One particular statistic in the following survey should give any salesperson suffering from “fear of calling”, renewed confidence. How Customers Regard Salespeople Survey : Salespeople who do not bother to make appointments. MORE
According to Forrester’s “Q3 2013 North American and UK Digital Maturity Online” report (based on an August online survey of 395 marketers), onsite ratings and reviews are rated No. By Christopher Hosford, editor-in-chief, HosfordGroup LLC. MORE
If you have access to a postal mailing list for potential clients, I suggest sending them a simple, one-page letter of introduction then following up with a phone call. Even better, if you can network with someone else who already does business with the people you're trying to approach, get their permission to send the [.] Related posts: How to Handle an Angry Client. Ignoring Clients = Lost Sales. Arouse Emotions, Don’t Sell Logic. MORE
If you’d like to find out the answers, take this Sale & LinkedIn survey being sponsored by Jill Konrath, a highly respected colleague of mine. Take the survey –> [link]. As soon as the survey results are ready, she’ll send you a copy. MORE
The highlights first, then more detail: Inside sales represents more than half of sales departments surveyed, and as an industry inside sales is growing faster than outside sales. The post A Career in Inside Sales – Survey Says Yes appeared first on Score More Sales. MORE
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The Sales Manager Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers. MORE
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Sales connected planning Financial Times Forecasting survey“Know your customer” has long been the mantra of sales people across the globe, and it has never been more important. As Anaplan’s Chief Revenue Officer, I know how important it is to understand customer intentions. Accurate sales forecasts, cross-departmental communication, and credible data all are crucial for knowing what customers think, want, and need.With. read more ?. MORE
I want to start by inviting you to participate in a survey being conducted by my friends over at Star Solutions That Achieve Results Inc. STAR Results) , The Global 2015 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The targeted audience for completing this survey is: VP of Sales. MORE
Our blog survey results are in! Recently, we decided to use our own strategy of asking just a couple of survey questions of our clients to get some feedback … possibly on how to change course in our direction and serve them better with this blog. The post Blog Survey Results appeared first on How to Selling Skills. Related posts: The Survey Approach to Prospecting. Building Relationships sales training selling skills surveys Tom Hopkins MORE
Yesterday, Xobni, who recently released a new product suite called Smartr, announced the results from two online surveys conducted on its behalf in July & August 2011 by Harris Interactive. Yet, nearly half of those surveyed still keep a paper address book. When you cut through all the statistical mumbo-jumbo, you learn two key take-aways. The majority of people with both business and personal contacts believe their business contact information had an average value of $20,000. MORE
At this year’s C3 Conference , hosted by CallidusCloud, we conducted a quick survey among some of the attendees. As it relates to operational challenges pertaining to period-to-period incentive compensation processing, the following three challenges emerged from the survey results: Limited reporting. The second-place finisher for survey respondents’ on an ICM technology platform was the lack of workflow automation to replace time-consuming and error prone manual processes. MORE
This got me thinking, how many people actually leave voice mail, so I created the quick survey below , please take a minute to answer four easy voice mail related questions. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. MORE
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Management Skills Survey. The Sales Management Skills Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers. MORE
This objective study pulls from statistics as well as human psychology, as represented by 230 B2B buyers in a 76-part survey. Study participants completed an extensive 76-part survey on a variety of subjects to understand their personality tendencies and were asked to provide opinions on real-world sales scenarios. The post [SURVEY] The B2B Buyer Persona: 30 Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Target Buyer appeared first on DiscoverOrg. MORE
If you are a B2B Salesperson or Sales Manager , I would be very interested in your thoughts and hope you will consider completing a brief five minute survey. Attention B2B Sales Managers and Salespeople! MORE
Earlier this year, we worked with the Sales Management Association (SMA) to conduct a survey of more than 100 organizations on sales territory design and planning. Check out highlights from the survey below or download the executive summary here. MORE
Ken: We have two posts today, first How to Manage Manipulative Sales Employees and a BONUS Sales Compensation Survey to help you plan. BONUS Sales Compensation Survey. Service Leadership’s 2012/13 Annual Solution Provider Compensation Survey is Now Open! . MORE
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Each year I do a survey asking salespeople for their input for the coming year. Would you kindly take just a few brief moments to complete the survey? I will take the 2012 Sales Survey. Shortly after the first of the year, I’ll share the results of the survey, as well as some trends from past surveys. The survey not only helps all of us learn from each other’s insights, it also enlightens me as to the issues that are most pressing for you. MORE
The folks over at 360 Leads are conduction a global survey on sales lead generation best practices. The survey takes about three minutes to complete, and will deliver insights into: Most effective channels at generating leads. MORE
A recent favourite is surveys. After all, what better way to give the illusion of caring, than to send the client a survey directly to them, especially when they have just interacted with someone at your company. But then a ray of hope in the form of a survey. A Failure To ACT! MORE
Something Different sean mcpheat sean mcpheat survey surveyJust a short post today as I wanted to ask you all a favour. I’ve been publishing my sales tips on here for a quite some time now and I would really appreciate it if you could give me some feedback. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. MORE
STAR Results) has launched its global 2015 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The Sales Manager Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers. MORE
We asked over 200 sales and marketing professionals about 78 data points (and “secret sauce” combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales? Download our ebook for COMPLETE “predictive data points” survey results. Over 95% of survey respondents can link growth to predictive indicators. B2B sales pros and marketers swim in an ocean of information. MORE
SurveyGizmo is a SaaS tool for creating surveys, polls, quizzes etc. I chose SurveyGizmo when I determined I needed a really good survey platform to build the A Sales Guy Consulting Sales Team Evaluation Assessment. I use SurveyGizmo. MORE
I just finished the survey questions for CSO Insights'' 2015 Sales Performance Optimization Study. The survey itself took about 12 minutes, and since the form allows you to save as you go, I could be interrupted and not have to start over. Now I know that PointClear will be counted as one among the many thousands of companies contributing to overall sales knowledge trends for 2015. MORE
SearchCIO has just released results of their survey of 275 IT executives, and as anyone would suspect, companies both large and small are reducing their IT budgets for 2009. And as other surveys have predicted, the budget cuts will become more widespread and deeper the longer the economic uncertaintly continues. In large enterprises (companies with more than 1,000 employees), 42% of respondents are reducing IT budgets from 2008. MORE
Every year for the past 7 years, I have sent a survey to my entire subscriber list, asking for their input on one primary question and then 4 follow-ups based on the answer to question #1. Why do I only send this important survey to my subscribers? MORE
Click Here To Take The Survey and Get A Complimentary Copy of This $399 Report That Benchmarks Best Practices. Aberdeen Group is conducting a survey that will help companies such as yours determine the Best-in-Class procedures for using sales training services and products to guarantee maximum revenue results and shrink the sales cycle. The report itself is well worth it – and you get it for free if you complete this survey. MORE
The Sage Pacer Survey can help businesses asses their current state of the business, how the existing business processes impacts the ability to meet changing business conditions, and what the business sees on the near horizon. MORE
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Management Skills Survey. The Sales Management Skills Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers. MORE
Just survey a bunch of people and draw conclusions based on either rock-solid (or fairly dubious) analytics. How often have we been quick to the social media trigger, without taking the time to qualify how customer experience impacted those survey results? MORE
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE 2016 SALES PERSONA SURVEY. BE A PART OF SALES RESEARCH HISTORY. Noted sales researcher Steve W. MORE
The folks over at 360 Leads are conduction a global survey on sales lead generation best practices. The survey takes about three minutes to complete, and will deliver insights into: Most effective channels at generating leads. MORE
Surveys are and should be a powerful way of getting feedback. Too often, however, surveys are being abused. ” Then there are those surveys that only allow you to give them the input they want to hear, “You MUST Be Ecstatic With Us!” MORE
Survey based tools can be used to collect survey responses from the user, and with program customization, can even provide comparison reports. MORE
The results of the social media and sales quota survey. The goal of the survey was to put some real data behind this social media, social selling craze. Download the full survey now. Download the Survey Now Well it’s here. MORE
So a balance needs to exist between the commitment we ask prospects to make, reflected in the number of discovery / survey questions, and the comprehensiveness of the discovery process. We are living in a world of short attention spans, where buyers have less time than ever before to engage. At the same time, these buyers need comprehensive diagnostic assessments. MORE
Instructive new research from Software Advice a sales software comparison website about the likelihood of prospects answering unknown calls vs. local calls vs. toll free. “The idea is that people are more apt to answer a call from an unknown number if that call appears to be coming from a local number: this gets the caller’s “foot in the door.” But is answering […]. Observations from the real World MORE
Because I know community is social selling savvy, I want to get your thoughts by asking you to take this quick survey. Web 2.0/Social Networking sales survey Social Media social selling social selling survey MORE
For our survey, it’s important that we get a good cross-section of each so we can benchmark over time. Why a SalesTech Benchmark Survey? You’ll also receive a participation gift (valued at $199) immediately upon completing the survey. Participate in Survey. [1] MORE
We conducted surveys with 200 sales and marketing leaders at companies of varying size and industry on many potential growth drivers to answer these questions. After analyzing, processing, and summarizing survey responses, the same advice I had received over a decade ago emerged as the overarching theme for the report—high growth companies do hard things. Despite the slow shift in adoption of these approaches, our survey revealed that high growth companies were 2.5 MORE
Survey Related Topics The Pipeline
MARCH 10, 2013
This got me thinking, how many people actually leave voice mail, so I created the quick survey below , please take a minute to answer four easy voice mail related questions. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 5, 2018
That along with technology making it easy to do surveys in real time, it seems as though almost every interaction is surveyed and measured. I used to be dutiful about responding to surveys, after all, it is in my best interests to see them improve customer experience.
The Pipeline
DECEMBER 15, 2014
I want to start by inviting you to participate in a survey being conducted by my friends over at Star Solutions That Achieve Results Inc. STAR Results) , The Global 2015 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The targeted audience for completing this survey is: VP of Sales.
The Pipeline
JUNE 27, 2014
The folks over at 360 Leads are conduction a global survey on sales lead generation best practices. The survey takes about three minutes to complete, and will deliver insights into: Most effective channels at generating leads.
The Pipeline
OCTOBER 5, 2012
A recent favourite is surveys. After all, what better way to give the illusion of caring, than to send the client a survey directly to them, especially when they have just interacted with someone at your company. But then a ray of hope in the form of a survey. A Failure To ACT!
DiscoverOrg Sales
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
This objective study pulls from statistics as well as human psychology, as represented by 230 B2B buyers in a 76-part survey. Study participants completed an extensive 76-part survey on a variety of subjects to understand their personality tendencies and were asked to provide opinions on real-world sales scenarios. The post [SURVEY] The B2B Buyer Persona: 30 Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Target Buyer appeared first on DiscoverOrg.
Steven Rosen
DECEMBER 9, 2015
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The Sales Manager Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers.
Steven Rosen
DECEMBER 9, 2015
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Management Skills Survey. The Sales Management Skills Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers.
Steven Rosen
DECEMBER 9, 2015
STAR Results) has launched its global 2016 STAR Sales Management Skills Survey. The Sales Management Skills Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers.
Fill the Funnel
MAY 20, 2015
Every year for the past 7 years, I have sent a survey to my entire subscriber list, asking for their input on one primary question and then 4 follow-ups based on the answer to question #1. Why do I only send this important survey to my subscribers?
Steven Rosen
OCTOBER 14, 2014
STAR Results) has launched its global 2015 STAR Sales Manager Survey. The Sales Manager Survey seeks opinions and perceptions from sales executives and leaders around the world on key skills and development priorities for sales managers.
Score More Sales
AUGUST 20, 2013
The highlights first, then more detail: Inside sales represents more than half of sales departments surveyed, and as an industry inside sales is growing faster than outside sales. The post A Career in Inside Sales – Survey Says Yes appeared first on Score More Sales.
OpenSymmetry
OCTOBER 11, 2017
At this year’s C3 Conference , hosted by CallidusCloud, we conducted a quick survey among some of the attendees. As it relates to operational challenges pertaining to period-to-period incentive compensation processing, the following three challenges emerged from the survey results: Limited reporting. The second-place finisher for survey respondents’ on an ICM technology platform was the lack of workflow automation to replace time-consuming and error prone manual processes.
HeavyHitter Sales
AUGUST 23, 2014
If you are a B2B Salesperson or Sales Manager , I would be very interested in your thoughts and hope you will consider completing a brief five minute survey. Attention B2B Sales Managers and Salespeople!
Pointclear
MARCH 6, 2014
According to Forrester’s “Q3 2013 North American and UK Digital Maturity Online” report (based on an August online survey of 395 marketers), onsite ratings and reviews are rated No. By Christopher Hosford, editor-in-chief, HosfordGroup LLC.
HeavyHitter Sales
MAY 7, 2016
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE 2016 SALES PERSONA SURVEY. BE A PART OF SALES RESEARCH HISTORY. Noted sales researcher Steve W.
Pointclear
OCTOBER 16, 2014
I just finished the survey questions for CSO Insights'' 2015 Sales Performance Optimization Study. The survey itself took about 12 minutes, and since the form allows you to save as you go, I could be interrupted and not have to start over. Now I know that PointClear will be counted as one among the many thousands of companies contributing to overall sales knowledge trends for 2015.
A Sales Guy
MARCH 28, 2013
The results of the social media and sales quota survey. The goal of the survey was to put some real data behind this social media, social selling craze. Download the full survey now. Download the Survey Now Well it’s here.
Partners in Excellence
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Surveys are and should be a powerful way of getting feedback. Too often, however, surveys are being abused. ” Then there are those surveys that only allow you to give them the input they want to hear, “You MUST Be Ecstatic With Us!”
Your Sales Management Guru
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Ken: We have two posts today, first How to Manage Manipulative Sales Employees and a BONUS Sales Compensation Survey to help you plan. BONUS Sales Compensation Survey. Service Leadership’s 2012/13 Annual Solution Provider Compensation Survey is Now Open! .
VuVan
JANUARY 17, 2014
Coaching Research/Survey coaching survey View results after voting. Related posts: Contact. Sales Coaching Tools to Help Your Sales Team Reach Goals As a sales manager, one of the top priorities is. Set Aside Time for Effective Sales Coaching Sales coaching is only effective if the sales manager takes. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Jonathan Farrington
MAY 30, 2012
One particular statistic in the following survey should give any salesperson suffering from “fear of calling”, renewed confidence. How Customers Regard Salespeople Survey : Salespeople who do not bother to make appointments.
Tom Hopkins
JANUARY 5, 2011
If you have access to a postal mailing list for potential clients, I suggest sending them a simple, one-page letter of introduction then following up with a phone call. Even better, if you can network with someone else who already does business with the people you're trying to approach, get their permission to send the [.] Related posts: How to Handle an Angry Client. Ignoring Clients = Lost Sales. Arouse Emotions, Don’t Sell Logic.
Keith Rosen
JULY 14, 2010
Click Here To Take The Survey and Get A Complimentary Copy of This $399 Report That Benchmarks Best Practices. Aberdeen Group is conducting a survey that will help companies such as yours determine the Best-in-Class procedures for using sales training services and products to guarantee maximum revenue results and shrink the sales cycle. The report itself is well worth it – and you get it for free if you complete this survey.
DiscoverOrg Sales
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
We asked over 200 sales and marketing professionals about 78 data points (and “secret sauce” combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales? Download our ebook for COMPLETE “predictive data points” survey results. Over 95% of survey respondents can link growth to predictive indicators. B2B sales pros and marketers swim in an ocean of information.
Babette Ten Haken
MAY 2, 2018
Just survey a bunch of people and draw conclusions based on either rock-solid (or fairly dubious) analytics. How often have we been quick to the social media trigger, without taking the time to qualify how customer experience impacted those survey results?
Smart Selling Tools
OCTOBER 14, 2011
Yesterday, Xobni, who recently released a new product suite called Smartr, announced the results from two online surveys conducted on its behalf in July & August 2011 by Harris Interactive. Yet, nearly half of those surveyed still keep a paper address book. When you cut through all the statistical mumbo-jumbo, you learn two key take-aways. The majority of people with both business and personal contacts believe their business contact information had an average value of $20,000.
The ROI Guy
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
The Sage Pacer Survey can help businesses asses their current state of the business, how the existing business processes impacts the ability to meet changing business conditions, and what the business sees on the near horizon.
The ROI Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Survey based tools can be used to collect survey responses from the user, and with program customization, can even provide comparison reports.
The Pipeline
OCTOBER 25, 2012
If you’d like to find out the answers, take this Sale & LinkedIn survey being sponsored by Jill Konrath, a highly respected colleague of mine. Take the survey –> [link]. As soon as the survey results are ready, she’ll send you a copy.
The Sales Leader
AUGUST 28, 2014
Instructive new research from Software Advice a sales software comparison website about the likelihood of prospects answering unknown calls vs. local calls vs. toll free. “The idea is that people are more apt to answer a call from an unknown number if that call appears to be coming from a local number: this gets the caller’s “foot in the door.” But is answering […]. Observations from the real World
A Sales Guy
MARCH 5, 2014
Because I know community is social selling savvy, I want to get your thoughts by asking you to take this quick survey. Web 2.0/Social Networking sales survey Social Media social selling social selling survey
MTD Sales Training
OCTOBER 29, 2012
Something Different sean mcpheat sean mcpheat survey surveyJust a short post today as I wanted to ask you all a favour. I’ve been publishing my sales tips on here for a quite some time now and I would really appreciate it if you could give me some feedback. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
DiscoverOrg Sales
JANUARY 20, 2017
We conducted surveys with 200 sales and marketing leaders at companies of varying size and industry on many potential growth drivers to answer these questions. After analyzing, processing, and summarizing survey responses, the same advice I had received over a decade ago emerged as the overarching theme for the report—high growth companies do hard things. Despite the slow shift in adoption of these approaches, our survey revealed that high growth companies were 2.5
The ROI Guy
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
SearchCIO has just released results of their survey of 275 IT executives, and as anyone would suspect, companies both large and small are reducing their IT budgets for 2009. And as other surveys have predicted, the budget cuts will become more widespread and deeper the longer the economic uncertaintly continues. In large enterprises (companies with more than 1,000 employees), 42% of respondents are reducing IT budgets from 2008.
The ROI Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
So a balance needs to exist between the commitment we ask prospects to make, reflected in the number of discovery / survey questions, and the comprehensiveness of the discovery process. We are living in a world of short attention spans, where buyers have less time than ever before to engage. At the same time, these buyers need comprehensive diagnostic assessments.
The Sales Hunter
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Each year I do a survey asking salespeople for their input for the coming year. Would you kindly take just a few brief moments to complete the survey? I will take the 2012 Sales Survey. Shortly after the first of the year, I’ll share the results of the survey, as well as some trends from past surveys. The survey not only helps all of us learn from each other’s insights, it also enlightens me as to the issues that are most pressing for you.
Anaplan
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Sales connected planning Financial Times Forecasting survey“Know your customer” has long been the mantra of sales people across the globe, and it has never been more important. As Anaplan’s Chief Revenue Officer, I know how important it is to understand customer intentions. Accurate sales forecasts, cross-departmental communication, and credible data all are crucial for knowing what customers think, want, and need.With. read more ?.
Xactly
MAY 22, 2018
Earlier this year, we worked with the Sales Management Association (SMA) to conduct a survey of more than 100 organizations on sales territory design and planning. Check out highlights from the survey below or download the executive summary here.
A Sales Guy
DECEMBER 14, 2012
SurveyGizmo is a SaaS tool for creating surveys, polls, quizzes etc. I chose SurveyGizmo when I determined I needed a really good survey platform to build the A Sales Guy Consulting Sales Team Evaluation Assessment. I use SurveyGizmo.
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