Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I’m talking about your Sales Stack! I suppose it’s not surprising, but there’s a lot of talk about the importance of sales stacks. As you would expect, much of it is driven by the vendors of sales technology tools. Apparently, 75% of organizations have a sales stack that is more mature than ours.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 12, 2023

While I suspect the comment was largely made in jest, with every joke there is a certain element of truth. I’m often very critical of how we, sellers and leaders, behave. But, I have directed layoffs of thousands of people, either as an executive or as an advisor to clients. And it’s largely not their fault.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

60% of customers will shake their head NO to a sale up to 4 times before they actually say YES to it. Sadly, many sales reps miss their opportunity to get the YES when 48% of them don’t do the necessary follow-up. What is Predictive Sales Analytics? It’s not new that data is important for a sales force.

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Hubspot

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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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been reflecting on projects I’ve been helping clients with over the past few years (in reality, I suspect I can trace it back further.) The realization is, most sellers don’t really understand how businesses work. They understand, somewhat, how IT works–or at least how they make purchase decisions.

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Lead Fuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Are you juggling multiple sales tasks, feeling like a circus performer keeping balls in the air? It’s no secret that sales is a high-pressure field. What are the best sales tools to help manage these demands? What tools do you need for sales? What are the most effective sales techniques?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. You’ll also learn how to approach ABM and lead generation to engage your ideal customer. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. Snowflake achieved over 300% growth with ABM.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 26, 2023

Understanding how to market a travel agency business is crucial in today’s competitive travel industry. This blog post aims to equip you with innovative and effective techniques for promoting your travel agency. As the landscape evolves, traditional marketing strategies may no longer suffice.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 24, 2023

Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or an established business owner, understanding how to find ecommerce leads is crucial for your online success. Projections show that eCommerce sales will reach an impressive $4.9 How do I find eCommerce clients? How do I find eCommerce leads on LinkedIn?

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Hubspot

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. Generative AI is a category of algorithms that draws from large, unstructured data sets to create new content, including text and images. 74% of sales pros use some form of AI/automation tool. Here’s what we found.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 3, 2023

Understanding how to work leads is a crucial aspect of any business’s growth strategy. We’ll explore how webinars present unique opportunities for generating sales qualified leads online and discuss the effective use of website popup forms in capturing potential customers’ contact information.

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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. The more detailed and accurate your ICP is, the more resultative your sales will be.

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Lead Fuze

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

According to Forrester Research, companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales-ready leads at a 33% lower cost. This statistic alone highlights the immense potential of effective lead nurturing. But with so many businesses vying for attention in today’s saturated marketplaces, how do you stand out?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Typically, they use gated content to capture the prospect’s contact information so the sales team can nurture and convert them. Without a focused, integrated demand generation strategy, lead generation delivers disinterested leads that frustrate sales reps and result in low conversion rates.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 13, 2022

These are, perhaps, non traditional, even heretical recommendations, but they might be helpful in figuring out how to better control over your time. Stop focusing on how busy you are, but what you accomplish. The most effective executives schedule lots of “think time,” “learning time,” into their schedules.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 30, 2023

How can it help my business? Neglecting your channel is, in turn, neglecting your target market and will impact your other marketing efforts. These days, marketing, acquisition and sales aren’t as simple as building a website, pushing it live and watching the money roll in. Shouldn’t I be on TikTok instead? SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 23, 2022

It is probably the most fundamental skill any sales person must master. Yet, here I am, writing about it, largely because too many do this poorly. So many of our interactions are now asynchronous, so we have to think about how we manage them for maximum impact. First, I need to define what a “call” is.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. What is a sales forecast? But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Lead Fuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Well, that’s what the world of sales can often feel like. The best AI sales tools could be that lifeguard for you. As we dive deeper into this exciting territory together, get ready for eye-opening revelations on how AI platforms streamline sales processes , enrich customer interaction and even revolutionize lead generation!

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“All sales problems are pipeline problems, and all pipeline problems are prospecting problems…… ” I was having a conversation with a really smart person. But I’m uncomfortable with this, I wish diagnosing sales performance issues could be that easy. How would we do this?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Key accounts deliver huge revenue and profitability compared to other clients in your business portfolio. Losing any one of them will significantly impact your returns and reduce your income.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 24, 2022

.” It’s very easy, particularly with technology, for sales people to achieve any call goal that’s set. But, I’m seeing management putting rules and processes in place, that are driving very non productive behaviors in sales people. Some time ago, I was working with a large organization.

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 1, 2021

So, as a small business, how are you going to get your foot on the influencer ladder? So, how to beat the competition and expose your brand to a larger audience? We’re going to show you how not to fail by taking a smart approach to influencer outreach. They’ve started to become celebrities in their own right.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 26, 2019

Sales will always be a persuasion game, but the biggest obstacles to success are actually cognitive biases rooted deep in the human brain. Persuasive selling depends on knowing how to recognize sales obstacles and how to overcome them. Part One: Examples of Cognitive Biases in Sales. Ambiguity Effect.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. So many are distracted by the bleeding-edge techniques and purported algorithm tweaks hyped on SEO blogs and Twitter. Here’s how to do it. Time is the currency of SEO.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 27, 2023

This blog post delves into the evolution of influencer marketing over the last 15 years and explores how these content creators have gained substantial power in shaping consumer behavior. But how do they do it? This way, they can attribute sales to specific influencers and measure ROI accurately. Sneaky, huh?

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Not every strategy needs to start with a blog post regurgitating the same information across the top Google results and end with an agency begging for links. In the era of Google Ads becoming more expensive and organic discoverability becoming less effective, companies need to differentiate themselves in SEO. What is programmatic SEO?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2021

” In addition to helping us define our buyers in much richer terms, they are helping us think about how to incite them to buy. These are, supposedly, the people most impacted by or interested in the issues we address. For example, some years ago, we were helping a client bring a dramatically new solution to the market.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 17, 2020

But nowadays, it's a job that kids dream of and an industry that impacts young adults purchasing decisions. She added, "Think about it like this -- influencers on Instagram are the new model examples on how products wear, work, function, and are used rather than in-store experiences.". So, how does this work in practice?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 5, 2023

There’s a simple reason behind automating sales processes — less time spent on low-value-added activities results in more time spent on actual selling. That goes for the rest of your sales team stuck following established steps — how much of that time could they have spent doing something more productive than administering routine tasks?

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VanillaSoft

JUNE 28, 2021

That means new marketing strategies for mortgage sales (as well as some evergreen tips that bear repeating no matter the circumstances). First things first: If you’re not using a robust sales engagement platform , you’re missing out on the opportunity to streamline your workflow and increase productivity at the same time. . ??

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

To work effectively as a team, you need to learn how to overcome obstacles your team encounters. Teams and leaders who can learn how to solve problems in an orderly, planned fashion tend to perform better than those who cannot. One very effective method for teaching this skill is through problem solving group activities.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% So, how can you improve your sales skills?

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SalesforLife

MAY 13, 2019

Since the year 2000, we’ve witnessed the rapid evolution of new technologies, government policies and global economies that have had a serious impact on how companies do business today. In the early 2000s I worked at Dun & Bradstreet, selling sales and marketing databases. How are you adapting to these changes?

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Lead Fuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How to Write Sales Emails That Get Responses. While anybody may read blog posts about different sales email templates, not everyone is capable of writing one that converts. To assist you in breaking down such obstacles, here are some t ips for writing the greatest sales emails in your sector. Make sure to always:

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