often have not sat in a busy office with dozens of sales reps making calls. Warm every call up. Hold on a minute. That means call activity.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Type “definition of sales enablement” into the Google Search bar and you’ll get 63,900 results. If you’re a sales trainer, sales enablement means giving your sales team the knowledge and tools to sell effectively(so they can sell more). You could rightly think of each one of them as sales enablement tools.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

Those opinions come from folks out in the world of sales and from marketers, which I admit confuses me, because marketers don’t sell. I see social selling as the ability to integrate social technology into the front end of your sales process. I’m all for marketing and sales alignment. Here’s my view…. This is about selling.

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MAY 24, 2012

The question I was asked: “Would you rather make 100 cold calls or 20 well-researched calls to b2b sales prospects?” The archived audio is an hour long and I promise that if you listen to it, you’ll pick up a tip or a tool you didn’t know about – since all of us on the panel took notes as well.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 28, 2012

Referrals are the secret to B2B sales: Get the meeting at the level that counts. Face to Face in a Sales 2.0 World”—that’s how I met Todd McCormick at the Fall 2011 Sales 2.0 And then I learned that iMeet (a product created by PGi, where Todd leads a sales team), does just that. conference. Can’t remember? Neither can I.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Now that you are working to grow visibility as a seller and think like a publisher, work to craft a plan to make sales increases happen. Over many years and hundreds of sales teams, I’ve seen the most successful sellers work a plan and plan their work. I crafted plans to work hard to keep myself on track. What Plans do I Need?

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SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

Software (like CRM), training (skills and product knowledge), coaching, and good sales processes are all key. Imagine your marketing team is delivering a steady flow of leads to the sales organization. In our webinar, I mentioned a shocking stat: 50% of your prospects aren’t a good fit for what you sell. [1] Conclusion?.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I’ll be at the Sales Enablement Soiree at the Four Season’s hotel on Thursday the 27th all day. To help you with that mission, we’re naming our top 20 Sales Tech Twitter handles to follow during this epic Dreamforce 2018. Go beyond sales enablement to create a sophisticated selling experience that buyers value.

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John Barrows

MAY 15, 2019

It was basically Salesloft + InsideView + Nova.ai I still believe it would rival some of the best sales tools out there today if it was still available. Timing in Sales. Timing isn’t just critical with business ideas, it’s also extremely critical in sales. Sales used to be a pure numbers game.

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SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As you plan your sales and marketing strategies for next year, have you assessed the state of your data and technology stack? I sat down to discuss this topic in a webinar with Nancy Nardin, Founder of Smart Selling Tools and Vendor Neutral. Sales enablement – 8%. B2B companies are in planning mode this time of year.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting.

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Green Lead's B2B

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ladies and gentlemen, the sales automation revolution is upon us. The highly optimized sales organizations of today has a collection of sales automation application that work on top of their CRM. I have had a lot of fun learning about the tools everyone is going to discuss. In today's post, I present three tools to you.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2014

Top performing executives, business development, and sales professionals have an incredible, almost innate ability to “connect the dots.” Great sales people do this all the time. This is our sweet spot, our ideal prospects and customers. Again, there are lots of tools that help us do this.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

BYOT – B ring Y our O wn T ools is a practice that sales leaders and individual sales people themselves have been slow to embrace. I differ from Shanto in that I do not see sales reps deploying many of the powerful new generation of sales tools in any significant number on their own. Very few in my experience.

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Tony Hughes

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey There's never enough time in the day as a sales executive. The sand are the reactive prospect e-mails, the training video you had starred to watch, those social media notifications, the news of the day, sports scores, etc.

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