Sales is at an inflection point. Buyers are engaged later, sales reps are less experienced, and on average, they only make 68 percent of their quotas. This all means that sales coaching is absolutely critical to proper training reinforcement, skill building, knowledge development, accurate forecasting, and ultimately sales success. Top sales organizations excel by taking […]

One of the questions we’re asked most frequently is, what is an Intelligent Dialer? Simply put, an Intelligent Sales Dialer is software that actually tells sales reps something about who they’re calling before they dial. An Intelligent Dialer can virtually eliminate cold calling and empower reps to have far more successful sales conversations. Is More […]

One of the most often examined metrics in any organization is customer retention, but have you ever considered the retention rate of your sales reps? Your sales team is one of your most valuable assets, and if you think about it, it’s your sales reps that earned you your customers in the first place. Turnover […]

There are those who still believe in a traditional sales model where sales reps do everything from write proposals to answer inbound calls. However, more and more companies are separating their sales organizations into outbound reps (reps that prospect for new business) and inbound reps (reps that respond to inbound phone calls and web inquiries). The […]

Cold calling is undoubtedly challenging. You must master an array of skills like a natural sounding tone and sales script. You need to learn objection responses, develop product knowledge, and learn proper pre-call research. All of this adds up in a way that makes 48% of business-to-business salespeople afraid of making cold calls. It takes […]

Salesforce and Revenue.io are both fantastic tools for increasing inside sales reps’ productivity. But there’s a little-known (and free) way to make your inside sales team even more productive: the Salesforce console. Put simply, the Salesforce console offers a way for reps to view Salesforce that is more in tune with actual workflow. It can really help […]

B2B marketers often spend hours creating fantastic collateral such as blogs, ebooks, decks and case studies. Sure, this content can be great for generating new leads. But savvy marketers know that sales reps can be using this same content to actually move deals forward. B2B marketers commonly gripe about salespeople not using their content. But […]

If your sales reps are working in Google Chrome, there are some enormous opportunities to accelerate sales by leveraging Chrome extensions. I personally love using Chrome extensions because they have a nice way of fitting in seamlessly with my workflow, yet simultaneously improving it. Here are six great ones: Assistant.to Free or Paid: Free Scheduling meetings […]

By Jeff Shelton, Revenue.io’s Chief Product Officer The Revenue.io product team always keeps a pulse on the market and customer needs. Data driven product teams use information from multiple sources and listening posts to create a cohesive strategy. At Revenue.io we achieve this feedback at scale by using Revenue.io’s mobile coaching app, ConversationAI. It’s no […]

Today’s competitive sales environment requires an advantage to win. Sales managers, often promoted from the field sales force, don’t often get the training or tools they need to effectively manage their sales teams. Even understanding the rhythm of the business, and the difference between winning and losing sales behaviors can be hard. For example: There […]

Many of our marketing customers have never used a call tracking solution before. For them, call tracking opens a rich new world of closed-loop reporting, finally enabling them to make smarter ad investments and take credit for ROI closed over the telephone. But for other customers, Revenue.io is not their first rodeo. They’ve come to […]

Before building Revenue.io, we spent years on the marketing agency side, and were bewildered by the absence of call tracking systems that used best practices when passing call metrics to Salesforce.com. As anyone who has done any custom CRM workflow knows, deviating from best practices can quickly get very expensive and very messy. Of particular […]