Salesforce

JULY 14, 2021

Experiences aren’t just about warm and fuzzy feelings. They’re also about cold hard data. In earlier blog posts, we explained how you can measure the return on your IT experiences , marketing experiences , and service experiences. B2B commerce sites give business buyers the option to place orders online.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

The best sales methodology for your situation will change; it’s not static. Your company needs different sales methodologies at different stages of its maturity. You often have to reverse your prior sales methodologies, even if they were once successful. The Top 10 Sales Methodologies. The Challenger Sale Methodology.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In this article, I’ll walk you through: What a sales funnel is, The elements of a high-performing sales funnel, And finally, strategies to create sales funnels that get results. In B2B sales orgs, you’ll encounter two common models of the journey from prospect to closed deal. In short, they become aware of you.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. Trust me: I’m an AE who’s embraced the change. I’ll walk you through how AI can make your job as an AE way easier — including specific ChatGPT prompts you can put to use in minutes.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 29, 2022

There are two common goals that exist when we speak about the finalizing of the sales process: To make it as fast as possible. According to research conducted by HubSpot , the average B2B sales cycle for SaaS products is 84 days. All the previous steps lose their significance once finalizing the deal is postponed or canceled.

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Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results Legal 98

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. Trust me: I’m an AE who’s embraced the change. I’ll walk you through how AI can make your job as an AE way easier — including specific ChatGPT prompts you can put to use in minutes.

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch Cold Call Sales 52

Salesmate

JULY 28, 2020

The more you learn, the better you can perform when it comes to nurturing and converting sales deals. In sales, you need to keep learning to excel and surpass competitors. 25 sales books you must-read in 2020. You will experience less friction, require less energy, and get better sales results faster.

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PandaDoc

MAY 6, 2019

Activities were manually logged in spreadsheets or on paper and CRMs didn’t exist as we know them today. We wear “data-driven” like a badge of honor, but in truth, many B2B sales professionals simply suffer from data overload. But are you able sift through all that data to actually use it? It was a dark time.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 7, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. compelling reasons to buy (8).

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Gate keeper Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Sales 185

Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. compelling reasons to buy (8).

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Drivers/motivators Represent 168

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When we talk about conversion, we’re essentially talking about an exchange. Now, the motivation has evolved from the point of, "So I can help" -- a founding principle of the Inbound Methodology -- to, "We're changing the way buyers can be helped." Then, it evolved into, "So I can help my buyers." How We Got Here.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. compelling reasons to buy (8).

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Drivers/motivators Up-sell 189

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 16, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. compelling reasons to buy (8).

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Sell Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Sales 181

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Did you know that Netflix has only 90 seconds to find a show that suits a user before she gets frustrated and quits? Now, how are you doing with your personalization efforts? Now, how are you doing with your personalization efforts? And if that’s true, you are certainly not alone. The Personalization Gap.

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A/B testing UX User Experience Cross-sell 97

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 3, 2019

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We talk about the theme of Together… strategically it sounds like a great idea. How do you bridge that gap?

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Pipeline Sales Objectives and Key Results B2B 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you’re Amazon or Apple – congratulations! You don’t have any credibility issues. BJ Fogg – the world’s leading researcher on web credibility – has said that web credibility is about making your website in such a way that it comes across as trustworthy and knowledgeable. What do you do?

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Trust X-functional Price Contact 133

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re looking to hire one, what should you look for? There are many universal traits that make anyone a “good hire” – like being proactive, hard working and so on – but what’s unique about optimizers? But – the world is more complicated than that, and we do need optimizers.

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Conversion UX A/B testing Clients 122

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2017

If you write bad survey questions, you get bad data at scale with no chance of recovery.”. How can we make the survey short and still get the information we need? Surveys help you find answers to business questions. Of course, the higher quality questions you ask, the better answers you tend to get.

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Drivers/motivators Follow-up Technique Clients 95

Cience

JANUARY 10, 2020

These retailers need to optimize their website to deliver convenience throughout their UX to their potential customers. Is this also true for B2B websites? On the one hand, CIENCE doesn’t get much traffic on mobile devices (roughly 20%) and conversion rates aren’t high either (about 13% of our inbound conversions were on mobile).

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B2B B2C Retail Clients 54

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. He holds a B.S.

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Process Sales Represent Technology 77

Cience

JANUARY 10, 2020

These retailers need to optimize their website to deliver convenience throughout their UX to their potential customers. Is this also true for B2B websites? On the one hand, CIENCE doesn’t get much traffic on mobile devices (roughly 20%) and conversion rates aren’t high either (about 13% of our inbound conversions were on mobile).

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B2B B2C Retail Clients 52

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Inbound marketing is about matching the way you market and sell with the way people actually want to shop and buy. And after reading the 2016 State of Inbound report, it became clear that inbound was beginning to change at a pace more rapid than anything we've seen before. Marketers need to do more marketing.

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Promote Technology Technology Up-sell 76

Heinz Marketing

MAY 11, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. Kevin walks me through the many changes and pivots they have made in recent months. How are you guys doing?

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Pipeline Healthcare Sales Manufacturing 86

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Regardless of whether your business is in the B2B or B2C space, your email marketing effectiveness can be optimized. Because you read this blog, you already know you should be conducting a/b testing on your landing pages and website to increase conversions, but did you know the same principles apply to your emails?

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Campaign A/B testing Click Through Rate B2C 111

Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2015

When most people start implementing inbound marketing, they're primarily worried about getting enough new leads in the funnel. But once you have a lot of leads, you need to figure out who's really interested in your product and who's just starting to look around. 6 Types of Data You Can Use for Lead Scoring.

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Technique Contact Closing B2C 78

Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you’re on the hook for delivering impactful sales training, but you’re short on time, this post is for you. In other words, not only do you get great sales training ideas, you also get the training material to go along with it! You’re about to arm yourself with a list of crazy-successful sales training topics.

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Objection handling Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Sales 92

Hubspot

MAY 24, 2012

As you know, we at HubSpot are crazy about data-driven marketing. In addition to information on inbound marketing, SEO, blogging, and social media, the 2012 edition of this presentation also includes data on email, Pinterest , Google+ and mobile marketing. I know, a lot has changed in a short time, eh?

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B2C Click Through Rate B2B Retail 73

Hubspot

MAY 31, 2012

Still in need of a little refresher on the merits of email list segmentation? How about the fact that, according to eMarketer , 39% of email marketers that practice list segmentation see better open rates; 28% see lower opt-out and unsubscribe rates; and 24% see better email deliverability, increased sales leads, and greater revenue.

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Contact Non-Profits Campaign Education 77

ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

Conversions are mostly about being relevant to your customers. If what you offer and the way you present it is relevant to your visitors they will convert to buying customers. Then again if you don’t understand who your customer is or worse it’s “everybody” then you have very little change of being successful at it.

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Customers Lead generation A/B testing Start-ups 76

Hubspot

MARCH 30, 2015

If I’ve learned one thing about companies and organizations that enjoy consistent growth, it’s that they’re maniacal about monitoring their data and numbers. The benefit of tracking your go-to-market efforts in such a manner is that you can diagnose problems often before they have a negative impact on your revenue results.

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Growth Lead generation Conversion Prospecting 73

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Dear Marketers, I’m writing to let you know that I know all about this new dynamic content thing you’ve got going on. I know you can change aspects of your website, calls-to-action , and emails based on the interests, characteristics, or past behaviors of your viewers. Well, good for you.

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Pitch B2C Start-ups Represent 70

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Bob is the founder, president, and CEO of CustomerThink.com.

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Quota B2B Technology Technology 58

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2013

You know when you’ve been in a bad relationship for so long that it’s almost impossible to end it? There’s a disconnect between you two, but it almost seems like more effort to go through a breakup (or a patch up) than to just. Are you actually connecting with your customers through email? 1) Between You and Your Website.

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Real Estate Education Trust High impact 74

Hubspot

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Next thing you know, a $5 bill was placed on the piano with a Taylor Swift request. You might be thinking--”That’s manipulation!”. You can provide a similar experience for your customers--even if you can’t sing. This past weekend, I went to a dueling piano bar in San Diego. the woman yelled into the mic.

Conversion 76

Conversion CTR E-commerce Lead generation 76

Martech

JUNE 27, 2023

We get everything we need from social media.” I stand by the old maxim, “If you don’t have a website, you don’t have a business.” And I am frequently surprised by how many B2B companies still neglect features and functionality that would improve the effectiveness of their sites. You may want to make some changes.

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B2B Customers Cross-sell Price 94

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A nihilist in it for the thrills, a prankster gleeful about getting away with something.” As you might be able to guess, calling people “content goblins” doesn’t tend to make them feel particularly great. As you might be able to guess, calling people “content goblins” doesn’t tend to make them feel particularly great.

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Engineering Niche Promote Up-sell 126

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? I’ve pulled together the top 97 books from a range of sales disciplines to give you the information you need to stay relevant, lead conversations, understand the trends — and of course, improve your game. B2B Is Really P2P. Spin Selling.

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Sales Objectives and Key Results Technique Non-Profits 141