Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Last week there was a mixture of legal and accounting firms – and M&BD people as well as fee-earners – at the MBL workshop on “ Pitch Perfect – How to Prepare & Present Winning Pitches & Tenders”. I’m delighted that this session received 100% on “Very satisfied” ratings for both the overall rating and quality of the speaker.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We've all heard how AI can help us write better, faster, and with more accuracy. Here, I put three AI tools to the test — ChatGPT, ChatSpot, and Copy.ai — to see which one writes the best cold email. What is the most important soft skill to have in sales?”), they arrive at different answers. Let's dive in.

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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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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Delegates from legal, financial service and industry, joined me last week for a full day workshop on persuasive writing. During the session we created our own persuasive writing checklist – here are the highlights. Planning – Before you start writing Agree your aims – Why are you writing? Develop empathy.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can even take hours to put an email together. Conversational AI for sales teams can eliminate a lot of repetitive tasks such as follow-up emails and customer queries and even generate sales collateral. Here are the best ten conversational AI tools for sales. The right words don’t always come easy.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 15, 2023

As with all fields, AI is transforming sales. In this post, learn more about how B2B salespeople leverage AI, and how you can adopt it into your processes. Table of Contents How do B2B salespeople feel about AI? They also say the biggest benefit of using AI/automation in a B2B sales process is its time-saving qualities.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 7, 2023

As technology advances and becomes more accessible, businesses are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their sales processes. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way sales teams operate, giving them valuable insights and predictive analytics to drive more revenue. Are sales teams investing in AI?

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2023

Salespeople have a tough job juggling in-person interactions, phone conversations, and email communication with multiple prospects and customers. Since generative AI tools are becoming more popular and salespeople perform many demanding tasks, AI-generated sales emails and messages might become a new norm. Let's dive in.

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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

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

AUGUST 21, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting , it's more important than ever that you write concise, effective communication. According to Statista, we’re expected to send and receive over 333 billion emails daily by the end of 2022 — meaning it's not easy to get noticed in someone's email inbox. It should grab them.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

If you wish to get insights on the sales performance of your team, creating a sales report is a no-brainer. Here, we’re outlining a step-by-step process on how businesses can create sales reports to improve their sales performance. Key takeaways How to write sales reports. Report timelines.

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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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Nutshell

AUGUST 22, 2023

Since AI is revolutionizing sales , marketing, and many other aspects of business, it’s no surprise that many CRM providers are also using the technology to enhance customer relationship management. Table of Contents How are CRMs using AI? Writing and email Love it or hate it, writing is one of the biggest applications of AI.

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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

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. Over the years I have greeted tech advances with open arms because I need all the help I can get.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll explain how artificial intelligence software can enhance productivity and provide a comprehensive list of the best AI productivity tools. At Nutshell, we build artificial intelligence into our software to help your sales reps accomplish more in less time. Table of Contents What are AI productivity tools?

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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?) and more about how we'll sell them. Here, I spoke to sales leaders at Bardeen.ai , Aircall , and HubSpot to get their top predictions for the future of sales. Let's dive in.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’re looking to get into sales, not having a college degree can feel like a huge barrier to your career. But what if I told you that a degree isn't always required for a sales job? In this guide, we’ll explore how you can get into sales without a degree. Table of Contents What does it mean to work in sales?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2023

Follow-up emails can help establish a connection with your prospects. Not only are these emails a personal touch. They’re also essential to your sales operation. Fifty percent of all sales happen after the fifth follow-up attempt, according to Inside Sales. The solution: Automate your follow-up emails.

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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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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

APRIL 19, 2021

That's why any form of cold sales outreach can be exhausting and ineffective when you don't know what you're doing — and that's not specific to active communication like face-to-face meetings or phone calls. It applies to emails as well. It's a fairly common practice that several companies still employ, but just how effective is it?

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

SMP is a powerful distribution CRM system that can help streamline your sales and marketing efforts. One of the ways it does this is by allowing you to create templates for common and recurring emails. Get Your Templates For Free We’re giving these email templates away for free. Here’s how it can help: 1.

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Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

You may think that your welcome and monthly check-in emails are enough to keep your clients satisfied. And you wouldn’t be alone—this is how many businesses introduce their clients to their products and services. Through this process, your clients will learn more about the features on offer and how to use them. Find out here.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sales is a famously extroverted job. Let’s review what virtual training is, the best practices, and how to run a virtual training program. Virtual Training Best Practices How to Do Virtual Training What is virtual training? In the past, onboarding involved sitting in a room and listening to your manager explain the role.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Luckily, with sales, quickness also happens to be the way to make your sales team happy. Sales acceleration helps you do both. What is sales acceleration? Sales acceleration enables teams to shorten their sales cycles and engage healthier and more bountiful prospects. How to Use Sales Acceleration.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. But how do you do that ethically? The good news: There’s a way to leverage AI with ethics intact, and we’re showing you exactly how to do so. Manage leads. And so much more!

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2023

AI email assistants are here to help you manage your emails and drastically reduce time spent in the inbox. Emails are essential in business, but we can all agree that email management is a time suck. billion emails sent daily , it’s fair to say that not all are important. Can I get a hallelujah? Plus, with 347.3

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

But what changes will it bring to the sales industry? Will it be the end of salespeople, or will it become the secret weapon to help sales reps work more efficiently? HubSpot conducted research on the “State of AI,” with over 1,350+ specialists reporting on how AI affects their business. Let’s jump to the nitty-gritty.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2018

According to TOPO, prospects open less than 24% of sales emails. That means three out of four emails you’ve agonized over and sent to buyers in the past month were likely not worth writing at all. Salespeople today rely on email more and more in their prospecting efforts. The Ideal Length of a Sales Email.

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Revenue Storm

APRIL 12, 2022

If you are not in a new sales role, you can benefit from this article too! In my many years of engaging global sales teams, I am now seeing the most fluid market of sales talent I have ever seen. But that is not how it felt in the first week or two in the new role. The sense of anticipation was palpable!

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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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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques.

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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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