Alice Heiman

JULY 2, 2024

In 2015, Sujan Patel faced a common frustration: sales teams failing to follow up with prospects. In this episode, Alice Heiman talks with Sujan Patel, co-founder of Mailshake, about his journey from solving his own sales problems to building a successful bootstrapped company. His solution?

Scale 71

Scale Hiring Pivotal Face-to-face 71

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Author: Jason Liu Sales enablement software has been around for a while now. What you might not know, however, is that the sales enablement market is poised for a major paradigm shift that will forever alter sales enablement platform strategies and set the industry on a new path. History of the Sales Enablement Market.

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Sales Enablement Vendor Marketing Infusion 261

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 16, 2017

If you asked a any modern business how it would want to improve, there’s no doubt the sales cycle would come up. This cycle represents the critical stages of bringing on new customers, the art of moving a lead to a sale. CRM Software. Almost anyone on a sales team will tell you that business comes down to relationships.

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Sales Cycle Software Software Tools 54

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. According to Gartner, in 2007, spending on software rose 13% and overall IT spending grew 11% worldwide. 5000 list as we provided IT-only data to our customers well into 2015.

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Decision Maker Marketing Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

On a recent episode of the Business Breakdowns podcast , Schuck talked about lessons from ZoomInfo’s mergers and acquisitions, discussed how data influences today’s sales teams, and offered advice to aspiring business builders. By doing so, the sales process becomes not only quicker, but smarter.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thousands of unsuspecting diners recently received a free side of cyber terror thanks to point-of-sale malware, a malicious software designed to steal customer payment data. 2/9/2015: Just four months later, a hacker gained access to the company’s Twitter page and wreaked havoc. 4/22/2015). (10/26/2015)

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Consumer Vendor 186

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-10-19. Teaser: Even with today's sales enablement software, there is one thing that sales still needs to ensure buyers act: a good pricing strategy. Here are a few major pricing strategy mistakes that could ruin your sales and what you should do instead. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-10-12. Author: Neal Gottsacker, President and CEO of airSpring Software. Today, enhancing and accelerating the sales process requires a new level of engagement and access to knowledge between the organization and its field sales representatives, and more importantly, between the sales representative and the customer.

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Field Sales Software Software Sales Process 120

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 5, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-04-06. Teaser: In today’s competitive B2B environment, business intelligence software levels the playing field, is affordable, intuitive and gaining traction in sales and marketing. Author: Kevin McGirl. read more'

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Software Software B2B Competition 120

SBI

JULY 14, 2021

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), a global leader in modern go-to-market software, data, and intelligence, today announced it has agreed to acquire Chorus.ai , a leader in Conversation Intelligence with the industry’s most advanced technology. ZoomInfo to Acquire Conversation Intelligence Leader Chorus.ai VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON – JULY 13, 2021.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank 85

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

The author, Andy Hoar, outlines the following as major contributors to this demise: B2B buyer preferences have fundamentally shifted from speaking with a sales rep 1-on-1 to a self-education ecommerce type model for purchasing. Ecommerce systems will eliminate 1 million B2B sales jobs by 2020 due to the shift to self-service platforms.

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Lead Rank B2B Education Research 120

Score More Sales

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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Tools Lead Rank Lead Scoring CRM 214

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At the end of 2015, we realized to grow the way we had forecasted to our Board of Directors, we needed better data on our prospects and customers. So, we’re selling to sales – that creates some unique challenges for us. Aligning Sales & Marketing. Sales Tricks for Salespeople. Sales Tricks for Salespeople.

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Data Engineering Call-back Forecasting 181

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 9, 2015

CINCINNATI, OH — March 9, 2015 — Cincom ( [link] ), the Microsoft Dynamics Global Strategic Partner for Manufacturing, announced that it is a Gold Sponsor of Microsoft® Convergence, the foremost event for the Microsoft Dynamics customer and partner community. at Convergence. Source: Smart Selling.

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Microsoft Channels Margin Engineering 48

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In B2B sales, it’s important to make a good first impression. If you want to be seen as a trusted resource—a top-notch B2B sales pro with expertise to share, not just a product to push—you can’t use social media to blast strangers with sales pitches. None of us in B2B sales has much patience. You are your brand.

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Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Telecommunications Hiring 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2016

Many issues that Chief Information Security Officers faced in 2015 will carry into 2016. Cloud security software. The CISO of 2015 has been expected to be a business leader, IT leader, finance leader, and an excellent people influencer and navigator,” says James Carpenter, CISO at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

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Banking Decision Maker Telecommunications Insurance 120

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. million and software was $3.2

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Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

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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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

Emissary

JANUARY 25, 2022

several years in this role, he held responsibilities for enterprise infrastructure, enterprise architecture, software engineering methods, quality, information security, UnitedHealth Group’s India and Philippines operations, and the. This work continued until Mike was named CIO of Optum in 2015. Interested in pairing with Mike?

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Networking Meeting Enterprise Enterprise 52

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The founders of Bryteboard , Sargun Kaur and Nicole Hardson Hurley, founded their business after recognizing fundamental flaws in the tech recruiting process — specifically when it came to technical interviews for software engineers. In 2015, Smith released AllHere — an AI-powered attendance intervention software for K-12 school districts.

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Scale Apparel Sage Remedy 140

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 12, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-04-13. Author: Paige Musto, Director of Communications, Act-On Software. Teaser: Reckoning with mobile’s influence is no easy task, but it’s far from impossible – if you know what to prioritize and which minor adjustments to make to your existing marketing programs.

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Marketing B2B Influencer ACT 120

Drift

JANUARY 3, 2019

59% of customers prefer to do an extensive amount of research before talking to a salesperson when buying a software product, according to a Forrester report from 2015. Does that mean sales is an unnecessary job? Email Gail Axelrod at gaxelrod@drift.com. Some products have to be sold by people.

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Closing Strategy How To Software 69

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

Author: Erroin Martin, Vice President of Sales at Conversica “These are the new leads. If you’re in sales then you have likely seen “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Alec Baldwin’s iconic turn as a fire-breathing sales manager delivers the most anti-motivating motivational sales speech in movie history. And why is that?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 185

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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Data Social Media Scale Follow-up 127

Zoominfo

MARCH 2, 2022

Since 2015, ZoomInfo has made 12 acquisitions with multiple purposes in mind. Will this software improve our user experience and apply to sales, marketing, or recruiting? Can our data make the software competitively differentiated? For some, the goal was to purchase competitors and acquire their customer base.

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How To Software Software Scale 100

SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% in 2015), but only 5.2% in 2015), but only 5.2%

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Sales Enablement Survey Face-to-face Coaching 139

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Scoring 111

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2018

Value-added resellers often specialize in software, hardware, and other technologies. Front-office SaaS development is booming, software is getting cheaper and more intuitive, and CEOs are concerned more about growth than point solutions. Four Software Trends IT Resellers, VARs, and Channel Partners Should Watch.

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Lead Rank Trends Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 91

Gong.io

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first half of 2021 produced 291 new unicorns — more than 2011-2015 combined. Software as a service (SaaS) companies, which represent more than a third of all unicorns , lead the trend. Back in the 1980s, we had to sell each customer a CD or hard drive containing the software. Today, it’s the cloud. . Per year, that’s $4.5

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Company Lead Rank Software Software 62

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. But CRM software quickly emerged as a burning issue and I made the comment that some research states 70% of CRM software implementations fail.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Awarathon

AUGUST 8, 2023

“An AI-powered video roleplay software is one of the most effective sales tools for streamlining your sales process, assisting your organization in meeting sales quotas, and forecasting sales for the upcoming quarters online effectively.” It focuses on sales readiness through sales enablement and training.

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Video Ideal Customer Profile Pharmaceuticals Forecasting 52

Crunchbase

JUNE 24, 2020

Industry: Artificial Intelligence , Data Center, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software. Why I’m watching Expel: SOC-as-a-service (security operations center) is a subscription- or software-based service that manages and monitors logs, devices, clouds, network and assets for internal IT teams. DefinedCrowd.

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Outsourcing Services Health Care Real Estate Automotive 97

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 24, 2018

Henry has always seen the sales team as the growth engine of the company. So freshly out of a successful Q1, we asked him how the sales team needs to evolve alongside the company in order to support this kind of aggressive growth goal. What sales activities make the biggest difference? Specialization of sales roles.

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Scale Hiring Cold Calling Coaching 120

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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Influencer Inside Sales Software Software 60

Mindtickle

APRIL 24, 2019

I spent two days last week at the TOPO Summit, meeting with and hearing from leaders at some of the world’s best marketing and sales organizations. One of the most interesting sessions, Operationalizing Sales Enablement , was from one of our customers, Alex Jaffe, a leader on the Procore Sales Enablement team.

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Scale Sales Enablement Case Study Hiring 66

Gong.io

AUGUST 11, 2021

If you’ve been keeping up with Gong Labs (where we publish data on millions of sales calls) you already know this: Deals are 127% more likely to close when video is used at any point during the sales process. Taking notes is so pre- 2015. Note: Gong launched in 2015. Sales pros are always looking to get better.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Video 62

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