Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 15, 2025

In an era where economic uncertainty and tighter budgets dominate C-Suite discussions, one thing is crystal clear: Revenue is the ultimate metric, and every part of the organization, including marketing, must align with that objective. The post How B2B Marketing Must Drive Revenue appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Our sales dashboards, with all the phenomenal ways they present information, seem to have become the work version of the video games we immerse ourselves in at home. The problem is, despite all the metrics and indicators we can track in our dashboards, they don’t produce revenue. The post Metrics Don’t Produce Revenue!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. The economic crisis of 2008-9, and the Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021 showed us that when companies focus on cost-cutting instead of growing revenue, revenue declines - sharply. Closing delays. Failure to hit quotas. Order cancellations. You add water.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

There is another one we should discuss, and that’s when a sales leader has a Non-Supportive Buy Cycle with an attribute of needing to think things over. Fortunately, when salespeople fix their Non-Supportive Buy Cycles, their sales increase by an incredible 50%. Back to the sales leaders. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?

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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. But corporate hierarchy errors are much more serious than your garden-variety duplicate CRM record because they undermine core sales and marketing strategy.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Revenue leaders must prioritize relationships over digital shortcuts to drive real revenue growth. Digital isnt a sales strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. But sales has never been about technologyit has always been about people buying from people.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

Why are revenue targets so hard to hit? 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. Table of Contents What are revenue targets? Getting stuck on YTD sales.

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Force Management

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Revenue Builders Podcast has continued to bring you the best in sales strategies, leadership insights, and industry trends, featuring some of the most influential voices in the field. We publish two episodes per week, sharing lessons for sales leaders at all stages of their careers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Sales funnel optimization involves improving each stage of the sales funnel to increase the number of leads that convert into customers. The post How to Optimize Your Sales Funnel to Boost Revenue appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In a research collaboration between SBI Growth and The Revenue Enablement Society, it was revealed that enablement functions are essential for organizations aiming to optimize their sales and revenue operations.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Kick-Start Planning with a Strong Workback Strategy Proactive planning is essential for Revenue Operations success, and according to Whitaker, it should begin as early as Q3. Set Achievable Goals with Input from RevOps Chang believes that Revenue Operations should be included in goal-setting discussions from the outset.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2025

Despite writing about sales process quite frequently over the years, this article will take a very different approach. Let’s define a couple of terms: Sales Process – a series of 4-6 stages, each with 5-10 milestones, that provide salespeople with a repeatable framework for sales success.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2025

Marketing leaders are constantly challenged to drive growth, personalize engagement, and uncover new revenue opportunities. To put these plans into action, Smartsheet needed a way to better segment its audience and target high-intent prospects while ensuring marketing and sales alignment. 12% quarter-over-quarter pipeline growth.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It’s also raising big questions about the future of the sales profession — including lingering worries that many sales jobs could soon be replaced by machines. According to several top sales experts, it’s not quite that simple. This is what takes your sales process to the next level,” Frattini says.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 31, 2025

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their salespeople. The purpose, obviously, is to get everyone on the same page with expectations of performance for the coming year.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As someone who does not have an MBA or finance degree, Ive never conducted revenue forecasting. But, I know how critical a role revenue forecasting plays in a companys financial planning as it helps to understand the businesss potential growth, identify market opportunities, and determine resource allocation. Resource planning.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

We all get these spammy emails and LinkedIn messages on a daily basis which promise more meetings, more customers, an increase in revenue, and success like we’ve never seen before. Even the people who provide the services promising inbound leads, meetings, and sales increases are struggling to generate inbound leads!

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

This is a 2018 article about 24 and how you can double your revenue. Last week, I noticed that people are still using this archaic and overly simplistic sales qualifying process, and too many are still writing about the benefits of BANT (Acronym for Budget, Authority, Need, Timing). BANT should never be in that category.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. The next finding explains the previous finding.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is my third article using the Bible as an analogy to sales and I am currently reading Numbers. In my experience, most companies have KPIs in their sales organizations but the real issue is usually whether or not the KPIs they trot out actually drive revenue. Make your sales team biblical and do God’s work.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of waiting until buyers are clearly in-market, sales teams now can rely on a layered, AI-fueled analysis of multiple high-value signals to zero in on prospects who are strong fits for their product or service but not yet showing classic signs of interest. They can’t get the sales, the pipeline isn’t moving.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively. Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. What Are Sales Acceleration Platforms?

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 6, 2025

Last week I wrote this important article about how you can use sales process to increase revenue by 28%. Lets make the assumption that you either have or are about to have a comprehensive custom, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sales process with predictive sales scorecard. What are the next steps?

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Over the last decade, he has worked with countless sales organizations to help them scale from startup to high-growth machines. You can’t change what’s already happened.

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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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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

Sales leaders need to make sure that every interaction counts and that means understanding which accounts are the best fit, when to reach out, and how to solve customer challenges. 10% increase in ICP access , unlocking new revenue opportunities. Data enrichment to validate industry and revenue insights for prioritization.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. As a reminder, consistent daily coaching increases revenue by 28% and when it is paired with effective coaching, revenue increases by 43%. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 16, 2025

In this Quick Take episode, were exploring the undeniable power of sales coaching, the challenges of traditional approaches, and how AI-powered solutions are setting a new standard for skill development. On the other side of this brief episode, youll see how AI sales coaching truly can elevate the game of your sellers.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2025

ZoomInfos State of AI in Sales and Marketing survey, which gathered insights from more than 1,000 GTM professionals, reveals just how quickly AI is transforming sales teams and the roadblocks for further AI innovation. Power users on sales teams are saving time, closing deals faster, and seeing real, measurable business results.

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