Force Management

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Using interviews with B2B SaaS leaders who beat those odds by scaling from startup to over $100MM in ARR, McKinsey's recent playbook examines how these companies set up their organizations, common challenges they overcame and the actions leaders can use to emulate these pathways to success.

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Force Management

JUNE 6, 2024

Dig in below for stories about founding and scaling startups, growing as a sales leader, hiring and implementing new product models, and establishing a winning sales discipline. From startups to enterprise, these leaders have failed and iterated to find what works - and they joined John Kaplan and John McMahon to share the wealth.

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SBI Growth

MAY 14, 2020

Perhaps you needed to scale without the. At some point in your company’s evolution, you made the strategic decision to work with channel partners. Maybe these partners had better brand recognition.

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Smooth Sale

AUGUST 19, 2024

Photo by RENE RAUSCHENBERGER via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Scale Your Delivery Business the Right Way Scaling a delivery business is a complex endeavor that requires careful planning, strategic thinking, and efficient execution. This flexibility can help you scale without overstretching your capital.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Back when Hubspot was scaling its sales team, they used Objective Management Group's (OMG) sales candidate assessments to identify the right salespeople for their various selling roles.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 2, 2024

Kyle Lacy spent the last 17 years building, scaling, failing, and winning in high-growth software. The post GTM 88: Know Your Numbers to Create Alignment and Unlock Scale with Kyle Lacy appeared first on GTMnow. He has also been fortunate to lead teams at Seismic, OpenView, Salesforce, and ExactTarget.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With over 30 years of experience scaling companies from tens of millions to billions in revenue, including WebEx and Proofpoint, David brings a unique perspective on the intertwined nature of product and go-to-market.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2022

AI-powered sales coaching helped them scale at a record pace. Zoom experienced meteoric growth right out of the pandemic starting gate. The post When AI Is Just Part of the Team appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Brooke Friendly is an experienced Marketing Director developing diverse customer solutions and revenue generating campaigns through new and innovative content for digital, web, video, radio, print & social media on a national scale.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

You definitely need to ask for referrals to receive them at scale. Todd suggests we can actually read our customers’ minds. You’ve heard me say our clients aren’t mind-readers. You must ask them for referrals. Was I wrong? Yes and no. But yes, I was wrong for having pandemic brain. Yes, I was wrong for having economic uncertainty brain.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Businesses using a video-based content management solution to do so can quickly scale the personal interaction between prospects to humanize your brand without losing out on outreach scale. With personalized video content, sales and marketing teams can grab prospects’ attention and make lead generation more successful.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Do you have a sales team that you would love to scale? Noah and his descendants scaled like crazy, with descendants eventually having sons who were the great early biblical heroes, Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob. Talk about scaling! And yes, there is a sales analogy here.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2024

The post GTM 102: Building Trust, Embracing Old-School Tactics, and Scaling Sales Teams with David Greenberger appeared first on GTMnow.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 30, 2021

A highly sought-after consultant, advisor, leader, and sales trainer, Leese has a proven record of success building and scaling businesses from the ground up. Leese puts his nearly two decades of sales and leadership experience to use as the CEO & Founder of both Scott Leese Consulting, LLC; and SurfandSales.com.

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SBI Growth

JULY 4, 2021

However, some companies anticipated this shift much earlier in advance and were able to adapt and scale quicker than their competitors. Organizations have had to drastically reimagine their revenue model since last year to accommodate the new era of digital.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This helps us better understand how companies adopt technology as they scale. As companies scale, the number of tools they add reveals a need to take on new initiatives and expand. As companies scale, they need lead routing, social media analytics, CRM systems, and more. As companies grow, things get more complicated.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 14, 2022

The answer lies in building a full-scale, comprehensive sales enablement strategy. Capturing the attention of the increasingly elusive B2B buyer has become harder than ever as more sales interactions happen in digital channels, buying committees continue to grow and buyers conduct more self-guided research.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The trick is going to be having enough scale to get results but not so much that it takes too long to get that first win. Once you’ve satisfied the need for the first sale or two, it’s time to start thinking about how you can scale your sales. There’s a bunch of data aggregation and appending to be done here.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, some companies anticipated this shift much earlier in advance and were able to adapt and scale quicker than their competitors. Organizations have had to drastically reimagine their revenue model since last year to accommodate the new era of digital.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If the processes that admins need to perform are well-documented, admins can be onboarded quickly and the number of admins can be scaled up quickly. Delegate: Many of the tasks above can be delegated to an admin. Automate : There are more and more tools on the market that remove the need for sales people to do non-selling tasks.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

It’s not all about scale Some of the biggest opportunities for using AI may not be the obvious ones being talked about now, like having ChatGPT write 100 prospecting emails in 3 minutes. Scott points out “I think there’s been too much focus on scale, scale, scale.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It’s important to get that particular process down to something efficient before you delegate to somebody else and scale up a problem. In order to train someone, you need to know how to do something yourself first. I have found a great way to train someone on a task is to make a video of you doing the task and send them the video.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

By combining Chorus’ features with ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data and automated workflows, conversation intelligence can scale companywide and add rocket fuel to go-to-market strategies. For sales teams, this combination builds pipelines at scale.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

When sales reps ask smart, probing questions to understand what their clients really need—not just what the clients think they need—the scale of projects increases, creating win/wins for everyone. Thoughtful and provocative questioning has a huge impact on close rates and sales revenues. Your company gets bigger deals.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Regardless of which one it is, I would suggest that you take a moment to rate both your strategy and your execution on a scale of 1-10, with ten being excellent. Are you crushing your sales numbers, or are you falling short? Business Unit Scorecard : % to Objective: . Quality of Strategy: . Quality of Execution: .

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 17, 2019

To receive referrals at scale, you must ask for referrals at scale. In fact, 83 percent of satisfied customers are willing to refer products and services, according to a marketing survey conducted by Texas Tech. But only 29 percent actually do. And that is call reluctance.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 14, 2024

Then, how do you scale up any improvements made across the sales organization? Despite innovative methods constantly being introduced into the sales process, commercial leaders often find their sellers relying on ineffective approaches that aren’t tailored for today’s buyers. What about new hires?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

While all salespeople love to receive referrals, most are uncomfortable asking for them, and many sales leaders don’t believe referrals can scale. Mastering the skill requires a process, practice, and (in order to scale) a referral system with KPIs for referral results. Referrals don’t scale. That makes sense, considering 76.2

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

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. But, many of these technologies fall short.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Email marketing is one of the best methods for sending the right message, to the right people, at the right time.

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