Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2020

He posed the question, “Which of the following workflow is more important, Prospecting, Opportunity Management, Account Development, Partners.” But that focus—excluding balanced focus on the other areas–can be devastating to sales performance and brand reputation. Or reduced our sales cycle.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Social Media Account 117

Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For marketing, digital transformation has always been about data. Data has been the essential raw material used to identify market segments, market size, audience, buyer preferences, message content, contact qualification and all the other metrics and values required to market a product. Marketing Process Automation.

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Data Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Campaigns 62

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2021

Marketing (and sales) inundate customers and prospects with endless emails, texts, phone calls. ” Customers increasingly choose to minimize sales involvement in their buying process, seeking digital and other sources to support their buying journeys. We look to marketing to create/drive leads.

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Lead Rank Channels Customer Service Sales Qualified Lead 140

Pointclear

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. For whatever reason (was it beneath him?) the CEO failed to step in and act.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Decision Maker 145

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

In fact, when asking Sales Operations Leaders what qualitative data they had gathered, here are their responses: Conducted internal win/loss debrief on large opportunities. Interviewed VP of Sales, Product Leaders, and Sales Manager to understand what they were seeing in the market.

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Data Analysis Sales Operations Buying Cycle 267

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s also really important that you align on exit criteria for the stages in your sales cycle so that a rep knows exactly what they are responsible for before progressing an opportunity through the funnel. Build sales collateral. The sales process is only as good as the value it provides to your customers and reps.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Sales Management Sales Methodology 81

Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2013

That’s quickly changing, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Koka Sexton, LinkedIn’s senior manager of social marketing. Sales Managers Didn’t Want Their People on Social Media All Day. But in sales, you’re out in the cold if you don’t have a browser open to LinkedIn. An evangelist for social selling — and a U.S.

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Social Media Media Twitter Social Selling 203

Pipeliner

APRIL 30, 2021

It has prioritized lead and opportunity management over account management. Guided by both the industry and the CRM solutions they were using, businesses and organizations never really dug into real account management. RAIN Group, White Paper Competencies of Strategic Account Managers. Need from CRM.

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Account Lead Rank Lead Scoring Engineering 80

Pointclear

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I once worked with the then SVP, Marketing of a large public company who was frustrated with sales. At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. For details on how sales should follow-up on a lead click here. Big surprise.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Leads 100

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It could be a marketing interaction, and more often, that first touch starts with someone on the front lines of your sales organization. The idea is to deliver the right articles, white papers, case studies, videos or webinars at the right time in the buyers’ decision-making process. But that’s not the case at all.

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Webinar Metrics Loyalty Buyer Case Study 126

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2023

We have more ability to collect data, about customers, about the performance of our marketing initiatives, about the performance of our sales people. I spend a lot of time with sales managers looking at data. There is huge amounts of data that speaks to customer business challenges, strategies, market performance.

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Data Vendor Pipeline Face-to-face 68

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Avoid Ad Hoc Marketing. February 2008.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Marketing 253

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Interview , Planning , Proactive , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , audio , execution. Earlier this year I had the great opportunity to be on the air with Todd Schnick , of Intrepid Radio ([link] We talked sales, some new nuggets, some familiar favourites, but always with an eye to execution.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 240

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This is the lengthy process of developing raw sales talent into top performers within their respective organizations. Recently, Janek Performance Group partnered with Selling Power for a comprehensive white paper on hiring, onboarding, and retaining sales talent post COVID. There, we focused on how onboarding has changed.

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Hiring Sales Methodology Sales Talent Survey 62

Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Scale Resources 98

Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2021

Generally speaking, an effective sales enablement approach will be held up by the following pillars: Knowledge: Knowledge of your prospect, your product, and your market — your sales reps need to have it all. Content: A helping of high-quality marketing content to fill up your lead pipeline.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 62

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007. The Pipeline Guest Post – Jeff Erramouspe.

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Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In this episode, my guest is Shari Johnston, VP Marketing at Casetext and our topic is Aligning your Go To Market Strategy Around Account-Based Marketing. Account Based Marketing, Account Based Selling and Account Based Everything has been a pretty hot topic for the last two + years.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Demand Generation Targets 50

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2020

They were hitting their monthly proposal number, but many of the opportunities were marginally qualified, or opportunities they shouldn’t have been chasing in the first place. Afterword : The process we put in place with my client was based on the implementation of our Sales Execution Framework (SEF).

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Proposal Margin Sales Cycle Quota 96

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Developing meaningful relationships with our customers is not just a nice way to work, nor is it an outdated sales concept. 29% increase in percentage of sales reps making quota. 24% decrease in sales force turnover. Attention Seasoned Sales Pros. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople'

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Gatekeeper Referrals Cold Calling Hiring 218

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

After all, if like most sales people you have a close ratio of 25%-30%, it is more efficient to remove those opportunities that won’t close early, leaving you the ones that, with effort by you, will close. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Random Walk Down Sales Street.

Sales Qualified Lead 231

Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics 231

The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Some only want to look at their successes and ignore those things that did not go their way, fooling themselves by only looking at those things are familiar and ignoring the real opportunities to learn what went wrong, and what they could do differently next time out. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Vendor 265

The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

For some it is the “competition”, encouraging sellers to focus on the buyer’s circumstance and market view rather than product. This has become much more the case since the introduction of the marketing term Sales 2.0. Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , sell better , Status Quo , Success. HR Management.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Hiring 241

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A common concern I hear from sales leaders across all verticals is that they don’t feel that reps are fully covering their territories. This concern applies to coverage for existing accounts, or harvesting the new business opportunities. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales Alchemy. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Forecast , Funnel management , Guest Post , Sales Management , Sales Process , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. Our singular task is to pump money out of a sales pipeline. December 2007.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 198

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 19, 2011

” One of the things we discover are opportunities that have been there for some time, long term tenants. Eventually this build up does clog the flow of deals and opportunities through the pipeline and results in a massive attack on your income and success. This comes down to having active opportunities in the pipe vs. inactive.

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Pipeline Closing Top of Funnel Hiring 222

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Stored in Appointments , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , execution. I was working with a group of sales managers earlier this week, including observing some pipeline reviews. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Groups Lead Rank 218

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

However, when you step back, not having an answer on the tip of your tongue, is not the worst prospect for a sales rep. It is an opportunity for them to explore issues further. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Compensation.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling 212

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 11, 2020

Where do we have the opportunity to tilt the numbers in our favor? In conversations with too many sales people and managers, when I start asking those questions, I get blank stares or eye rolls. “That would mean, your team of 6 people are going to have to find and qualify over 1000 new opportunities in the next 2 months.

Ideal Customer Profile 111

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Analysis 111

The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting? Funnel management.

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Sales Meeting Pipeline Meeting Hiring 251

The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , On-Line Conference , Proactive , Sales Leadership , execution. 2011 Sales & Marketing Success Conference. As readers of The Pipeline , you are always looking for new and great ideas to improve your sales results, and a challenge. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent.

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Pipeline Conference Webinar Metrics Cold Calling 218

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If the buyer has objections or concerns about where you want to go, and how you plan to get there, they can voice those before the meeting, giving you the opportunity to adjust in advance rather than at the fatal end. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Sales Bloggers Union.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling 230

The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2012

It is an opportunity to sit down for a brief period of time, not rushed by the day or week, and ensure that everything is as it should be if you are going to move things forward in the right direction. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Random Walk Down Sales Street.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Webinar Metrics 220

Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Technology use : Salespeople need to master the company’s CRM and other sales tools, such as industry platforms like LinkedIn, to reach their sales goals. An approach like MEDDIC equips your team to rapidly adapt to market changes and ensures uniformity in customer interactions.

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Training Hiring Coaching Course 52

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

In every case we’ve seen, there are huge opportunities for performance improvements, improvements in effectiveness and efficiency, just by improving execution on the things that are already in place. Managing these takes time away from focusing on the real, highly qualified deals. Focus on disqualification.

Ideal Customer Profile 90

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Methodology 90

The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 7 Must-Have Lead Nurturing Recipes for B2B Marketers. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Lead Management , Marketing , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , e-book , execution. 7 Must-Have Lead Nurturing Recipes for B2B Marketers [link] / via @Renbor.

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Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Lead B2B Pipeline 218

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The fact that they may be seeking a solution, suggests that they are facing some challenges, obstacles and gaps in their ability to attain those objectives, or what I call opportunity. Let’s be clear, this does not exclude new sellers, experience includes leveraging the collective experience of your company and fellow sales people.

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Pipeline Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 225