The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2020

Voicemail is a great example in sales, there are as many opinions as there are pundits. It’s about voicemail for buyers vs. voicemail with prospects. And all this will serve you well as a salesperson once you are engaged and selling to a prospect. Base assumption: You need to speak with the prospect to initiate a cycle.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. What are prospecting insights?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. How’s your Tuesday going?”

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Upfront Bonus Steps Challenge yourself to utilize the other side of your typical sales personality.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. It start with how sellers think about time; which is why in sales, time is value not money. By Tibor Shanto. Customer Value Management.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

million per sales manager. But I don’t think any sales manager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota. I blame the sales manager for having the wrong priorities. Yet, modern sales managers have their heads stuck in spreadsheets with priorities changing daily. Poor leadership will cost you $3.5

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Sales training can be a significant investment in your sales team. Here are a few guidelines for organizations to boost the effectiveness of their sales training: Create a Culture of Training and Coaching Establishing a culture of training and coaching is one of the most significant things a company can do to achieve success.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. Sales requires a lot of skills you can only acquire from experience, but there’s one critical attribute you should start to hone on day one: persistence.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2021

Don’t roll your eyes, not another piece about remembering to reach out to a prospect or a client. This piece is more to my fellow pundits, and sales disablement folk , when developing salespeople, don’t forget the follow-through. Taking away the objection does not automatically lead to the prospect taking the action you need.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 7, 2024

After some initial discovery, the capable sales rep dove into the platform to give me a look at one of the functionalities I was most interested in. Table of Contents What Is a Sales Demo Environment? You can think of a sales demo environment in the same way. But during the live demo, disaster struck.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My client was thrilled, of course. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. Flash Sale.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve started a new sales project, and I need some quick wins to show my clients that they made the right decision. If you’ve ever started a new sales job, or been given a new territory, you will recognize this scenario. A common sales scenario The setup for this project is a classic. Everything of course is in an awkward format.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 7, 2025

Photo via Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Do You Play Games with Prospects for Business Growth? Our blog question is, Do you play games with prospects for business growth? An upfront step in the sales cycle is to learn what caught the persons attention to meet with us.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Or worse, could you lose your sales job altogether? You could be vulnerable if you’re not sharpening your sales skills and honing the tactics that will help you succeed in 2020. Forrester analyst Andy Hoar didn’t mince words when he spoke at the 2015 Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Adapt to the Digital Business Environment.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

I'm always saying, “Sound, well-structured business email templates are central to effective sales communication, initiating productive sales conversations, and sustaining relationships with prospects and customers.” Now at this point, you may be thinking, “My gosh! It's relatively self-explanatory. Types of Business Emails 1.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As you'll learn in this Monday Money podcast episode and article, these goals are essential to helping you maintain sales discipline throughout your sales year. Maybe you want to be a sales manager, or if youre a manager, you want to be a director or VP of sales. You might want to go back to school for a degree or an MBA.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its sales expertise? Of course, it takes leadership to drive a company's culture. That's all well and good when your sales force works in a traditional workplace – sharing office space and meeting face-to-face. We tend to think of inside sales reps as being reasonably autonomous. Its products? Its customer service?

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Go-to-market training equips you with the marketing, product, and sales skills to avoid launching a product no one needs. Incorporating fresh sales training ideas into this process ensures that your team is also prepared with the right approach and tools to drive consistent results. The good news?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Of course not. A sales enablement software company can now create an audience consisting solely of sales employees at companies with 20+ people in sales. Second, we’ve architected our company data to let you identify companies with a level of granularity that significantly eclipses the competition.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Your referral network is your net worth in sales. How can smart, experienced sales reps let their customer relationships wither? But not all sales teams make those investments. Far too many sales organizations are so focused on bringing in new business that they neglect their current customers.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In sales we need to go through the motions. Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. Comparing this to cold prospecting’s high-end response rate of about 3% you can see there will be large benefits.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Next time you prospect a company, add a board member. Of course you're afraid to dial the CFO. When you're at work, prospect incessantly. And the greatest fear of all in sales that separates the titans from the also rans: walking on the deal. This sales thing violates a lot of psychology. Ruffling feathers?

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

At first, it seemed almost rude to utter it… But let me ask you: out of ten prospects you pitch to, how many end up actually buying? Yep, two out of ten prospects you speak with turn into buyers. That’s why most people get burned out in sales. That’s why most salespeople find sales discouraging. Who’s next?”

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Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

Entering this 2025, to embrace a virtual sales program, like our own FlyMSG Sales Pro Plan , could be pivotal for achieving unprecedented business success. The Rise of Virtual Sales Programs As we enter 2025, the landscape of sales training programs is undergoing a revolutionary transformation.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

” “We need sales training,” came the response. “What kind of sales training do you need?” “Sales training, our people aren’t performing the way we expect,” came the response. “We just need sales training, our people need to sell better, how much does your training cost?”

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 21, 2020

Do you often hear people say ‘Oh, I’m not in sales…I can’t sell anything!’. Or they can hinder that sale just as easily. 1) Understand that every call/meeting is a potential sales opportunity. Without realising it, the way a contact is handled could make or break a sales opportunity for a new prospect.

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Mastering sales fundamentals has become more crucial than ever for sales professionals. Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Here are the essential sales skills that sales training programs provide.

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Anne Miller

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

You present your service to a qualified prospect. Bogdan helps service businesses sell more in less time with “done-for-you storytelling” webinar presentations that your prospects access online. In your world, what metaphor would help prospects “see” their commitment to buy as the right choice? Pay only for results.”

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, host Jeb Blount Jr. sits down with LinkedIn expert and OutBound speaker Brynne Tillman to discuss the keys to leveraging LinkedIn for sales success. Personalization vs. Automation: When using sales automation, it's crucial to remain authentic. This can make a huge difference.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But for business, AI is having an early transformative effect on sales and marketing by helping people make better decisions and serve customers more effectively. Why AI Is Poised to Transform Sales. The sales function is uniquely well-suited to be transformed by AI tools. It helps farmers safeguard crops from disease.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2025

Buyers face the same challenge every day, making simplicity a superpower in sales. SNAP Selling is designed to help you cut through the noise and make buying easier for prospects. Lets take a look at the basics of SNAP and how you can start using it in your sales cycle. SNAP is more than just a nod to the sales timeline.

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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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. All of these signals show optimal conditions for a sale.

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