SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Has your Sales Ops planning kept up with the new realities? Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. If that covers most of your plan’s components, you better catch up.

Buyer Persona 310

Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. Leverage Automation – The hidden cost of social selling is time, and to a lesser degree content.

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Outsourcing Services Closing Hiring Social Selling 306

Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

When Google launched in 1998 none of us in professional selling had any idea how it might change the way the world of business-to-business selling worked. I can remember the first day I heard about the search engine – it was early 1999 and it seemed like a nice, helpful tool – not a world game-changer as it has become.

Ideal Customer Profile 234

Ideal Customer Profile Banking Engineering Twitter 234

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are 4 immediate and then 3 longer-term things the HR leader can do to help out: (Sign-up for the Make the Number Tour for more in-depth discussion). Recent spike in LinkedIn network activity (but this could simply be a push to get into more accounts). With Sales Operations, check their assigned sales territory.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

This type of selling is often used in B2B sales, but it can be used in B2C sales as well. Crunchbase’s account-based prospecting tools can help you find new companies that are the right fit, so you don’t waste time on deals that will never close. This can be the difference between a reply and your message being sent to the trash can.

Ideal Customer Profile 98

Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

This type of selling is often used in B2B sales, but it can be used in B2C sales as well. Crunchbase’s account-based prospecting tools can help you find new companies that are the right fit, so you don’t waste time on deals that will never close. This can be the difference between a reply and your message being sent to the trash can.

Ideal Customer Profile 98

Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Conversely, we’ve come across teams that throw their hands up in despair. All your data is rolled-up to a common definition of the customer. IT needs to step up here. After evaluating your team and their tools, you might ask “Where do I start?” Messaging is focused, content is relevant, closing rates go up.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Free Resources.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

SalesforLife

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’ve been working with a Fortune 50 company over the last couple of years, and it’s been incredible to watch how they’ve incorporated modern, digital selling with traditional calls, email-based selling, and account-based marketing as part of the trifecta of success. intermixed with LinkedIn data to fill in a seller’s entire TAM.

Pipeline 80

Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Customer 80

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. ZoomInfo is here to change that with our latest release, Salesforce Sync. Think about it.

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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 100

Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

We have our prescribed lists and territories. Long term opportunities (what am I setting up for next quarter?). If this happens to you, I ask that you don’t give up hope on ever winning their business. Read: How to Write Follow-Up Emails Buyers Can’t Wait to Share. Win your dream customers: Playing the long game.

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Account Hiring Intent Signal Conference 98

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That’s why branching into new territory is more important than ever. In this post, we’ll further explore the concept of using AI to sell into new industries and review five ways your sales team can leverage it. 5 Ways Your Team Can Use AI to Sell Into New Industries 1. 5 Ways Your Team Can Use AI to Sell Into New Industries 1.

Industry 98

Industry Top of Funnel Decision Maker Demographics 98

SalesLoft

JANUARY 11, 2016

But with the abundant amount of sales development tech tools out there, it’s easy to lose track of what your prospects (and their companies) are up to. Another great feature of this sales development tech tool is the daily report of accounts. LinkedIn Sales Navigator. LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Social selling works.

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Tools Scale Enterprise Enterprise 52

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sell, sell, sell. In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). Cold calling: Unsolicited calls to sell a product or service. What Is Prospecting?

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 144

SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

Get the Turnover Trouble Tool for help with the 13 leading indicators to watch. Any virtual benches that the Sales Managers had have long ago been used up. This means some territories are not producing to expected or potential revenues. Increase in Sales rep LinkedIn activity not related to prospects or customers.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Commission 312

Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

If the company you’re prospecting is investing in hiring new people, they’re likely investing in new tools and services for those employees to take advantage of. By reaching out when you see a role posted that’s relevant to what you sell, you open up a host of new opportunities. See a competitor’s tool? Funding rounds.

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Hiring Promotion Sales Cycle Territories 92

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. For a perfectly cooked main dish of deals that hit quota, keep things simple to understand and easy for sellers to sell. Keep it Consistent – baking is scientific, and so is selling. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Territories Commission 247

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

Want to get the real scoop about social selling? Here’s Barb’s take on social selling. People pick up on a catchphrase that is garnering attention and before you know it, they are jumping on the bandwagon to proclaim that they are the expert. That’s what is happening with social selling. This is about selling.

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Social Media Social Selling Media InsideView 271

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule Growing up, many of us Baby Boomers only had a radio. Don’t stay up too late watching TV. Don’t turn it up too loud or you won’t hear people when they talk to you. The Lesson for Salespeople This isn’t just dangerous territory for families; it also makes for bad business.

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Face-to-face Transportation Pivotal Social Media 291

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

Workbooks 232

Workbooks Analytics Territories Ideal Customer Profile 232

BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Selling to local SMBs is very different from selling to Fortune 100 executives, for example.) Social Selling. Territory Management. Salespeople must communicate effectively throughout the sales cycle, from cold outreach and follow-up to moving an opportunity along. Social Selling. Communication. Prospecting.

Social Media 62

Social Media Territories Face-to-face Negotiation 62

SBI Growth

MARCH 19, 2013

Early takeaways from the field: Sales Force Automation tool must be optimized – Salesforce.com adoption by reps and managers can be improved. Salesforce.com is not a compliance tool. One rep suggested interviews include a staged sales negotiation while ‘selling’ a more complex product to the Sales Manager. Key Activities.

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Revenue Hiring Face-to-face Social Media 288

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Over the last couple of years, many of our customers have been asking us to identify the go-to-market strategy, and specific execution points, around selling in teams. In this blog, I won’t cover why it’s so critical to sell in squads and pods – that should be self-explanatory.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

If your B2B company has been slow to get more involved in what some call the Social Selling movement, you can still do some very simple things right away while your company debates how, when and why to jump in. Set up (or finally start using) your Twitter account – you should have done this already. courtesy of InsideView.

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InsideView Research Prospecting Eloqua 249

SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

I have worked with sales organizations where managers spend up to 65% of their time on admin. Focus on coaching-up your talent and helping out with deal strategy. Download this simple tool to track the three aforementioned productivity killers. A-players – Incent them more and put them in your best territories.

Sales Management 310

Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Time you spent in the office with your colleagues talking about the problem with your territory, your CRM system, your personal issues. That means that you are not watched every minute – and most of us in selling are not micro-managed. Take the How Productive Are You Quiz - and get ideas and tools to improve.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The most recent would be assassins are Socialites, social selling advocates, who seem to spend as much time sniping at and proclaiming the death of cold calling as they do speaking about what they sell, social selling products, seminars, remedies and dreams. Let’s Spin Some Stats!

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Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

Sales Evangelist

MARCH 19, 2020

He started his career in sales with cold calls, went on to a territory sales job, then became an account manager. Now with his current team, they’re sharing a tool they’ve created that is helpful for salespeople to automate. Selling smart using automation OnCourse is a tool that helps salespeople to automate responsibly.

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Sales Automation LinkedIn Study Follow-up 59

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

Here are nine ways salespeople can find prospects fast and keep filling up their pipelines month after month. If you notice that a company is hiring an executive or senior employee in the function you sell into, keep an eye on when the listing goes down. Stay up to date on industry trends and strategies. How to Find Prospects.

Prospecting 80

Prospecting Hiring Journal Territories 80

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. “But we’re not IBM” Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Guest Post , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Social Selling. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email. February 2012.

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Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

SBI

JULY 24, 2018

When the first sales automation tool was launched, it truly changed the way sales were managed. The early 2000’s introduced cloud-based sales automation tools, but it was little more than taking the same empty promises of the 90’s and moving them to the cloud. The tools they use needs to help them keep pace. A HISTORY LESSON.

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CRM SAP Forecasting Incentives 95

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you're connecting with prospects on LinkedIn and then following up over email, a lead might be any LinkedIn user you've identified as a potential good fit. Second, are your salespeople effectively following up with those leads? Are they reaching out enough times before giving up? Review their approach.

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Sales Process How To Hubspot Hiring 139

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In all the years I’ve been selling, I have only met one person who claims never to have made a cold call during their career (let’s qualify that, successful career), and while I believe that the captain of commerce in question, I also suspect that he is the exception that proves the rule. To exclude one, is to limit your success.

Cold Calling 282

Cold Calling Outsourcing Services Wireless Harvest 282

Crunchbase

MARCH 23, 2023

Sales automation uses software, artificial intelligence or other digital tools to automate repetitive manual tasks in order to make it easier for sales teams to focus on building relationships, nurturing leads and closing deals. Sales automation enables you to focus on selling while reducing time spent on manual tasks.

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Sales Automation Software Software Sales Process 52

SBI Growth

JUNE 26, 2013

An example could be low selling time. Sales Process / CRM Overview – Provide a view of the pipeline, the sales process, forecasting and the CRM tool being used. Territory Design / Structure Process. On-Boarding – Summary of process for onboarding, training modules, technology set-up, etc. Social Selling Guidelines.

Hiring 319

Hiring Lead Rank Compensation Guidelines 319

Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 22, 2020

Territory and Account Plan: You need a territory and account plan to guide your effort in deciding where you are going to find these opportunities and your strategy for helping compel them to change. Even if you are not in something you would describe as a complex sale, selling has become much more complicated.

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Territories Decision Maker Opportunity Cold Calling 79

The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , Sell Better , Shorter sales cycle , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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ACT Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring 244