Sales Gravy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sales leadership demands the ability to adapt, motivate, and guide teams toward consistent, high-level performance. In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount is joined by Charley Bible of KaTom to discuss key strategies for sales leaders, focusing on teamwork, skill refinement, and the power of effective coaching.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales teams thrive on the energy of effective outreach, but managing outbound calls at scale requires a lot more than just smiling and dialing. These tools not only help teams track performance, but improve engagement strategies and optimize sales workflows. But how can you choose the right tool for your team?

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount Jr. and special guest Victor Antonio, renowned sales expert and author, dive deep into the world of sales, AI, and mindset. This shift makes human skills even more essential in later stages of the sales process. In fact, it’s the opposite.

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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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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. For sellers, context is everything.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 25, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, take a look back at the best insights from the year. These moments arent just memorable, theyre actionable advice that sales professionals can take into 2025 to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. Leading with empathy and emotional intelligence helps uncover the real problems you can solve.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2025

Imagine that one of your top sales reps spends weeks courting a promising prospect, only to discover at the 11th hour that its actually a subsidiary of your largest customer. But corporate hierarchy errors are much more serious than your garden-variety duplicate CRM record because they undermine core sales and marketing strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Read on to hear my tactics for ending a sales email.e Read on to hear my tactics for ending a sales email.e

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The Pipeline

MAY 6, 2020

This coming Monday, May 11, I have the pleasure of having Jeff Bajorek as my guest on the Sales Scrum podcast. Before we dig in, some of you will know Jeff, he is a consultant, author of The Five Forgotten Fundamentals of Prospecting, co-host of The Why and The Buy Podcast. It’s called When It Goes Sideways , a book with swagger.

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Anne Miller

OCTOBER 23, 2020

What can you do to get a rapid response from prospects? Check out LinkedIn and your internal company contacts to see who might know your prospect and request to be introduced to that person. This will tell you where you stand and save you a great deal of time and energy. Try one or all of these three approaches. Get a Referral.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Effective prospecting can be summed up in three words. I refer to them as the 3 traits you need to have if you want to be successful at prospecting. Persistence means prospecting when you don’t want to or when you’d rather be doing easier, more enjoyable things. You won’t be able to fake it until you make it, not in sales!

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From sales processes to how we celebrate holidays, there has been no area left untouched by this pandemic. For ZoomInfo, one of the biggest challenges we are facing at EOY is how to keep motivation high and celebrations on par with the big achievements our sales teams are hitting day in and day out. Covid has changed everything.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

They greeted me very politely, explaining they were looking for an ‘Alice Grey’ My first instinct was to think this was a ‘sales ruse’ and therefore not believe them, but as I was about to let them know I wasn’t interested, I decided to give them a chance and hear them out. The reason I changed my mind?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sales automation tools streamline repetitive tasks so you can focus on selling. What is Sales Automation? Today’s Sales professions spend just 34% of their time selling. With that shocking statistic, let’s review the benefits of sales automation. The Rise of Sales Automation. Salesforce.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities. What would you include?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 1, 2020

Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #12 – Guest Shawn Finder. Last week with the help of John Moore, I held four LinkedIn Live sessions exploring different elements of sales and selling post-COVID. Focusing your energies on high-impact opportunities. Shawn Finder has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Time to master email.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 22, 2024

first, I could save myself A LOT of time and energy. So here is how I currently start my closing calls ( yes , I’m still closing sales!): Once I get my prospect on the phone for our chosen closing time, I open with: “Before I get started, I’m sure you’ve looked over things, so, what questions do you have for me?”

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If virtual sales training was ever needed, this was the time. The importance of eye contact in sales (even virtual sales) can’t be overstated. Without it, your prospects figure you’re not interested, and they tune out. Early on in the pandemic, there was a learning curve as we all adjusted to virtual sales meetings.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2020

If your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking yourself: “how much time do I waste on non-selling activities?”. Do you have your prospects’ email addresses and direct dial phone numbers on hand? How much do you know about each prospect’s professional background? Where Do Sales Reps Waste The Most Time?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2019

As with most things in prospecting and sales is the same, to develop a routine you can and willingly implement. The goal is to understand and develop means of dealing with the inevitable, not waste time or energy trying to avoid. Their most familiar and practiced path, 80% of the time it is one of five.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Ellie in Galveston, Texas, faces a scenario that many young sales professionals know all too well: How do you earn respect and project confidence when youre selling to people who are older and more experienced than you? Ellies question highlights a universal issue in sales. Instead, we often impose that narrative on ourselves.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 7, 2023

Can you deliver it with a bit more energy? Or less energy? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Qualifying prospects. The post <strong>4 Proven Ways to Get Better in 2023</strong> appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. Never stop learning, critiquing and getting better. You need to as well.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2023

What are your plans to make this your best year in sales ever? Here are three things I did all those years ago that changed my sales career, and my life, forever: #1) For the first ninety days in 2024, make a commitment to listening to at least ONE call a day. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! All the best for 2024!

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the most important things I learned early on in my sales career is that attitudes are contagious. My manager told me that when I’m on the phone with a prospect or customer, someone was going to sell someone—either the customer was going to sell me on why he wouldn’t buy, or I was going to sell him on why he should buy.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In most sales jobs, prospecting is the key to success. But prospecting is not easy ( per Vengreso 73% of sales people say it’s the hardest part of selling). It’s really great for our long term success as sales people, in fact in most sales roles essential, but it’s also easy to procrastinate about doing it.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 30, 2024

If you’re looking forward to an extended holiday and want to know the best way to spend it, then I’ve got a suggestion: Why not spend some of it learning and getting better at your craft of sales? Better than the other sales reps competing with you? I invested time, energy, and, yes, a little bit of money in myself!

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 23, 2017

But many sales people cherry pick time, and use it to avoid things that have to be done, like prospecting for example. Regularly when I ask buyers why they didn’t prospect, or when they plan to prospect, I hear “I’ll get around to it when I have time”. Which may lead one to conclude that they do not want to prospect.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

When I first got involved in sales I was a sales engineer. I supported a technology sales force on their sales calls with semiconductor engineers. When I got to these meetings I had many engaging conversations with these buyers that our sales team did not seem able to handle. A real sales job. I knew it!).

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2024

The #1 challenge for most salespeople, and small business owners, is getting enough meetings with prospects for their product or service. For many companies selling a high-end product or service, a meeting is a prerequisite to a sale. A lack of meetings means a lack of sales opportunities, which means a lack of sales and revenue.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The account-based approach is an increasingly common undertaking by marketing and sales departments. But the biggest account-based killer is still at large: Lack of sustained focus from Sales. How can you challenge enthusiasm, channel energy, and constantly focus your sales team on the accounts that really matter?

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2024

Several of his books include: “The Power of Positive Leadership,” “The Energy Bus,” etc. Going into the office has tons of benefits, including feeding off the energy of other reps, having constant access to my manager, etc.” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Good morning everyone!

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Julie Hanson

APRIL 19, 2022

Video can be a powerful sales outreach tool — but only if the prospect watches it. As the number of videos sent out by sellers has exploded, prospects have become more ruthless about what videos they choose to watch. So “how do you record a prospect video that gets watched?” Pro Tip 2: Crank up the Energy .

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. For many, this means learning new skills and processes—no more relying on a sales development team or their marketing department for all their leads.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

There are many things that influence a sales cycle, some within our control, others not. Often we spend too much time, energy and emotion worrying about the things we can’t control, while deliberately ignoring and not attending to things we can control, and would make a difference if we did.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. But in today’s digital world, the line between sales and marketing is increasingly blurred.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. A waste of your time.

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