Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity?

CRM 71

CRM Sales Software Software 71

Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

Regardless of your business type or industry, a well-thought-out and structured client onboarding process is the secret to long-term customer retention. It’s where the rubber meets the road, and the initial relationship you’ve built with your customer before their purchase is put to the test. DOWNLOAD Is your business ready for a CRM?

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Client Onboarding Onboarding Customer Experience CRM 127

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

B2C 52

B2C Sales e-Learning Software 52

Brooks Group

APRIL 18, 2024

Storytelling in sales is a skill. When used correctly, it can be an incredibly powerful way to convince your prospects of the value of your solution. In a selling situation, a well-timed and well-delivered story can help the prospect visualize how your product or service will solve their challenge or make their life easier.

Sales 95

Sales Decision-making Sales Training Communication 95

The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2024

Developing sales leaders is not just about their individual growth; it’s the secret to the continued success of the organization. Sales leaders play a pivotal role in coaching teams, driving revenue, and creating a positive culture. Here are three ways to grow leaders and make a positive impact on your sales organization.

Decision-making 107

Decision-making Organization Sales Leadership 107

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.

Value Proposition 93

Value Proposition Procurement Decision-making Stakeholders 93

Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The revenue potential of your customers doesn’t end when they sign the contract. Once a prospect buys your product or service, they represent an opportunity for future growth. If growing customer revenue is on your mind, you’re not alone. Examples include service add-ons and complementary products.

Sales Training 74

Sales Training Sales Account Management Profitability 74

Brooks Group

MARCH 25, 2024

Winning sales teams, even those from different industries, have one thing in common: they use a repeatable sales process. As a result, they’re consistent, they follow best practices, they replicate the habits of their A-players, and they reinforce the process with sales team training. The data backs this up.

Negotiation 81

Negotiation Sales Training Decision-making Sales 81

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re rolling your eyes at your screen right now, just hear us out. But being busy doesn’t leave time for thinking strategically, nurturing customer relationships, or making sure your team has everything they need — especially if your company is growing at lightning speed. What’s the backstory?

Sales 112

Sales Onboarding Prioritization Profitability 112

Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why Is Sales Coaching Important for Revenue Growth? Sales coaching gives sales professionals the mentoring they need to resolve critical skills competency gaps and be more productive. 3 Types Of Sales Coaching Sales coaching generally falls into one of three main categories: tactical, strategic, and personal.

Sales 91

Sales Sales Training Sales Management Onboarding 91

QYMATIX

MAY 6, 2024

Five practical examples of Predictive Analytics that will make your sales team successful. For B2B companies, possessing the tools to explore customer behaviour and prioritise leads not only aids productivity but helps boost that all-important bottom line. I want to see what Predictive Sales Analytics can do for me.

Sales Analytics 52

Sales Analytics Key Account Management B2B Sales 52

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

MAY 2, 2024

Sales and emotional intelligence go together like skiing and snow. Yet many sales leaders focus on building their team’s hard skills and neglect sales emotional intelligence or “ soft skills.” Yet many sales leaders focus on building their team’s hard skills and neglect sales emotional intelligence or “ soft skills.”

Emotional Intelligence 83

Emotional Intelligence Sales Decision-making Sales Training 83

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

For the last six years, I’ve been an avid user and champion of using async video in my day-to-day as a seller — well before joining Loom to lead its Sales and Customer Success teams. I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader.

Sales 113

Sales Meetings Stakeholders Customer Success 113

Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

You might be wondering, can you use AI for sales? Sales is a field that relies heavily on human interaction, but technology has always played a significant role in enhancing its efficiency and effectiveness. AI is one of the latest technologies that’s making a big impact on the world of sales. How can sales teams use AI?

Artificial Intelligence 118

Artificial Intelligence Sales Decision-making CRM 118

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Of course, when we talk about the future of sales, it's less about the products we might sell (flying cars, anyone?) Here, I spoke to sales leaders at Bardeen.ai , Aircall , and HubSpot to get their top predictions for the future of sales. It’s been a game changer in how my team operates on a day-to-day basis."

Energy and Utilities 99

Energy and Utilities Media Sales Publishing 99

Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ramping new sales reps quickly is a pivotal factor separating successful sales organizations from those that underperform. Data from our 2024 Sales Leader Trend Report shows that 87% of successful teams have extensive, structured onboarding. Here are 4 ways a common language helps get new sales reps up to speed quickly.

Onboarding 77

Onboarding Sales Sales Training Communication 77

Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

B2B buyers today see many products and services as commodities: items that seem equivalent no matter who produces them. This is when a value-based selling approach—the ability to add value to your product or service—is critical. This helps your customer maximize the value derived from your product and increases your margins.

Sales Training 59

Sales Training Sales Value Selling Profitability 59

Force Management

JANUARY 25, 2024

A sales training initiative is a big investment - one you want to ensure provides a long-term return. The key to ensuring a return on the investment is increasing the breadth and depth of your engagement, ensuring long-term adoption and extending training to all customer-facing professionals, not just the direct sales team.

Sales Training 77

Sales Training Sales Marketing 77

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Over the years, many organizations have invested in a new selling methodology that has evolved the sales approach from strategic selling to "challenging" prospects. In many cases, a salesperson in that position panics and starts spewing out product features that don’t match the need and are inappropriate in that conversation.

Shareholders 104

Shareholders Value Proposition Profitability Decision-making 104

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.

Decision-making 118

Decision-making Sales Negotiation Advertising 118

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year. The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Sales professionals who are doing their best work in Q4 are executing their sales processes to perfection.

B2C 120

B2C Transportation Decision-making Logistics 120

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. AI and the pandemic threw a wrench in the typical sales funnel that companies have now realized is too outdated to consistently bring in the profits they want to see. Clients aren’t buying like they used to.

Artificial Intelligence 103

Artificial Intelligence Decision-making Profitability Sales 103

Brooks Group

APRIL 25, 2024

Your customer success team can be your best ally. You’ve got to keep plugging when you work in sales. But the most successful sales professionals understand the value of cultivating long-term relationships with their customers. These teams are on the front lines, directly interacting with customers and prospects.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Supply Chain Sales Sales Training 52

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. That’s in part because they’re not focusing on the right metrics.

Organization 84

Organization Account Management Sales Sales Training 84

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

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

Marketing 106

Marketing Sales Decision-making Prioritization 106

Brooks Group

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Whether your organization has a dedicated Account Management team, or your salespeople are in charge of managing their own accounts, it’s important to establish account management KPIs to measure performance and effectiveness. Those objectives will help you decide which metrics make the most sense for your team to track.

Account Management 93

Account Management Management Account Planning Sales Training 93

Force Management

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A channel program is an effective way to increase your capacity and expand market share, helping you reach your growth goals faster. When executed well, your channel program will decrease the cost of a sale, improve reach into new markets, and grow overall seller capacity without increasing internal headcount.

Value Proposition 92

Value Proposition Negotiation Decision-making Leadership 92

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sales trends come and go. In this post, I’ll review some sales trends we could see fizzle out throughout the year based on findings from our 2024 State of Sales Report. 6 Sales Trends That Could Fizzle This Year 1. They prefer to gather information themselves before speaking to a human when researching a brand or product.

Virtual Selling 97

Virtual Selling Media Sales Decision-making 97

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.

Sales 109

Sales Media Marketing Customer Success 109

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

APRIL 11, 2024

The most common determination of enterprise value in wholesale and durable goods distribution is a long-term track record of profit and sales growth. Shareholders, financing partners and potential acquirers of your business see through short-term strategies to boost profits. You cannot cut your way to real value.

Shareholders 52

Shareholders CRM Profitability Finance 52

Nutshell

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One way to harness the power of artificial intelligence is by implementing AI productivity tools. AI promotes productivity by analyzing data, generating new ideas, and saving time through automation. At Nutshell, we build artificial intelligence into our software to help your sales reps accomplish more in less time.

Artificial Intelligence 100

Artificial Intelligence Software Software Meetings 100

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2023

When it comes to events, many small business owners and sales reps struggle with the same challenge: Getting prospects and customers to attend. Yet, in-person or virtual event participation is often a critical component of networking, building relationships, and offering value to prospects ahead of a sale.

Marketing 122

Marketing Transportation Small Business Value Proposition 122

Nutshell

MARCH 18, 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems have become vital in managing customer data, creating effective sales processes, and boosting sales team efficiency. However, one of the obstacles to implementing these crucial but advanced systems is a low CRM adoption rate from the team that needs to use it.

CRM 71

CRM Software Software Decision-making 71

Arpedio

APRIL 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a pivotal tool in revolutionizing the sales domain. Importance of AI in the Sales Domain The importance of AI in the sales domain cannot be overstated, particularly in today’s fast-paced and data-driven business landscape.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Decision-making Innovation Prioritization 52