SBI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’re like a lot of busy Sales Executives, you’ve likely noticed there are a lot of fantastic podcasts popping up. I recently had the pleasure of being the guest on the Sales Enablement Radio podcast hosted by the Brevet Group. Announcer: Welcome everybody to Sales Enablement Radio. Listen Here: [link]. So welcome Nancy.

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Vendor Neutral

JANUARY 24, 2022

When it comes to selecting a sales technology stack, there are lots of ways to diminish your financial return. Learn the 5 most common mistakes to avoid.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

There are many moving parts in a successful sales organization. If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Why do we need Sales Operations? Average sales cycle duration.

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Highspot

AUGUST 31, 2021

If sales strategy was a puzzle, then your sales model would be a corner piece: it helps frame your approach to businesses and determines how the other pieces of your strategy will fit together. The keystone nature of sales models makes choosing the right one all the more important. Why do you need a sales model?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As sales leaders barrel into what will likely be a challenging Q4, many do not like the look of their forecasts. Even before the rumblings of a recession, just 43% of reps in B2B tech sales were hitting their quota. With so much tough news, what can sales leaders do about this all? How Mindtickle measures sales productivity.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

A couple weeks ago Zoominfo , a premiere B2B contact database, acquired Datanyze , a more recent pioneer that arms sales teams with technographics about their leads. The sales world is abuzz about these two joining forces! The product can answer questions like, “What technologies does my target prospect use?”

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In an ideal world, your sales team spends the vast majority of their time engaging with your potential buyer. But modern sales technology automates the responsibilities that pull your reps away from prospect engagement. People usually spend time manually importing leads to their sales engagement platform from their CRM.

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SBI

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We call it Sales Tech Simplified. Let’s take the scenario of a sales rep that loses a deal to a competitor. Prioritize prospects for optimized activity. Score Leads and qualify them for sales. How to Sell More (Repeating and Up/Cross-Selling): Create customized prospect or deal portals. Map account white-space.

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SalesLoft

JULY 18, 2018

If your organization includes both inside and field (outside) sales professionals, coordination between the two teams is essential. When they work together, it creates a seamless process that promotes collaboration and contributes to overall sales success. Sean Southworth here, Account Executive with Salesloft.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Why is sales operations important? What is the difference between sales enablement and sales operations? Sales operations roles.

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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. Sales enablement. Lastly, an enterprise CRM platform is able to support more than just the sales organization.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 15, 2016

Sales vision—what image does that present in your mind? Those may be images of Sales daydreams or fantasies, but they really aren’t vision images in terms of what the Sales organization should see for the future. Sales should derive its vision from the vision of the organization as a whole. Piles of cash?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Intent data has become one of the hottest topics in the B2B sales and marketing space. However, it remains under-utilized by many sales practitioners. Intent data is a relatively new term our industry has adopted to encompass signals and data about prospective buyers or businesses actively researching products or services.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When he came to town, I took the opportunity to bring him along on an important sales call with a large defense manufacturer. John asked a lot of questions during the meeting, none of which seemed to advance the sale. We treat our territories like our own businesses. The idea dawned upon me at a sales conference in San Diego.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

In this inaugural episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Kiva Kolstein , Chief Revenue Officer at AlphaSense. . Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) Kiva’s sales story [3:02]. 4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. 9) Territory planning and territory creation [33:30]. And on Stitcher.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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SugarCRM

MAY 2, 2019

For instance, old-school tactics are surprisingly common in sales. Meanwhile, companies that embrace modern sales technology see results that would have been impossible when using traditional sales tools. If your sales teams is having trouble keeping up with the times, you’re in luck. Switch to the Cloud.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

Sadly, the "edge" that most sales technology promised to give them is actually hurting their relationships with buyers, and a chance at the elusive sale. Sales technology was supposed to make sales more efficient and personal -- it was supposed to help salespeople. That's just part of the job.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Only if you had more information than relying on tones and verbal cues of your prospects! The tactic is extremely effective for collecting valuable info about your prospects and can help you differentiate between suspects, prospects, leads, and opportunities. What is cold canvassing in sales? Let’s begin with the basics.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If you answered yes to the questions above, your sales process may be out of date. Strategies that worked five years ago just aren’t as effective now—and if you don’t abandon your bad habits, your sales productivity will suffer. Outdated Sales Technique: Overselling the product. Outdated Sales Technique: Overselling the product.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Unfortunately, that’s happening more and more thanks to the Internet, smartphones and other technologies that are radically changing how buyers behave. attempts to successfully prospect a stranger – a 74 percent increase since 2010 when prospecting required just 4.7 Re-engineering the Sales Process. Ready, set … automate.

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Close.io

AUGUST 11, 2019

Your sales team isn't meeting its potential. A sales operations team can change that. If you want to make sure your sales team is firing on all cylinders and making as much money for your company as possible, you need sales ops. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that sales operations is a new field; it's not.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Closing more sales makes for a more successful business, but how can you figure out what kinds of sales suit your company best? We’ll explore inside vs. outside sales to show you what both entail and which kinds of companies need either one. What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Today, companies of all shapes and sizes still lack the technology needed to support their outside sales teams effectively. This article will cover inside vs. outside sales CRMs; the biggest challenges for outside sales reps, their leaders, and managers; time management; quota attainment; and outside sales technology.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

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John Barrows

JUNE 6, 2018

What’s more, it’s starting to wreak havoc in the sales industry. If you’re like me, you’re already starting to see artificial intelligence and automation making human sales reps more and more superfluous. I didn’t talk to a single sales rep. But that’s not what sales reps are doing these days.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a lot to succeed in sales. And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Prospect Intelligence. Sales Enablement. Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO. San Diego, CA and New York, NY (November 5, 2019) –. Blog Article.

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