Nutshell

MAY 7, 2024

Trade shows can be powerful platforms for showcasing your products, growing your brand, and winning new customers. However, figuring out how much your business actually benefits from attending trade shows can be challenging. What your ROO calculation looks like depends on your goals.

CRM 71

CRM Media Advertising Marketing 71

Arpedio

APRIL 29, 2024

Implementing the BANT methodology in your sales process can help you qualify leads more efficiently, focus your efforts on high-potential prospects, and ultimately close more deals. This refers to the financial resources that a prospect has available to invest in your product or service.

Decision-making 52

Decision-making Prioritization Value Selling Value Proposition 52

Brooks Group

MARCH 21, 2024

A powerful lever to improve your team’s sales performance could be hiding in plain sight: sales discovery questions. Asking effective sales questions correlates with success, according to new research : 51% of successful sales teams are effective at sales discovery and questioning.

Sales 90

Sales Sales Training Decision-making Value Proposition 90

Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale. But with the right skills and tactics, sales leaders can equip their teams to overcome challenges and win these deals. Finance, operations, and management, oh my!

Value Proposition 92

Value Proposition Procurement Decision-making Stakeholders 92

Brooks Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is especially true for sales performance. Tracking key sales metrics and knowing how to influence them is critical. Leading and lagging indicators reveal how well your team is navigating the complex B2B sales cycle. Core sales metrics are important to the strategic goals of an organization.

Sales 96

Sales Sales Training B2B Organization 96

QYMATIX

MAY 6, 2024

Five practical examples of Predictive Analytics that will make your sales team successful. Predictive sales analytics has come a long way in the last decade. For many, it’s a powerful tool in helping to support sales and operations planning. Your team can use predictive analytics to improve sales performance.

Sales Analytics 52

Sales Analytics Key Account Management B2B Sales 52

Arpedio

APRIL 30, 2024

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. By understanding and implementing value selling strategies, you can elevate your sales approach and close more deals.

Value Selling 52

Value Selling Value Proposition Negotiation Decision-making 52

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! Selling, discuss exactly how to connect and engage with decision makers and avoid the "middle management trap". To Sell, You Have to Take Action As a sales professional, you face a simple choice.

Publishing 85

Publishing Marketing Sales Management 85

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How do you go from putting out fires to running like a well-oiled machine? If you’re rolling your eyes at your screen right now, just hear us out. Read on to find out how Teamwork.com increased sales efficiency by 50% when they ditched "more is better" in favor of "better is better." What’s the backstory?

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Sales Onboarding Prioritization Profitability 111

PandaDoc

MAY 7, 2024

An effective lead management process is one of the most critical factors driving sales through your funnel. However, how that lead plays out, whether that person becomes a paying customer or client, is another matter. Your leads and prospects are the lifeblood of your business. But not all leads are made equal.

Management 52

Management Software Software Advertising 52

Arpedio

APRIL 15, 2024

What is Sales Enablement? In order to improve sales effectiveness and drive revenue growth, it is crucial to have a clear understanding of sales enablement. This strategic approach aligns marketing and sales efforts, enhances buyer interactions, and optimizes the sales process.

Sales Training 52

Sales Training Sales Decision-making Account Planning 52

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.

Management 120

Management CRM Sales Software 120

Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

A sales career can be exhilarating and rewarding—offering the potential for high earnings, flexible schedules, and the chance to work directly with a diverse range of customers. As you consider whether a sales career is the right fit for you, it’s crucial to understand both the upsides and the downsides.

Sales Training 67

Sales Training Sales Decision-making Negotiation 67

Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. By accessing this level, you position your solution more strategically and reduce the risk of being viewed as just another vendor or commodity supplier.

Decision-making 70

Decision-making Logistics Supply Chain Suppliers 70

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. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

CRM 71

CRM Software Software Communication 71

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 1, 2022

A sales operator works to enable your salespeople to focus on selling. Therefore, hiring the right person for the role is crucial, as such a hire will handle ‘backend’ stuff like lead management, data analysis, process optimization, and even sales strategy. 30 Interview Questions and Answers for Sales Ops.

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Sales Stakeholders Communication CRM 113

Brooks Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

As we round out the dog days of summer, most of us have two things on our minds: Getting our sales force back on track from the summertime lull, and The start of the football season These two things might seem unrelated at first glance. We can go on the joint sales calls, give the correct feedback, and coach until we’re blue in the face.

Sales 69

Sales Sales Training Leadership Sales Leadership 69

Showpad

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. This topic is the focus of the sixth and last part of my series for executives, and for good reason. Doing this correctly requires a lot of groundwork, as well as your executive involvement! For instance, sales enablement creates an ROI of up to 15.3%

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Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Finding the right customers—especially ones who choose your offerings over an industry favorite—is one of the most important challenges for business-to-business (B2B) startups. Focus on solving one problem perfectly Instead of solving multiple problems pretty well, Pennarun advises focusing on solving one specific problem very well.

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Investors Facilitation Media B2B 91

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's a beautiful story — Aaron Ross transformed the Salesforce.com sales team without any traditional cold calling and scaled the business into a $100 million sales machine. But the truth is that most sales reps still don't have time to sit and read the best practices he developed in his award-winning book, Predictable Revenue.

Sales 110

Sales Decision-making Facilitation Marketing 110

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.

Sales 108

Sales Media Marketing Customer Success 108

Arpedio

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you’re looking to transform prospects into clients and improve your overall sales strategy , it’s time to get acquainted with the powerful MEDDIC sales methodology. This approach uses key qualification metrics to effectively assess prospects and determine if they’re the right fit for your product or service.

Decision-making 52

Decision-making Stakeholders Sales Organization 52

Arpedio

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The process of converting leads into sales is commonly known as sales conversion. In simple terms, it refers to the number of prospects who take the desired action resulting in a sale. Effective sales conversion is essential for the growth and success of any business.

Sales 52

Sales Advertising Business Growth Decision-making 52

Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Bill Brooks was a failure-to-success sales professional who climbed the ranks from door-to-door salesperson to CEO. Bill Brooks was a failure-to-success sales professional who climbed the ranks from door-to-door salesperson to CEO. Today, IMPACT has been taught to over one million sales professionals around the world.

Emotional Intelligence 80

Emotional Intelligence Logistics Sales Training Software 80

Revenue Storm

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For 20 years, I had a monthly sales quota. Each and every month, I learned there are some critical actions every sales leader should be taking as we head towards the end of the first quarter. Here’s an example: If you have a 6+ month sales cycle, you have just 18 weeks (or 90 business days) to fill your pipeline for 2022!

Value Proposition 78

Value Proposition Sales Global Accounts Account Management 78

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.

Negotiation 83

Negotiation Decision-making Stakeholders Meetings 83

Nutshell

APRIL 17, 2023

For today’s sales teams, using data to inform sales strategies is essential. Data enables you to make better-informed decisions, stay on track toward goals, and ultimately, win more sales. How can you use data when creating your sales strategy? Table of Contents What is a data-driven sales strategy?

Sales 62

Sales CRM Decision-making Government 62

Arpedio

JANUARY 3, 2024

When it comes to sales strategy , businesses must weigh the pros and cons of direct sales and channel sales to determine the best approach for achieving revenue growth. Therefore, it’s crucial to select the right sales strategy that aligns with your business goals and target market.

Sales 52

Sales Profitability Value Proposition Retail 52

Nutshell

MARCH 1, 2024

While you should always focus on your business’s competencies and objectives first, keeping an eye on your competitors provides you with ideas on how to improve your marketing approach. So, it’s essential that you find the right competitor monitoring software to provide you with the specific information you seek.

CRM 71

CRM Software Software Media 71

PandaDoc

APRIL 30, 2024

Regularly keeping track of incremental sales is one of the best ways of determining how best to allocate your marketing resources. In this article, you’ll find out how to calculate incremental sales for any given marketing campaign, as well as some useful tips and best practices on how to maximize this metric.

Sales 52

Sales e-Learning Retail Advertising 52

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a new weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders Top salespeople are successful because they sweat the details. They probe for pain, help their prospects, and run effective sales calls. Below are the top six phrases that undermine your credibility.

Sales 108

Sales Value Proposition Decision-making Communication 108

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 10, 2020

What does it really take to be successful in sales? Well, the answer to that question largely depends on what your definition of success is. A salesperson’s definition of success is often influenced by the environment they work in, the greater goals of their organization, and their own personal drives and tendencies.

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Sales Negotiation Communication Leadership 142

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. A good strategic plan dictates “how” you travel the selected road. Questions to Ask: Who is on your Planning Team?

Value Proposition 98

Value Proposition Facilitation Decision-making Organization 98

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The same is true in sales. An uncoachable sales team is easy to spot — they lack direction, motivation, and cohesion. But when sales reps embrace coaching, they invest in their success — and the success of their entire team. Instead, it's your readiness to be coachable. How to Be More Coachable 1.

Sales 99

Sales Prioritization Management 99

Arpedio

JANUARY 3, 2024

Identifying and prioritizing high-quality leads can significantly impact your conversion rates and bottom line. On the other hand, lead qualification involves determining if a lead passes the criteria for being an ideal customer and if they have a genuine need for your product or service.

Prioritization 52

Prioritization Decision-making Marketing Media 52

Nutshell

APRIL 17, 2023

Sales is a people-focused, intuitive profession, but data is playing an increasingly important role in sales as well. Sales teams can use analytics to connect more effectively with the right leads in addition to making their processes more efficient and focused.

Energy and Utilities 62

Energy and Utilities Sales CRM Sales Analytics 62

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of Hollywood’s most famous depictions of the sales world is found in Glengarry Glen Ross. Though closing was a major focus for salespeople long before the release of this film, "Always Be Closing" was a catchy hook reps could hold onto. But is it the best sales advice for modern reps? What’s a sales rep to do?

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