Assembling the right team, creating an incredible sales playbook and ensuring that your sales reps always preach the right sales values are all essential. But even the best sales team won’t be competitive without the right sales tools. Whether you’re the new head of sales or have been in the role for some time, you should evaluate […]
If you have a B2B sales team, every sales and marketing activity is leading up to a pivotal moment – a phone call. Your SDRs spend hours trying to connect with viable prospects and marketers expend countless resources just to get customers to call. So the last thing you want is to lose visibility into the […]
Today, if you want to see better sales and marketing results, it’s often as simple as getting better tools. However, assembling a marketing and sales stack can be overwhelming. There are a lot of sales and marketing processes that can be automated and accelerated. But you can’t buy them all, and wouldn’t want to, since not all sales […]
Top performing salespeople that improve faster than the rest in their phone sales skills do things a little bit differently. They find ways to coach themselves to success, and they learn the secrets to quickly identify and eliminate bad habits that turn off prospects. The evolution of call recording products has enabled salespeople to do […]
Just 57% of companies actually hit their revenue targets, according to CSO Insights. One of the top reasons? Marketing and Sales just aren’t properly aligned. Imagine a marketer arrogantly boasting that “Marketing is driving sales around here,” or a sales rep complaining about stale leads or worthless marketing collateral. Sound familiar? At many companies, salespeople […]
In industries with a contract/recurring revenue model (such as SaaS) it’s often even more important to keep your current customers than to win new ones. After all, losing a big account can have a monumental impact on ROI numbers. That’s why sales leaders need to not only track pipeline metrics, but also track metrics that give insight […]
It happens to everyone, yet it seems to come without warning. You can be hitting goal after goal, crushing quota every quarter, then it suddenly seems to stop. The road gets bumpy, you lose speed, and everything seems a little bit harder. Maybe this was brought on by a recent change in companies, change in […]
What are the Differences Between Salesforce Editions? In today’s world a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform is no longer optional, it’s a business requirement. It simply has become impossible to operate without one. By now you know that a CRM system like Salesforce empowers your organization to collect, analyze, store, and retrieve information that is […]
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” Ben Franklin may or may not have been thinking about business operations when he wrote that famous line, but it’s just as applicable in our world as it was in the 1700s. I mention it here because our latest eBook is about something that everyone needs, but most people […]
In light of recent events, numerous companies are taking their teams remote. This means that many sales managers are either taking their sales reps remote, or are operating a geographically dispersed team for the first time. When you manage a remote sales team, there is an incredible amount of nuances to be considered. How do […]
In light of recent events, we’ve heard many questions from sales leaders regarding moving in-office sales teams to a remote model. Many of our customers were among the first companies to take their sales teams remote as a protective measure against the spread of Coronavirus. This was due in part to the fact that the […]
One of the most rewarding aspects of managing an inside sales team is helping your reps to become more successful salespeople. Hiring sales reps is one of the most important investments that a company makes. And turnover is costly! In fact, a DePaul University’s Sales Effectiveness Survey found the average cost of turnover for a single sales […]