Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Those three little letters that can stir up so much debate in the marketing and go-to-market world. What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. We asked ourselves: ‘Would you rather have your competitor work remotely or be all huddled up in an office together?’ Driving pipeline for sales (SLG).

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The more control and visibility you have into your sales pipeline, the more revenue you’ll bring in. In fact, HubSpot Research found a positive relationship between the number of opportunities in your pipeline per month and revenue achievement. Growing a healthy pipeline is possible through careful assessment and management.

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Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

With this sales calculator, you can discover what’s slowing down your sales process and how much more revenue you can make with an accelerated pipeline. Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. Is this free or paid?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Matt: No, go for it.

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Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. It means sales and go-to-market motions are going to have to evolve. Marketing is going to have to evolve, too, but that's a whole other topic.) Want more content like this?

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 1, 2020

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We have vision and mission.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Elyse Archer , founder and CEO of She Sells, said this should start with the customer need: “What can you change in your processes, systems, and delivery to serve them best now?” Upskill and cross-train your teams. A resilient sales org can nimbly respond to market changes whenever they arise. Speed up rep success.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

Traditional B2B demand gen models are becoming outdated as privacy regulations are more stringent and fewer people are willing to give up their personal information. Because of this it’s essential to have an Account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. Meet pipeline objectives and key results (OKRs) for ABM campaigns.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2020

Current pipeline? This is a leading indicator of sales production, unlike bookings or pipeline — which are both lagging indicators. It’s common that 80% – 95% of these leads never convert to meetings, and most leaders believe their team’s level of follow-up is too slow. Sales and Ops leaders swim in a world of numbers.

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Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing.

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Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Marketing enablement is all about empowering your marketing team to be more productive in their roles by creating a system to equip, train, and coach them. It involves providing your marketers with everything they need – from the technology, tools, processes, content, training, and analytics – to increase pipeline and drive sales.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sales kickoff tips and best practices Learn 8 sales productivity pitfalls (and steps to avoid them) Get the free Sales Productivity Workbook to discover how leading sales experts are side-stepping pitfalls by consolidating their tech stacks, redefining their pipeline stages, and automating approvals. SKOs are all about: Camaraderie.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Late in 2015 we started producing a bi-weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio , which runs live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Pipeline development is not a one department job.

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Over the past year, the brunt of cuts have hit SDR and BDR roles, leaving AEs, AMs, and even CSMs to pick up the work of prospecting, qualification, and upsell. As people pick up new responsibilities, the lines between roles can get blurry, making it harder to know who to turn to for the information you need.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Sign up now. It’s an evolving discussion that comes up with our customers every day. They see how all departments can drive revenue for the company; those departments can include sales, marketing, customer success, and finance. Screenshot from this Future of Selling video (1:13). Discover timely insights and useful tips.

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Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They are handed a pipeline, but with few exceptions, data quality, visibility, and health are all issues. They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. As revenue leaders, we often get caught up in the hectic, day-to-day challenges facing us.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The sales development playbook combines proven strategies, tips, and best practices to help new and experienced sales development reps (SDRs) increase sales and grow pipeline. It harmonizes sales and marketing to ensure focus on unified business targets. This results in a more powerful go-to market strategy.

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Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

Sales teams can’t keep up with their tech stack. That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. And as part of that strategy, they actively answer marketing questions on Quora to set themselves up as experts in the space. And users can sign up for a free trial. Inside Sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. It’s a flywheel for the entire sales funnel, speeding up sales motions and connecting every revenue-generating activity. Sales Engagement is designed to promote consistent conversations, rapid sales motions, and sales and marketing alignment.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Many of them will get gobbled up by the large platforms. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. That’s too tactical.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Sales ops frees up bandwidth for sellers to then use these resources to improve their performance. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans.

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Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

No matter how your strategy changes – whether that’s selling something new, deploying a new methodology, or entering a new region – sales playbooks ensure that reps know what to do, and how to do it effectively. As reps begin to sell the product, they can access the sales play to understand which actions they should take and why.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Account-Based Marketing has in fact been around since the 1940s. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close. The concept remains the same today with modern ABM—we want to sell to a list of ‘dream customers’ more commonly referred to as target accounts.

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Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

What exactly do you stand to gain from ramping up sales productivity and increasing quota attainment across your team? Benefits of Sales Productivity A high-performing sales team paves the way for repeatable growth through changing market conditions, competitive pressures, and economic challenges.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How does Andy structure the pipeline meetings? Where do many people go wrong in pipeline meetings? ” Andy MacMillan: What it avoids is what I hate in senior leadership is when somebody brings the final 20 page PDF version of something to me and I just get to do the thumbs up or the thumbs down like Caesar.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Using the tested tips below, you can assess your approach to sales — and ensure your team is set up for success. That’s because certain sales models are better suited to certain types of businesses, selling motions, or solutions. A number of factors can affect whether or not your sales team can close deals.

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Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Cross-functional input into go-to-market strategies. Seamless handoff between marketing-generated leads and sales. Managing pipeline, territory planning, and forecasting. What Does Sales Do for Marketing? Sales’ responsibility is, of course, to sell. Market dynamics. Generating revenue.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

All of a sudden ABM programs become tactical with a focus on leads and filling the pipeline. They start worrying about how many touchpoints are sales and marketing hitting. An e-commerce tech firm learned that there should not be a hand-off between sales and marketing once selling conversations begin.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2020

* Does Julie believe that marketing should be held accountable to a number tied directly to revenue? How does Julie believe sales and marketing should work in unison? How can sales be involved in pipeline generation meetings? How does Julie see the best marketing and product teams working together?

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Go-to-market teams work in silos, rarely communicate. Go-to-market teams collaborate continuously to drive outcomes. Static relationship with market, slow to adapt. Nimbly adapts to shifts in market. Your sales acceleration strategy should touch all aspects of your go-to-market approach.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Amazon is your new competitor – They now sell everything and dominate every product category. – Jeffrey Gitomer , Best-Selling Author, The Little Red Book of Selling.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? So as you know, currently the co-founder of Atrium, we make sales performance analysis software that continuously monitors key performance indicators of AEs, SDRs, etc, and bubbles up areas of interest to managers, and operations, and leaders. So that’s my day job.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions. And he has indoctrinated that it cross a wide range of functions and content so that the rest of us can learn. What You’ll Learn.

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