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 […]

Winning customers is important. But if you’re selling SaaS or any offering with a subscription model, keeping current customers is often more important than acquiring new ones. According to Gartner, 80% of a company’s future profits come from 20% of their existing customers. So how successful are you at retaining your customers?  Here are a couple […]

Today’s sales reps are surrounded by distractions and faced with ever-increasing goals. There is something to do from the second you sit down at your desk until you leave the office, but there is also something to distract every time you set about to start something important. Psychology research is clear that there is a […]

“Whatever dude.” [click] Just the other day, I answered our company’s general line with “Revenue.io, this is Kanwar how can I help you?” I was greeted by a prospecting sales rep on the other end. A rather disingenuous conversation followed, where I simply and repeatedly tried to gather who he was, where was he was […]

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, the majority of the Salesforce features are focused on arming salespeople with the toolkit they need to hit targets and, ultimately, […]

Do you have any New Year resolutions for sales performance improvement? With the hope of change and improvement at the start of a new calendar year, resolutions can be difficult to resist. That’s why so many people have at least one, even if they don’t write it down. Sadly, these goals are often abandoned by […]

The following is a guest post by John Lee Dumas, host of EOFire and author of The Mastery Journal: Master Productivity, Discipline and Focus in 100 days. There are several skills you can leverage to help you achieve your sales goals. Things like confidence, patience and determination are a few. But to really master sales […]

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. […]

Author Robert Louis Stevenson once stated that “everyone lives by selling something.”  No matter the products or services you’re selling, sell them better and you’re likely to live better. When formulating an ideal sales strategy, what you are selling matters less than to whom you are selling. Namely, are you targeting consumers (B2C) or other […]

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 other […]

One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2022 was to better understand our customers’ needs. 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 […]