Pipeliner

MAY 21, 2020

The sales department sits at the center of a company’s ability to generate revenue and grow. Small and medium-sized businesses depend critically on their sales departments in order to compete against the competition. This is particularly true for the sales department, because of its important role in a company’s success.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

Lately, there have been a lot of “Aha, we’ve discovered the secret” posts and eBooks on Product Led Growth and the role of sales people. What most of the product led growth crowd don’t acknowledge is the mechanisms around market maturity and sustained growth. The world goes through constant cycles.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 15, 2023

We study them and their strategies. We read their reviews, reveling over the customer complaints, trying to figure out how to leverage them into our strategies. We are obsessed with our competition. We compare them, their solutions, their capabilities to ours. We develop playbooks and battlecards to help position ourselves.

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HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 22, 2012

I’ve had the privilege of conducting “Win/Loss/No Decision Sales Cycle Analysis Studies” for leading companies including IBM, EMC, ATT, Acxiom, and PayPal. To accomplish these studies I have interviewed hundreds of C-level executives and countless mid-level managers and lower-level personnel. Did I listen to my sales intuition?

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Want to improve sales communication? These are welcome findings to anyone in sales. These are welcome findings to anyone in sales. It is also safe to say that many in sales are not that comfortable or familiar with how to incorporate graphics and video into our communication.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 2, 2013

My recent Harvard Business Review article titled “ Research: How Sensory Information Influences Price Decisions” was based upon a fascinating sales linguistics experiment. Recently, a sales linguistics experiment was conducted in order to   answer this question. MARTIN HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW SALES ARTICLES'

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 25, 2013

SPOILER ALERT : Click here if you would like to take the actual test that was given to study participants prior to reviewing the research results below. Recently, a sales linguistics experiment was conducted in order to answer this question. The experiment also provides other important lessons for sales and marketing professionals.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is it – the 52 best sales book you’ll ever read. Of all the different types of books I read, sales books have probably been the most common (though I spend a lot of time reading books that have nothing to do with sales, which has tremendous value). The Challenger Sale. This is a sequel to The Challenger Sale.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cold email should not be mixed with spam messages, which are sent to a large number of addresses simultaneously without studying the recipient’s relevance or validating that the email account exists at all. 89 percent of marketers cite email as their major lead generating medium, and with cause. However, is cold email effective?

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales is the somewhat dark art of convincing people to buy stuff. But the problem is that many people, including a lot of salespeople, do see sales that way. And today we want to show you how you and your colleagues can use it to break that old idea of sales and bring new life into our old profession.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 27, 2020

The solution — like with many things in sales — is to AB test anything and everything. Now I know that Aaron Ross used some of this lingo in Predictable Revenue to differentiate outbound prospecting ( Spears) from marketing, which is casting a wider net and focusing more on an inbound approach. This is the revelation that Steve W.

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