Salesforce

APRIL 25, 2023

The sales pipeline should be three times the annual quota.” You might know this as the “3x Pipeline Coverage” rule. I used to be a sales consultant, looking at teams from the outside in, and (plug alert!) writing books like “ Cracking the Sales Management Code.” By now, it’s set in stone.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can see from Scott Brinker’s map of the marketing technology landscape from 2020 that there are 8000 total solutions here across categories like Video Marketing, PR, Social & Display Advertising, Sales Automation, Marketing Automation, CRM, on and on. With the year we’ve just had, it’s easy to fall into a rut in your current position.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Excellent pipeline visibility can make sales managers feel like superheroes. Being able to instantly tell executives the exact number and value of sales in your pipeline is like having spidey senses. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for most sales managers. You need pipeline reporting.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 15, 2023

If creating a sales team is like building a car, then territory management is where the rubber meets the road. You’ve agreed on a sales strategy , revenue goals, target customers, and a sales process. Now the moment has finally come for the sales reps to go out and sell. But not all territory management is created equal.

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Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2023

A RevOps team can help align your sales, marketing, and customer success departments and keep each department accountable for driving revenue growth for your business, while identifying potential areas of friction in your business at-large. The 5 Biggest Missteps Your Revenue Operations Team Might Be Making 1.

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Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You have to show quickly that you know enough about your contact to have a reason for emailing them out of the blue and that engaging with you would drive a specific benefit. ChatGPT and other writing bots can give you workable first drafts that you can tweak to match your prospects. Is this the worst sales pitch ever?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you don’t break your GTM model, your growth will. Your product features expand and push into new capabilities. Sales and marketing leaders that recognize their GTM model is a dynamic, continually-imperfect concept can anticipate these changes and put systems in place to proactively adapt it over time.

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Spiro Technologies

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sales has a high turnover rate. We’ve put together a list of good and bad reasons to leave a sales job. Make sure to keep these in mind before making a switch: Bad reasons to leave a sales job: . But if you intend to quit your job because of something at home, first ask yourself whether it would actually help things.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Hopefully you’re not in your inbox right now and you’re out enjoying the long weekend. We’re officially running a GTMfund Summer Giveaway : Share your favourite piece of our content (Newsletter or Podcast) on either LinkedIn / Twitter, tag us, and you’ll be entered to win a pair of exclusive GTMfund Airpod Pro’s.

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Highspot

JULY 15, 2022

When you work in sales, it’s not enough to just meet your goals. To truly maximize revenue, the sales team requires a style of management that uses collaboration, analysis, and a proactive approach. This is where sales performance management comes in. Why is sales performance management important?

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 14, 2019

You cannot afford to waste your time with prospects that will not become your customers. Your time is too valuable! Too many salespeople wait too long to get answers to these questions and it leads to having a pipeline that’s essentially a sewer line. Your time is valuable. All prospects are not the same.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

How can it be that the need for marketing a product can be so much higher than pipeline creation and lead gen? . The Cornerstone of Your Company is Not Building Products, It’s Solving Problems. Bring in the sales team. Get frustrated with marketing and sales. Create a collection of features misnamed “product”.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I’m excited to introduce Gong Smart Trackers—the first user-trainable system that goes beyond keyword recognition to understand the context of all your customer conversations. With this, sales leaders could—for the first time—focus on specific conversations, based on the question that needed to be answered: .

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Unlike with running, for example, just because you’re the best athlete doesn’t mean your boat is moving the fastest. Similarly, key components factor into one phenomenon that can show the health of your overall sales process. Measuring Pipeline Velocity. The overall win rate percentage for your sales team.

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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. Table of Contents.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 10, 2023

Effective sales proposals are data-driven and essential for closing deals faster. Prospects only make purchase decisions after evaluating a sales proposal document ; hence, the proposal should be crafted according to the customer’s requirements in order to provide complete solutions. What is a sales proposal and why is it important?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

This article takes you through 5 crucial tips to efficiently manage your sales pipeline. Before we jump right in, let’s define what a sales pipeline is. A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your sales process. The answer is 75.

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Outreach

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Sometimes as a sales leader you may wonder why the things you tell your reps don’t stick. You say, “Hey, I need you to do this on your next call,” and yet they don’t do it. We recently hosted a session between two of the industry’s top sales leaders on the do's and don’ts of real-time coaching.

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SalesLoft

MAY 18, 2020

Many of us have done it for many years, but still, effectively doing your job remotely poses a lot of challenges. Many of us have done it for many years, but still, effectively doing your job remotely poses a lot of challenges. Work with IT to ensure your new hire has access to all the role-specific applications he or she needs.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The more control and visibility you have into your sales pipeline, the more revenue you’ll bring in. In fact, HubSpot Research found a positive relationship between the number of opportunities in your pipeline per month and revenue achievement. How to Build a Sales Pipeline. Sales Pipeline Metrics.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Get Your Free Ticket Now. Your Dreamforce 2021 Guide. At Dreamforce, trailblazers from all around the world congregate to exchange stories , share successes , learn from their counterparts , and have a great time while doing it (yes, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with your Trailblazer colleagues) .

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 8, 2016

How fast is your sales pipeline? Is it plugged up with leads and prospects that shouldn’t be in there? We all know the value of having a full pipeline, but if what is in the pipeline isn’t moving, then we have to ask ourselves if it’s worth it. We will close more sales when […].

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Ryan say of PFL “… we are a marketing technology company.

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Gong.io

JULY 15, 2021

We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. And this was NOT what I wanted to hear from the biggest deal in my pipeline. . As a result, sales teams trip into the same pitfalls over and over again, losing winnable deals along the way. Devin, I need to punt this.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Given the technological advancements of recent times, we are at the precipice of such an AI capability and it has many people in the scientific and business community excited. What is a reasoning engine? A reasoning engine is an AI system that mimics human-like decision-making and problem-solving capabilities based on certain rules, data, and logic.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. You can even ask Alexa! My name is Matt Heinz. Matt: Yeah.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. Compare that to long days on the road stuck in traffic, in the air, or on your feet, trudging through the rain going from door to door, and you start to understand the appeal. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 25, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Spotify , iTunes , Blubrry , Google Play , iHeartRADIO , or Stitcher.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So “traditional sales” sounds outdated compared to our shiny new Product-Led Sales playbooks, PQL hypotheses, and sales-assist motions. Product-Led Sales — engaging with existing users based on their product usage to drive conversion, expansion, and retention — yields better and warmer leads at a cheaper cost.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It also helps to have dedicated landing pages, sales pages, splash pages, and lead capture forms. It also helps to have dedicated landing pages, sales pages, splash pages, and lead capture forms. Additionally, you'll want messaging tools like email, push, or SMS to communicate with your leads and prospects. Sales pages.

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Outreach

JULY 22, 2019

The hottest thing in sales today is sales engagement — the field that is shaking up revenue teams, upending legacy mindsets, and setting new performance highs. We launched The Sales Engagement Podcast in 2018 to explore sales engagement topics and help businesses reap the ground-breaking benefits.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

One smart way to build a US presence is to hire a GM, ideally someone who could run an important function like sales or marketing besides being responsible for US operations. Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. The Macro View Right Now.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. While at Gorgias, I expected to leave with as much knowledge to earn me an honorary bachelor’s in sales. On my second day of work, I was fully immersed in the sales pipeline and conducting demos for new prospects alongside the CEO.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This is part of the Winning By Design Blueprint Series in which we analyze and provide practical advice for SaaS sales organizations. In this blueprint, we’ll breakdown how to structure your SaaS metrics, and measure the right data for your business. Below is an example of how to standardize your approach.

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve built up your book of business, your marketing is a fine-tuned lead generating machine, but are your pitches closing as many deals as they should be? In this guide we’ll explore simple yet effective “hacks” to increase your pitch acceptance rate, close more deals and grow your book of business. #1

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