HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2014

    The team at RingDNA just released their list of the top seven B2B sales books you should read in 2015. Sales Strategy: Competitive Insights from Interviews with 1,000+ Key Information Technology Decision Makers and Top Technology Salespeople was at the top of their list.  Sales Strategy.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. Here are three reasons you should work to improve your digital presence right now: Your Sales Reps Want Meetings with Executives. This gives you MORE sales opportunities than if you did not optimize.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

We are about to go into 2015 and smart marketers and sellers are positioning for predominantly mobile viewing of their site, offers, and ways to connect. It is an evolution, and now is clearly the time to be thinking about this and planning for Q4 into 2015. The time is NOW to build for the future with your website. Close More Deals.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

What used to be a one-way road – a sales person “telling” potential buyers what to buy, is now a two-way, busy street where buyers find their own information and need us in sales to offer specific insights and stories – and paint a vision of the future – to help them know if the information they have is right for their scenario.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the best first steps you can put into place (aside from hiring an expert to help you put a full plan in place to get your sales and marketing ready for 2015) is to focus on listening. A well-meaning sales rep can ruin an opportunity by blurting out – trumpeting – all that you do and why you’d be great for them.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2014

This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere. Think of the questions sales and marketing needs to get answers to in order to better serve buyers in 2015 and beyond. There is a premium version for bigger capabilities.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”. The growth of VoIP.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

In sales, time is money. With the spirit of working to ADD value in your sales career, or to help sales leaders with their teams, I wanted to share to extremely valuable webinars that are happening on 1/12 and on 1/15. Join hundreds of others who have already signed up for 5 Productive Strategies to Crush Quotas in 2015.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

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JANUARY 8, 2015

This is the time of year that if you haven’t had your sales offsite for your sales team, you are probably working to pull it together quickly and simply. Key takeaway about having a sales offsite is that it MUST be valuable to the participants. A survey was done by our friends at Vorsight about sales kickoff meetings.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 13, 2015

Ardath Albee’s new book Digital Relevance: Developing Market ing Content and Strategies that Drive Results was published by Palgrave Macmillan (January 6, 2015). There is a great example in the book about an inside sales rep pushing content that is not relevant to the buyer—simply because the campaign says so.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Becoming “brilliant in sales execution” during each stage is critical. However as I consider the general area of sales we see several trends.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. We want to see how sales technology is evolving and what the trends are.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. This event was unique because it only focused on sales development.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy. Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively?

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In addition, I have experience with Sales Force as well as other CRM systems.”. Here is how to turn this around: “At Safeco International – a leader in the cloud computing space – I was an upper tier producer out of an inside sales team of fifteen reps. of Sales Safeco INC.”. Are you yawning yet? Michelle Keller, V.P.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With this in mind, it wasn’t a surprise to me to learn that top sales reps use data to drive their strategies and choices. Do you feel that your sales strategy could benefit from an injection of data? Here’s how to use these statistics to your advantage in the context of a sales outreach campaign. (Thanks, science!).

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. You can revisit the fundamentals of selling, acquire a new soft skill that will enable you to close more deals, or simply leisurely read some sales and business literature. We’ve already introduced you to amazing sales books. Jump to category: ?

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Simply put, the root cause of the problem in 2015 was that reps were forced to find their own leads—or had poor-quality “leads” dumped on them—most of which they ignored. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

Sales will never be the same. This may sound extreme on the surface – but in reality, sales will never return to the way it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is a good thing. Many of the needed sales process changes were forced upon us as we adjusted to selling from home. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

This hardship, combined with the CRM transition to the cloud and the rise of digital selling, has created a mini gold rush for sales software fueled by abundant VC money. While Salesforce Ventures continues to invest heavily in the space, Salesforce’s last major acquisition was Steelbrick in December 2015. Categories Are Morphing.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational.

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Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

This is the final installment of a three-part series in response to the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? We generate high quality leads, align sales and marketing, and drive revenue.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

  Here’s a great event you don’t want to miss… I’m excited to be participating in the ELEVATE VIRTUAL SALES KICKOFF MEETING!   Velocify, the leading sales acceleration platform provider announced its inaugural virtual sales kickoff,  ELEVATE , co-sponsored by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP).

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. So far we’ve done half-day workshops in three cities with approximately 80 people ranging from senior business leaders to IT system managers.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 11, 2015

Sales teams. Ask most sales management whether they have ever used some form of competition as a management technique and most will answer – “yes – and if I must say so it worked great.”. Stories abound about how competition can be used effectively inside a sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. .

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SBI

MAY 11, 2015

Get to know your sales tools in just 2 minutes a week. This week, Nancy profiles CallidusCloud , a suite of cloud solutions that accelerate sales all the way from lead, to money. . Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: This week’s topic is how to optimize the entire sales process from lead to revenue.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2015

If you’re seeking smart tools to drive sales performance, I’ve got great news for you. We’ve just released our 3rd annual Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide. Find the best sales tools to: Help salespeople convert more calls into appointments. See which tools we chose for: Mobile Sales Enablement.

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SalesLoft

MAY 12, 2015

As one of the Sales Development Team Leads, Lydia is a constant motivator to the SDR team both professionally and personally. What’s your ultimate sales development productivity hack? Organization is key for being an sales development rep–it’s important to stick to a daily process. A-Text is a huge time saver.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Jordan Arogeti. Meka Asonye.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Kyle Porter and friends took the stage earlier today to introduce the new era of sales: the modern sales organization. The latter two are sales. “There’s a difference between having a sales team and being a sales organization.” ” -Kyle Porter.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Sales – Profitability and Price. It is important that this knowledge is understood not only by sales management but also by the sales team. Equally important is whether you have unknowingly sanctioned a dramatic decrease in profits by pushing for revenue gains by permitting your sales team to negotiate price reductions?

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