The 5% Institute

JUNE 19, 2023

Sales interviews are crucial for assessing a candidate’s suitability for a sales role. As an aspiring sales professional, it is essential to prepare for such interviews by familiarizing yourself with common interview questions and crafting compelling answers. What can you tell us about your sales experience?

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The 5% Institute

JULY 4, 2023

In the competitive world of business, sales attainment plays a crucial role in determining the success of a company. Achieving and exceeding sales targets is a priority for organizations looking to grow and thrive. It is a measure of how well a company performs in terms of meeting or surpassing its sales objectives.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 23, 2023

In today’s highly competitive business world, the role of a sales manager is crucial for driving growth and achieving sales targets. A skilled sales manager possesses a unique blend of qualities that allow them to inspire and lead their sales team effectively.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 8, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, effective prospecting is a crucial component of sales success. This article aims to provide valuable insights into prospecting for sales, exploring various strategies, tips, and best practices to help sales professionals optimize their prospecting efforts.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Explore a range of sales process examples and learn how to align with the customer’s journey for better buyer engagement , relationships, and sales success. What is a Sales Process? Sales Methodology Sales Process Examples Sales Process Mistakes to Avoid Mastering Your Sales Process With Highspot What is a Sales Process?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Simply put, a go-to-market strategy is a plan outlining how a company introduces and promotes its products or services to their ideal customer, considering factors like the best marketing channels, sales methodologies , and pricing strategies to guarantee the product’s ongoing success. Ensures consistent messaging across all touchpoints.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2019

Thank you to all our many followers of Sales Pipeline Radio. The 30 minutes goes quickly as it is fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. I, along with our guests, cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Lead Fuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Are you juggling multiple sales tasks, feeling like a circus performer keeping balls in the air? It’s no secret that sales is a high-pressure field. What are the best sales tools to help manage these demands? What tools do you need for sales? What are the most effective sales techniques?

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Outreach

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Managing a successful sales team requires a thoughtful, strategic approach: One that’s built upon a foundation of rep engagement, a collaborative culture, and achievable goals. 10 Sales Management Strategies to Empower Your Sales Reps. 10 Sales Management Strategies to Empower Your Sales Reps.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. But we put an even bigger focus on the value that smaller groups and relationship-building have. However, that’s not to say content doesn’t matter. Who is it for?

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Lead Fuze

JULY 3, 2023

We’ll explore how webinars present unique opportunities for generating sales qualified leads online and discuss the effective use of website popup forms in capturing potential customers’ contact information. We will also touch on managing your sales pipeline efficiently through CRM systems and quick response strategies.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If outbound sales works for your company and product, it can be a powerful way to grow your business. Outbound sales is low cost, forecastable, relevant to almost any industry, from tech sales to small local businesses, and most importantly, almost infinitely scalable. Hiring: the omnichannel sales funnel.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Having founded Kurlan & Associates in 1985 and Objective Management Group in 1990, the only surprise should be that it took so long to combine the two passions and write Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball , in 2005.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? The Caliper vs OMG Comparison: Which Sales Candidate Assessment is More Predictive? How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No three words on a calendar invite can cause nerves like “sales performance review.” ” And sales reps aren’t the only ones who worry about these conversations. Performance reviews can be just as daunting for sales leaders. What you’ll learn: What is a sales performance review?

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Think of sales management like a sports team. The best sales managers operate the same way, inspiring, educating, and guiding their teams to maximize revenue. The result? The result? Consistent sales growth and a happy team, not to mention sizable commissions and happier, more loyal customers. Of course not.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

Think of your sales process like a map. It shows you how to get from point A in the sale (finding your prospect) to point Z (closing the deal), highlighting necessary steps along the way. The best sales processes make selling easy by helping you optimize sales conversations, delivering the right value at the right time.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Another great episode of Sales Pipeline Radio , live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. John is referring of course to the subject of his best selling book, Knuckle Dragging Sales.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here’s the number one thing I ask sales reps who are having trouble closing a deal: “Have you asked the right questions?” This is sometimes called consultative sales. This is sometimes called consultative sales. What you’ll learn: What is consultative sales? Learn more What is consultative sales?

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Late in 2015 we started producing a bi-weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio , which runs live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Before Glassdoor, Stephen was VP of Product Marketing at AppDynamics where he helped grow B2B revenue from $0 to $100m in a staggering 3 year period, resulting in their $3.9Bn acquisition by Cisco. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important? What works?

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2022

We need to help key organizational groups adopt and navigate that change successfully. Moving from a volume-based approach to a pipeline-based approach is going to change people’s jobs. How the marketing, sales and customer/account management teams work together is also critical to success. Change across customer-facing teams.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Earlier this year, our data scientists analyzed 570 million interactions across the Salesloft platform and aggregated the numbers into a spate of benchmarks for sales teams. If you happen to be a sales coach or manager, this guide offers several narratives you can carry into your conversations with sellers. Manage talk time.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

For those of us in sales, it can be stressful, unpredictable, and downright exhausting. . It helps to have some proven tips for closing the deals in your pipeline and hitting your target. To figure out what’s working today, we partnered with Outlaw to survey top sales professionals to get their best tips. Mary Grothe , Sales BQ.

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 15, 2019

In today’s post, I give my two cents on the debate around whether you should use a written sales script during cold calling or not [needless to say, a written script during an in-person interaction is a total no-no though the following discussion could apply to a memorized script].

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

With all of the advancements in sales and buyer side technology, now is the time to modernize your sales process or risk becoming irrelevant. Expect outmoded and inefficient sales stacks to drag growth instead of driving it. The top professionals at hyper-growth companies are busy hacking their sales process.

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Outreach

APRIL 13, 2021

Each day, your customers are bombarded with promotional emails, ads, billboards, and sales calls from companies who all promise to solve their problems. Enter customer engagement — a strategic approach which helps sales teams build brand loyalty through personalized interactions that improve consumer relationships, trust, and spend.

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Salesforce

MARCH 7, 2024

To successfully negotiate a contract in today’s sales climate, you need to prioritize relationship building over persuasion, practice active listening, and empathize with your customers’ challenges. In its most basic form, contract negotiation involves a seller working with a buyer to determine sales contract terms.

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