Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Have you ever attempted to complete a jigsaw puzzle when the entire puzzle is a solid color? You dump all the pieces on the table and say to yourself, WTF? Have you ever come to a strange intersection and the signs are pointing in every possible direction? Couldn't make heads or tails of it.

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Fill the Funnel

APRIL 24, 2012

Radius launches first SMB sales intelligence tool! Dun & Bradstreet, Jigsaw/Data.com and other well known names due a commendable job of providing this information for larger companies but fail miserably for small businesses. Radius provides the most comprehensive sales intelligence available for U.S. small business.

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Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 18, 2018

I was a single mum to a one year old baby girl and had also not long been given a sales trainee role under sufferance, instantly recognising deep down inside, that a huge alignment piece to this jigsaw I had wanted to lay out in front of me, was missing. I had not long gone through a divorce that was quite harrowing and confusing.

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Score More Sales

MAY 24, 2012

The question I was asked: “Would you rather make 100 cold calls or 20 well-researched calls to b2b sales prospects?” Jigsaw InsideView Netprospex OneSource. If you have any sort of call reluctance, and many sales people do, you need to time your research and keep an eye on it.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Copyright 2011, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Huge Sales Event Proves Sales Grow Through the Cloud. Selling on steroids, sellers everywhere, no sales tool left behind – it was all so much to do and see! Next post: 3 Top Sales Tips for Keeping Sales Focus. 50 DAYS To Build Your Sales – 2nd edition.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2019

Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle? Puzzles are interesting, and they are an intriguing metaphor for sales. Sales is like a very complex jigsaw puzzle. It’s interesting to watch the dynamics of a group of people trying to put together a complex jigsaw puzzle. Recently, I was sitting in a hotel lobby.

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Dun & Bradstreet, Jigsaw/Data.com and other well-known names do a commendable job of providing this information for larger companies but are much less productive for small businesses. Radius provides the first sales intelligence web tool exclusively focused on the SMB market, “ a huge market – 65% of the U.S. small business.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2013

There is a process for hiring better sales people. Think of working with the process like you would work on a jigsaw puzzle. There are 2 parts to the STAR (Sales Talent Acquistion Routine) screening step: 1. Pre-hire sales assessment. This is Part III of the process - Screening. Phone interview. Conducting the Interview.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 8, 2014

When I created Fill the Funnel over eight years ago, I shared a powerful tool called Jigsaw to discover contact names, email addresses and direct phone numbers for those that met my specific criteria using Geography, industry, company size, title and more. Jigsaw was a game-changer for sales professionals. All Rights Reserved.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

BYOT – B ring Y our O wn T ools is a practice that sales leaders and individual sales people themselves have been slow to embrace. I differ from Shanto in that I do not see sales reps deploying many of the powerful new generation of sales tools in any significant number on their own.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

He is an experienced online marketing professional with a history of developing personalized, relevant, and timely communications to help businesses close more sales. Data Dump Data.com is a single source for complete and actionable business data from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and Jigsaw. completed the performance.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The importance of building a strong post-sales function early on. Balancing product-led growth with an enterprise sales motion. 7:40) The transition from purely product-led growth to supporting an enterprise sales motion. (11:52) 45:18) The importance of separating new logo sales from account management. (48:29)

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They happen to be two of my most recommended sales web tools that every sales person should be using. Jigsaw was acquired by Salesforce.com. They want in on the action with this generation of powerful and affordable sales web tools and social tools. My one word answer – Aggregation. LinkedIn has filed their IPO.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel the same way. Marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and sales qualified leads (SQLs) were created as a way for sales and marketing to determine if the leads they were dealing with were of a certain quality. users who have requested sales assistance).

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Tom Hopkins

MARCH 11, 2010

Being a good manager is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. The first time you try to fit the pieces together it takes awhile to get everything to fit smoothly. The next time you attempt to make the pieces fit you are a little more familiar with the pattern and each time after that it [.] No related posts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Even if you’re going after a few standouts, the cost and manpower to execute such a high-touch campaign could put an entire business at risk if the sale doesn’t pan out. Prior to Owler, Jim founded Jigsaw in 2003 and was CEO until it was acquired by Salesforce in 2010 for $175 million.

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Fill the Funnel

JUNE 29, 2011

Thanks to all of you who attended today’s event sponsored by the Jigsaw team. Recorded Webinar now available for viewing here. Slide Deck is available here.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 11, 2021

.” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers. It was both challenging and huge fun.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 24, 2017

I had a special opportunity to learn Sales early on from a mentor that practiced many of the non-technology tenets of ABE – accounting for multiple stakeholders, personalizing messages by function and role, coordinating multi-modal follow-up as an integrated account plan, all against a named list of target – ideal – accounts.

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SBI

OCTOBER 17, 2011

However, if you don’t have a CRM system – or you have individual sales reps or sales agents that so not use your CRM – they can still get alerts and see the ActiveConversion data. Once you know which company is visiting, you can use their Data.com (previously Jigsaw) integration to find contact details.

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Tom Hopkins

JULY 13, 2011

The selling process can be broken into very specific pieces like a jigsaw puzzle. Our goal as professionals is to put each piece in its place in order to earn a new client. Here’s an overview of ideas to maximize your efforts in each area. The first piece in the selling cycle is prospecting.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Setup Your 2015 for Success. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. That''s a tall order even for the most accomplished sales person. The time to begin developing your Territory Sales Plan is now !

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HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 1, 2010

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Sales Tips.

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Fill the Funnel

JUNE 2, 2011

Is it time to re-tool your sales approach? With the ongoing advancement of sales and marketing web tools, now is an ideal time to rethink and re-tool your sales process and approach as well as construct a plan on how to leverage these new capabilities. The tools and techniques promoted under the banner of Sales 2.0

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Fill the Funnel

APRIL 24, 2012

Radius launches first SMB sales intelligence tool! Dun & Bradstreet, Jigsaw/Data.com and other well-known names do a commendable job of providing this information for larger companies but fail miserably for small businesses. Radius provides the most comprehensive sales intelligence available for U.S. small business.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I m not sure how many of my readers subscribe to our monthly newsletter: “ Why Sales Managers Succeed !”, During a recent client sales meeting we talked about the power of networking, we assigned every salesperson to at least one networking/association event per month. I hope you enjoy, Ken. Never Make a Cold Call Again.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2018

I share this story, because I see the same thing happening with too many sales people. All of these “pieces/parts” are critical to the job of sales person, account manager, BDM, or whatever label we apply to ourselves. The blame for this just doesn’t lie with sales people.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2014

During a recent client sales meeting we talked about the power of networking, the need to expand the influence of one’s reach and effective ways to find new and better sales opportunities. If you aren’t doing this now, make it part of your active sales activity planning session. for the first time sales manager.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Today I received two emails that are a direct result of my attendance at the Sales 2.0 Supposedly, thought leaders in sales and marketing best practices. .” Hmm, interesting… I keep going through my email. Conference in San Francisco last week. Is this really nurturing, or is it permission based SPAM?

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criteria for success

MAY 16, 2019

Read on to learn how to get your sales team solving their prospecting problems. I have an exercise for you: ask your sales team, “How do I put together a jigsaw puzzle?” Solving the prospecting puzzle isn't easy. Most likely, they’ll tell you to follow a process.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 24, 2020

Large-scale unemployment means many people are cutting back on their spending and as such, some industries have seen a sharp downturn in sales. Board games have exploded in popularity in the last few years, and COVID-19 quarantines have boosted sales in this niche even more. US-based seed supplier W. Food, Drink, and Cooking.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 4, 2024

300 discovery calls in just five months – without a sales team – were conducted with prospects who had been engaging with Adam’s LinkedIn content. Founder-led media for revenue acceleration “Founder-led sales” is a common term, but it’s often misunderstood as focusing solely on closing deals at the bottom of the funnel.

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Anne Miller

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

She explained, “Each distinct feature is as unique as a jigsaw puzzle piece. To find the writer of the note, the handwriting features need to fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle.” Jacqueline’s forensic examination revealed that the signature on the sale agreement was genuine. In this case, the pieces didn’t fit.

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

MARCH 26, 2020

According to the Aberdeen Group: “Companies that optimize the marketing/sales relationship grow revenue 32% faster year-over-year, compared to those without such a relationship.” Businesswoman hand connecting jigsaw puzzle, Business solutions, success and strategy concept. “Sales teams should be collaborative.

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SBI

JULY 7, 2010

Whether it’s Hoover’s, JigSaw, the white or yellow pages, or association directories, there are hunting grounds where leads are abundant. And there’s no better place than the Web for coming upon a large herd of prospects gathered in one place. I’m talking about online directories.

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