Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Welcome to my annual list of the best sales and sales leadership content of 2023. There are several categories including Most Read, Most Liked, Most Engagement, Best Quality and Personal Favorite. 2023 saw more content than ever before and that certainly includes the sales space. I’m very excited about 2024!

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce is arguably the best customer relationship management system for B2B companies. 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. What is Sales Acceleration? What is Sales Acceleration?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Open ended sales questions are a crucial aspect of the sales process. In this article, we’ll review the 12 types of open ended questions to ask, when to ask them, and other emerging best practices. Additionally, we’ll cover some of the common mistakes to avoid when asking open ended sales questions.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Field Sales Engagement is the process of engaging prospects, leads, and customers in face-to-face meetings. It’s a fundamental process in field sales because customers are looking for face-to-face consultations and conversations with their vendors. Don’t forget to read the Ultimate Guide to Field Sales Success .

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Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

The Gist: Some current sales practices actually prevent deals. There are certain strategies, tactics, and practices that prevent sales instead of producing them. Many of them are now so prevalent that sales organizations embrace them, even when their prospective clients reject them. No more pushy sales tactics.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

In this blog post, you’re going to learn about business anthropology and how it’s best applied to your everyday life in sales. But why should you understand cultural and business anthropology as it relates to sales? So how exactly can you apply business anthropology to your sales process? Let me show you how.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Some are written by sales experts. I am concerned about the subjects being curated for sales and sales leadership professionals. One or two are sales enablement topics.

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Iannarino

JULY 29, 2021

Much of the advice they offer validates and even spreads a fear of sales interactions. But I want to set aside that debate for a few minutes, because the comments highlighted a much larger potential threat: fear of sales. First, one-to-many messaging is marketing, not sales. You need to make sales. You need help now.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Veloxy

MARCH 16, 2022

Why Field Sales is still number one for earning and growth! Did you know that more than 50% of college graduates will start their career in sales? While graduates with business majors have even higher sales placements post graduation, the aforementioned covers all majors. Sales is truly one of the best jobs for recent graduates.

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Iannarino

JUNE 24, 2021

“Do whatever it takes” sounds like a good way to succeed in sales , until you recognize that there are no constraints or guardrails. The profession of sales has a way of revealing your strengths, your weaknesses, and your vulnerabilities—those weaknesses that actively hinder your success. Improve Your Approach.

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Iannarino

JUNE 11, 2022

That last one is a performative contradiction, i.e. hypocrisy.).

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Iannarino

JULY 18, 2021

The Gist: More and more, sales organizations are refusing to provide their prospective clients with the help of a salesperson. Many of the new models are based on removing the costs of sales, something that limits success in complex sales. In professional B2B sales, human beings provide more value than automation.

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Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Since time is literally money when it comes to business, sales leaders have devised a way to instill dollar value on a day’s work. This intriguing value is what we refer to as sales velocity. What is Sales Velocity? As the name suggests, sales velocity measures how quickly your company is making money. Average Deal Size.

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ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The post What Is Sales Funnel Analytics? Here’s what we are going to discuss today: What is sales funnel analytics? What are the most important sales funnel metrics? How to optimize your sales funnel? Table of Contents: What Is Sales Funnel Analytics? What Are the Most Important Sales Funnel Metrics?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

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. Keys to Success: All best-practices milestones must be included and properly sequenced. A journey is planned.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2024

But despite the uptick in visitors, your sales and leads remain lackluster. This article explores nine proven methods to help you turn SEO traffic into sales and leads. You might know the nuances of your site and sales funnel, but your users do not. Optimize for conversions You have traffic, and it’s time to make sales.

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Highspot

APRIL 30, 2024

With AI at their fingertips, sales teams can seamlessly discover resources that expedite action, connect with buyers more easily, and make more efficient decisions. Here are tips to leverage AI today in your business to optimize sales productivity. more views on their items.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 20, 2022

I conducted a Google search for the Top Sales Blogs and it showed 616,000 results. I started browsing page by page and I found approximately 50 different lists of top sales blogs on the first 6 pages. I can work with that!

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Salesforce

MAY 31, 2023

Ask questions “Be curious, not judgmental” Create a long-term plan for your new alignment Discover resources for Salesblazers and Moment Marketers One of the most well-known issues in business is the lack of alignment between sales and marketing. In fact, some companies have even begun to merge their sales and marketing teams.

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Hubspot

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible.

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Force Management

JULY 26, 2021

This blog contains content from our Ultimate Sales Kickoff Resource Guide. Check out all of our sales kickoff resources, best practices and tools here. Sales Kickoffs are meant to get the sales team motivated towards a common goal for the upcoming year. What are your specific objectives for the year?

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The 5% Institute

JULY 31, 2022

If you’ve been involved in sales for a while, you’ve probably come across the hunter and farmer sales model. And which one of the two is the best strategy to increase your leads, sales, and overall profit? The Hunter And Farmer Sales Model – An Introduction. Now let’s explore it from a sales lens instead.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

To get ahead and stay ahead, let’s take a look back at 2023’s best resources chock full of insights that defined success in the years past. BLOG POST: Highspot Insights to Unlock Sales Productivity : To drive overall sales productivity, sales need to accelerate deal cycles.

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Martech

JULY 21, 2023

Content Assistant streamlines content creation for marketing and sales teams. It suggests blog titles, generates post outlines, writes content for various platforms and consolidates content marketing workflows into one place. Generate blog ideas. It’s in public beta as of this writing. Writing emails. Create compelling CTAs.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service. See how it’s done Make the business case for upselling and cross-selling I’ve spent 15 years of my career in sales and sales leadership roles for software and hardware companies.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? We’ll explain what sales qualification is and why it’s important. What is sales qualification?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Last week, you may have seen our CEO Robert’s blog about the new Customer Success investments we’re making in 2024 to help all our customers soar to new heights with Highspot. This means delivering an exceptional sales experience – something we’re humbled that so many companies have attested to receiving when working with us.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 30, 2024

Regularly keeping track of incremental sales is one of the best ways of determining how best to allocate your marketing resources. In this article, you’ll find out how to calculate incremental sales for any given marketing campaign, as well as some useful tips and best practices on how to maximize this metric.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team. That’s where AI comes in.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 28, 2020

Especially in sales, you need to know everything best and worst of the industry, from news to new sales techniques. That’s why we have handpicked 19 best sales influencers from the business community. 19 best sales influencers to follow in 2020. and inbound sales methodologies. Gary Vaynerchuk.

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PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

Such huge numbers equate to huge revenue potential in terms of SMB sales. Read on as we cover everything you need to know about the SMB sales process, and how your sales team can crush it in the competitive landscape. What are SMB sales? Which approach and tools should you implement to make the most of this potential?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. Or possibly our problems are that too many sales people just don’t want to prospect?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I’m a huge fan of sales enablement and some of the outstanding sales enablement practitioners who I count as friends. I think, however, one of the biggest problems with sales enablement is not what they do, or the quality of the programs they develop. Recently I had a fascinating conversation with a sales enablement team.

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