The 5% Institute

MARCH 28, 2023

As a sales professional, you know that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. In this article, we’ll explore the art of targeted selling and how it can help you win more sales. Targeted selling is the process of tailoring your sales approach to meet the specific needs of your prospects.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 12, 2023

Understanding how to ask for referrals in sales is a crucial aspect of any successful business strategy. Referrals can significantly shorten the sales cycle, provide high-quality sales leads and help achieve your sales targets more efficiently.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 30, 2023

Creating a need in sales is an art that requires strategic planning and execution. Grasping the knack of stirring up customer interest is a must for sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business proprietors wishing to maximize their revenue.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 26, 2023

Understanding how to do marketing for a travel agency is crucial in today’s competitive travel industry. Successful travel agency marketing necessitates the adoption of appropriate tactics to draw in customers, improve sales, and create a thriving business.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement. In this comprehensive blog post, we will explore the significance of a robust GTM strategy and delve into the critical role of sales enablement in ensuring its successful execution.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement. In this comprehensive blog post, we will explore the significance of a robust GTM strategy and delve into the critical role of sales enablement in ensuring its successful execution.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 3, 2023

Managing a remote sales team effectively is no small feat. This blog post aims to equip you with comprehensive knowledge on how to manage a remote sales team, ensuring optimal performance and productivity. Furthermore, we’ll explore strategies for tracking progress and developing actionable training programs.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding. Sales Onboarding.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

You’re probably here because you want to build a successful sales enablement strategy for your business. Read on to discover how to create effective sales strategies through the power of enablement and turn your team into an all-star performance machine. What is a sales enablement strategy?

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The ability to listen to an almost inexhaustible supply of training, case studies, and applicable tips via sales podcasts shouldn’t be taken for granted. From individual sales reps to Founders, there are so many great “shows” to help you become better at your job.

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Hubspot

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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Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And how can teams other than sales benefit from actionable customer data and insights? . Revenue Intelligence is what we do here at Gong; we created the category! Onboarding : Get your new reps up to speed and closing deals faster than you can say “closed-won.”. Sounds like an excellent solution for sales teams, right?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? A buyer persona is one of the best tools your sales reps can use to close a deal. Having a deep, emotional understanding of your customers will inevitably lead to higher win rates. Or Mary from marketing?

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Hubspot

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

How to get out of a sales slump is a question that can haunt even the most seasoned professionals. Sales slumps are an inevitable part of any business, but they don’t have to spell disaster. In this blog post, we’ll delve into strategies used by top salespeople for overcoming these challenging periods.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2019

However, that tendency in startups can lead to burned-out sales reps and a business ill-prepared to scale. So when you experience slow business, remember that slow and steady wins the race. How can you grow better and experience deliberate growth? There are times when business is slow for a sales department.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. So, start clearing your schedule, and get ready for the best week of your sales career!

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s no secret that there are many benefits to gamifying your sales process. Even if you don’t have a tool in place, it’s likely as a sales leader you’re already using it in some form. Ever organize a sales contest? Ever organize a sales contest? Start with sales contests. This contest or spiff runs for four days.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Everyday, I have conversations with a wide variety of people, whether senior corporate executives, sales/marketing leaders, sales enablement/sales ops, front line sales managers, sellers, marketers. Our training programs, our tools, our sales/marketing programs are no longer as impactful as they used to be.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Check out the session here: Algolia also summarized their Top 5 take-aways here , and below: Most SaaS founders start out the same way— armed with ample expertise of the technical details that go into a product and with limited experience of other aspects of scaling, such as sales. On finding product-market fit in the early stages.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A skilled customer success team is especially critical to sales success because they touch an account 10 times more than the sales team. Customers report that sellers don’t show enough interest in them after a sale, according to the 2018 Buyer Preferences Study. Increasing Customer Revenue.

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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. So, take the help of various sales books to enhance your knowledge and brush up your skills. 25 sales books you must-read in 2020.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2022

When you think of scaling up, many things may come to mind, like hiring, culture, marketing, and sales. But what are the essentials of scaling up, and how do you navigate obstacles along the way to function as a high-impact organization? You need people with fresh thinking, especially sales athletes and leaders who know your market.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

“I’m running out of sales training ideas ,” the director of sales told me, a bit embarrassed. “My My job is to upskill the sales team ,” he said. But keeping a calendar of sales training topics has been tough to juggle with everything else I have to do.”. With each sales training topic we cover here….

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PandaDoc

JULY 18, 2019

If you’ve listened to one of my webinars lately or read a previous blog post of ours, you know I’m all about giving away our secrets in hopes of bettering sales teams worldwide. If you can apply what works for us here at PandaDoc to your sales process and be successful, I’m all for it. Isn’t everyone a believer in good karma?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Do you have a new class of sales development reps starting soon? If so, you're probably thinking about how to train them and conduct effective coaching. While it might seem like a hassle to spend a lot of time on training, it's crucial to prioritize. That's why training is so important for your sales team.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Get certified.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows.

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Score More Sales

JULY 19, 2014

A quick and hearty THANK YOU to those who sent me 50 donated hats for the Young Women with Breast Cancer Program at Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston. You can see more about the story and about my earlier blog posts on the Postwire page I created. It chronicles everything from beginning to end, and shows how $2.1

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PandaDoc

JULY 11, 2022

Behind almost every successful business is a successful sales team. Whether you’ve got a small team of inside sales reps, a large outdoor sales team, or a wholesale department working on distribution partners for your next product, sales is the lifeblood of any business. Before you start: Sales reps by the numbers.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 27, 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. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 31, 2014

There is so much noise out there on how to be your most productive as a seller that I think sometimes people get confused or perhaps paralyzed in what to do. Also, consider listening to a recent webinar on “How to Eliminate Bottlenecks to Your Sales Team’s Productivity” which I participated on. Micro Sales Productivity Tips.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

It has been more lately though that we are seeing every app created a piece of the cloud. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. The “cloud” has been around for a number of years now, but it really has been the past 3 or 4 that it seems everyone is cloud focused (or working to get there).

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