Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Are You Ready for 2015 Business Planning ? Last week I did a web cast for a vendor that was designed for their channel resellers. Its purpose was to discuss effective Business Planning and to review a specific process to ensure their plans and more importantly their execution in 2015 will be at higher levels. What are the risks?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-09-03. Author: Kamal Ahluwalia, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Apttus. Teaser: To drive sales success, automation of sales channels requires a combination of 10 digital commerce capabilities to further facilitate initiatives from personalization and pricing excellence to multi-tier partner networks.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 26, 2015

Advice: Sales reps need to be empowered to engage all stakeholders no matter what the “Point of Value” or where they are in the decision making process. 2) Training Effectiveness: In the US, companies will spend more than $5B on sales training last year (SPI). Advice: Training by itself is not enough to achieve effectiveness.

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Case Study Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 79

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

We think the decline goes beyond just currency, pointing to a major "sea change" in technology purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy if you don’t adjust to the changing landscape. So how do you end up in the winnder’s circle? -

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Only 59% of sales reps will achieve their quota this year, down sharply from 67% last year ? Here are our recommendations on how you can connect and engage more decision makers to achieve sales success in 2015 and beyond: 1. Jill Konrath in her popular sales blog outlines a formula that heavily uses LinkedIn as a tool: [link].

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-12-02. Teaser: Instagram has rapidly become one of the best social media marketing channels for businesses that wish to launch their digital marketing campaigns and build an engaged audience around their brand. Author: Josh MacDonald. Here are some tips on making Instagram work for your company. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-07-22. Teaser: We may take digital advertising channels for granted at this point, having seen them around so much, but that’s a dangerous attitude to take. We may take digital advertising channels for granted at this point, having seen them around so much, but that’s a dangerous attitude to take.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST.     Sales is both an art and a science. Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-02-27. Author: Dan Hawtof, Vice President of Business Solutions, Global Channel, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions. Teaser: As systems and networks become more complex, customers don’t just need a salesperson, they need a consultant — and are more than willing to pay a fee for this expertise.

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Incentive Incentives Vendor Networking 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 24, 2016

As part of the sales and marketing engine, you put in serious effort to connect with your prospects. If not, you and your sales team are living in the dark ages. Everything – from your platform and website to your emails, sales materials, presentation decks, graphics, and more – it all has to be mobile responsive.

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HeavyHitter Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

  I’ve had the privilege to work with and study hundreds of technology companies and their sales organizations. Based upon my experience, here’s my list of some of the best technologies to sell in 2015. OpenGov is first-mover in this space.

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Company Government Microsoft Retail 60

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 11, 2016

As a channel manager, you know that your indirect sales channel can be an excellent source of revenue. Unfortunately, it can also introduce new elements of chaos into your organization that extend beyond the channel management team. Channel Challenges. Are our sales incentives working?

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Channels Video Face-to-face Licensing 54

Lead411

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Time is always a key factor in sales. ” This uncertainty is nothing new to any seasoned sales person. One way to alleviate this anxiety is to reach out via multiple channels to find the best way your prospect or customer prefers to communicate. ”, “I was sent to voicemail again, did I lose the deal?”

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Channels B2B Face-to-face Call-back 63

Pointclear

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management. On the sales side, really embrace social and listen in.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 23, 2014

McKinsey’s Yugo Sarrazin and Lareina Yee shared 4 megatrends sales organizations in the McKinsey on Marketing & Sales newsletter. Megatrends for Sales Organizations – Sarrazin and Yee, McKinsey on Marketing. But what’s really happening, and what does it mean to sales? ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Lead Rank Decision Maker B2C Trends 108

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. Highlights: (9:13) Transitioning from IC to sales leadership and driving a forecast cadence. (18:20) Brought to you by Orum.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Torrance Heart is CEO of Teak and Twine , a corporate gifting company that works with sales, marketing, and HR teams to use strategic gifting to accomplish goals. Once Torrance embraced her role as sales leader, there was no turning back. Her story is a great example of what owning your role as sales leader can do for your business!

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Account Based Marketing Journal Microsoft Retail 90

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 9, 2015

Cincom CPQ™ delivers enhanced guided selling, mobility and multi-channel capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM and Microsoft Dynamics AX. This includes the Cincom CPQ Sales Portal to support seamless sales and fulfillment across all channels. at Convergence. Source: Smart Selling.

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Microsoft Channels Margin Engineering 48

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

Field sales has been dying for years. They're not excited about working inside, so they are happy to be distracted from telephone sales by customer service and administrative activities — meaning not a lot of selling actually gets done. Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. The Inside-Out Sales Function.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

If you are in IT sales and marketing, there are three significant challenges of which you should be well aware when setting up your budgets and plans for 2016. A predicted anemic increase in IT spending at the beginning of 2015 has now been replaced with a 5.5% IT Spending on the Decline? decline (compared to a paltry 1.6%

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Decision Maker Marketing Proposal Channels 74

Alice Heiman

JANUARY 17, 2023

Heidi Messer started Collective[i] with one goal: to bring more certainty and less volatility to sales and improve the livelihoods of every single employee. There is no other function in a company that is as unproductive as sales. If sales improves every other department has more opportunity. 27:57] We switched to Agile. [29:11]

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2018

If you're an IT reseller, value-added reseller (VAR), or channel partner advising clients on any part of the front office (marketing, sales, or customer success) -- especially for businesses under 1,000 employees -- there are a few trends you should be aware of. But did you know this happening in sales technology now too?

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Lead Rank Trends Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 111

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Want to improve productivity across your sales team, standardize best practices, reduce ramp-up time, and make your salespeople more autonomous? Create a sales playbook. One study found best-performing companies are nearly twice as likely to have sales playbooks than “laggards.”. What is a sales playbook?

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Guidelines Hiring 145

Cience

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Utilizing multi-channel outreach and appointment setting best practices, our specialized SDRs walk prospects through a personalized prospect experience, resulting in more consistently-set meetings and higher performing top of funnel pipelines. Sales Director, Bioscience Company. Sales Planner, Marketing & Advertising Company.

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Company Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Generation 105

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2015

Many companies have turned to Negotiation Training to help their sales reps and channel partners try to talk their way out of the discount. But procurement holds most of the cards in these negotiations, and as a result, this type of training is not leading to the best deal sizes and sales success outcomes.

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Discount Negotiation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 81

Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s the subject of my latest Sales Talk for CEOs podcast, where Erik Frank – CEO and President of Tristate Amature and Electrical Works – shares the details on the major overhauls that are happening in his 101-year-old business. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations? Click to tweet. About Our Guest.

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Hiring Strategy Customer Government 87

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Sales Tips: Want Better Results? By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. CustomerCentric Selling® (CCS®) is a sales process that salespeople can be taught to execute, and manage to, that allows them to consistently outperform their competitors.

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Commission Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guarantee 79

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before? 1) Marketing must lock arms with sales and have a solution selling mindset.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Account Sales Qualified Lead 100

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

By now, a lot of you know the story: CPQ (configure-price-quote) programs are supposed to simplify processes, enable growth, increase sales, yadda yadda yadda… And good CPQ systems will do just that, which is a reason why these systems have become so “hot,” as Gartner said in a recent report. Delivering anytime, anywhere quotes.

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Scale Engineering Call-back CRM 91

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy.

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Forecasting ROI Proposal Decision Maker 87

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2021

There’s no question that email is still one of the best ways to get in touch with potential sales prospects. This is more than the 122 number from 2015, meaning workplace professionals are still very active in their inbox. This is more than the 122 number from 2015, meaning workplace professionals are still very active in their inbox.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Increase Sales

AUGUST 12, 2016

This morning I received some sales research about customer trends in the financial industry. Source Nielsen 2015 Financial Channel Track) One out of three people still want that human touch. However, to have sustainable sales growth requires people who build relationships with other people. * * * * *.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 18, 2015

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Added an SDR team.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs.

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Channels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 40

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Well, according to HubSpot Principal Channel Account Manager, Katie Carlin , curiosity is key. Editor's note: This post was originally published in September 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness and accuracy. But how can you make sure those connections aren't trivial?

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