The Pipeline

JUNE 13, 2012

When you read job ads, one prevalent requirement is experience; when you talk to buyers, they will tell you they prefers to deal with experienced sales people. But experience can be a double edged sword, especially in sales. In sales the risk is real, and all to present in many organizations.

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Territories Government Discount Account 267

SBI Growth

JUNE 6, 2013

If you don’t have alignment with sales then it will all be wasted effort. For proof, try to measure the return on marketing spend without sales alignment. Research conducted by the Aberdeen Group indicates when sales and marketing are aligned: Pipeline size increases by 18-27% and. Closing the feedback loop with Sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Qualification 308

Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2020

says Director of Sales Michael Veschio. A lot of companies struggle to get prospects to show up to sales demos. Effective salespeople focus on solution sales instead, which includes a thoughtful demo process that addresses issues specific to the customer. Software Sales Demo Tips & Best Practices.

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Software Software Lead Rank Top of Funnel 236

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 8, 2019

In honor of International Women’s Day, how can your sales team attract more female rainmakers? There’s always been bias against women in sales, and anyone with different color skin, ethnicity, or beliefs than decision-makers and hiring managers. Whatever the reason for the change, the rallying cry is to attract women in sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling gives a prospect a compelling reason to hear you out. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. It’s not a high priority for us”. “I Cold calls.

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Real Estate Construction Scale Hiring 243

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 29, 2019

says Director of Sales Michael Veschio. A lot of companies struggle to get prospects to show up to sales demos. Effective salespeople are focused instead on solution sales : A thoughtful sales demo process that addresses issues specific to the customer. Watch it: How to Crush Your Sales Demo in 3 Easy Steps!

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Software Software Decision Maker Lead Rank 198

The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 21, 2015

Whether you sell to businesses, governments or consumers, your buyers go through a variety of emotional states during the sales process. Sales business buyer consumers government objections product prospect service' When a buyer begins their [.].

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From subject to signature, top salespeople know the importance of crafting great prospecting emails. After all, an email is often a prospect’s first impression, and it can be the difference between calling or deleting you. Also, too many sales pros think they just need the basic idea, and the prospect will do the rest.

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The Sales Heretic

JUNE 5, 2018

Sales has changed. And not just consumers, but business, government, and educational buyers as well. These days, buyers can get virtually anything they want online. Which brings up an important question: What do buyers need you for? If you don’t have at least one good answer at the ready, you have a problem. Because if [.].

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Government Education Consumer Buyer 183

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most conversations around big data reference healthcare data, GPS/location data, data within government and education systems, financial data – all personal information at the consumer level. TOPO’s research suggests that, as Intent Data goes mainstream and becomes more integrated, it will become part of the prospect lifecycle.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers.

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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Sales Operations Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 3, 2018

“Sales acceleration” is a good buzzword, but all it really means is “sell more, faster” … without saying anything about “How?”. We’re excited to announce our redesigned Outreach integration, which will make sales processes faster and easier than ever. Sales research – fast. There’s no single source of truth.

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SalesForce Data System Sales Operations 33

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. How do you find prospects quickly? But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Inbound 200

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sales content is poorly organized in disparate systems, and sellers spend much time looking for what they need. Every revenue organization must have a governance strategy and the right tools to support it. If you’re unsure what corporate governance is, you’ve come to the right place. What is content governance?

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Government Pharmaceuticals Remedy Buyer 52

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. And poorly managed prospecting lists will result in seller fatigue. B2B sales prospecting in a nutshell.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Top of Funnel 98

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 28, 2014

I started that post with the comment that I thought my dad could have been a good sales manager. He was a little rough around the edges and would not have survived current HR and political correctness constraints… BUT he would have had a highly productive sales team. Tell your sales people to say, “Great! See next lesson.).

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Your B2B sales reps are working long hours to close last minute deals. In many industries, gift giving is governed by a very specific set of compliance laws. Gifts to government officials. Gifts to government officials for expedited service. It seems like there’s not enough time in the day. Generally Unacceptable.

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Handbook Government Policies B2B 160

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 2, 2018

What you learn when you hold down a police beat, cover a major research university or monitor local government is that everyone has a story. In fact, the sources we reached for this cover story made it clear that being a great storyteller isn’t merely an advantage in sales and marketing, it’s an essential job requirement.

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Government Report Relationals Research 168

Crunchbase

MAY 9, 2023

I often hear from startup founders who are interested in selling to government agencies but don’t know how to get started. It’s easy to understand why: Each year, 90,000 state and local government organizations spend more than $ 1.5 Plus, selling to governments represents an incredible opportunity for real impact.

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Government How To Competition Scale 59

Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2023

A strong data management framework combines data governance, quality control, security, analysis and automation to make sure data is both accurate and reliable. Develop a Data Governance Framework A data governance framework defines who can access data, what types of data are available, and how that data is accessed.

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Data Government Policies System 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

So you missed your sales quota last quarter. When people fail to meet their sales quota, I can almost always point to one of three reasons: An unhealthy sales pipeline Poor messaging Selling to a single point of failure. Problem #1: You have an unhealthy sales pipeline. How long is your average sales cycle?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 29, 2018

The GDPR does not just govern sensitive personal information like health records (as is the case with HIPAA in the U.S.); rather, the GDPR governs all information relating to an individual. If anything, it forces us – as sales and marketing professionals – to follow good business practices and to be better at our jobs.

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Marketing Outbound Government Data 198

Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2024

.” Watch the On-Demand Webinar Evaluating and Consolidating Your Tech Stack With your strategic goalposts defined, it’s possible to more clearly evaluate the tech stack used by the business and understand key gaps and overlaps in the GTM operation, from forecasting and pipeline management through prospecting and outreach.

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Government Webinar Metrics System Account 130

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a sales professional, you’re sending emails all day, every day. Arts & Entertainment, Construction, Human Resources, Legal & Government, and Real Estate have the highest open rates. The lowest-hanging fruit is personalizing your subject line so it’s unique to the specific prospect. Legal and Government: 44%.

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Industry Real Estate Outsourcing Services Biotechnology 145

Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

With numbers of COVID-19 cases rising, the government, at both the federal and state-level, enacted extraordinary measures to preserve health and safety. None of this is good news for your company or your sales team – unless you happen to be one of the companies serving a market or industry that’s actually experiencing growth.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Leads 135

Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2023

Control and governance of business data, especially when there are regulatory and compliance standards at hand, are mission-critical tasks for any enterprise company. But data silos make it impossible to build a true 360-degree view of customers and prospects required to unlock a company’s growth potential.

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Data Government Decision Maker Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

MAY 14, 2018

In fact, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales, but only 27% are sales qualified ( source ). And, how can you generate more high-quality leads for your sales team? SQL: SQLs or sales qualified leads are further along the sales funnel. This statistic highlights a huge discrepancy.

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Lead Qualification Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 214

Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2024

Proper CRM hygiene helps improve customer relationships and supports effective sales and marketing strategies. Define Data Governance Rules The first step in any CRM cleanup is defining the rules for an overarching data governance strategy , and tailoring company standards to fit the specific nuances of its business.

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CRM Data Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 130

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

And in sales, our markets represent our surroundings, the geographic, vertical, account size and characteristics, etc. Assembling your sales and delivery teammates for compact brainstorming sessions is an extremely valuable use of organizational time as the year moves to a close. Is the list comprehensive? That’s as it should be.

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Transportation Real Estate Government Construction 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And email sequences are an excellent way of demonstrating the value you can deliver for prospects. With a multi-step email prospecting motion, you can craft messaging that appeals to specific customer pain points, showcase several different use cases of your products or services, and invite engagement in multiple ways. Our pro tip?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

In my continuing blog series on how to handle the stalls, objections, and real-world situations in sales caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, below you’ll find some suggested email responses to situations you may be running into. The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are. Email from Prospect #2: Dear….

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This is the question I posed: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals. Thanks, Jim!

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SBI

JANUARY 26, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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Government Apparel Retail Sales Enablement 118

Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2020

In Hollywood, sales floors are depicted with over-the-top managers instructing reps to win and win now. But in the real world, contemporary sales outreach strategies and plans don’t work that way. What is Sales Outreach? Speaking of which, what are the best practices of sales outreach? The ideas conveyed? Spray and pray!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

At the very least, it's an interesting prospect to explore for employees and employers alike. Let's take a look at some of the benefits a four-day workweek might pose, consider how it could improve sales, and get a picture of its potential drawbacks. Can It Boost Sales? Can it really boost sales?

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

Momentum in sales and sports is a strange phenomenon. For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts.

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