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 […]

The goal of any paid search landing page is to inspire a quick action from potential customers. A/B testing can help marketers determine which landing pages offer the best returns. And while sites like Which Test Won and Marketing Sherpa offer a wealth of resources about optimizing landing pages for online conversions, in many industries, […]

Sales management has been a data- and performance-driven profession for decades, but only recently has technology caught up to the real needs of sales managers. Today, true data collection and performance analytics can become a core part of the sales management process. Thanks to powerful CRM data capture technologies and sales dashboards, sales leaders have […]

Ever since the introduction of sales automation software, the great debate has been ongoing: What activities, interactions, and conversations should be automated so prospect can interact on their own, and what should be done with the help of a human? The automation side of the debate has fueled its fair share of anxiety that humans […]

It looks like 2013 is going to be a huge year for our partner Salesforce.com. In 2011, Gartner reported that Salesforce.com’s CRM market share was 16.7%, second only to SAP. However, Gartner is now predicting that 2013 will be the year that Salesforce.com will be crowned leading CRM vendor worldwide. While developing a native enterprise […]

The following is a guest post by Rajesh Setty, President and co-founder of WittyParrot, a content delivery platform. The secret weapon for your B2B sales teams is mastery of second contact and beyond. Mastery of second contact and beyond includes, but is not limited to: Being responsive Being contextually relevant Being trustworthy Having the X-Factor […]

I recently read some psychology research that transformed what I thought I knew about multitasking. The article, published by Wharton researchers in the December 2018 issue of the journal Psychological Science is titled “The Illusion of Multitasking and Its Positive Effect on Performance.” Although it is about general human psychology, it has big implications for […]

The following is a guest post by RingLead’s Director of Marketing Amanda Nelson. We recently collaborated with Amanda and the RingLead team on an eBook that reveals the top 20 Salesforce guides for Sales and Marketing. In this post Amanda focuses on 8 guides that can help you measure success in Salesforce. Salesforce is an […]

Opportunities form the lifeblood of any sales organization. They are the glue between sales development reps (SDRs) and account executives. As your SDRs focus fervently on sourcing ops, your quota-carrying salespeople work tirelessly to transform those opportunities into closed/won deals. So if you want to predict revenue, you need to be able to predict opportunities. If you’re leading a B2B […]

For our latest eBook, we asked sales leaders to reveal a must-track metric that is essential for optimizing sales success. The following is a guest post by Mike Schultz, Co-President of RAIN Group. The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research surveyed 472 sellers and sales executives representing companies with salesforces ranging in size from 10 […]

Sales Role Play Exercises If you’ve spent any time in sales at all, you likely know that there is a right way and a wrong way to run a sales role-play exercise. Role-plays and are an incredibly powerful sales training tool and are an excellent way for reps to perfect pitches, run in to objections, […]

Eric Dreshfield is an advocacy manager at Apttus. According to Salesforce, the MVP Program recognizes exceptional individuals within the Salesforce community for their leadership, knowledge, and ongoing contributions to the community. They embody and represent what the spirit of the community is all about by being accessible & responsive, while sharing their expertise and knowledge about the ecosystem. MVPs are […]