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Sales Process 101

Iannarino

The sales process is the stages you go through to create and win new opportunities. What follows here is Sales Process 101, a simple, straightforward sales process you can use and customize.

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How Sales Leaders Commoditized the Sales Process

Iannarino

To even out the natural variability across their sales force, they adopted a linear sales process, believing that the consistency of approach would invariably produce the results they were seeking. For as long as anyone can remember, sales leaders have searched for a way to consistently win new deals.

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The Increasing Folly of the Linear Sales Process

Iannarino

The promise of the linear sales process was that every salesperson could follow it to win enough deals to hit their targets. Some proponents made the bold claim that following the sales process as documented was enough to allow a salesperson to win the client’s business.

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Three Strategies to Improve Your Sales Process

Iannarino

In the past, many people believed the sales process would provide each salesperson with the ability to win the deals they pursued, making it possible for every salesperson to hit their sales targets. Like many promises that seem too good to be true, this one never came to fruition.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority.

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Homicide Detective Makes Best Case for Sales Process

Understanding the Sales Force

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? In the table below, you can see that 44% of all salespeople are strong in the Core Competency, Sales Process.

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Sales Process for the Anti-Sales Process Crowd

Understanding the Sales Force

Earlier this week, I was interviewed by John Radkins, for his Sales Machine Blog, and he asked me to explain sales process for those who don’t want to be restricted by sales process. Think of the sales process as a journey rather than an adventure. Similarly, there are stages to the sales process.

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12 Plays to Kickstart Your Recruitment Process

In this eBook, we lay out 12 recruiting plays that can automate key steps in your recruitment process, helping you reduce both the cost and the time it takes to hire the best candidates. To stay ahead in this race, every recruiter needs a good playbook. Download now!

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Sales engagement takes a broad view, leveraging process, tools, training, and a host of other capabilities to ensure that your efforts align with each prospect along their buyer journey. Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

It's quite a process for marketing teams to develop a long-term data management strategy. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes. It involves finding a data management provider that can append contacts with correct information — in real-time.

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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

Many organizations fail to properly evaluate vendors during the selection process. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows. Download ZoomInfo’s data-driven eBook for guidance on effectively assessing the vendor marketplace.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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The Ultimate Marketing Efficiency Checklist

However, you might be able to squeeze more value from the tools and processes you’re already using. When times are tough and marketers are asked to do more with the same (or less), we have to make tough choices. Here are 7 creative ways marketers can work smarter (not harder) - with the resources you already have!