The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Last week I got an e-mail from one of the traditional providers in the sales enablement business. It seems they have discovered social media, Sales 2.0, You can tell your friends and family that you are in sales, but if that’s you, you’re an order taker, end of story. and felt they had to let the world know.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 11, 2017

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli, Co-Founder and VP of Global Sales, 3D2B Marketing and sales metrics can give you a window on the future and the insights you need to optimize sales. That’s because once you understand the metrics that drive sales, you can more accurately predict what’s ahead. Response Time to Leads.

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Inbound Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 176

Pipeline

MAY 30, 2023

What makes sales teams win more deals? Turns out that sales enablement plays a key role in results. Sales enablement gives your sales reps the leadership, support, technology, content, and processes they need to close more deals consistently. It’s also how you turn 50% of your average performers into elite sales reps.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Turnover is a fierce headwind for leaders of Sales and HR. As the strategic HR partner to multiple sales leaders, Steve is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent. Two years ago Cincom faced a serious talent issue: they could not find and keep the professionals they needed to manage their complex sales cycles.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Justin Shriber, Regional Vice President, CRM On Demand, at Oracle just delivered the best presentation at Sales 2.0 The Average VP of sales tenure is less than 24 months. Sales says 25% of the leads aren’t qualified, while marketing says 89% of the leads are qualified. Conference so far.

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Oracle Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 103

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. So, start clearing your schedule, and get ready for the best week of your sales career! COST : Nada.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If you’re familiar with what a CRM is already, then you intuitively know that an enterprise CRM is basically a CRM solution tailored to larger (enterprise-level) companies with complex processes and large sales teams. Here are just a few features that are specific to enterprise-level CRMs: Custom objects. Sales enablement.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge. Sales Knowledge Management to the rescue! Efficiency.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Oracle 71

Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You may know her from her days at Oracle, or because you’ve heard about her hierarchy of sales. However you’ve heard of her before, Nancy and Jim discussed a few different data points that Chorus surfaced around the role that tech is playing in transforming sales teams. It was her actual Hierarchy of Sales.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Maybe you’ve just landed your first sales job (In this economy? or maybe you’ve been in sales for years and are looking for a little inspiration. Either way, this list of top sales leaders can help you find the people who might just change the way you do your job. . Head of partnerships at Sales Hacker. Godard Abel.

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Revegy

JULY 17, 2018

Leading sales organizations at companies like JDA Software and more applied a visual approach to their account planning process and immediately uncovered expansion and new pipeline opportunities that were previously hidden. Uncover untapped opportunities: 75% of Oracles largest revenue deals closed with account plans.

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EyesOnSales

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Sales organizations often find themselves in a similar predicament, relying on a handful of their salespeople to drive revenue. And while this may seem idealistic, the whole discipline of sales enablement focuses on achieving this objective. 3 Strategies for Implementing Sales Education.

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Groove.co

JANUARY 12, 2021

Gartner just published its December 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Sales Force Automation report, and we are pleased to share that Groove is one of the Highest-Rated Customers’ Choice Providers for North America. Gartner Peer Insights was created to help organizations choose enterprise IT solutions with confidence.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Despite the growing need to convince buyers as to the unique value you can deliver, the traditional Business Case - long a staple of value selling - may be losing it’s luster in driving sales success. Fail to, and you face significantly stalled decisions and sales cycle delays. And why is it important to focus on “Do Nothing” first?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2021

As pipelines shrank due to COVID-19, many organizations shifted from inbound to an account-based sales and marketing outreach approach. They are only engaging in one-to-many ABM and one-to-few ABM, and they are missing opportunities to drive sales cycles with target organizations that are stuck in status quo.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. What is a sales forecast? Of course, sales forecasts can also be woefully incorrect.

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Costello

JULY 23, 2018

Armen Zildjian, VP Sales, Drift. As you may have seen in our first collection of People > Processes articles, we featured mostly individual quota bearing sales professionals who serve their prospective customers relentlessly. He was able to experience sales firsthand and also saw how technology could intersect with sales.

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Artesian Solutions

MARCH 11, 2019

Tech Sales – The shift from product selling, through solution selling, to customer needs selling. Customer needs selling occurs when salespeople go through a discovery process to determine if customers have needs, wants, problems or objectives they want filled, satisfied or solved. The best description I have seen is…. Identification.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 28, 2023

It’s a relief that companies and sales leaders can turn to the incredibly stabilizing factors that Pipeliner provides to companies everywhere. No matter which of them you choose—IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, or Salesforce—they all have the same characteristics that will weigh any company down: Lengthy, heavy implementation.

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Highspot

APRIL 23, 2020

Just this week, more than one thousand experts from companies including Salesforce, Oracle, and IQVIA participated in Sales Enablement PRO’s virtual Sales Enablement Soirée. Relationships across the business are foundational to sales enablement success. Align with Leadership to Drive Change.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Scott Armour. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The Flip Between Sales and Marketing [29:09]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scott has had a multi-decade career specializing in building and scaling sales organizations. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I've thoroughly enjoyed speaking at Oracle recently down under. I'm hoping to save the sector from shiny object syndrome and 'look a squirrel' transactional Armegeddon. Here's my definition if closing six, seven and even eight figure deals leveraging social + strategy as a force multiplier is something intriguing to you.

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Pointclear

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2018. CEO at Sales Gravy | Author | Keynote Speaker | Sales Acceleration Specialist.

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Troops

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

We interviewed Tim Sanders , CEO of Deeper Media and author of several sales and business books, including Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Will Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges to ask him more about closing big, complex deals. Big sales are just problem-solving exercises,” Tim told us. That’s a mistake, Tim told us.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 24, 2016

Too few sales people understand how to do this, or take the time to present a business case for their solutions. As an example, while Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Oracle might disagree with me, their CRM systems are very similar and the productivity/business case for each is likely to be similar.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2022. CEO at Sales Gravy | Author | Keynote Speaker | Sales Acceleration Specialist.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 31, 2020

What’s more, it’s built to easily hand off data between marketing, sales, and customer service teams ensuring fast access to the insights they need to address issues and capitalize on opportunities. Sales teams can quickly and accurately access a prospect’s history to identify pain points or reservations that need to be overcome.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Jordan Arogeti. Meka Asonye.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

At Abstrakt , we’ve scheduled more than 100,000 B2B sales meetings in the last eight years, so we have unique insight and hundreds of thousands of hours put into mastering this skill. “I think it’s really unusual, and that’s why we’re really selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.”

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Crunchbase

APRIL 1, 2022

Tools for sales reps can keep data on your customers readily available so your company can make decisions based on facts, not hopes or guesses. An educated sales department is a successful sales department. However, there are so many sales tools out there it can be tough to narrow down which ones are right for your company.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Tools Tools Account Based Marketing 72

OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

For the past decade, OpenSymmetry has published the Sales Performance Management (SPM) vendor guide to help organizations understand what options they have as it relates to implementing solutions to help improve the performance of their sales organization. Sales Comp Admin and Design. Candidate Assessment and On-Boarding.

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Vendor Territories Compensation SalesForce 40

The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sales methodologies play an important role in the nearly every selling situation. The specific sales methodology is only relevant to the buying and selling situations of any individual company as everyone needs to tailor their sales motions to their markets, industries etc. Sales Methodology Training – Why you need it.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jason Holmes , President and COO of Showpad. Jason specializes in executive sales leadership with CRM, SaaS, and other tech companies. He’s been an executive and/or VP for a variety of household names, such as Marketo, Adobe, and Oracle. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I wrote about solving the Sales Performance Problem and today I'll write about solving the CRM problem. CRM is not consistent with sales process. CRM is very much a problem, not because there aren't choices, but more because companies make bad decisions.

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