SalesPop

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Our first blog in this series on artificial intelligence and sales discussed the reality versus fiction of AI and its real role in business. ” I predict–along with many others–that the next decade will witness a sea change in the way large and midsize businesses manage their sales functions. .” Very simple.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

In this article, you’ll find the 26 most common sales job interview questions that will help you prepare for your upcoming interview. You can also use the answers included here to show your interviewer what kind of a professional they are hiring. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Tell me about yourself.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Its quality can’t be measured the same way your team’s monthly revenue, email activity, average tenure, or quota achievement can, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. What makes a successful sales culture?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2019

Making a great hire comes down to the interview questions you ask your sales candidates. They stick with generic , run-of-the-mill questions such as “Why should I hire you?”. PS: Decrease onboarding ramp time for your new hires. They’re very hard to fake and will quickly reveal your candidate’s strengths and flaws.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We recommend that every quarter you pick one thing to improve about your sales process. If you improve the conversion rate during each key moment in your sales process by just a small percentage, you can end up doubling your revenue or more. Your field sales team is not very busy. If not, what could they do to improve?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

Clients don’t pay you for your time, they pay for your expertise. It makes a massive difference. There’s blogging – my top choice, but also podcasting, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. There’s blogging – my top choice, but also podcasting, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

It was 3 days in a secluded beach resort with the best speakers and parties. Our intuition is terrible at it. Basic things like “less unnecessary forms fields” are best practices, it’s a stretch to call them repetable patterns. Your customers are ready for the future of commerce. Use plain language.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2013

.” First, I’m flattered to be included on his list of “blogs you should be reading.” One thing I notice about the very best people in any profession is they are committed to continual learning and improvement. It’s the people who would never read a blog like this–or any blog, that I struggle with.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

When it comes to online imagery, it’s not so much about having images, as it is about making sure those images to give the visitor a sense of texture, size, scale, detail, context & brand. So Why The Hell Do You INSIST On Using Stock Photography?! Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog. You’re on a budget.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Your conversion rate is not what it could be – and you know you need to do something about it. Website redesigns only work if they are carefully managed and data-driven. If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. It depends.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 26, 2020

As a matter of course, this involves keeping a watchful eye on what your rivals are doing to help you glean a crucial competitive advantage. Nevertheless, there’s more to succeeding than just looking at what your rivals are doing and then emulating it (or not, as the case may be). Why customer service matters.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We’ve pulled together a list of 55 sales techniques, tips, and best practices. Or making hundreds of dials a day hoping that someone agrees to meet with you. When your buyer answers your call, you have 5 seconds to earn 5 minutes. And here’s your advantage: You’ve had this same conversation hundreds of time.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you fail on either account, you may make million-dollar decisions on bad data. Leading questions are an easy way to poison your data. All have the potential to lead respondents to “a desired answer”—and ruin your data. The Dominican says, “Well, what did your superior say?” How a single phrase can shape responses.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Are you looking to better educate your audience on the value you deliver? Find out how you can build these same tools for your business at outgrow.co/saas.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best. This is going to be increasingly important for users who rely on the tool’s built-in stats to make decisions. Account managers can tier customers. It has the potential to be a fantastic tool.”.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

While testing is a critical part of conversion optimization to make sure we actually made things better and by how much, it’s also the tip of the iceberg of the full CRO picture. The success of your testing program is a sum of these two: number of tests run (volume) and percentage of tests that provide a win. Edwards Deming.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2013

Most likely it was when you were growing up and your parents were trying to get you to stop throwing temper tantrums or tormenting your little brother. It can even help you grow your company’s sales and revenue. How does this apply to your role in marketing? If you said “why” and “how,” you win a cookie.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In Advanced Google AdWords , Brad Geddes wrote, “Wouldn’t you like your ads to be sought after, not ignored?” If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? Why haven’t advertisers perfected the process? Why haven’t advertisers perfected the process? via Acquisio).

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Hubspot

AUGUST 3, 2012

So if you'd like to start your weekend with a song in your heart and a spring in your step, this is the post for you -- the only catch is you won't be able to forget said song 'til around midday Monday. The lyrics devolve into non-words in order to maintain a rhyme scheme for the phrase "Dixie Ultra handles your messiest."

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Hubspot

MARCH 30, 2012

In an online world where the quality of your blog content is only increasing in importance , the fabled 'list' post commonly gets a bad rap. I'm a firm believer that the list post does have a place in the world of high quality blog content. Why are list posts -- a type of post -- conceived as fitting only certain industries?

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

Why should you approach hiring as a pipeline activity? What can Toyota Lean Manufacturing teach us about sales performance? Partial transcription: Jeremey: Welcome to the Hey Salespeople podcast where we focus on delivering immediately actionable best practices for sales professionals. Hint: AEs aren’t for sale on Amazon).

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As you might be able to guess, calling people “content goblins” doesn’t tend to make them feel particularly great. Why we care Here’s my larger point: the Verge article was correct in pointing out a problem. Give up on ever making money, sharing your work with others, or promoting your products or services.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 1, 2016

According to Jeff Gothelf , author of Lean UX , conversion optimization is about “finding the right mix of value proposition, call to action and price point to convince a customer to take a deeper level of engagement with your product or service.”. It can even be event-based e.g. How many people who read our blogs share the link socially?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 13, 2015

Once you’ve established the right mindset for a successful program you are still going to need a number of tools to enable you to test and to get value from your actions. Instead of talking about specific tools it is better to think in terms of what you need and why, as well as what you don’t need and what to avoid.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Manager Enablement Tools & Services at Citrix and we’ll talk about: Sales Enablement at Enterprise Scale: How Citrix Does It. We covered: What is the right funnel for your business.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 8, 2019

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. I think this is your best yet. Matt: Oh, well, you’re too kind.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

Thanks so much everyone for joining us for our fireside chat today, disrupting the desk phone: how and why we made a $50 million acquisition. And of course, last year as one of your investors, when we learned of your plans to acquire Talk IQ, we were thrilled to hear that. Jessica Lin : All right. My name is Jessica Lin.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Put simply, people are in a hurry, and aren’t likely to hang around if your website under-performs. As evidence of the difference speed can make, back in 2013, Walmart.ca Check the speed of your website with a free tool like Pingdom. How to Load Fast. For AWS users, a network optimization tool such as Datapath.io

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. What I want to talk about today is perhaps the mistake that most of us make, by my nonstatistical study, 70 percent of us make, which is not hiring the right VP of sales. Make the revenue recur, I’m interested.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 29, 2023

Now your Google text ads can show on YouTube search results, too 2019: Google began incorporating YouTube into its Search Partners network. Bing Ads’ new Audience Segmentation feature makes list performance comparisons a breeze 2018: Advertisers could quickly see performance by audience and benchmark against non-targeted users.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 19, 2022

For example, converting an old blog on your website into an infographic. If the content is slightly old, this is your chance to reformat the information you covered in a new medium and provide updated info on the topic to match current events. First, we want to start with your highest-performing content pieces.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You’re collecting all this sales data but are you really getting your best use out of it? Is your data working for you? Is it bettering your business and helping you make smarter choices? Your data is the key to optimizing your revenue engine and kicking your sales process into high gear.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And I’m going to ask you next, what you’re doing to acquire those customers, because I think your current playbook, it’s just not accelerating.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

But until then, so many founders make unforced errors. In this episode, SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin shared 16 rookie errors founders make pitching VCs. A bunch are terrible, are simply terrible, and most are in the middle. Jason Lemkin: But the best VCs read their cold emails. So make it awesome, folks.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In mine, there are those things that I use often, which migrate to the front of the drawer, and those that I no longer use because I am not making the same dishes in our kitchen. Having a set of fundamental beliefs that guide why we do what we do and how we go about doing them is critical to driving the clarity of our function.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. But boy, seeing Microsoft hit all time record growth rates or close to all time growth and Azure growing 40% last quarter, I think should make folks feel pretty heartened about where SaaS and cloud are. Nathan: Yeah.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

So you might be wondering who am I and why am I up here talking about sales culture? I think it’ll become clear why Jason asked me to come up and talk about this very specific topic. I was a local sales manager or regional manager. It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical.

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