Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I know thousands of sales people will be forwarding this article to their managers, saying, “This guy says outbound is dying, I don’t need to do more prospecting!” Sadly, I think we are poisoning the well of outbound. We live in a world of increasing volume and velocity–across every channel.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively. Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. What Are Sales Acceleration Platforms?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. How can you tell if any or all of these obsessions are waylaying your outbound operations? If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones. Switch Out Your Obsessions.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. Sales teams can make up the difference using outbound sales techniques. But given the rise of inbound sales over the past decade, some reps may have less experience with outbound motions.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 14, 2022

According to Mei Siauw, CEO of LeadIQ , a tool that helps sales teams with smarter prospecting, building an outbound sales motion is the key to growth. Start early, stick with it; if you do it right, outbound sales will produce amazing results. Mei’s main message: don’t give up on outbound sales!

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

ABM traditionally relies heavily on targeted advertising, but can also include email, social, events, and any other relevant channel that can influence a key account’s buying behavior. ABM software tools tend to have similar capabilities and characteristics.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars. Here’s how to effectively execute outbound lead generation, with examples and definitions to get you started on a new or refreshed strategy.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2020

On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) and Anthony Iannarino (Eat Their Lunch) get down and dirty about why salespeople need to adopt a phone first approach to outbound prospecting sequences. Ignorance of the Power of the Phone in Outbound Prospecting In other circumstances, it is a case of ignorance.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Their fear that you’ll turn on the hard sale based on that form is one reason they lie. Actually I take that back, it’s not okay if you pass those 10 leads to quota-carrying sales reps.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2021

This is a guest post from David Kreiger, the President and Founder of SalesRoads, a conversation-based lead generation service that generates uniquely-qualified sales opportunities. “I would say outbound sales has been a big success story,” Stephen followed up. Successful Firms Diversified Their Channels.

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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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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Sales Leadership Framework Behind Multiple $100MM ARR Orgs Whether on the podcast, a one-to-one conversation, in GTMfund’s Slack, in a digital live event… the same pattern surfaces: the best leaders develop and leverage systems. But when done right, it can transform your sales organization into a high-performing revenue machine.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2019

One of the biggest challenges among Marketing Leaders is being able to reach an audience who wants to be engaged successfully. Additionally, trying to remain or gain new customers is a costly investment. Eric Quanstrom, CMO at Cience, joins us in.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Does your (sales) funnel have flow? Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). Contents What is a Sales Funnel? What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. What is a Sales Funnel?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Considering half of the deals that are forecasted to close don’t, and customer retention has decreased as seller attrition increases, sales teams are facing yet another frustrating year if something doesn’t change. Try this instead. That’s a fact.

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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. In these three channels is where sales performance can be enhanced.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. What is a channel partner? Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. But by far, the option that could potentially bring you in the most sales is resellers and sales channel partners.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. Instead, you’ll have to take a more targeted approach to earn leads with outbound strategies. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead.

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Openview

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

As marketing leaders, it makes sense to explore multiple channels to reach your target audience. How do you decide which channels will be worth the. With so many options, it quickly becomes not only expensive but also difficult to manage.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 22, 2019

In their stead, we have new modern sales communications that are data-driven, personalized, relevant, omnichannel, sequenced, and fully optimized for today’s sophisticated buyer. The following are the seven major business pain points solved by sales engagement: Business Pain Point #1: Not Optimizing for the Modern Buyer.

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JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. But the benefits of optimizing your inbound strategy yields compounding return and considerably higher ROI than outbound sources for lead generation. Sales agrees!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In Product-Led-Growth (PLG) circles, outbound has a spotty reputation. So “traditional sales” sounds outdated compared to our shiny new Product-Led Sales playbooks, PQL hypotheses, and sales-assist motions. Outbound is becoming part of the normal progression of growth at product-led companies. I’m with you.

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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. This should also include partners and resellers if you sell through channel.

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SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support. At this point sales sees no value in marketing and why would they? Currently no leads provided to sales. Customer service handles the few inbound leads and hands them off directly to sales. Prior leadership didn’t think marketing should supply leads to sales.

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MarketJoy

MARCH 24, 2025

Your sales team is always on the hunt for leads, but only a few convert from leads to business? This is a classic pain point for all B2B companies: how to populate their sales pipeline with leads that are actually qualified and do convert. This is where B2B lead generation services and Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) come into play.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Outbound leads cost 39% more than inbound leads ( source ). The average cost of a B2B sales lead varies by industry. Verifying business leads before passing it to the sales team is conducted by only 56% of B2B companies ( source ). Nurtured leads produce a 20% increase in sales opportunities versus other leads ( source ).

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 26, 2023

Michael Gaudet joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the best B2B growth channels for $50k+ CAC levels and how to use them to drive pipeline revenue. The post B2B Growth Channels Available for Each CAC Level Part 3 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script or download free sales call templates.) Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification. So, what does a typical cold call look like in sales?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

Develop content that delivers the right message, to the right person, at the right time, via the right channel. Implement Lead Management to nurture leads until sales-ready. Track the leads you send sales through to win or loss. Explain your mix of outbound and inbound. Execute your demand gen campaigns flawlessly.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

It’s also the ultimate sales advantage. Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. The problem is with typical sales metrics. Why Trust Is Hard to Earn. Trust is how deals get done. It’s the key to a successful referral system. We all know why.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Purposes of a Sales Report.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Rather, it identifies the specific factors that will impact the way a product is received, such as target audience, marketing plan, and sales strategy. . Basic marketing and sales strategies no longer make the cut when it comes to modern go-to-market motions. When I say it’s a plan, it’s not just a broad outline. What’s Broke?

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