DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As a newly hired sales rep, I began the way I did at every new company, spending the first several weeks typing furiously into a growing Excel spreadsheet. My manager liked the approach and asked me to present the process to the entire sales team. Because of that, I could identify the several hundred accounts within my territory.

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Territories Account Ideal Customer Profile Analysis 120

The Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s In Conversation – How to Shorten the Sales Cycle. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interview , Lead Management , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Success , Video , execution. EDGE Sales Process.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

8 Surefire Ways on How to Reduce Sales Cycle. When you think about the number of sales that a person can make in one day, they seem to be more finite than when we just use numbers. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Is It Possible to Shorten the Enterprise Sales Cycle?

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2019

Sales will always be a numbers game. Is It Possible to Shorten the Enterprise Sales Cycle? How most sales reps spend their day may surprise you. of a sales workday for functions directly related to selling. That’s a shame, because time not spent closing the sale isn’t just wasteful, it’s also dangerous.

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Sales Cycle Enterprise Enterprise Decision Maker 67

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 207

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Hiring the right salespeople has always been problematic for most companies but with the shortage of quality sales candidates, it's more difficult than ever. The pressure to fill a role often causes sales management to hire the best of the pool of candidates instead of the right candidate. What's the difference you ask?

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Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 19, 2014

Sales cycles are taking longer than ever, lengthening by 24% over the past two years, this according to research by SiriusDecisions. Just two years ago, the average sales cycle was 6.4 Why the longer sales cycle? However, the sales cycle delays are not just because of a changed buyer and Frugalnomics.

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InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

Sales is the Growth Engine. Sales is the engine driving SaaS company value. Top and bottom line performance are totally dependent on the sales organization and its performance. And sales expense is typically the largest expense item on a growth SaaS company’s income statement. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 27, 2017

Author: Rowan Tonkin, head of sales and marketing solutions at Anaplan Most businesses are challenged with accurately predicting the future in terms of competitive threats, customer trends, and their own sales forecast. Connected planning platforms, like Anaplan, address these challenges by changing the sales forecasting environment.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Here, we’ll explore the role of BDRs, the pros and cons, and best practices to utilize them effectively: The Role of BDRs Typically, BDR is an entry-level position in larger, more complex sales organizations.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 118

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Off the Cuff Instant Interview Question: “What are some tips for doing practical market, territory and account planning?”. While those of us in sales are usually viewed as not the best of planners, my experience is that we welcome practical, streamlined planning that helps win business. A practical framework for sales planning.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2024

Imagine asking a room full of sales leaders what their top two priorities are for the coming year. Chances are, every single person in that room would cite growing revenue and improving sales team performance as top priorities. Sales analytics is critical to achieving those goals. What is sales analytics?

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InsideSales.com

MAY 13, 2021

of sales reps that operated as outside sales reps went from working in the Delta lounge to working in their home offices. Sales teams navigated unexpected changes to their processes and motions and are still learning how to adapt today. The true risk for sales leaders is believing they have it all figured out.

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The Pipeline

JULY 13, 2012

A few weeks back I posted about how good sales people are prone to Attention deficit disorder (ADD) , well it turns there is another popular condition that many sales professionals suffer in silence, namely hoarding. The second area where you see strong evidence of hoarding is in their approach to territories.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

Unfortunately, it’s all too common for sales teams to be hamstrung by incomplete routing systems and low-quality data. To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For stellar sales reps, their approach to work goes much further than hitting their number each month. If you’re ready to knock your sales career out of the park, it’s time to put yourself in the mindset of an entrepreneur, managing your sales market the same way you would manage a business. Imagine you own your company.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king. According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. Instead, you must understand how sales reps and prospects are (or aren’t) using sales content.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

Like most sales teams I’ve been on, you’d find the Navy SEAL adage to be true: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. We can slow down to orient everything about our deal cycles to find the sales signals that make them sticky. Related reading: Your Sales Cycle is (Probably) Too Long. What’s a sales signal?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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Hiring Sales Talent Compensation Lead Rank 62

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2018

Author: Jay Mitchell, Owner and Principal, Mereo LLC In order to learn how to align marketing and sales teams, we must understand how devastating a gap between these departments can be for an organization overall. Sales and marketing are both vital to a B2B organization. Sales and marketing both work to: Engage a buyer.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2023

This helps you understand the terminology used through the sales cycle and what the deal funnel looks like. Related: Sales Cycle Management: Definition, Stages, and Strategies Listen to your AE’s calls The leads that you pick from the above CRM report might have call recordings associated with them.

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Ideal Customer Profile Study Sales Cycle Top of Funnel 84

Crunchbase

MARCH 13, 2023

In January, Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce, and it was the sales team that faced heavy losses. These bootstrapped sales teams are faced with a unique problem: an outsized pressure to produce more with fewer resources. For downsized sales teams, this means being ruthless about chasing the right accounts.

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Territories Churn Face-to-face SME 59

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There was a change to your territory. After a few slightly awkward sales calls you break for lunch. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. You may already have a target list created by your sales operations department. They can be measured only after a few sales interactions.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Lead Rank 323

The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Talking Long-Term – Acting Short-Term – Sales eXchange – 109. Last week I wrote about the follies of having a shorter sales cycle , beyond the points highlighted, I think it raises another trend in sales these days. December 2007.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Likewise, we look at our pipelines, they are anemic, declining win rates, declining average deal sizes, lengthening sales cycles. For example, there are a variety of fixes to anemic pipelines–more prospecting, improved win rates, improved deal sizes, reduced sales cycles, and so forth. What do we do? What do you do?”

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SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION? This week I interview Lauren Mead , CMO of Timetrade.

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SalesForce Lead Capture Sales Cycle Lead Rank 139

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. Shrink Your Way To Success.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

I remember when I first started working for a company back in the early 1990’s (before we had web mail), the company had two main product lines, and had the usual territories across the continent, primarily driven by geography. Sales Process Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Territories Demand Generation Targets 296

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Buyers are more self-directed and demand a different sales person. And this requires a different sales manager. CEOs that have terminated Sales VPs recently state performance is only part of the reason. The other is the inability to get consistent performance from sales managers. A’ player Sales Mgrs. talent level.

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Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 300

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You’ve probably heard by now how intelligent lead routing — an automated system of processing leads — can help sales teams improve their speed to lead and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. That may look like actual sales numbers or a certain lead volume. This has immensely cut down our sales cycle time.”

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“All sales problems are pipeline problems, and all pipeline problems are prospecting problems…… ” I was having a conversation with a really smart person. But I’m uncomfortable with this, I wish diagnosing sales performance issues could be that easy. Then there’s another way to look at this.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Working in or leading medical device sales teams is not for the faint of heart. Here are 7 medical device sales tips that help top reps stand apart from their competition. .” – Bear Bryant, Legendary head coach, University of Alabama. . Sales territories and incentives restructuring. The key to success? Planning. .

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Apptivo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Feature Updates Enhanced Reporting Capabilities in Sales Stage History Reports: Apptivo’s Opportunities application provides a report based on the sales stage of the opportunities are moved from one sales stage to another along with the Transition Period.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Reporting structure/org charts (Sales loves).

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