The 5% Institute

JULY 12, 2021

Based on your positioning, knowledge and experience, you can literally get paid to give advice – and who wouldn’t want to do that! In this guide, you’ll learn how to a successful Business Development Manager: Even if you’re not yet popular in your field. Plan who your ideal audience is. Have a business owner mindset.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But it needs to be. We need to pay attention to, not adopt “work arounds.” I’ll get into the reasons and fixes for plummeting tenure, let me examine the impact this has on performance. Customers don’t want to talk, we struggle to find enough qualified prospects to build healthy pipelines.

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Pipeline Growth Up-sell Territory 119

The 5% Institute

JULY 28, 2021

Based on your positioning, knowledge and experience, you can literally get paid to give advice – and who wouldn’t want to do that! In this guide, you’ll learn how to be great in sales: Even if you’re not yet popular in your field. If you want to learn how to be great in sales, you need to follow the steps below. Pick a niche.

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Niche Referrals Objectives and Key Results Strategic planning 145

The 5% Institute

MAY 24, 2021

Based on your positioning, knowledge and experience, you can literally get paid to give advice – and who wouldn’t want to do that! In this guide, you’ll learn how to be a good sales advisor: Even if you’re not yet popular in your field. If you want to learn how to be a good sales advisor, you need to follow the steps below.

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Niche Referrals Objectives and Key Results Strategic planning 137

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

How to Identify Candidates Who Will Succeed in Your Sales Roles Sales Process for the Anti-Sales Process Crowd How To Stop Sucking by Understanding and Changing Your Sales Metrics The Wrong Salespeople are Hired 77% of the Time Most Sales Processes, Funnels and Pipelines are How Old?

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Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Sales Cold Call 59

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Similarly, a solid sales compensation plan is about striking the right balance. Overcomplicate a sales compensation plan, and you’re left with sales reps who aren’t clear on their goals or hungry to hit their quota. What are sales compensation plans? Why are sales compensation plans important?

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As AI intensifies the need for trusted data, many businesses are rushing to fortify their data foundations. To get the most out of data for small businesses, it needs to be “clean.” Luckily, keeping your data clean can be painless, and it’s well worth the effort you put into it.

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CRM Contact Customer Relationship Management Relationship Management 59

The 5% Institute

MAY 18, 2021

In this article, we’ll detail our eight step sales closing plan that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process (or sales closing plan) is one of the most important things you can learn in sales.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2020

The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. Your best bosses, VPs, mentors and others will give you “audibles” — quick bits of micro-advice during pitches, customer meetings, interviews, etc. Celebrate Your Wins. Spend 20%+ of Your Time Recruiting.

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Growth Pitch Closing Engineering 144

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. If you’re not already empowering your salespeople with Veloxy, you can rapidly deploy it and receive training at no cost for 30 days. No need to fret.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To convert them, you need to speak their language, address their pain points, and answer their questions. Thus, you’ll be able to build trust with prospects and streamline their decision-making. Potential risk alert: If you create lists of competing companies in your niche, be prepared to hand them leads. Get more leads.

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B2B Gaming Niche Appointment 110

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories. Done the right way, commissions can be a powerful incentive to give your best and go beyond your comfort zone. 1 x $5,000) = $100,500.

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Martech

MARCH 1, 2024

Meet and exceed customer expectations The first essential strategy in retention marketing is to deliver on the promise made to your customer at the point of acquisition. So, the first step in crafting a retention plan is to ensure that the product is robust and competitive and all facets of product marketing are in place.

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B2B Cross-sell Pharmaceutical Account management 115

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

There is, in my opinion, one exception to this: the hard-and-fast rule to focus on your customer. Shifting your focus and phrasing to your customers’ needs rather than your own will have a direct impact on your close rates. What does the solution look like to them? Diagnose Before you Prescribe.

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Process Customers Prospecting Up-sell 119

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed by the infinite options for growing your pipeline? Know your product Whereas inside sales reps need to speak intelligently about their products, outside sales reps also need to know how best to use their products, their industrial applications, and in some cases the products’ intricate engineering.

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Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Learn how easy it is to become the highest-performing field sales professional at your company. But what does tomorrow hold for field sales? Proactively visiting customers to better diagnose their needs without asking for anything in return has been one strategy that has helped field sales reps close more deals than ever before.

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Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Unpredictable tides of market conditions may shake your boat, but with the right mental compass – an entrepreneurial mindset – you steer towards success. Focusing on Essential Tasks Maintaining focus can be tough when your task list seems endless and time feels short. This journey won’t happen overnight.

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Objectives and Key Results Networking Growth Strategize 105

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 21, 2022

You need to keep the lights on and employees fed. Or the project costs that worked when you started a ~year ago don’t line up with your agency’s current headcount, overhead, and profitability targets. Fortunately, this issue is also pretty easy to fix. However, almost zero agencies review clients in return. It makes sense.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Layoffs seem to be a part of most businesses’ contingency plan. (As In order to be an outperformer in this downturn, your organization must make a pivot at the right time. Here’s how to fix it. The first step to identifying sources of revenue leak in your sales org is looking at insights from sales activity data.

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GTM CRM Pipeline Growth 83

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2021

There’s no question that email is still one of the best ways to get in touch with potential sales prospects. Need proof? 3 things to do before you write or send your email. Before we dive into these tips, there are a few things you can do before sending your email that can give you a better chance at getting a response.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Part of the argument is that the martech stack does not adequately serve the marketing organization or the business due to its complexity. ” Your business and approach are an innovation. “A maturity model, by itself, does not ensure organizational improvement. ” Martech is simply a tool.

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Hubspot

APRIL 25, 2023

Here's the burning question: Does AI have a place in sales, and how does it affect our current sales processes? Like any new tech, you need to dive in and research. We'll review use cases of AI emails, their pros and cons, and the tools you should consider when adding this tech to your arsenal. Mendes says.

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Price Sales Follow-up CRM 74

Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2022

The question, “Why Does This Happen,” and its variants (“What causes this to occur, How does this happen, etc?”) Almost universally, manages say, “Do more—do more prospecting, find more opportunities, fill up your pipeline.” Why Does This Happen?

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Pipeline Territory Start-ups Price 82

Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It shows the sales team where their potential prospects are in the buying process. What do you need to build an effective sales pipeline. You need to build it in the right way. A list of prospects. Before anything else, first, focus on having a list of prospects. Well, it is a representation of your ideal customer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some things you can prep & plan for, but others … not so much. Live events are unpredictable but always encompass two things: a) the event dates don’t change and b) you need a plan A, plan B, and at least a plan C, for when something doesn’t go accordingly to plan.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2020

It’s easy, it scales well, but by definition it puts a lot of the process out of your hands. We’re going to look at each of these problems in detail, but to spoil it a bit… alignment with marketing and a quick, effective, personalized, inbound follow-up process is what’s going to fix the major leaks in your inbound sales engine.

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Follow-up SQL Quota Contact 132

VanillaSoft

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most challenging parts of an inside sales call is overcoming the many objections that the prospect may come up with to dodge your sales pitch. Think about it this way, if the prospect didn’t have any objections and just hung up, you wouldn’t have any chance of getting the deal. I need some time to think it over 2.

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Appointment Sales Inside sales Pitch 104

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The process then was very simple: scale your outreach to build backlinks directly to the pages we want to rank. Keep reading to establish a foundation for your professional growth in building links from highly reputable and trusted websites. I started building links in 2010. This guide is for the second path. Link building has changed.

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Niche Technique Campaign Contact 133

Hubspot

MAY 22, 2018

What's the business problem you're seeking to fix with this offering? How does the budget signoff process work? Has your company ever considered/used a product like this before? What challenges do you think you'll come up against with the plan I've laid out? What does solving this problem mean to you personally?

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Lead Fuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Do you remember that moment, right before making a cold call , when your heart raced like a sprinter at the starting line? What if there were techniques to shift the odds in your favor? This isn’t about quick fixes but tested strategies used by successful sales professionals worldwide. Cold calling can be daunting.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There’s the universal managerial answer to these issues, “You need to get more in the pipeline!” For example, not enough in the pipeline—we need to focus on adding more opportunities by prospecting. But you don’t fix those problems in the pipeline. We need to do more prospecting!

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Pipeline Territory Gaming Prospecting 76

Search Engine Land

AUGUST 25, 2023

To address this, here is a basic five-step growth plan to become a PPC expert as fast as possible. Because you’re responsible for driving your client’s growth – and that’s a people-first business. And that can quickly become stressful, getting in your way when it comes to handling relationships. In short, be reliable.

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A/B testing Strategize CTR Clients 90

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

SEO product managers are the teammates you never knew you needed. In this article, we will cover what an SEO product manager does, the skills needed to become one, and where the role sits within the organization. Prospective customers who visit websites looking for information or products. What is an SEO product manager?

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Product Teamwork Minimum Viable Product Engineering 90

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Here are some reasons performance reviews often fail and some practical steps you can take to offer feedback to your team that actually helps them grow and improve. Does Your Project Have a Purpose. Here’s what you can do to fix it. 20 Open-Ended Sales Questions That’ll Get Prospects Talking to You.

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B2B Strategic planning Strategize Gaming 79

Lead Fuze

JUNE 26, 2023

Retainer-Based Pricing In a retainer-based model, clients pay a fixed monthly fee for ongoing services from the digital marketing agency. This method could potentially generate more revenue if your team excels at delivering high-quality results quickly. How do digital marketing agencies make money?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Asking questions is good for your brand and your career, according to this Forbes article. Aim for between 11 and 14 targeted questions per call: Note: this same recommendation does not hold when selling to a C-Suite executive, who generally have less patience for a barrage of questions. The best reps ask the best questions.

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