Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I managed a team of software and hardware engineers and external subcontractors. They also were not aware of the amount of software to be developed for the requested functionality. Our organization had to have trust in me that I defended their interests with the customer. (Call it tight rope walking.)The

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 8, 2019

His marketing expertise is backed by real-world experience building businesses, running marketing and sales teams, and advising highly successful companies. The key is creating what they call a “fanocracy” – an organization that puts the needs and wishes of fans ahead of every other priority.

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Women Sales Pros

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Last month, I conducted a training with a large software company and discovered their top rep, Trina, earns more than five times as much as the lowest performer in her company—while talking to the exact same number of customers. Third Level or Heart Questions reveal the core motivator or what I call the customer’s Dominant Buying Motive.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Cold calling is the bread and butter of sales reps in real estate. So, how should you cold call in real estate? In this post, we'll share 11 cold-calling scripts for real estate agents. Some might also use lead distribution software and gain access to third-party prospect lists. Does cold calling in real estate work?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 31, 2020

Every day we recover quickly from the many rejections we receive from prospects, clients, and the market, only to hop on a call and get rejected again. Even the B2B software industry has been seeing a massive hit regarding trade shows and industry events. Going after verticals like hospitality, insurance, tourism, health, etc.,

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this guide, I’ll take you through the top 5 strategies for leveraging TikTok for B2B sales — backed by research-based stats and live examples. They might need a better software communication tool. NEXT is a B2B insurance company that used TikTok Spark Ads featuring content creators to increase engagement and notoriety.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

They’ll get back up and keep going with the intention of succeeding soon thereafter. Again, this doesn’t make any assumption of what they “want” and instead gives them the opportunity to come back later if necessary. LeadFuze is the best lead generation software on the market. They eliminate the negative.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2021

Proposal management software allows you to build your proposals online, so file size isn’t a factor. With this information in hand, you can start building a data-backed cadence from proposal to close. The call helped push the prospect over the line and secured a signature. Leverage video software tools.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JULY 29, 2016

Lots of hype, lots of trade-journal coverage, but, I wonder if companies are really taking advantage, and are they finding a demonstrable advantage using CPQ software? We assign the lead to a sales rep and just sit back to wait for the big thank you phone call to come in from the rep. They never call back—nothing but silence.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

North America — WFG National Title Insurance Company , a Williston Financial Group company, was chosen for its dedication to investing in technology to support its business goal of streamlining the real estate transaction process. Of the quotes prepared in the platform, they converted 46%.

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Lessonly

JANUARY 7, 2022

Some people reluctantly get back into the swing of things. Tactfully point out the places where their sales performance might improve, and back up those points with data and metrics whenever possible. . Lessonly by Seismic is the powerfully simple training and coaching software for all of your January personalities.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Without viable customer experience management software that includes analytical capability, you can end up with a lot of disparate information and no real plan on how to build it into a sales machine that supports a robust and consistent revenue. Our new software initiative, HD-CX, is putting the power in your hands.

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

According to HubSpot, the pre-work onboarding period can include everything from “shadowing,” in which new hires follow established reps as they go about their daily routine, to learning about whatever software and other tools they’ll be regularly using.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. Have their back (and tell them you do). And it’s about to get tougher.

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So it’s important to take a step back and focus on the basic tenets of marketing planning. It’s at the intersection of these three concepts that B2B companies will find their sweet spot, which marketers variously call brand positions, a unique selling proposition, or sometimes a value proposition. Who Is Your Customer?

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Nutshell

JULY 24, 2019

Just as a homeowner might want to sell their house before the year’s end to assist with tax issues or avoid upcoming tax law changes, health care consumers are more likely to buy at the end of the year in order to take advantage of their insurance benefits. During the back-to-school season we also experience an increase in supplement sales.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. If Sales has to make 100 phone calls to determine which 3 are worth something, they won’t invest the time, and it’s not smart for your company to ask them to.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 15, 2022

Ather Energy is a manufacturer of electric scooters and an electric vehicle charging network called Ather Grid. With the concentration on product growth and its backing from big-name giants, such as Visa , Mastercard and Sallie Mae , it would be smart to keep Deserve on your radar. Crunchbase Rank: 134 Post Money Valuation: $900M.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 4, 2022

However, many organizations find themselves looking for an alternative training software for their customer-facing teams. Brainshark is our sales enablement platform, used by thousands of clients including: Colonial Life, a country-wide insurance provider with a sales organization of over 10,000 reps. Adobe Captivate Prime. SAP Litmos.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Do you sell to the Insurance industry? They can’t be sure whether they are the only sap that’s accepted your phone call, or signed up for a trial. Pavel left everyone talking about how generous Bono was with his time and attention (see 3 paragraphs back). In both cases, giving is receiving. Or simply showcase your clients.

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LeadFuze

MAY 31, 2021

For instance, if you’re selling insurance, a customer persona might be someone who is in their early thirties and living below the poverty line. And they do it without any cold calling or spamming your inbox. Going back to our “Founder Fred” persona, he has a couple of focuses going on. It’s as easy as 1-2-3!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. For instance, if you’re selling into a cloud security startup, it will likely focus on developing its core security products, but it will need to outsource tools like HR software, email marketing tools, and so forth. “We

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 2, 2016

No one cares if you made a thousand calls or ten calls last week. When you go to the well, bring back as much water as you can carry. CPQ software will give you a decided advantage with this. He remarks that your wedding band means you are married and before you know it, you’re signing a credit life insurance policy.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 19, 2020

Back in the 1960s or Mad Men era, you could use brilliant marketing to obscure any weakness—all the way up to convincing customers that Lucky Strikes were good for your throat. Instead of folding under the current crisis, they’ve turned their contact center (what they call their “Customer Loyalty Team”) into an “Ask Me Anything” brigade.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this book, Hamilton shares her journey from sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport to becoming a successful investor, backing businesses founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs. Amoruso recounts dropping out of school, taking jobs just for the insurance, and selling vintage clothes on eBay.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

These terms and conditions can include details about the warranty, insurance, payment structure, liability, force majeure, working additions, payment for additional work, time tables for the work to be completed, and other such details. so that there are no delays and back-and-forth, and you can get paid on time.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this edition of The Lead List, we’ll look at several companies that raised new funding in November and inched closer to becoming unicorns — what we call “emerging unicorns.” Following a $181 million round back in January led by 8VC , the company has recently raised an additional $7.7 million over seven rounds. Cover Genius.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Some of these strategies are straight out of my cold calling book. For example, internal company communications, communicating back and forth with clients and those who need to be involved in the conversation, even communicating with friends and family, general email copying that exposes all of the recipients to each other is fine. .

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Getting a CEO to call you back is seemingly impossible. From Impossible to Inevitable details the hypergrowth playbook of companies like Hubspot, Salesforce.com (the fastest growing multibillion-dollar software company), and EchoSign―aka Adobe Document Services (which catapulted from $0 to $144 million in seven years).

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 3, 2022

But unlike the other two examples, sales managers aren’t usually backed by multi-million dollar teams supplying them with insights to drive improvements. This includes: Employee costs (salary, benefits, insurance, etc.). Sales software . It’s an indicator of profitability in software companies. Employee training.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As Then, less than ten years ago, access to really strong, granular data gave birth to the ability to drill beyond the superficial audience segments and reach down into what I call audience cohorts.”.

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Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2022

In addition, we’ll walk you through how to use Crunchbase’s sales prospecting software to connect with decision-makers at these companies and close deals, all in one platform. LinkSquares is a computer software company that features AI-powered contract management and analytics tool for in-house legal and finance teams.

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Allego

JANUARY 18, 2021

Our industry-leading sales enablement platform was recognized, once again, for its innovation and widespread success as an effective learning tool, top sales software, and impressive technology-based solution. Best in Biz Enterprise Product of the Year – Sales Software. Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards.

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The Science and Art of Selling

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We sit back and try to get a better vantage people. Today they maybe selling computer software. That’s called mirroring. And if they change back to visual, “We have to see results before we decide.”. The whole insurance industry is built on people going away from bad situations. I understand how you feel”.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As Then, less than 10 years ago, access to really strong, granular data gave birth to the ability to drill beyond the superficial audience segments and reach down into what I call audience cohorts.”

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Increase Sales

APRIL 11, 2012

Then in 1997, I was in the Navy and my commanding officer called me in to his office. “Seaman Bondi,” he said, “I am assigning you to be in charge of our Automated Information Systems Department until further notice.” There are many ways to determine if software is legal or not.

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Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Today on the show we’ve got a really inspiring sales leader, Luke Rogers, who’s the VP of Sales at a really exciting company called Instabase. Before we dive into it we want to thank our sponsors. The first is 6sense.

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