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Building a customer journey sales funnel that actually works, insights from a sales pro

Hubspot

It shows up in morale, in consistency, and in confidence. I can say, “Here’s how we warm up cold accounts,” or “Here’s the content you send after a demo.” Funnels help you sell the way people buy. This is the core of everything: we need to sell the way people want to buy, not the way we want to sell. Every time.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). MQLs that your sales team has vetted and identified as worthy of direct follow-up. The Benefits of a Lead List Selling without a lead list is a slow, disorganized process that usually produces poor results. Opportunity. Evangelist. When it comes to lead nurturing intel, the more detail the better.

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How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique [+ Expert Insight and Data]

Hubspot

Source Pro tip : If youre looking to brush up on your forecasting skills, I recommend checking out these free courses in HubSpot Academy: Forecasting and Analytics in Sales Hub and Hubspot Sales Forecasting. In Hannahs assessment of the data, she might find that cat products make 45% of her revenue, dogs make up 40%, and other pets are 15%.

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5 different paths to launch AI agents (with examples)

Sales Hacker

This path is best for automating glue work: outbound, follow-ups, lead research, CRM updates. What it looks like in practice: One example: Pull Gong call transcripts → summarize key takeaways Drop those into Notion or Slack with recommended follow-ups Use LangChain or CrewAI to add logic (e.g. No engineers required.

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70 Words That Win: Sales Terms Every Rep Should Know

Salesforce

You’re not selling tools or closing contracts; you’re offering solutions and building partnerships. Account A business, customer, lead, or prospect a company engages with to sell products or services to. Business-to-business (B2B) A model in which businesses sell products or services directly to other businesses.

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How We Built a Text-To-SQL AI Agent to Get Instant Answers From Our Data

Salesforce

If youve worked with data products in the world before AI data analysis, you know the drill: a project manager or analyst has an important question, but getting the answer means using Structured Query Language (SQL), a language for querying databases. This creates a data access gap. Its literally like learning another language.

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The $4.5B Board Meeting: Inside Snowflake’s AI Transformation and the CEO Who Bets His Company on Their Platform

SaaStr

The days of relationship-only selling are over in AI-adjacent markets. Data analysts will shift from writing SQL to providing semantic context. When marketing managers can ask natural language questions of customer data without SQL, consumption explodes geometrically. You have to build relationships.”