Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time.

Sales 101

Sales Stakeholders Decision-making Meetings 101

Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s where the next-action-based selling methodology comes in—an approach to sales that focuses on the activities that truly drive results. Read on to learn more about the next-action approach to sales. It involves a structured sales process and a focus on sales activities rather than just outcomes.

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CRM Sales Prioritization Decision-making 62

Upland

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales productivity becomes even more difficult for complex B2B accounts with large buying groups and multiple divisions involved in the decision-making process. This cross-functional teamwork helps you foster more unified and effective customer account management. Rather, it’s about people. It’s about relationships.

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Account Planning Sales Decision-making Shareholders 195

Red Star Kim

MARCH 1, 2024

Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training. Time for informal, social engagement – so important for getting to know people – has reduced. And we can ask questions Why are questions so important? We can research their professional and personal interests.

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Stakeholders Decision-making Emotional Intelligence Communication 130

Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Some were fortunate to receive full details from the firm’s CRM supported by analytics showing digital activity and enquiry details. Others had little more than a name and telephone number. With little advance information it was more challenging to engage the caller and direct the conversation appropriately.

Emotional Intelligence 130

Emotional Intelligence Value Proposition Decision-making Digitalization 130

Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They evaluated more than 108 attributes for their impact on performance and rated partners’ business-development performance using a standard five-dimension scale. Only one— the Activator —shows a positive impact on performance and revenue. Buyer changes – Less loyalty They observe there is less client loyalty now.

Client Relationships 130

Client Relationships CRM Financial Services Decision-making 130

Flevy

MARCH 19, 2024

Innovation Pipeline Strength is a critical metric for organizations aiming to maintain a highly competitive level of innovation. A robust innovation pipeline not only secures a steady stream of new offerings but also enables organizations to respond proactively to emerging trends and disruptions.

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Innovation Management Digital Transformation Prioritization 52

Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And I’ve noted the highlights of the sessions by other speakers (How the BD function can be more influential, Rethinking your online strategy, Digital marketing maturity and Best practice for KAM) below. I’ve summarised the key points here as a supplementary learning resource for the delegates. The second question is “ Where will we play?”.

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Value Proposition Key Account Management Digitalization Sales 130

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

These functions are important for your company to operate, but they aren’t the most important or enjoyable parts of your job. Sales reps using AI say they save more than two hours a day. Give it prompts for prospects in your pipeline, adjust the prompts if necessary, and try them out. How much time?

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Artificial Intelligence CRM Sales Meetings 107

Revenue Storm

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Rather than start the year 20 times, I actually started the “year” 240 times. 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! Scrub the Pipeline. Identify your Pipeline Target and Demand Creation Gap. Set Your Activity Plan.

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Value Proposition Sales Global Accounts Account Management 78

Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In early December we welcomed 15 delegates to a PM Forum “Be more strategic” workshop. From the animated discussions I selected a few topics of focus – Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing. Others see it more as top-down or bottom-up approach to strategy.

Marketing 130

Marketing Strategic Thinking Artificial Intelligence Stakeholders 130

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Focus on automating those non-client facing activities with AI so you can spend more time working with the client and developing relationships that matter." It's no secret that today’s buyers are more informed than ever before. He told me, "As the market is getting more sophisticated, pushy sales tactics are out.

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Sales Investors Prioritization Innovation 103

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While managers are expected to uplift those around them, it’s important to take a step back and know when to get a helping hand. Your forecasting and pipeline management process. When managing a sales team, it becomes far less about you, and much more about your team. Your skill as a manager is only as good as your foundation.

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Sales Management Management Energy and Utilities Emotional Intelligence 98

Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

An improvement in productivity translates to more deals closed and more revenue for your business, which means productivity directly impacts your bottom line. Why is sales productivity important? A more productive team leads to more deals, revenue, and growth. FREE DOWNLOAD Why is sales productivity important?

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CRM Sales Software Software 71

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Below we'll delve into why CRMs are an important sales tool, using data from our State of Sales Report, as well as how they can revolutionize your sales strategy. As a company that offers its own CRM, we're obviously happy to share that sales reps think it's an important type of tool. It's not that new or hard to access.

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CRM Decision-making Sales B2C 95

Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 23, 2022

They say you can't make more time. On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I challenge you to consider how you can make more time through improvements in sales productivity and reinventing the way that you work. Many individual sales professionals were selling more and earning more than ever before.

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e-Learning Construction Account Management CRM 78

Nutshell

JUNE 20, 2023

Your sales pipeline—that is, the multi-stage journey your leads take to become customers—is the key to unlocking more revenue for your retail and ecommerce company. When your pipeline is efficiently managed, you can significantly increase the number of sales your business generates. Keep reading to learn more.

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eCommerce Retail Management CRM 62

Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The buyer is changing faster than we are as sellers. However, less than 50% effectively measure other metrics beyond revenue and sales activity—things such as customer retention, customer engagement, and customer satisfaction. These include metrics such as pipeline, number of calls made, and number of emails sent.

Sales 93

Sales Decision-making Sales Training Sales Management 93

PartnerTap

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve always known that going-to-market with an authentically aligned partner is way better than selling alone. It’s hard to track : all co-selling activity happens over email and phone conversations, so there’s no way to track or measure the impact these co-selling activities have on pipeline, win rates, or revenue.

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Investors CRM Digitalization Account Planning 75

PartnerTap

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And you will always have one or more competitors you can still vilify. It’s more often than not, a team effort , and one that goes beyond the four walls of your company. High sales turnover has made buyers more skeptical of new and unknown sales reps assigned to their account. I’m tired of that story.

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Sales Decision-making Suppliers Marketing 75

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Want more content like this? Some B2B tech giants who’ve seen success for a decade or more. Buyers are more informed and empowered than ever before. Subscribe to our newsletter.

CRM 83

CRM Sales Environment Leadership B2B 83

Insightly

JULY 26, 2023

Sales pipeline management is a crucial aspect of successful sales strategies. Visualizing this process through a pipeline funnel chart helps sales teams understand the progress made at each stage and identify any bottlenecks. It is important to note the difference between a sales funnel and a marketing funnel.

CRM 52

CRM Management Sales Decision-making 52

Insightly

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s about more than just tracking contacts and interactions—it’s about guiding prospects through the buyer’s journey, from initial contact to final conversion. Lead management encompasses various activities, including lead generation, qualification, segmentation, nurturing, tracking, and analysis.

CRM 52

CRM Management Prioritization Communication 52

Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

The Difference Between Sales Effectiveness KPIs and Metrics While both KPIs and metrics are used to measure performance, KPIs reflect the most important aspects of a business’s performance and directly align with its goals and objectives, while metrics are focused more on specific operational or tactical aspects of the business.

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Organization Account Management Sales Sales Training 84

Nutshell

JANUARY 17, 2024

But getting the relevant departments to play ball is sometimes easier said than done. Keep reading to learn more about CRM project management and what it can do for your team’s productivity. Keep reading to learn more about CRM project management and what it can do for your team’s productivity. What is CRM in project management?

Business Growth 71

Business Growth CRM Management Software 71

Sales Outcomes

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Multiple studies and our experience with clients confirm that prospecting is the most important and hardest step in the sales process. Salespeople have more tools, methods, and resources to engage with prospects than ever. Yet, prospecting appears more challenging than ever. Rule of thumb: less is more.

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Prioritization Virtual Selling Stakeholders B2B 52

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One example is the sales activity gap. By measuring how many sales activities your reps are performing and plotting them against how many closed opportunities they completed you can get an estimate of how many new opportunities you might be closing if you could complete more sales activities.

CRM 52

CRM Meetings Sales Software 52

Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

A sales pipeline is the best way for sales leaders to manage their sales operations for potential buyers. With the help of the sale pipeline, businesses can observe all sales deals, whether they are sales-qualified leads (SQL) or dead deals. Let’s look at the sales pipeline and best practices. What Is a Sales Pipeline?

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Management Customer Life Cycle Sales CRM 52

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

HubSpot’s fastest growing customers - # of deals done - focused on customer connection drove 5x more growth, 19% more growth for those engaging throughout the customer lifecycle. It helps us stay informed and proactive during important touchpoints along the customer journey, and saves us a boatload of time. I was hooked.

CRM 78

CRM B2B Decision-making Business Growth 78

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But opportunities can be much more than that. 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. To use it to build a robust sales pipeline , you need to: 1.

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Management CRM Sales Decision-making 52

Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Powerful and versatile, CRMs are used to manage every aspect of the sales pipeline , from signing up newsletter subscribers to nurturing longtime customers, and literally everything in between. Furthermore, many marketers find themselves stuck in sales-heavy organizations, with fewer resources at their disposal than their sales colleagues.

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CRM Marketing Decision-making Advertising 155

SalesPop

JANUARY 21, 2023

In my last article, I discussed the vital importance of understanding customer preferences in sales , and provided examples from my own company of how this is done. Let’s see how this should happen, and again we’ll provide examples from Pipeliner CRM. Now, what about your preferences? It was done carefully, over years, in iterations.

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CRM Software Software Decision-making 98

Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this guide to sales processes, we’ll discuss the most common sales process stages, how to develop and improve your process, how to overcome common challenges, and more. Why is it important to have a structured sales process? Why is it important to have a structured sales process? Read this first.

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Decision-making Sales Negotiation Advertising 118

Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. To successfully manage your sales pipeline, you need to consistently feed it with data inputs and review your processes and KPIs on a regular basis.

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Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. To successfully manage your sales pipeline, you need to consistently feed it with data inputs and review your processes and KPIs on a regular basis.

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Software Software Management Sales 52

Insightly

JANUARY 25, 2024

Businesses that send more than 5,000 emails per day (and that’s a pretty low number) were going to be subject to stricter metrics on spam complaints by Google and Yahoo. Therefore personalization, which has been having a moment for quite some time, is about to get even more important. This will carry over into 2024.

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Sales CRM B2B Decision-making 52

Hubspot Sales

MAY 31, 2020

Without tracking their sales and pipeline activity, in addition to results at both an individual and company-wide level, it’s impossible for sales leaders to pinpoint weak areas. Looking at larger trends such as pipeline growth quarter-over-quarter is also a good gauge of your sales organization’s overall performance.

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Sales Advertising Prioritization Meetings 93