Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Salespeople who reach THE decision maker are 341% more likely to close the business than those who fail to reach the decision maker. However, working with them also lengthens the sales process.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 27, 2013

You can then build messaging that resonates with decision makers inside your target accounts. Decision Makers - Once you know your target audience, know the market problems of your buyers. Build social channels, listen to conversations and simply know where potential clients consume content. Mystery Shop.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

In this post we will discuss Agile Sales. Agile sales is an approach that can help you keep pace with your customers. A few months back I wrote a post about becoming an Agile Sales Leader. Now it is time to make the entire sales organization agile. Let’s start with the definition of agile sales.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Similarly, sales reps and managers require a new set of capabilities. Sales Operations must transform its reporting to track these key capabilities. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” Five Sales Metrics You''re Not Tracking. Social Reach.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Author: Todd Handy Before we start, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page regarding the term “direct sales.” Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 25, 2025

Hes already tried a variety of channels, including inside sales, social media, and email, but is struggling to ramp up both volume and quality. Why a Multi-Channel Strategy Matters Theres rarely a single magic trick that opens the floodgates of perfect leads. In B2B sales randomness is the enemy of effectiveness.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 16, 2025

Ross from Houston faces a common challenge in channel sales: how do you create brand preference for your product when youre selling through distributors who carry multiple competing lines and competitors who undercut your price? Action Items: Train the Distributors Sales Reps. Collaborate with contractors.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales. And they involve the sales team in the process. It will only help the sales team.

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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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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy. Prospecting. Negotiation.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The apps help businesses customize their Salesforce environment, addressing needs across sales, marketing, customer service, and finance functions. These top apps cover a range of use-cases, from enhancing sales processes and automating marketing tasks to improving customer relationship management and boosting overall productivity.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Sales gets off to a fast start at the beginning of the year. Come Q4, that lead has evaporated and now sales is threatening to miss the number. Your sales leaders will frantically try every trick in the book. The victims here are your potential customers who have to deal with a barrage of sales tactics. Best Practices.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Some of the easiest methods of lead generation include increasing traffic to your social media channels and website. Lead generation is the process of advertising, optimizing brand reach, engaging with nurture campaigns, and maximizing digital channels. And what are one of the most difficult methods of lead generation?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Fast forward to today, and though events have regained their status as a cornerstone of B2B marketing , many key decision-makers are being extremely selective about where to spend their time and resources. Use ZoomInfo to identify which companies and decision-makers are attending.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

According to a study by Edelman, 88% B2B of decision-makers believe that thought leadership is effective in enhancing their perceptions of an organization—yet only 17% of them rate the quality of most of the thought leadership they read as very good or excellent. Align Marketing and Sales to Act Swiftly. So you did it!

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why the sudden interest in referral sales? Sales leaders have an ongoing challenge to get more qualified leads in the pipe, but seller access has evaporated. You can ask: During the sales process when you’ve added value. Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. There it is.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

You have to make the rest of 2013 with the sales heads you have.” Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." In the guide you will learn: Make the number with the remaining sales people you have. Sales VPs consistently have hiring freezes placed on them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Author: Barbara Adey It’s not enough to prepare for a sales call with general industry knowledge. As it stands, only 20% of salespeople are prepared to offer any real value during a sales call. Customer-Centric Sales. This savvy also allows sellers to engage around the entire sales cycle and open up opportunities throughout.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. The higher up in the org chart someone is, the closer they are to a decision maker.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 26, 2021

Long Sales Cycles: Enterprise companies are big, and they want to make sure they are getting best-in-class solutions. For that reason, they usually have longer sales cycles (6-18 months is typical), meaning you have to be on your game for an extended period of time in order to actually close the deal. Engaging Multiple Stakeholders.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Sales leaders if you want more leads in 2013, forward this blog post to your peer in marketing.). The collective environment of thought leaders, influencers, communication channels and possible touch-points that surround a prospect makes up their ecosystem. Most complex decisions are made in a group decision.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

McKinsey & Company created its B2B Decision Maker Pulse , a survey of 3,600 B2B decision makers in 11 countries and 12 sectors across 14 spend categories. The objective is to identify how decision makers continue to learn and pivot their operations in the age of COVID-19. The next normal sales model.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

But when you’re in sales, learning the truth about a prospect’s needs is critical. Nowhere else in the sales cycle is independently verified information from trusted sources more important. You rely on the information you get through these channels, but you also know they are fraught with uncertainty. . Consider the Source.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

We looked to one of our internal experts, our Sales Development Rep with the 60% response rate, to show you how (and when) to write a perfectly personalized BASHO email. A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. And we’ve got examples.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Product-Channel Fit: Finding the Right Growth Strategy for Your Product We often hear product- market fit, but not often enough is the importance of product- channel fit emphasized. Product-channel fit explained Product-Channel Fit measures how well a product aligns with its distribution channels to effectively reach its target market.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals. Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I was growing up in the 1960’s, I watched meteorologist Don Kent give his weather forecasts on WBZ channel 4 in Boston. Before long, nobody will listen and worse, sales management won’t be inclined to provide feedback. The adverbs: Where are you in the sales process? It’s the salespeople. What if…?

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. Understanding the Pricing Complexities in Multi-Channel Sales In the hyper-connected marketplace, businesses sell through multiple channelsdirect sales teams, resellers, e-commerce platforms, and distributors.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A solid social selling strategy falls somewhere between “nice-to-have” and “need-to-have” in the modern sales landscape. There are some common pitfalls sales reps tend to run into when leveraging social media as a sales resource. When reps connect and immediately push for a sale, it turns people off. Let's take a look!

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area. This means reps at your company could be missing out on interested leads, important sales conversations, and ultimately, revenue. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ).

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

With this accurate data, your team can get in front of the the decision makers who drive open reqs, before they post on job boards. Opportunity data helps inform the timing for sales outreach. Your former sales teams used our data to get ahold of the decision makers in their target accounts. Let me know.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

A survey of B2B sales operations by McKinsey & Company shows the pandemic has accelerated previous trends?—?omnichannel omnichannel selling, inside sales, tech-enabled selling and e-commerce. from all of your sales channels. Offer the human touch whenever customers need it with your sales team?–?whether

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of the areas of complex sales that I have seen soak up tons of time from entrepreneurs and senior salespeople over my years is writing proposals. As a [Your Position] at [Your Company’s Name and what it does], I’m often tasked with drafting sales proposals to potential clients. I fed this prompt into ChatGPT 3.5

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SalesFuel

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2022 and 2024, surveyed business leaders have given declining scores to their sales and profit performance. When sales and customer acquisition rates arent where they need to be, B2B market intelligence can help. Your clients need to understand what motivates their target audiences to make a decision.

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