Apptivo

JULY 4, 2023

10 Sales KPIs 1.1 New leads 1.2 Monthly Sales growth 1.4 Sales pipeline 1.8 Sales cycle length 1.9 Sales closed-won vs closed-lost opportunities 1.10 But to ensure they’re heading in the right direction and making the most of their sales efforts, they need a compass, a guiding light.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Sales automation software: The ultimate guide Explore the ARPEDIO platform ← Back to blog In today’s fast-paced business landscape, sales teams face numerous challenges in managing accounts, seizing opportunities, and nurturing relationships with stakeholders. What is sales automation software?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too.

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SalesGlobe

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As we adapt a new way of conducting business and sales with continued limited in-person contact, hybrid work locations, and curtailed business travel, companies are forced to make short-term changes to allow for disrupted supply chain and shifts in customer demand. Can we drive better performance by making improvements to the plan?”.

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SalesGlobe

JANUARY 16, 2022

Pre-COVID-19, I began researching and writing about why inside sales really matters in a business-to-business (B2B) sales environment and the powerhouse this channel can be to support a sales strategy and a great customer experience.

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Apptivo

JULY 1, 2022

CRM helps to manage the entire customer journey and supports marketing, sales and customer service activities. CRM helps to manage the entire customer journey and supports marketing, sales and customer service activities. A CRM strategy is a business plan which helps to grow the revenue and profit for the company.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I know that the frequency of how often I say, “It depends,” is annoying to some people. ” Nowhere is this more out of control than in the sales profession and our very own subset of sales enablement. .” What I don’t see enough of, is advice on how to figure out what to do.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 17, 2023

Cross-sell and Upsell – Prolonging your customer’s revenue potential. Back to blog. Cross-selling and upselling are sales techniques aiming to optimize revenue by increasing the amount a customer spends with your business. Table of Contents. An Introduction to Cross-selling and Upselling. What is Cross-selling?

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SBI

JULY 14, 2021

to Enable Insight-Driven Targeting, Coaching, and Decision-Making for Go-to-Market Teams. ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), a global leader in modern go-to-market software, data, and intelligence, today announced it has agreed to acquire Chorus.ai , a leader in Conversation Intelligence with the industry’s most advanced technology.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

On the surface, your sales organization looks like it’s doing everything your shareholders or board expects: Your revenue attainment is up, and more salespeople are exceeding their goal than you’ve seen in the last five years. But if you peel these layers back, how are your sellers performing individually?

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Sales Management Matters

JULY 8, 2019

In this blog series, sales performance management (SPM) consulting firm OpenSymmetry explored key sales compensation plan design components and considerations for team-based incentivization. recession vs. growth markets) and who is holding the reins of the company (e.g. Depending upon the economic times (e.g.

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Profitability Supply Chain Finance Sales 69

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. How to overcome these challenges, you ask? As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. Try now What is AI in sales?

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SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2013

The best-in-class marketing leaders have already started planning for next year. They follow an annual planning process that starts in July with a Marketing Productivity Benchmark. A productivity benchmark assesses the marketing organization’s capabilities – its strengths and weaknesses. The best marketers assess both.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

delivering SaaS-based sales enablement and readiness solutions , today announced it is a winner in the 2019 Golden Bridge Awards®. Brainshark’s suite of sales readiness solutions was named a gold (highest-level) winner in the “Best Product: Training” category – recognized for fostering better-prepared, results-driven sales forces.

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SuperOffice

MAY 3, 2021

Outbound sales often have a bad rep thanks to cold calling and aggressive sales scripts. This type of outbound sales is irritating, unsustainable, and results in a lot of dead ends and wasted efforts. Outbound sales efforts are meant to be a relationship-focused business activity. Quick introduction to outbound sales.

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SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the B2B marketing arena, Account Based Marketing (ABM) is on fire these days, and it isn’t showing signs of cooling off anytime soon. Organizations are ditching quantity for quality when it comes to leads and they’re enjoying the real and measurable benefits of ABM. How can you tell what is really going to work?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Probably the most popular approach to complex B2B sales, solution selling has been around for decades. It is still being taught to many sales reps around the world, and there are compelling reasons to do so. Personalization has a strong effect on sales effectiveness. However, since its founding, a lot has changed.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2012

Is Marketing burdened by a lack of credibility with Sales? Critically consider the following: Does Marketing over-promise and under-deliver support to Sales? Does Marketing avoid sales support activities to instead focus on projects in direct control (advertising, flash banners, etc.)?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2012

As B2B CMO’s work to transition their teams to lead generation there is a danger of abandoning brand stewardship. The more tangible metrics of Lead Generation are winning the day. The purpose of this blog article is to highlight the importance of branding for B2B customer acquisition. There’s intense pressure to show a return.

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SBI

AUGUST 1, 2019

Revegy , a leading provider of account revenue optimization technology, and FinListics , a company that helps B2B sellers analyze and speak to the financial performance of their target customers, announced today their collaboration through a new partnership alliance. Today, users and organizations expect integration.

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SBI

AUGUST 2, 2019

Revegy , a leading provider of account revenue optimization technology, announced today their collaboration through a new partnership alliance. This alliance allows the Atlanta-based technology companies to continue to expand market opportunities and increase the value delivered to their clients.

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SBI

AUGUST 15, 2019

Brainshark’s suite of sales readiness solutions was named a “Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution” winner – recognized for creating more prepared and effective sales forces. Every effective sales force needs the right combination of confidence and competence. Brainshark, Inc.,

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Bigtincan Takes Aim at Revenue Enablement with AsdeqLabs Acquisition. The acquisition of AsdeqLabs expands Bigtincan’s capabilities in sales enablement as well as the growing field of revenue enablement across the enterprise. David Keane, Co-founder and CEO of Bigtincan. WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brainshark Acquires Rekener to Deliver Industry’s Only Data-Driven Sales Readiness Platform. Sales scorecards combine with Brainshark’s best-of-breed readiness and enablement solutions to radically improve sales performance. The end result is better quota achievement and increased revenue production. WALTHAM, Mass.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This gives a very narrow window within which a sales rep must be able to add value for a prospect.

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Apptivo

MAY 31, 2022

This has led organizations to place customer relationship management at the heart of their marketing strategy. Today the market is flooded with software and platforms that will help you map the customer journey, manage your interactions with the customers, and turn them into loyal customers who stay with you and opt for repeat purchases.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Mark: Many companies today are focused on putting the customer first. Nancy: What does SAVO do?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. Its quality can’t be measured the same way your team’s monthly revenue, email activity, average tenure, or quota achievement can, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. How to build a winning sales culture. Low turnover of reps.

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SBI

JANUARY 29, 2020

SalesTech Industry News: @AllegoSoftware Unveils the Future of Sales Team Development with Latest Platform Release. Allego , provider of the market-leading learning and readiness platform for sales and other teams, today announced its latest release, which delivers a groundbreaking approach to employee development.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

I am exceptionally pleased and excited to announce that Felix Krueger of FFWD and I launched The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement Learning Experience on November 25, 2022. Access to a Growing Library of 4+ Hours of Video Content , teaching the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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SBI

JUNE 3, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This gives a very narrow window within which a sales rep must be able to add value for a prospect.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s still a lot of talk these days in the sales enablement community and the market at large about the need for sales and marketing alignment. If it sounds as if I’m ignoring the need for top-down support for enablement from company executives and especially sales leadership – trust me, I’m not.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 2, 2022

Senior sales leaders and C-suite execs, this one’s for you. In an expanding number of vertical industries (but not yet everywhere), the concept of “enabling the sales force” has exploded. Way back in 2003, I worked in a department called Performance Development and led the Sales Performance Development team.

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SBI

MAY 13, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Mark: Many companies today are focused on putting the customer first. Nancy: What does SAVO do?

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Thanks to the untiring zeal of its passionate community, Customer Success has grown to become the phenomenal force that it is today. Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list for 2022 celebrating the inspiring visionaries and trailblazers who are helping shape the field and its future evolution. Lincoln Murphy. Rick Adams.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list celebrating those frontiersmen and women pushing the boundaries and making Customer Success the force that it is today. His brainchild, Sixteen Ventures , is his medium of sharing his expertise and ideas to help businesses obtain sales acceleration and augmented customer engagement.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2014

Welcome to our biweekly blog feature. Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Mark: Many companies today are focused on putting the customer first. Nancy: What does SAVO do?

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