ACT

APRIL 25, 2024

You’re taking a break for lunch in the middle of a busy workday and open your inbox, only to find two new sales emails from unknown senders. The first one starts with a run-of-the-mill promotional sales pitch. That’s what adding personalisation to your sales outreach efforts can do. The answer is personalisation.

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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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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

McKinsey Institute reports that one-fifth of sales functions could be automated with artificial intelligence (AI). Before you close this tab to panic-update your resume, wait till you hear which fifth: writing cold emails, entering call notes in your CRM, and scheduling calls. How much time?

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RAIN Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Assume you’re a sales manager for a mid-sized enterprise. You’ve just received a call from your chief revenue officer who wants to know how much revenue you expect your team to produce between now and the end of the year. You pull up your spreadsheet and start reviewing the numbers, but the forecast just doesn’t look right.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. As a sales leader or sales manager, your ability to navigate the complex terrain of market trends, team performance, and individual contributions hinges on a crucial tool—sales metrics.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having a bad sales month? What makes a bad sales month? A bad sales month can be attributed to a variety of factors, ranging from internal processes to external market conditions. A bad sales month can be attributed to a variety of factors, ranging from internal processes to external market conditions.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2023

As prospecting is an extremely critical step in the sales process , adopting AI to help with your processes is worth considering. Read on to learn more about using AI for sales prospecting and specific use cases for generative AI. 85% of salespeople using AI/automation agree it makes their prospecting efforts more effective.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. This is no different in sales. The key to improving sales performance lies not only in the hands of sales reps, but also in the ability of their managers to provide effective guidance and support.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit of sales coaching is its contribution to revenue. Research shows that successful sales coaching programs increased average deal size, sales activity, win rates, and new leads by 25%-40%.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Every time you use a selfish sales tactic, you’re destroying the trust between you and your buyer — but you’re not just hurting yourself. Don’t be this person. But, our new house had a guest room in it.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you’re in the depths of the sales process, how do you know what step to take next? How do you know what action will be most effective for moving a lead toward becoming a loyal customer? Just focusing on the desired outcome—a new sale—won’t get you there. Read on to learn more about the next-action approach to sales.

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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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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.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. Then, we’ll give you a tour of the top generative AI tools for sales teams with highlights and pricing.

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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. The result?

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I dive into part two of my conversation with sales leadership expert Mike Weinberg on what new sales managers need to do to get off to a successful start. He credits Mary Gardner, the Area Vice President of his group, for fundamentally shaping his approach to sales leadership.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“I hate sales.” That puts sales in the bottom 5% of careers. This isn’t a complete surprise, however — while sales reps are often paid well, the work isn’t easy. From tracking down new prospects to qualifying leads, sales requires ongoing and concerted efforts to see success. Salespeople rate their job satisfaction as 2.5

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In sales, where every conversation counts and every opportunity demands precision, your team needs more than just the ordinary training programs. Without sales training software, it would be very difficult to ensure reps are applying best practices, staying up-to-date with the products and services they’re selling, and closing deals.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sending cold emails, leading prospects through sales calls, and following up all take time and articulation. Sales teams everywhere are starting to use AI to streamline these processes and craft better pitches. If you aren’t already testing or deploying AI in your sales processes, you’re behind. Open a chat window.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2024

I’ve been in contact with sales experts about how AI has helped them. They’ve shared tips and AI hacks for inside sales reps, as well as tips for coping with — and bouncing back from — bad sales months. Salespeople don’t need to be tech gurus to scour the internet for info on a prospect before they make a call.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How do you go from putting out fires to running like a well-oiled machine? For eons, salespeople have been told to make more calls, send more emails, and take more meetings. 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."

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals. Let's dive in.

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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? What is sales productivity?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role. Table of Contents Is SaaS sales a good career? SaaS Sales Positions How to Get into SaaS Sales How to Succeed in SaaS Sales Is SaaS sales a good career?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2022

This interaction (or lack thereof) can be a sales rep's worst nightmare, and for good reason — leaving a good sales voicemail is hard. But it's an integral part of sales that cannot be ignored. Here, we'll discuss seven voicemail mistakes and how to recover from them, plus give a few example scripts to inspire your next call.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or fully on board, it’s important to educate yourself about how sales reps are using AI.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2023

This is a significant drop from just a year before when sales success reached around 26%. They need to achieve more with less, making sales enablement more important than ever. Companies have access to AI tools to support their sales efforts. In this post, you'll learn how AI can power your sales enablement strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2020

How did your leadership priorities change in 2020? If you started paying more attention to the sales enablement needs of your organization, you’re not alone. For sales organizations that have been waiting to implement dedicated sales enablement measures — the time is now. How many demos are turning into proposals?

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 9, 2024

On this fascinating episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, master sales trainer Jessica Stokes spends time with Steven Farber of Take Flight Learning discussing why it is important for salespeople and leaders to understand and adapt to different personality styles. Think about your last sales call. You know it, I know it.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Some deals hit walls — that‘s just an unfortunate fact of sales life. Misaligned problem-solving often stalls deals — and not getting to the why behind a prospect's problems is often where misalignment starts.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When engaging new prospects is tougher than ever, sales organizations know cross-selling and upselling are two effective tactics to increase revenue. Yet many sales professionals overlook these opportunities, either preferring to stay in “hunter” mode or because they lack the sales training , skills, and coaching to get it done.

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