Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently. Consider new territory rules that reflect changes in the market (and your business). Territory profiles .

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 7, 2017

A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog. The key point is relationships take more time and energy to establish than setting up a screen share (or worst case jumping on a plane.) The key point is relationships take more time and energy to establish than setting up a screen share (or worst case jumping on a plane.)

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog yesterday. The key point is relationships take more time and energy to establish than setting up a screen share (or worst case jumping on a plane.) Redefining Sales Territories: From Geographic to Social Proximity. That’s right, not even you, sales territories.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Tracking Trigger Events With the myriad of instances that can be considered a trigger event, you may be wondering how to keep up with all of them. Luckily there are a few places you can set up alerts that will help you discover these events as they arrive. Set up alerts for when positions at a particular company are open.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

LinkedIn is filled with surveys about, “What is the highest priority focus for [Fill In Your Favorite Role]?” ” If sales management and selling were that easy… The problem is, these are false choices. As sellers, we have to manage our territories and accounts. We have to do the whole job.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Through consistent follow-up and relationship-building activities, BDRs can expand sales pipelines. This is accomplished by uncovering additional opportunities and cross-selling/up-selling to existing clients. BDRs may struggle to pivot toward more inbound-focused strategies, such as content marketing or social selling.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Happy Selling! Improve your sources of fresh information.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 17, 2024

I scoured my territory for potential opportunities and found several hundred. I then tore up that list and, instead, I reached out to potential power partners. I need to become more effective on LinkedIn in particular. I still think that effective selling is based upon developing relationships and I don’t see how A.I.

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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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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. Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Messaging is focused, content is relevant, closing rates go up.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 20, 2020

Your territory isn’t as good as your neighbor’s territory. So they meticulously created a geographical territory that contains no clients you could win. You’ve noticed the number one rep from your primary competitor has this same territory, and you are sure this is all by design. This makes no sense.

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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. look to see other companies my contacts in my client companies are associated with through their LinkedIn profile. This team will be made up of several to 6 or so people.

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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. Find ways that differentiate you from others in your industry and sell against the dreaded state of “status quo”. Keep Track of Your Buyers. Increase Opportunities.

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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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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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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.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 31, 2017

But how many emails do you get that are paired up with a voicemail? Keep these tips in mind if you are struggling to get your demo numbers up, or if you are simply having a difficult time getting a foot in the door with a prospect. From our SDR with a 60% response rate : How to Heat up Cold Email with Personalization.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

This type of selling is often used in B2B sales, but it can be used in B2C sales as well. You can congratulate them on a recent funding round or new position, or compliment them on a recent article or LinkedIn post they wrote. LinkedIn is a particularly powerful tool for social selling. This way, you’ll stay top of mind.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

This type of selling is often used in B2B sales, but it can be used in B2C sales as well. You can congratulate them on a recent funding round or new position, or compliment them on a recent article or LinkedIn post they wrote. LinkedIn is a particularly powerful tool for social selling. This way, you’ll stay top of mind.

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Subscribe to Selling With Social. I try to keep myself informed about the social media changes that are happening so I can equip my clients and podcast listeners to get more from their social selling efforts. Salespeople Are CEOs of Their Own Territory and Accounts. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts.

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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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Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

You think this just comes up naturally in your thought process? Show up at your desk ready to go because you’ve thought through these questions in advance, and have a game plan in place. Selling is a profession, and it is an admirable profession that deserves your mindful and thoughtful approach to growing your territory.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

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. To check these activities you’ll need to have access to Rep LinkedIn profiles.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In fact, at the time of writing this article, there are over 100,000 open SaaS sales roles on LinkedIn. They make initial contact with people whom they think are qualified and ready to use the product they're trying to sell. The job of an AE is to close deals by following up on the qualified leads that SDRs generated.

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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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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

He has so much sales and management knowledge he could write a book on it — and, in fact, he’s written seven, including “Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing.” The best sales model in the world cannot make up for a flawed business model. But it’s a different world today.

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