SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

As we rapidly approach Q4, you are behind the ball if you haven’t finalized your 2019 Territory Design. According to Harvard Business Review, “Research shows that optimizing territory design can increase sales by 2% to 7%, without any change in.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Effective sales territory management is key to maximizing revenue and ensuring that your sales team operates efficiently. Key takeaways Historical data can be leveraged to determine new market potential and which areas are the most cost effective in terms of travel for sales teams, when needed.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sales is changing. A study by Gartner's uncovered that enterprises lose out on up to 10% of their annual sales due to poor planning. Moving into 2021, sales territory mapping software is here to help clear up the ambiguity, help you plan for the future, and get your team on the right track. But, who has the time for that?

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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. Marketing teams pour budget into new accounts that arent really new. No more accidental overlap clear ownership prevents redundant work and territory disputes.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2025

George Santayana , American philosopher (1863-1952) Im working on a new sales project, and I need some quick wins. Sales history Ive been looking at some of the small healthcare accounts that my client serves. Sales history Ive been looking at some of the small healthcare accounts that my client serves. I will let you know.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It can make it hard to predict what B2B marketing and sales will look like when we enter the post-COVID-19 era. . With that in mind, here are four things you can expect to occur in B2B markets as things reopen. Marketing spends will be lower. This is an excellent time to double down on your automated content marketing.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I am continuing to report on findings from my new sales project. The project has already thrown up a few reminders I see time-and-time-again in the sales world. I am taking over a sales territory from a salesperson that has recently left the clients company. Reminder 2: Sales are driven by the customers.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rapid adoption of GPT-based AI tools isnt simply a technological evolution in sales; its a fundamental restructuring of how teams work. And theyre moving the needle: According to McKinsey , sales orgs that use AI see revenue uplifts of up to 15% and sales ROI uplifts of up to 20%. Its about building GPT-native sales teams.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. The sales and marketing technology landscape has grown from just a few hundred applications to thousands—each one promising to streamline go-to-market operations, accelerate pipeline and generate revenue at scale. Why We’re Acquiring Insent.ai.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Graduating from college, I went right into a high-pressure sales job selling newspaper advertising for The Dallas Times Herald in the burgeoning Dallas, Texas marketplace. It was a hustle out there as we competed with The Dallas Morning News who had a greater share of the subscriber and ad revenue markets.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 1, 2021

Reporting is a critical part of the sales process. By analyzing your metrics, you gain understanding of how your sales teams are performing, and have the opportunity to identify areas for improvement. Create A Report That Displays Quarterly Sales By Territory. The image below is an example of what this should look like.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Sales Eagles Soar Turkeys to Get Consumed. If you are chasing your 2015 sales numbers, you need to return from this holiday weekend highly energetic, focused and ready to sprint to the finish line. When I was running a sales force , I was equally focused on finishing the year off and starting the next year even stronger.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals. Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2018

Author: Jay Mitchell, Owner and Principal, Mereo LLC In order to learn how to align marketing and sales teams, we must understand how devastating a gap between these departments can be for an organization overall. Sales and marketing are both vital to a B2B organization. Sales and marketing both work to: Engage a buyer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Jim Rich, Area General Manager North America for Board International, shares strategies that can help your organization improve territory planning and empower your salespeople with a fair shot at success. The post Strategies for Smarter Territory Planning in 2024 appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lead-to-account matching and routing software addresses this problem head-on, automating key processes to help sales teams work smarter and faster. The Power of Automation in Lead Management In competitive markets, efficient lead management is crucial. Stronger Account-Based Marketing : Gain better visibility into account engagement.

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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.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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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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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Not all “A” Player sales reps were meant to be managers. If you’ve been in sales long enough, you’ve seen this mistake unfold. He neglects his skill development and sales initiatives. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. His team flounders.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

This is the fifth in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Scott is the Founder of Sales Success Media and hosts the Sales Success Stories and Daily Sales Tips podcasts.

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Mereo

JANUARY 22, 2025

Combine this skill with a solid sales process and training, and you give your team an environment they need to succeed. However, a list of prioritized accounts by itself will not help you meet your sales goals. For example, the capacity for a new logo hunter will differ significantly from that of an account manager or sales engineer.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As a newly hired sales rep, I began the way I did at every new company, spending the first several weeks typing furiously into a growing Excel spreadsheet. My manager liked the approach and asked me to present the process to the entire sales team. Because of that, I could identify the several hundred accounts within my territory.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 5, 2018

I hope you have enjoyed our video series so far in terms of strategies to Crush your Sales Numbers. Strategy #4 is have your sales reps develop their own territory business plans. If your sales reps are not taking the time to build their business plans then where are they going to go, what are they going to do?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For more than a generation, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have been the unquestioned core of virtually every go-to-market strategy. Your CRM is too often a mirage of the true market, hindering frontline GTM teams, slowing revenue growth, and limiting opportunities across the board. Bottom line?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2018

Author: Joe Andrews What defines a mature go-to-market model in B2B companies? Is it having a growth strategy focused on new market segments? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 21, 2020

So it’s obviously popular with consumers, but why should marketers be considering SMS programs in addition to email and mobile push? I’m sure I don’t need to convince many marketers on the importance of SMS — nearly all of us use it every day. And, while down from its peak in 2011, over 1.5 and the U.K.,

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

Author: Brad Soper, Andree Radloff and Mark-Daniel Rentschler What will sales divisions look like in the future? There are five developments that companies should pay attention to if they want to be competitive: Traditional sales forces will be cut in half. Sales will become too complex to stay a one-man show.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s December 25th, 2018. You are sitting around the Christmas tree with your wife, two kids and black lab—Duffers. You hear the crackle of the fireplace as another log gets added to the fire. The kids are smiling from ear.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. Sales Execution Sales Mistakes Sales Skills sell better Social Selling Tibor Shanto'

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Some sales people in my firm were discussing where they could get the best prospect lists. They are building out a new territory so they need people to contact. Some are like compilers of other people’s data and some used “crowdsourced” approaches to get sales people to enter information into their databases. Marketers don’t.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 27, 2017

Author: Rowan Tonkin, head of sales and marketing solutions at Anaplan Most businesses are challenged with accurately predicting the future in terms of competitive threats, customer trends, and their own sales forecast. It enables them to quickly and accurately update the forecast based on demand or market changes.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert interview series hosted by John Golden and guest Walter Crosby , a seasoned sales coach and founder of Helix Sales Development, delved into the intricate challenges of hiring, finding, and retaining top sales talent.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Because, let’s face it, even in a perfect world, CRMs benefit company leadership more than the quota-carrying sales rep. . Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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