No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. The biggest challenge for sales teams is seller access , according to Gartner’s recent report, The Chief Sales Officer’s Leadership Vision for 2021. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership.

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SalesProInsider

MAY 5, 2022

Yet advisors don’t follow their own sage advice when it comes to lead generation efforts. Lead Gen ISN’T about “the Next Big Thing”. Consistency and Activity Are the Foundation for Lead Generation Success. So, the tip that nobody wants to hear is that lead gen success comes from consistency and activity.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 20, 2012

Are you a woman in the lead gen business in B2B selling? Do you work at the front end of the sales cycle generating hundreds or thousands of leads over time for your company (or companies)? There is a search going on for the Top 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. This is time-sensitive.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Want to get slowed down as a sales prospector and waste a lot of time? Does Outbound Lead Gen Still Work? . We get calls from companies every week who want us to evaluate or use their sales tool. Instead the message is the same one they leave a VP Sales about how this tool will help my sales team.

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Pointclear

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS where he leads business units that include Applied Research, Strategy Group, Conversion Group, Leads Group, Agency Group, Technology Group and Training Group. Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 25, 2013

At a recent round-table with inside sales leaders, our topic was about effectively leading Gen Y / Millennials. We all agreed that generally speaking this group of employees match up to the tasks of what solid, successful inside sales professionals do – with one caveat. There is a larger need for feedback.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Because a phone conversation efficiently replicates face-to-face sales activities, these one-on-one flowing and probing interactions are the most effective method to validate the quality of a lead.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Excited to announce the public launch of LearnAboutLinked.com and the best LinkedIn training focused on B2B sales and marketing professionals that understand the power behind social selling. Having the opportunity to partner with Viveka to bring this training to the market is a blessing. Meet LearnAbout LinkedIn.com !

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But, oof, I don‘t need to tell you how challenging life in sales can be. Whether you win or lose, it doesn't stop the sales targets from rolling in each month. You need a healthy pipeline of leads to meet those targets. Further, 21% cite cold email as their most successful lead-gen method. Long and skinny?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales Funnel & Keep You From Closing More Sales. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Funnel management , Guest Post , Lead Management , Prospecting , Referrlas , Sales 2.0 , Sales Technique , execution.

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Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Sales isn’t into sharing data. Marketing’s plate is full.

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Force Management

JANUARY 25, 2024

A sales training initiative is a big investment - one you want to ensure provides a long-term return. The key to ensuring a return on the investment is increasing the breadth and depth of your engagement, ensuring long-term adoption and extending training to all customer-facing professionals, not just the direct sales team.

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Lead Gen Face-to-face Direct Sales Team Channels 114

Openview

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Second, Oracle had doubled down on college hiring and third, we had two senior sales leaders who were begging for the outbound model. But there’s one really important thing you need to understand in all of this – lead gen was not our our goal. We started the BDR team to “build” ERP sales reps.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

PRO TIP: A quick-win might be to create consistently across all lead-gen channels. A longer-term goal might be to get better aligned with sales by integrating a specific cross-functional tool, or improving MQL conversion rates by X%. get marketing aligned with sales’ talking points, and 2.) This will 1.)

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen ROI 230

The Pipeline

JANUARY 7, 2020

The economy seems to grow in line with the average sales, or is it the other way? Reminds one of the old joke about a salesman introducing technology to a VP of sales. There is no doubting the demonstratable benefits that technology has delivered to sales. That is exactly what many are experiencing with sales.

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Face-to-face Lead Gen Hiring Google 257

The Pipeline

MAY 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The Upside of Being Measured – Sales eXchange – 97. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , Time Allocation , execution. Sales eXchange , sell better , Tibor Shanto , Time Allocation. hours or 2.7

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sales and marketing teams operate on two sides of the same coin. As job discipline lines continue to blur , sales departments have discovered a few ways marketers can help them do their jobs even more efficiently. Companies that still score success only by the number of leads generated aren’t benchmarking the right data.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank Hiring 175

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

Here are eight ways to break a sales slump: Focus on the Fundamentals. Be sure to do the following: Follow your organization’s sales process Update stale email templates and sales scripts Find the lost smile in your voice (yes, this is a thing) Utilize all aspects of social media, especially LinkedIn Overhaul your virtual sales stage.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Congrats, you’ve just landed your first VP or Head of Sales role. I’ve met with hundreds of heads of sales over the years, and it’s easy to pick out the ones who are going to be successful and the ones who aren’t. Step 1: Train Your Account Executives. Hire smart, motivated sales reps and train them well.

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Marc Wayshak

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to sales, the Cliff Notes -version of learning the best sales training techniques is much harder to come by than a cheat-sheet of a high-school classic novel. That’s why I’ve put together my own sales Cliff Notes of sorts, so you can learn the basics of sales training at a glance before diving deeper as you go.

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Green Lead's B2B

JANUARY 7, 2010

Yesterday I was using ConnectAndSell as a training tool and had one of our BDRs (Business Development Reps) live and working a list and three others listening in and critiquing. You can train with 5-10 pitches in an hour versus 1 or 2. I closed the training session with a quote from Yogi Berra; " It ain't over till it's over."

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2024

Some showed how they were restructuring sales and marketing, moving to a Revenue structure. The presented the “before” and “after” org charts, the only thing that seemed to have changed is the CRO role and a RevOPs hierarchy combining marketing and sales ops. And our enablement approaches tend to be box focused.

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Top of Funnel Lead Gen Face-to-face Software 138

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Your belief is a major factor in the energy, effort, and activity that you put forth in the lead generation activity to fill your funnel and the sales conversations that convert those prospects. Beliefs’ Impact on Your Sales Your level of belief constantly changes. This baseline moves all day long. Nope, it is larger.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Taking the Path of Least Resistance. Marketing organizations by default now own the top of sales funnels. Proactively when sellers (lead gen or general territory) reach out to prospects. Bottom-up" selling is a path to long sales cycles and low win rates.

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Top of Funnel Training Lead Scoring Lead Rank 61

Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2024

” And we are totally bewildered by things we see happening in sales. ” Andy made a comment, “Sales is becoming so performative… ” We started diving into what that means, I won’t discuss it much in this post, Andy’s writing a fantastic book that goes deeply into this.

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Revelation Lead Gen Scale Face-to-face 133

Partners in Excellence

JULY 1, 2024

” “We sell sales/marketing solutions, to CROs and their teams.” Customers don’t naturally view themselves in terms of solutions, particularly when we get more specific about the type of solutions (for example in consulting solutions, services, software, hardware, web, technology, training, etc.)

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Lead Gen Insurance 136

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Writing a strong cover letter definitely increases the likelihood your sales job application will get a response. Rowling to excel in a sales role, but you do need to be capable of expressing your ideas clearly, succinctly, and compellingly. Google “SMB sales manager Joyfull” and see if you can find the team’s leader on LinkedIn.

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Hiring Hubspot Lead Gen Engineering 138

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2020

I’m stunned by the number of sales people that don’t understand the principle. Everyday, I encounter sales people who are very busy. ” Whatever the statement, read excuse, too many sales people fail to recognize, their job is to achieve their goals. They are working very hard to get what they get.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Do you manage a sales team or an organization that has a sales team? If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. Simply put, small tweaks have an outsized impact in sales. That way, your sales team is starting with an advantage.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 18, 2018

Sales conferences hold a very special place in my heart. This is not only because I am the Director of Sales at an event software company, but also because I know I have a lot learn—and in-person events are my favorite way to get that learning done. For sales professionals, this probably isn’t a surprise. Sales Machine.

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Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

Services Lead Generation Companies Offer. How To Filter Lead Gen Companies. Lead Qualification (LF). Lead Generation Companies Check List (40 Expert Tips!). Lead Gen Companies Comparison Table And ROI Calculator. Lead Generation Companies Analysis (based on Clutch). Lead Generation Trends 2020.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 25, 2018

The obvious answer is, “Duuugggh Dave, it’s Sales Enablement……” But if you think about it, sales enablement is about helping our sales people achieve the highest levels of performance/productivity in executing our business strategies in the face of the customer. So who else is involved?

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Sales Enablement Lead Gen Lead Rank Maximizer 72

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Brent Adamson, Distinguished Vice President, Gartner has written about and presented on , all the sales motions that go on must ultimately help build buyer self-confidence in making the decision. This new perspective means all these sales and marketing activities need to be re-thought in terms of bolstering the buyer’s confidence.

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Cience

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As sales become increasingly sophisticated these days, B2B companies everywhere are investing greater resources into outbound marketing. If tailored well, targeted prospecting starts conversations with ideal accounts, generates qualified leads, provides strong ROI, and grows revenue. Define Your Type of Research.

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Ideal Customer Profile Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead B2B 105

PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. With the help of this guide, you’ll discover exactly what lead generation is. You’ll be better equipped to implement a strong lead generation strategy within your business. What is a lead generation strategy?

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