Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In both 2012 and 2016, companies everywhere were telling salespeople, "We're going to wait until after the election." There are 8 months left on the lease so it would be completely reasonable for you to say, "Sounds good. Let's make that change when the lease comes to an end in 8 months.".

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2021

Who paved the way for women in sales? Yet, even with gender biases and cultural norms working against them, there were women trailblazers in every century, including women sales leaders. Blazing a Trail for Women in Sales. Most notable among early women sales leaders is Lucinda W. Picture yourself in 1900.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Author: Leeatt Rothschild Virtual sales meetings have become the norm as a result of COVID-19. However, many sales reps may find themselves unsure of how to best lead a meeting with prospects over video. Here are four actionable tips to help you lead more successful virtual sales meetings and ultimately earn more new business.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content. Two things.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-10-07. Here are some "musts" that sales managers have to bring to the table. Here are some "musts" that sales managers have to bring to the table. Author: Bill Blades. Teaser: According to one survey, nearly 9 in 10 managers become such without any prior management training. read more

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Steven Rosen

MAY 10, 2017

6 FREE Sales Management Training Webinars . The #1 driver of performance in sales organizations are front-line sales managers. The STAR Sales Management Development Survey found that only 50% of sales managers were receiving on-going training and development in core skills. Sales Management Challenges.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Are your sales reps wasting time prospecting? You’re a sales leader accountable for increasing revenue, while at the same time managing your profit margins. If you’re fairly new to your company, your sales reps are a mixed bag of talent. However, a few critical sales challenges still remain. In 2015, 43.6

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Referrals Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 279

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2017

Author: Monika Götzmann When businesses need to improve sales, they are most likely to focus on salespeople and account managers, according to CSO Insights' 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study, with 94.3 In addition, the same study found sales training was the most popular sales enablement service.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2017

Issue Date: 2016-07-22. Author: Hila Nir. Teaser: Believe it or not, your current customer data is actually the secret source of future growth. Organizations constantly claim to be “customer-first”; now you have a chance to put that aspiration toward your organization’s growth.

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Data ROI B2B How To 250

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-10-21. Author: Chris Benedetto, Director of Marketing, Sales Automation, Pegasystems. Teaser: Sales, marketing, customer service and onboarding/operations functions are often running as disparate business systems that are not conducive to creating the holistic experiences that today’s customers expect.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. Sales & Marketing Management caught up with Bloom recently via email. Sales & Marketing Management caught up with Bloom recently via email. Author: Paul Nolan. 18-20 in Las Vegas. 18-20 in Las Vegas. 18-20 in Las Vegas. read more

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I know it’s hard to believe, but 2016 is right around the corner! There are definitely some things you should be doing now to ensure your 2016 gets off to a great start. Learn the 2016 company objectives for each of […]. Below are the 10 that I definitely think you should not overlook: 1.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently deliver outstanding results.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

But they’re not asking for help from your sales team. 47% of buyers viewed 3-5 pieces of content before engaging with a sales rep. Demand Gen Report, 2016). Unfortunately, sales does not reward second or third place. Why is predictive intent important for B2B sales? What is Intent data? What is Intent data ?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 21, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-03-01. Author: Stu Heinecke. Teaser: Once you know the key influencers at your prospect companies, it's important to execute a strategy that will allow you to turn a dialogue into a into a relationship and a relationship into deals and referrals. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-06-27. Teaser: The gutters of sales roads are littered with victims and quitters, beginners who embarked and just couldn’t endure the strains. The gutters of sales roads are littered with victims and quitters, beginners who embarked and just couldn’t endure the strains. Author: David Halberstam.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer. She WAS our first woman in the sales department. I graduated from college in 2016, which means I haven’t been in this industry very long. Do you like sales?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-11-01. Teaser: As a sales leader, increasing your team’s productivity is one of your biggest challenges. As a sales leader, increasing your team’s productivity is one of your biggest challenges. Author: Jill Konrath. Growing revenue without adding salespeople can seem like an insurmountable task.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-12-12. With proper strategy and planning, sales professionals who face the challenges in playing this accidental project manager role can avoid chaos and work smarter. Author: Jason Morio. Teaser: A recent survey revealed that two out of three North Americans who lead projects are not project management certified.

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Survey Sales Strategy Leads 166

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-08-15. Author: Eric Blumthal. Teaser: Moving your middle performers up a notch represents your most significant revenue opportunity. Imagine if you could improve all your C and B performers by a half or full letter grade.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As we head to the finish line 0f 2015, there is a tendency among many in sales to maximize their “closing” activities. Spurred on by their managers to close business, sales people get distracted from executing on the entire cycle, and focus on the here and now, and sacrifice future opportunities.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 11, 2017

Even with brilliant marketing strategies and a solid management team, many companies miss their sales objectives. Successful strategy execution is the key to crushing sales numbers. He has a proven track record of delivering stellar sales results. Executives trust him for his focused, practical, no BS approach to growing sales.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The night before the 2016 Presidential election, Gary Vaynerchuk, business mogul, investor, author, and top keynote speaker gave a keynote at INBOUND. It was a coincidence that INBOUND, a large annual marketing conference - started on election day this year. By the time the keynote began at 6PM, voting had been going on all day.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 26, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-05-26. Author: Scott Benedetti, VP of Sales, The Pedowitz Group. Teaser: Lead scoring is a methodology to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value each lead represents to an organization.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 1, 2018

In Q3 2016, 42% of respondents identified this difficulty, while in Q3 2017, 45% said it was a pain point. Three areas continued to see a high average of new spend in both 2016 and 2017: Digital advertising solutions. What are the capabilities for marketing and sales intelligence? Customer experience solutions.

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Trends Advertising Advertising Survey 184

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Effective team building has a definitive purpose and delivers a takeaway. It steers clear of anything that could be categorized as “forced fun.” ” Too many companies are still figuring this out. Effective team building has a definitive purpose and delivers a takeaway.

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Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

If you want to get lucky in your sales career, then I seriously want you to meet someone. Many in the sales world know of Jill through her writings, the series of books she has written and her desire to help those around her. Speakers who were in the sales space doing what I wanted to do. Jill Konrath. appeared on my screen.

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Meeting B2B Sales Leadership Sports 294

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-12-28. Author: Anna Johansson. Teaser: More than half of the nation will make goals to improve their health and wellbeing in the new year. It’s the perfect time for you to make some resolutions for your business. More than half of the nation will make goals to improve their health and wellbeing in the new year.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process. You can’t manage revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives among this demographic like travel, sales leaders can improve their incentives programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. . Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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Incentive Incentives Motivation Demographics 227

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives like travel among this demographic, sales leaders can improve their incentive programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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Incentive Incentives Motivation Demographics 227

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-26. Author: Dave R. Teaser: In the movie “The Martian,” Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, has extremely limited resources and one slip could be the difference between survival and failure. The same is true of many channel partners who teeter on the very edge of business survival.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2017

By analyzing the biggest IT initiatives, spending trends, and pain points of IT buyers in 2016 and 2017, DiscoverOrg can make some solid predictions for the coming year. And with this foreknowledge in hand, sales professionals, marketers, and recruiters can start 2018 by helping buyers solve real, self-identified problems.

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Trends Survey Wireless Data 181

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 9, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-03-01. Teaser: Could there be a Sales & Marketing Management Bump? ” Could there be a Sales & Marketing Management Bump? Author: Paul Nolan. ” read more

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Marketing Qualified Lead Leads Meeting Marketing 189

Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2019

YouTube Live was the largest streaming service until early 2016, but ceded some ground to Facebook Live and Meerkat by the end of the year ( source ). 36% of internet users said they watched live video as of November 2016 ( source ). 81% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live video in 2016 than in 2015 ( source ).

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