Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 31, 2017

Outside of your business, the same strong vision inspires confidence in your prospects while providing clear insight for why your business exists, and why they should work with you. Understanding that there is a link between vision and sales is an important step. This includes everyone involved in pre-sales, customer service and sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I posted this article about why sales cold calling is so bad. A new book on sales, How to Close Deals Like Warren Buffett , was launched today. Now they reveal the deal-making secrets of the Oracle of Omaha including 101 top deal-making maxims from a legend in his own time.

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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.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 25, 2014

Many who work for companies – especially mid-sized ones selling to other businesses – get stuck in doing the same old things year after year to build sales. Last week, a list on Forbes contained my name as one of the top 30 social selling influencers in the world. Ken truly is a leader in inside selling strategies.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 1, 2022

Whether your company is a three-person endeavor or a large enterprise, you need tools to help sell products and services. 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.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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Mindtickle

MAY 10, 2022

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I posted this article about why cold calls are so bad. A new book on sales, How to Close Deals Like Warren Buffett , was launched today. Now they reveal the deal-making secrets of the Oracle of Omaha including 101 top deal-making maxims from a legend in his own time.

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MEDDIC

MAY 5, 2020

Inside Sales, B2B, any US city. There is nothing more fulfilling than succeeding the Sales Job at a Sales School! In just 2 years of existence, MEDDIC Academy has trained thousands of Sales Executives, and is expanding now with a 3 digits growth rate. We sell SALES TRAINING; online courses and in-person sessions.

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Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. Sales strategy. When you are selling to SMB and MM, you can get away with fairly lean marketing. From a collateral perspective, you may only have a core deck, which doubles as a leave-behind for prospects.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 9, 2020

Interview with Chris Morgan, CRO at MOAT (acquired by Oracle) hosted by Rajeev Batra, Enterprise Investor at Mayfield. Chris Morgan is the CRO of Moat , which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. He joined MOAT, a Mayfield investment that was later acquired by Oracle for more than $800M, as their first VP of Sales.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You see a huge conversion opportunity in a prospect. You lead the conversation on the sales call and convince your account contact. However the next day, your prospect gives you a “no.” So you can’t keep hopping on one sales call after another to hear a straight “yes”, or else you will leave a LOT of value on the table.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2019

“But actually that ‘noise’ is a powerful tool to target the right accounts – that is, if you know the tech stack of your target accounts ,” says DiscoverOrg’s Senior Manager of Sales Development. Own win rate increases by 300% when we know key parts of a prospect’s technology stack. Sales enablement software.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 17, 2014

Because no one ever taught them how to sell. How many of us studied sales in college? But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. They’ll think you’re the Oracle of Delphi. So what’s the secret to increasing sales effectiveness?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Daily, I’m inundated with emails, InMails, phone calls from sales people trying to catch my attention. Inevitably, at some point, a reference is made to the customers of the company that is trying to sell me something. Somehow, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Siemens, Citigroup, SAP, Amazon, and others are always cited.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 17, 2016

Any sales professional who says it’s easy to keep up communication on social networks is either lying or doing it incorrectly. Done right, social selling is a time-consuming task that requires thought and focused effort. Your marketing department can help by providing relevant content to the sales team.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 27, 2020

When it comes to increasing sales productivity, the simplest answers are still the best. AI-Driven Sales Engagement. There are constantly new innovations to sales tools. However, despite these innovations, there are several sales tools that are still necessary for any company hoping to increase sales. Social Media.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 27, 2015

If you’re sending mass emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. Most ask me to buy lists of Salesforce, Oracle, or Sage users. It’s not only stupid; it’s a waste of sales time. And if you’re sending mass emails to your prospects, the decision to delete you is easier than ever.

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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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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!

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Mindtickle

MARCH 29, 2022

Today, sales reps spend only 23% of their time on core sales activities and direct engagement with buyers. They spend an increasing amount of time on administrative chores like entering data into a growing number of disconnected sales tools. For sales organizations, tool overload seems even worse. Automate data entry.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 2, 2017

Author: Paul Nolan, Editor, Sales & Marketing Management. Warren Buffett’s annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are pored over by millions of investors who hope to glean every ounce of wisdom the “Oracle of Omaha” has to offer. Innovative leaps that create new features and revive sales rarely occur often enough.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If you want to learn how to manage a sales team, you’ve come to the right place. Managing a sales team is definitely a challenge, but until you have managed or been on a sales team building revenues at +20% MoM AT SCALE, you may be in for a swift and rude awakening. 12 Expert Tips For Managing a Successful Sales Team.

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We all know enterprise sales are complex, which is probably why so many sales methodologies have cropped up over the years – SPIN selling, GAP selling, challenger selling – the list goes on. . However, MEDDIC is one sales methodology that has stood the test of time. Sellers are struggling to succeed.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 4, 2019

In this episode, Barb talks to Kristina McMillan , VP of Research at TOPO about why it is so important to FOCUS on the right activities if you want to achieve the right sales results. Sales activities should be driven by current data, trends and buyer expectations. See the agenda and register before the summit sells out!

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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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Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Account Lead Rank 67

Vengreso

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Subscribe to Selling With Social. We’ve all heard how critical it is for sales organizations to work on marketing/sales alignment, but my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial goes a step further to make the two a powerful combination that closes more deals. Marketing Sales Alignment Is Only A Beginning.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

More often than not, companies end up with overly complicated systems that actually add more friction and complexity to the company. Most enterprise CRMs offer more features than simple CRMs and can support complex sales operations with advanced reporting capabilities, product libraries, sales enablement and tools, and more.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding. Sales Onboarding.

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Growbots

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Success in sales can be a hard, tall mountain to climb. And it’s a mountain you must climb over and over again because sales reps can’t rest on their laurels. READ 7 Highly Effective Best Practices for Sales Reps. The good news is that there is an ever-evolving suite of solutions that can help sales reps reach the summit.

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LeadIQ

JUNE 11, 2018

So here are some actual cold emails sent by real sales reps that actually turned into meetings. Vidyard is currently doing a cool campaign called Stories in Focus with the help of sales thought leader, Chris Ortolano. Remember, you aren’t always selling bells and whistles. Sometimes you are selling possibility.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Organizations must be strategic when designing sales compensation plans. The goal is to strike a careful balance between incentivizing sales performance and protecting the company against financial crisis. A sales clawback clause is more than just a financial insurance policy for an organization.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 22, 2021

Follow Consistent Sales Forecasting Methods to Avoid Making Bad Decisions. Sales forecasting solves this! Most B2B businesses don’t bother creating a sales forecast. Instead, they tally up their sales for the month and compare it with the month before or the same month last year. “Oh, no.

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Mindtickle

MAY 17, 2022

That sounds like what you’d expect a typical sales rep to be like. Gartner found that 33% of buyers want a “seller-free sales experience,” while LinkedIn found that 88% of consumers will only make a purchase when they see a salesperson as a “trusted advisor.” Then look at how that talk time is divided up. Active listening.

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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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