Nutshell

MAY 7, 2024

To make the most of these events, you’ll need to measure the return on investment, or ROI, of the trade shows you attend. Here’s what to do Try Nutshell free for 14 days! What is return on investment (ROI)? What is return on objectives (ROO)? What your ROO calculation looks like depends on your goals.

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PandaDoc

MAY 7, 2024

An effective lead management process is one of the most critical factors driving sales through your funnel. Optimizing your lead management process , in other words making sure all leads, once hooked, have the maximum chance of converting to a sale, is vital to your business’s success. But not all leads are made equal.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you’re in the depths of the sales process, how do you know what step to take next? How do you know what action will be most effective for moving a lead toward becoming a loyal customer? Just focusing on the desired outcome—a new sale—won’t get you there.

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 9, 2022

What to do when a sales deal stalls? Sales process checklist Establish the next commitment The Thermometer Technique Favourite podcast: How to Succeed Just for fun Quote of the week. What to do when a sales deal stalls? For me, sales is most successful when you follow a process. Learn more.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2024

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. This week‘s post comes from five winners of HubSpot’s Modern Sales Leader 25 award. 5 Pieces of Advice All Sales Leaders Need to Know in 2024 1. 5 Pieces of Advice All Sales Leaders Need to Know in 2024 1.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Sales effectiveness is your sales professionals’ ability to achieve their goals and objectives efficiently and successfully. Sales effectiveness also corresponds with the return your organization gets from its sales investment. But improving sales effectiveness is a complex task that few organizations do well.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Table of Contents What does lead nurturing mean? The prospect may have shown interest, which means they’ve entered your sales funnel as a lead.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Introduction In today’s fast-paced and challenging business landscape, maximizing organizational success hinges on seamless coordination across various functions. This unified effort propels businesses to new heights of success. I’m not saying it should report elsewhere, just that it is critical to commercial success.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When I think of sales, I picture friendly handshakes, lively chatter, and the spark of human connection. It relies on human intuition, persuasion, and relationship-building. Here, I spoke with top sales leaders to learn how to AI to better understand your prospects, lead more effective conversations, and drive more results.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2023

But what if we told you that sales can work together with your marketing team to boost your customer base? This is where the sales blitz comes into play. Through a sales blitz, your team can accelerate the time needed to convert leads into customers by adopting a tailored strategy. So, let's get started.

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Arpedio

APRIL 30, 2024

What is Value Selling? Value selling is a sales approach that can revolutionize the way you sell. Unlike traditional methods, value selling focuses on delivering unique value to customers and aligning their needs with your product or service. Simply put, it puts your customers at the center of the sales process.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

Definition: Lead distribution is the process of strategically assigning leads to specific sales reps. This is the step where you assign leads to salespeople, who will then nurture those leads. But if you want to do it right, you need a strategy behind how you assign those leads. Table of Contents What is lead distribution?

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 14, 2022

Find out what those skills are, along with 21 free courses to help you become a better key account manager. Sales Find the course that's right for you How to identify your skill gaps Define success What goals do you need to achieve? Reflect on past projects Ask for feedback What are you afraid of?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. If you’re thinking about a career in sales, you probably want to hear the cold, hard truths about sales and what it entails.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

Your phone rings and you decide to pick this one up instead of letting it go to voicemail. You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Odds are, if you don’t want what they’re selling, you’ll hang up immediately. That’s why mastering an outbound call is so important. How to Make Effective Outbound Calls 1.

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PartnerTap

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Does your sales team co-sell with partners? If so, to what degree, and with how many partners? Competitors are noticing the success of these co-sell investments and programs and now trying to catch up. Co-sell has become a top priority for many enterprise sales, channel, and partner teams this year.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Planning your sales kickoff or national sales meeting? After you choose the date and venue, your next question may be who you should ask to deliver the keynote—and what you want them to talk about. Your sales keynote speaker will set the tone for the rest of the event. But choosing the right speaker is a challenge.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2023

Salespeople need to be able to neutralize and move past buyer objections to be successful, but there's a distinction between objections and brush-offs. Brush-offs are time savers — ways for prospects to get you off their back without much regard for what you‘re selling or how you’re selling it. I don’t have time for this right now.”

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having a bad sales month? However, it's not the slump itself that really matters, but what we do to address it. What makes a bad sales month? A bad sales month can be attributed to a variety of factors, ranging from internal processes to external market conditions. Sales experts set off the common seven: 1.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit of sales coaching is its contribution to revenue. Research shows that successful sales coaching programs increased average deal size, sales activity, win rates, and new leads by 25%-40%. Anticipate nerves.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leads, opportunities, sales: That’s the natural sequence of the sales process, right? All you need to do is zoom out, see the bigger picture and start looking for long-term growth and expansion possibilities rather than focusing only on short-term conversion objectives. But opportunities can be much more than that.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 28, 2023

On this special episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Sales Gravy Senior Master Sales Trainer Brad Adams and bestselling author of Coffee's for Closers, Tony Morris, dive into the art of great discovery, how to ask questions that build rapport and create engagement, and why better questions set the groundwork for better results.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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OnStrategyHQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Strategic Planning Process in 4 Steps To help you throughout our strategic planning framework, we have created a how-to guide on the basics of a strategic plan, which we will take you through step-by-step. Free Strategic Planning Guide What is Strategic Planning? Questions to Ask: Who is on your Planning Team?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Her talk was on customer connection in the new era — how information has transformed into intelligence, and how this intelligence is what allows you to connect with your customers. It’s no longer just about acquiring information, but knowing how to act on intelligence. Always start with the CUSTOMER! I was hooked.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 17, 2023

That makes establishing credibility central to the success of any sales effort. But maintaining that kind of trustworthiness and legitimacy over multiple sales conversations can be easier said than done — a lot of reps run into hitches, hiccups, and human errors that undermine their credibility with prospects. Let's dive in.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. As a sales leader or sales manager, your ability to navigate the complex terrain of market trends, team performance, and individual contributions hinges on a crucial tool—sales metrics.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 23, 2024

I don't think so, but it depends on how you approach it. Sleazy sales reps will try to upsell everyone and anyone, regardless of whether or not the customer actually needs the additional service. Take the time to understand what success means to them. What happens when you find one? Where does that lead go?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) What is a cold call? What is the purpose of cold calling? What is the purpose of cold calling? You have your list of names and phone numbers.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Leading sales enablement initiatives effectively in a turbulent world is not an easy task Staying relevant and ensuring a steady flow of revenue are key challenges for every business these days. Let me ask you this: Have you derived your sales enablement initiative directly from the business goals? But we can work on that.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you want to learn how to manage a sales pipeline for an IT company, you’ve come to the right place. That’s where a sales pipeline comes in. But your sales pipeline can’t run itself. That’s why we’re covering everything you need to know about sales pipeline management for IT companies in this blog post.

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QYMATIX

MAY 31, 2022

One Useful Example of Predictive Sales Analytics & Predictive Modeling in Excel. One of the critical tasks of a sales manager is to timely identify which opportunities have better chances of closing and what makes a “good” sales opportunity. Should we stop pursuing a sales opportunity?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This is why most businesses have a sales funnel — a way of bringing in potential customers and working with them until they become buyers. This is where your marketing team and your sales team work together to create success for the company. What is a marketing qualified lead? What is a marketing qualified lead?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

LinkedIn provides access to an ocean of prospects and some valuable insight into what makes them tick — but connecting with them is a struggle in itself. Prospecting on the network is every bit as tricky as it is potentially productive, and if you want to do it effectively, you need to master the art of the LinkedIn sales message.

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