Want to improve your inside sales team’s revenue and productivity? One of the best ways to achieve fast growth is by better qualifying your leads. When your quota-carrying account executives are spinning their wheels talking to unsuitable prospects, it’s wasting time that they could be spending closing deals and moving valuable leads through your funnel. […]

Voicemail is one of a salesperson’s most powerful yet underutilized tools. With 97% of business calls going to voicemail and only 11% being returned, it’s clear that leaving impactful, optimized messages is essential for success. The good news? Modern tools like voicemail drop software for sales teams and advanced strategies like A/B testing for sales […]

There’s an ongoing debate about whether or not cold calling is dead. Regardless of what you’ve read or heard elsewhere, the truth is cold calling is alive and well. A recent study revealed that 71% of buyers want to hear from sellers when looking for new ideas to improve their business. In the same study, […]

Revenue.io maximizes sales performance by transforming one of the most important, and yet most neglected, pieces of technology in the office – the phone. But as any sales manager knows, keeping track of how sales teams are performing is just as important. That’s why we’ve just rolled out something our customers have been asking for – […]

What are sales call analytics? Sales call analytics can refer to analytics that pertains to one of two separate components of sales calls. The first component is activity numbers and performance metrics surrounding the calls themselves. The second is a measurement and analysis of the actual sales conversation that occurs on the call. The former […]

My favorite sales metric that is most important and ironically, the one that is poorly measured, is how effective and consistent managers are at coaching and observing their team. This is the only way to objectively assess core sales competencies, best practices, behavior, communication and attitude, which is what ultimately determines performance. The Missing Metric: […]

Dashboards and analytics give sales managers, sales coaches, and marketers a great deal of insight into reps’ performance, but sometimes, there’s no substitute for actually listening to phone calls. Call recordings allow managers to listen on their own schedule instead of randomly listening to live calls in the hope of catching a teachable moment. When […]

According to a study by CSO Insights, sales organizations are using an average of 10 sales tech tools, with a plan to add another four in the next 12 months. Affectionately named the “sales stack,” these tools are all supposed to help a salesperson become more productive and yield metrics that managers can use to […]

Business-to-business (B2B) sales cycles can be long depending on your price point. And sure, it probably will take your reps longer to sell a marketing automation system than a TV — much more is at stake. But I can say with almost 100% certainty that your sales cycles are longer than they need to be. […]

When TechCrunch erroneously declared that “the phone call is dead” way back in 2010, we knew something they didn’t. While personal call volume was declining in lieu of text messaging, we were certain that business calls were actually becoming more important. And like so many substantially premature death declarations (email, SEO, American manufacturing and the Twinkie), reports of […]

The numbers are in. This year, the minimum cost of commercial during Super Bowl LII was $5 million for a basic 30 second slot. The biggest spender was Amazon, who claimed a premium 90-second ad. Combined with heavy promotion online and through social media, their placement efforts cost a whopping $14.9 million dollars. Interestingly, that […]

Sales analytics can give sales leaders valuable insight into both reps’ activities and the outcomes of those activities. Having that visibility can empower leaders to do a far better job of coaching reps to success. But analytics can also be used to help coaches improve their own performance. For our latest eBook, we asked some sales […]