Hot leads are the sales person’s holy grail. Hot leads can be defined as a high-value lead that is a qualified buyer, actively engaged with your company, is highly interested, and is ready to buy. Hot leads are like striking gold. A deal with a hot lead closes extremely quickly and typically requires little effort […]

Sales management is an extremely rewarding, challenging, and exciting position to be in. Ultimately you are responsible for leading and guiding a team of reps to success through goals, quotas, plans, and processes. Whether you are already a manager looking to be promoted or are a sales rep that wants to become a manager, these […]

More marketers are leading inbound sales teams, but even if your inbound sales team doesn’t report directly to Marketing, marketers still have the power and—in my opinion— the responsibility to help sales reps succeed. And one of the best ways to enable sales is by using a call tracking system. Call tracking software is routinely used […]

Understanding Salesforce Users’ behavior is like a Countdown conundrum – you can never really unscramble all the data quickly enough to get the winning answer. As a CRM software initially designed for Sales teams, most of the Salesforce features are focused on arming salespeople with the toolkit they need to hit targets and, ultimately, increase […]

Visual search and knowledge platform Docurated has released a new infographic detailing the state of sales productivity for 2015. The infographic, which stems from the visual search and knowledge platform’s survey of 127 sales and marketing executives, highlights the importance of improving sales productivity. We also think it reveals some powerful opportunities for sales teams to drive more revenue this year. […]

The main difference between B2C and B2B sales strategies is the decision-making process. B2C sales focus on quick, emotionally-driven decisions, often influenced by personal desires or immediate needs. In contrast, B2B sales involve longer sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, and decisions driven by logic, ROI, and business impact. Understanding these dynamics is crucial to tailoring your […]

Top B2B sales reps have already discovered how valuable LinkedIn can be during B2B sales prospecting. Best-selling author and top sales strategist Jill Konrath reported that reps can massively accelerate their sales pipeline by spending less than an hour a day using LinkedIn. In fact, Konrath states that LinkedIn offers better sales ROI than any […]

One of my New Year’s resolutions was understanding our customers’ needs better. So last week, I did something that most marketers rarely do: I answered inbound sales calls. This might sound unusual, but here at Revenue.io, our mission is to fully understand what our customers need to realize their full potential. So our whole team—from […]

For our recent eBook, we asked several sales leaders to name a sales metric that more managers should be tracking. One of the sales leaders we spoke with was John Barrows, who trains sales teams at many of the world’s leading technology companies, and offers exceptional training content at jBarrows.com.  Meetings with Key Decision Makers by Rep Most companies […]

If you were to take a cross-section of all the world’s top performing sales leaders, I bet you’d find something important they have in common: they are perpetually on the hunt for new opportunities to optimize sales ROI. They are always on the lookout for new metrics to track that can help them make smarter revenue […]

For our recent eBook, we asked several sales leaders to name a sales metric that more managers should be tracking. One of the sales leaders we spoke with was Box’s VP of Sales Productivity, Doug Landis. In Sales, it’s far too easy to focus your attention on the low hanging fruits of sales analytics (e.g. […]

According to the Harvard Business Review, investments in sales management training have soared over the last two decades, with U.S. corporations alone spending $15 billion each year. With such high amounts being spent, businesses are understandably keen to measure their return on those investments. However, the ROI on this type of training is more difficult […]