During a leadership program I was facilitating in Milan, Italy, we were talking about how managers try to motivate people through the use of bonuses or incentives. The frustration quickly rose to a head in the room, as the managers shared how much they struggle with finding a way to continually motivate each person on […]

When our customers reach out to us it’s an important moment. Virtually no one calls companies to chat idly. Think about the last time you called a business. Chances are you either were seriously interested in making a purchase or you needed immediate customer service. When your prospects are ready to have a serious sales conversation there are few […]

Is Q&A platform Quora the most underrated social platform for sales prospectors? According to Datanyze’s co-Founder Ben Sardella it just might be! In a recent webinar that we hosted, Ben advocated using Quora for lead generation and explained how to do it. With just a bit of effort, your business development team can source sales ready-leads. […]

Opportunities form the lifeblood of a sales organization. Your sales development reps (SDRs) spend their days trying to source opportunities. While your account executives spend their days trying to transform opportunities into customers. As an inside sales manager, you need to keep a close eye on opportunity metrics. Because if your SDRs aren’t sourcing enough […]

According to CSO Insights, organizations are using an average of 10 sales tools and plan to add another four within the next 12 months. As teams pile on more and more applications in the hopes of finding that “magic bullet” that will let them decimate their quotas, sales technologies stacks continue to expand. But where […]

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt People Buy From People They Like Trust “People buy from people they like” – you’ve all heard this one before. Certainly likability is a good characteristic to have, but the truth is that people buy from people they TRUST. But here’s the […]

There are many ways to define a “good” sales rep. It’s common to measure their value with factors like experience, performance record, prior companies, and network. There are also unquantifiable factors like personality, drive, character, temperament, and communication skills. Ultimately, your organization’s definition of a “good” sales rep may be very different than another. Your […]

Email has always and will forever be a key component in your sales toolbox. There’s plenty of email service providers to choose from, one of which is Gmail. Gmail has rapidly become the email platform of choice for sales organizations due to its ease of integration with other apps. For example, Gmail completely integrates with […]

2019 Update: the free mobile CRM app for iPhone is discontinued & no longer supported. You can learn about the new amazing products we produce here. Sales managers want tools that help them manage their teams, and sales reps want tools that help them close deals. We’re proud to announce that our new free iPhone […]

Even the most experienced marketers aren’t always clear on which phone call tracking features will add the most value to their particular business model. We recently released Call Tracking: The Definitive Buyers’ Guide, to not only help businesses compare call tracking systems, but also to help them evaluate which  features can add the most value. […]

It’s amazing how quickly perceptions change. When we showed early versions of Revenue.io’s ability to integrate a contact’s social streams from Twitter and Facebook and news sources, the value from a sales perspective was immediately apparent. Still, there were lingering worries that this whole “social media thing” might still be fleeting. Salesforce.com’s declaration of the […]

I don’t think anyone ever claimed that prospecting for new B2B leads is an easy task. At any given time, it can be a difficult to know the best prospects to reach out to. I recently had the pleasure of helping to organize a fantastic webinar on B2B sales prospecting. Panelist Ben Sardella, co-founder of Datanyze, […]