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Sales Goal Setting

Anthony Cole Training

Early on in our business, I established rules for our sales success. Here is one approach I tried and have adopted to set and reach our sales goals. Sometimes that means just go do the work! One of my rules was No Cold Calling. This has worked well over the years and our entire team follows that path.

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How Low Standards for Defining a Sales Opportunity Harms Goal Attainment

Iannarino

Sales leaders and managers demand their teams capture their activity and opportunities in the CRM. The sales leader desires to see every new opportunity logged as soon as the sales rep returns to their office. This tool could probably be more strategic. )

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Seven Goal Attaining Sales Training Techniques

Iannarino

Most of the time a sales organization’s success depends on its sales force having a high level of sales effectiveness. In order to meet this need, you must continuously train your sales team, especially when sales is broken. These seven sales training techniques will provide you with a range of options.

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Using 4 Common Sales Metrics to Reach Your Goals

Iannarino

There are four metrics we commonly track in sales to measure progress toward our goals: number of opportunities, average deal size, win rate, and velocity. No one disputes the value of these four metrics, but few salespeople recognize a relationship between them that can cause problems.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you.

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Sales Management Training: Goal Setting & Motivation

Anthony Cole Training

Goal setting and effectively motivating salespeople by identifying what's important to them is one of the primary focuses in our Sales Management training. In this blog, we discuss the several steps a sales manager can take to establish a motivating, inspiring environment for their people.

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Combining Goal Setting with Sales Competencies

Understanding the Sales Force

In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! Most people set New Year’s resolutions around this time of the year which, in general terms, is nothing more than an exercise in goal setting. But there is more to the new year than goals.

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

Leveraging a data provider to help identify and connect with qualified prospects supports company revenue goals by alleviating common headaches associated with prospecting research and empowers sales productivity. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows. So what’s the problem?

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

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12 Tips for Selling to the C-Suite

That’s why every salesperson’s goal is to make their pitch directly to a senior executive—ideally, sooner rather than later. The question for sales pros is this: Are you ready for the challenge, and opportunity, of selling to the C-suite? The following 12 tips can help ensure that you and your team are.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Explore the ZoomInfo Playbook to find activities that align with your goals, set up your workflows, and add them to your GTM motions. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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The Best Sales Forecasting Models for Weathering Your Goals

Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. Your future sales forecast? It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

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Intent Signal Data 101

How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions? Which type of intent data is best for meeting specific goals? “B2B buyers spend just 15% of their time interacting with brands before making a purchase decision” (Gartner). Intent signal data can help.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals.