Nutshell

MAY 7, 2024

To make the most of these events, you’ll need to measure the return on investment, or ROI, of the trade shows you attend. What is return on investment (ROI)? Return on investment, or ROI, measures how much a business earned from a particular activity compared to the expenses related to that activity.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Reps who anticipate sales objections and approach them strategically build stronger relationships and close more deals. Active listening skills are essential for overcoming objections. If you’ve worked in sales for some time, you’ve heard customer objections like this more times than you can count.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2025

A well-structured marketing report is essential for tracking valuable metrics that inform your strategies, enabling you to achieve the highest possible return on investment (ROI). This section should outline the goals, objectives, and context in which the assessed initiatives occur.

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Scott Edinger also claims a similar result in Harvard Business Review : “In my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. ” If the failure rate is that high, how can businesses achieve any return on investment (ROI) of their CRM?

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Allego

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Sales training can deliver a staggering 353% return on investment, according to a study by Southern New Hampshire University. For every dollar spent, that’s a return of $3.53. How does this ROI translate into measurable improvements like higher sales, shorter deal cycles, or larger contracts?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

Virtual sales tools and platforms streamline the sales process , enabling better resource allocation and improved sales performance. Automation tools can handle routine tasks, freeing up sales reps to focus on what truly matters: building relationships and closing deals through impactful sales conversations.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These intelligent tools are not just about automating tasks; they revolutionize how sales teams operate by offering personalized insights and recommendations. In the realm of sales, AI sales assistant software, often referred to as an AI assistant , is emerging as a potent tool to automate and enhance myriad sales functions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2018

When taking a closer look, there are objective reasons for the plight of CRM. CRM stands for customer relationship management, which indicates that it’s a tool to manage, you guessed it, customer relationships. Setting up CRM is more often a complex investment for the company. First you need to ask what your objective is.

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Lead411

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Mastering the Art of Overcoming Cold Call Objections in Sales Cold calling can be a daunting task for many sales professionals. It’s an essential part of the sales process, but it often comes with its fair share of objections. Recognizing the underlying reasons behind objections will help you address them more effectively.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Deviating from the Standard Object Structure. Having an understanding of the Salesforce standard object model is important. For example, if you want to track a company, you should use the Account object; if you want to track a person, it belongs as a Contact, Lead or Person Account. The pros rarely ever outweigh the cons.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A longer-term goal might be to get better aligned with sales by integrating a specific cross-functional tool, or improving MQL conversion rates by X%. PRO TIP : Sit in on sales demos and trainings at least once or twice per week, to learn common objections and use cases. Meet with stakeholders to build a foundation of trust.

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SBI

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Transforming Sales: Evolved Selling with Content & Interactive Tools. And finally, interactive sales tools. To truly transform your sales approach from an ineffective product pitch to a value-based sales interaction, you need to implement next-generation tools like ROI and TCO calculators.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 21, 2017

Mentoring is a tool that can be used for all departments within an organization – with sales being the most ideal of candidates. Salespeople need an objective and unbiased coach. Mentoring makes these numbers achievable, which makes mentoring a great return on investment. But it shouldn’t be.

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Allego

OCTOBER 15, 2024

They want to know exactly how your solution will help them, and they want expert-level consultation about the return on investment your product offers. This includes using tools like LinkedIn, industry reports, and company websites to gather insights. Digital tools can enhance this process.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

If possible, mention a return on investment that the client with a similar issue realized. Specializing in the IT industry, KLA Group works with companies to break in and exceed revenue objectives in the Small and Midmarket Business (SMB) segment. Objection Handling. Sales Tool. Guest Post. Hiring Sales Talent.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Our Manager of Demand Generation, Nina Wooten, uses our own sales intelligence tool to prepare for DiscoverOrg’s attendance at about 30 events per year. Get all these great resources in one sharable place: Download the Trade Show Tool Kit. Use sales intelligence data and tools. VIDEO] Executing an Account-Based Strategy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Author: Rachel Downey Modern marketers are no stranger to showing a return on investment for their campaigns. As demand for ROI continues, many are retooling their content strategies to prove a return. Too often, marketers are seeing their podcast as a thought leadership tool meant to increase “brand awareness.”

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Our intelligent tool offers a free personal writing assistant and automatic text expander. Optimizing Brand Communications Designed for efficient communication, our tool allows your teams to categorize, manage, organize, and store your business’s top-performing snippets, messages, and posts in the cloud.

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Allego

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With tools that enhance every stage of the sales process, companies in this industry are reaping the rewards of faster, smarter, and more efficient operations. Now, AI tools handle these tasks automatically, ensuring timely communications without manual input. One of the most pressing challenges is the cost of implementation.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The point here is that there is far too little planning, assessing and objective setting – it is much easier to abdicate responsibility to the training company… The downside to this approach is, of course, so much money is wasted! Objection Handling. Sales Tool. So what is the answer? Leanne Hoagland-Smith.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

This is the nature of complex salesthey demand strategy, patience, and the right tools to navigate the process effectively. Objection handling: Customers may have concerns about pricing, competitors, or implementation. But for complex products like software tools, there are many touchpoints along the sales journey.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 30, 2025

2- Review and Negotiation In this stage, stakeholders collaborate to review and refine the contract, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Modern CLM tools automate this, ensuring accessibility and preventing data loss. After approval, it is executed through physical or electronic signing, making it a binding agreement.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. The most common VR tools include high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift and inexpensive products like Google Cardboard. As such, will continue to develop as effective tools for marketers.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2011, Scott Brinker compiled the first of many marketing technology “Supergraphics,” illustrating the rapid growth of companies supplying digital marketing tools. “Organizations are facing the decision of which tools to purchase, and how much to spend on those tools.” What is a Marketing Technology Stack?

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 30, 2025

Business Process Management (BPM) is a structured methodology that focuses on designing, analyzing, optimizing, and automating business processes to achieve organizational objectives. Alignment ensures that all business processes work cohesively towards achieving strategic objectives.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 6, 2014

The Galbraith 5 Star Model is a great tool to quickly and affordably determine where misalignment exists and begin to close those talent management gaps. Now pull out 75% and recognize for those employees you are not earning a return on investment, but rather bleeding dollars, think profits, all the way to the bank.

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BuzzBoard

AUGUST 1, 2024

Explaining Proactive Strategies in Preempting Objections During Consultative Selling – an Introduction to the Technique and Its Importance In the realm of consultative selling , preempting objections is a fundamental strategy for achieving success. You may wonder, what does ‘preempting objections’ entail?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nurturing a lead through the sales journey takes a robust system, but what if your team could take this advanced functionality and apply it to other database objects besides just ‘leads’? How Will You Measure Return on Investment? Are you able to route any object?

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SBI

MARCH 6, 2018

return on investment, and a 294% higher conversion rate from lead to opportunity than normal PDF content. They grew up with product reviews and social tools to share opinions before making a purchase. By focusing on even one of these objectives in 2018, you’ll be off to a good start.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But while many leaders recognize the need to leverage the tools and technologies at their disposal more effectively, we hear the same question time and again from long-time customers and prospects alike: How? That’s what makes ZoomInfo’s GTM Plays such an essential tool for GTM teams seeking to boost revenue. That changes today.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 14, 2014

Selling Power editors say the firms included on the 2014 Top 20 Sales Training Companies list have “demonstrated an excellent awareness of the skills and tools required to succeed and remain competitive in today’s selling environment.”. Strength of client satisfaction. About Selling Power.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2021

Recently, sales teams have been leveraging virtual meeting tools like Zoom to conduct calls and face-to-face meetings to help build relationships with prospects or interact with colleagues. Tools such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) make it easier to onboard and train remote sellers. How are sales teams impacted by remote work?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

We expect to see B2B companies investing more money into fewer, but better tools in order to streamline their systems, improve workflows, increase productivity, and ultimately see stronger return on investment. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 11, 2020

Sales objections are a common occurrence throughout a salesperson’s career. RELATED: Overcoming Cold Calling Objections. 39 Common Sales Objections and How to Overcome Them. What are Sales Objections? Sales objections are rebuttals from a potential client stating why they won’t buy your product or service.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And the “how” is proving that launching a sales development team will exceed executives’ expectations of revenue and return on investment. There are a few common objections to restructuring sales teams to involve sales development. This is the single most common objection to specialization.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Strategies for Overcoming Objections When Selling Digital Marketing Services to Small Businesses In the realm of digital marketing, acquiring clients often necessitates surpassing objections, particularly when accommodating the distinctive requisites of small businesses. Starting off, it’s critical to foresee objections.

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