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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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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Coaching Sports Pivotal Energy 98

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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Cold Calling Hiring Guidelines GoldMine 83

The Pipeline

JUNE 9, 2020

Some years ago, I wrote a piece about how you should lead a sale in a way that resembles a four-legged stool. Sales to Economic buyer; C-suite to C-suite; ops to ops; finally finance to finance. Due to the unprecedented lockdown, those who were agile, able to vigitize , are marching on to new sales opportunities. There Is More.

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Pivotal Hiring Face-to-face Distribution 354

Sales Gravy

APRIL 29, 2025

If you're doing any kind of cold calling or prospecting, you'll eventually hear this objection: "I'm in a meeting right now." Three Ways to Handle the "I'm in a Meeting" Prospecting Objection As I explained to Paul, how you respond in that moment can make or break your opportunity to move forward.

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Objections Meeting Decision Maker Pivotal 80

Allego

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Winning a sale is a team effort, not just from sellers and sales managers but the sales organization as a whole. Sales operations, customer success , and product marketing are all instrumental in getting prospects to the finish line. The Persistent Disconnect Between Sales and Marketing.

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Pivotal Conversion Closing Buyer 117

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It left me wondering whether that sentiment rings true now that inside and outside sales reps are spending more time connecting with prospects and customers remotely versus face-to-face. million sales professionals in the country, more than 47 percent were inside salespeople. What there isn’t much of is research?—?until

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Meeting Sales Meeting Face-to-face Margin 250

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

The Pipeline

JULY 23, 2019

It is not uncommon for people to use movies to make a point; those of us in the trade can all point to sales lessons learned at the movies. But it is on mine, for one pivotal scene that all salespeople can learn from and adapt in some ways. Leaving the prospect to believe that either you don’t get the significance of what they shared.

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Film Follow-up Pivotal Buyer 235

SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2025

As AI increasingly crafts communications, sellers must ensure their sales prospecting stands out from the rest. As Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan point out , AI is turning sales prospecting into a commodity. Sellers must focus on personalized outreach that cuts through the noise and connects with prospects.

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Top of Funnel Prospecting Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 52

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But call reluctance is a sign of other shortcomings of a sales organization. As with other aspects of sales, frontline managers are either the linchpin to your team’s success. Join Bob Howard of Contact Science , and me, for this interactive discussion about pivotal elements of prospecting, both skills, and systems.

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ACT Face-to-face Pivotal Quota 235

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve maybe been in the sales forecasting hot seat — of presenting numbers that look different from your prediction. What Is Sales Forecasting? Sales forecasting is how sales managers, directors, and VPs estimate upcoming revenue. Why Your Sales Forecasting Matters.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Hiring Pivotal 207

Sales 2.0

JULY 28, 2020

My company, SalesRoads (North America’s leading B2B Appointment Setting and SDR Outsourcing firm), spends much of its time supporting the SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry, so we wanted to better understand their situation in this pivotal moment. The rest reported improvement.

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Outsourcing Services Pipeline Social Media Channels 286

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ask Jeb: How to Sell When Your Customer Has to Sell First Welcome to another Ask Jeb segment on the Sales Gravy Podcast! Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED.

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Customer Licensing Proposal Government 81

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. Fortunately for you, we’ve sifted through the clutter and done all the legwork to bring you the top 10 sales prospecting tools.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Tools Prospecting 124

Alice Heiman

MAY 21, 2020

As a founder and leader, when was the last time you thought about sales strategy? T he CEOs we work with aren’t focused on making necessary changes to grow sales right now. However, many CEOs are focused on cost-cutting and survival , not on the strategy needed to get profitable sales grow th. .

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Pivotal Hiring 169

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Coaching Construction Pivotal Positioning 257

Shari Levitin

JUNE 30, 2021

What Your Prospects Aren't Telling You. Here are three strategies you can leverage right now to enhance your customer experience and make prospects feel like doing business with you. Map out your Buyer’s Journey with t-shirt moments and watch your sales soar. BUT, their service had gone so downhill that it ruined my stay.

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Prospecting B2C Travel Face-to-face 149

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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Energy Channels Motivation Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI Sales will rely on data and insights more than ever before.?The

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sales engagements are pretty strange interactions when you really think about them. That means you have to strike a balance between approachability and authority — but that's easier said than done, making rapport building equal parts essential and screw-up-able for sales professionals. Let's take a look! If there's any doubt, opt out.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Industry 98

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2017

Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Helping customers and prospects manage the shifting needs of their organizations in a world of rapid technological change is difficult. A lot of variables impact the sales cycle.

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Call-back Film Fashion ACT 276

MarketJoy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A good sales strategy is an important part of any B2B business. A sales strategy should have a concrete lead-generation process set up that can drive a consistent flow of interested prospects who can become loyal customers. How Can Data-Driven Decision-Making Transform Your Sales Strategy?

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 83

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sales buzzwords are as abundant as bees in summer, and they’re so overused that they’ve lost all their sting. Sales buzzwords are meaningless at best, and annoying at worst. In sales, it’s nonspecific and ineffective. It’s also more than a little insulting to your prospects. Pivot : To what? You crush grapes.

Fashion 207

Fashion Cold Calling Pivotal Quota 207

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), such as sales onboarding and training sessions, and even sales meetings?

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Sales Enablement Scale Policies Distribution 227

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2020

With Covid-19 hitting the US hard, we had to pivot in a lot of different ways. Retaining unconverted leads comes at no cost, but the ongoing obsession with adding more prospects to the funnel can undermine the value of lead nurturing. How To Build A Better B2B Sales Tech Stack. an unusual second quarter. We adjusted goals.

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Top of Funnel Inbound Lead Nurturing Outbound 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Both sides of the personality coin offer traits that can be incredibly valuable in the world of sales. They are a more likely personality type to go into sales because it’s seen as a field in which you need these skills for cold calling , seeking out new business and interacting with people all day. Sales for Introverts.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Cold Calling Pivotal 214

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As we all know, Q1 is pivotal; as it goes, usually, the others will follow. These include potential realizable value in the next two average sales cycles. This allows you to revisit these prospects early in the quarter. By Tibor Shanto. I see many salespeople march through the first quarter, heads down working their plan.

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Referrals Pipeline Decision Maker Pivotal 274

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If You Don't Take Action, You Won't Get Results In this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and David Newman, author of Do It! When you track where the money is going, you can prepare for unexpected events and pivot when necessary. To Sell, You Have to Take Action As a sales professional, you face a simple choice.

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Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker Prospecting Strategy 111

criteria for success

MAY 4, 2025

What is a Sales Performance Assessment? Well, the success of any business is dependent on sales growth. And sales growth is the result of a well-developed sales strategy. Cue the Sales Performance Assessment. Is your sales team missing their quotas? Solution: Create a table and label each column A, B, C, D.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Collateral Buyer Persona 52

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an era where efficiency and productivity are paramount, AI sales assistant software emerges as a game-changer for businesses eager to streamline their sales processes and maximize output. At the core of AI sales assistant software lies its capacity to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

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Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 114

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Can we agree that despite many claims to the contrary, there is no single proven method for continuous success in B2B sales? That’s neither good nor bad, but an honest way to start looking at a real problem is sales today. I get it, it is core to the human experience, but is it a core requirement for every sale? You Liked That?

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Hiring Fashion Facebook Pivotal 286

criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). That's why we put together something called the Prospecting Action Plan. This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. The Mechanics.

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Prospecting How To Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 97

Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2025

This incomplete record enters your CRM, triggers misleading lead scores, routes to the wrong sales team, and ultimately creates a disjointed customer experience. Strategic Agility: Businesses with connected data systems can pivot GTM strategies faster, responding more effectively to market shifts and competitive pressures.

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System Enterprise Enterprise Data 130

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Your referral network is your net worth in sales. How can smart, experienced sales reps let their customer relationships wither? It was a pandemic, and businesses were struggling with managing remote sales teams and “pivoting” their focus to survive. What happened to me is what happens to so many sales teams.

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Referrals Customer Revelation Networking 227

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. Prospects trust us. But I had to ask.).

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291