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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Mike Kunkle

APRIL 8, 2023

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. The advice comes from Modern Sales Foundations , a course that was developed based on over 16+ years of top sales performer analysis, modernized for working with today’s buyers.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2022

We surveyed over 1,000 sales professionals around the globe to find out the top sales trends of 2022, and one thing is certain – the pandemic made a lasting impact on the relationship between salespeople and their prospects. If you’re looking for a specific insight, you can skip ahead to these sections: The Top Sales Trends.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

In a survey of senior executive buyers, Forrester Research asked if sales people are frequently prepared for their meetings. Research the metrics that matter to the executive and pick a relevant KPI to build your presentation around. B2B elements of value Now I know KPIs aren't for everyone. What do you think the answer was?

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2019

You simply won’t succeed if you don’t take B2B selling for what it is: a high-stakes selling game that requires an entirely unique approach from direct-to-consumer selling. Before we dive into the insider tips, let’s get crystal clear on what B2B selling entails. Here are key steps you may want to include in your B2B sales process.

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Mercuri International

MAY 22, 2024

Crafting the perfect prompt for AI tools like ChatGPT can seem tough, but with the right approach, you can get high-quality outputs that enhance your B2B sales efforts. This approach is designed specifically for B2B sales professionals looking to streamline their workflow and improve engagement with clients.

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Zendesk

MAY 19, 2022

If you’ve ever taken sales training of any kind, you know that mastering sales vocabulary is shockingly difficult. Many sales terms sound interchangeable when, in fact, they mean drastically different things. That’s why we compiled a list of the 100 most useful sales terms every salesperson needs to know. Sales job terms.

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QYMATIX

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Businesses looking to increase growth may find themselves asking, “What is ‘return on sales’, why is it important and how to improve it?”. As an important metric for business success, today we’ll answer these core questions and offer some advice on increasing return on sales in your organisation. What is the return on sales?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When it comes to sales, there's a lot of innovation happening — and therefore, a litany of new tools. But only one type of tool is considered "effective" by 78% of global sales professionals. If you're in sales, this result shouldn't be a big surprise. As part of our 2024 State of Sales Series , our Sr.

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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.

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Sales Outcomes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sales teams often struggle to change because change is hard. Sales transformation is about change. For salespeople to change, sales leaders must change. For sales leaders to change, the leadership team must commit to providing change management and enablement support to front-line sales leaders who will drive the change.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sales is a numbers game, but evaluating your sales reps’ performance involves much more than looking at a final revenue number. Revenue may be the ultimate performance indicator, but as a sales leader you should investigate the “why” behind a final result to truly improve the success of your sales team.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Qualifying prospects is one of the selling skills every great sales professional relies on. That’s because filling your sales pipeline is a numbers game. Buyers leave the funnel for many reasons as they progress through the sales process : lack of budget, timing, or wrong fit to name a few.

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Sales Outcomes

AUGUST 22, 2022

B2B sales professionals are skilled in recognizing gaps between a client’s desired versus current state. Why is it that when it comes to diagnosing sales team performance issues, sales leaders often skip the diagnosing part and instead focus solely on what the results versus quota show at the end of the year?

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QYMATIX

MARCH 21, 2023

Regular sales reporting is an important tool for sales planning, controlling and monitoring. In this regard, it is essential to reduce the effort of sales reporting to a minimum, while still reporting meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the sales team and management. Sales Reporting has costs.

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Sales Outcomes

MARCH 28, 2022

When B2B sales organizations focus on activity-based metrics, the activities often don’t align with consultative and strategic opportunity pursuit sales motions. While activity-based metrics have some value, an over-emphasis on quantity rather than quality often fails to achieve the expected sales results.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

The B2B buying journey is getting longer and more complex. The average B2B buying committee size is now seven , but groups as large as 20 are not unheard of. 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.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the competitive world of B2B sales, harnessing the power of an effective account mapping strategy is key to sales optimization and revenue growth. Prepare to unlock the intricacies of account mapping and embark on a path to unmatched sales proficiency. Why does account mapping matter so much for sales teams?

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of modern business, sales strategy stands as a cornerstone of success. Whether you’re a seasoned sales professional or a burgeoning entrepreneur, the effectiveness of your sales approach can make or break your company’s growth trajectory. What is MEDDPICC?

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SuperOffice

APRIL 7, 2022

Finding the perfect fit for your brand helps you get better leads and make more sales. Because the right leads result in faster sales cycles, greater customer retention rates, and a higher number of loyal brand evangelists. Your ideal B2B customers have the potential to get the most value from your products and services.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. B2B sales prospecting in a nutshell. Sales leads vs. prospects vs. customers.

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Strategic Communications

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Because most of our work is business-to-business (B2B), LinkedIn and Twitter are the two social media channels that we use most often. Ultimately, though, your goals would relate to driving traffic to your website, generating leads, making sales, etc. Be careful about messaging that is blatantly sales-oriented.

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QYMATIX

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Businesses looking to increase growth may find themselves asking, “What is ‘return on sales’, why is it important and how to improve it?”. As an important metric for business success, today we’ll answer these core questions and offer some advice on increasing return on sales in your organisation. What is the return on sales?

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Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Understanding Sales Operations A company’s operations team is responsible for everything from managing leads, selling strategy, and territory planning. Further, alignment to optimizing the customer experience, compensating employees, automating processes, and analyzing and reporting performance metrics leads to true cohesion.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These convenient online shopping options breed fierce competition between brands and create pressure for sales teams. Though the sales landscape has changed drastically over the years, the fundamentals of sales remain the same. Table of contents What is inside sales? What is outside sales?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While your marketing team does a great job maintaining your brand’s overall presence on social, implementing social media into your sales strategy can lead to impressive results. And when I say using social media to drive sales, I don’t mean sliding into people’s DM’s asking for the sale. Social Media and Sales.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

Change is constant in the age of the coronavirus, and it’s having deep effects on sales organizations. LinkedIn and Korn Ferry recently took a deep dive into the impact of the coronavirus on sales organizations. Below, we highlight five of the most critical of these trends affecting sales organizations.

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ACT

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organisations to optimise costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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Insightly

JANUARY 25, 2024

What are some key new years resolutions for sales people in 2024? As the year kicks off, what should sales people focus on to improve their craft and maximize their results? Insightly CMO Chip House tackled this topic in a recent webinar with sales consultant and keynote speaker Jen Allen-Knuth. This will carry over into 2024.

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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. Sales professionals need to become influencers — kind of. Let's dive in.

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Sales Outcomes

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sales professionals know that asking the right discovery questions is key to advancing the sales process. Good discovery questions, directed to the right person at the right time, can help uncover customer needs and wants and ultimately close more sales. Seven B2B Sales Discovery Questions For Success.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In sales, it's no different. A good sales hook can prevent your prospect from hanging up the phone, or deleting your email entirely. And a great sales hook can start your entire conversation off on the right foot. Here, we asked six sales reps their tips for creating a convincing sales hook to turn prospects into customers.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If your sales team is struggling to speak to the right customers or close deals, try the MEDDIC sales qualification process. What is the MEDDIC sales qualification? The MEDDIC sales qualification process is a framework of questions used to qualify prospects and potential buyers. Why is MEDDIC so powerful?

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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