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How to Double Your Selling Time & Crush Quota (5 Steps)

Veloxy

Click below to listen to the blog post. Back in 2018, Salesforce discovered that sales reps were only spending 34% of their time selling (707 hours a year). Not surprisingly, only 42% of these sales reps expected to meet (not crush) quota. Salesforce just found that salespeople are only spending 28% of their time selling.

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Unwilling to Unlearn

Iannarino

Many still believe that all that is needed to produce greater results is “more activity.”. The sales manager believes more calls is better than fewer, without any consideration for the overall effectiveness of the message and how it is communicated. Unlearning and relearning is a better and more certain path to greater effectiveness.

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One Cause of an Aversion to Prospecting

Iannarino

Our only tool in sales is a conversation, making language a primary variable to success. First, only salespeople call them discovery calls—prospects just call them meetings. The Gist: Prospecting isn’t easy, but it’s even harder with a poor strategy. This salesperson was using the script her company provided.

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Sales Quota: The Complete Guide to Hitting & Crushing Quota in 2023

Veloxy

Click below to listen to the blog post. In 2018, Salesforce found that only 57% of salespeople expected to hit their quota. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. Veloxy strives for accessibility. Let’s get started. Why is sales quota important?

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Sales Acceleration: A Sales Manager’s Guide

Veloxy

Salesforce is arguably the best customer relationship management system for B2B companies. While it checks a lot of boxes for Sales Managers, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to unlock Salesforce’s potential to accelerate sales at your company. Before you continue reading. What is Sales Acceleration?

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. He conceded that he only wanted to pitch me. While I was not in any way harmed, his attempts to cheat the Gods of Prospecting will only harm himself. This person felt no sense of shame, and that is a shame.

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The Sales Manager’s Guide to Salesforce Automation

Veloxy

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. The key is Salesforce automation. Table of Contents.

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