When you’re choosing an outbound dialer, reps will offer endless lists of features. Some of these are truly necessary, while others are just pretty ornamentation that won’t actually help your team reach its quota. According to original research by Revenue.io, 77% of reps struggle to find enough time to complete everything they need to during […]

When our VP of Sales was looking through our internal data recently, he stumbled on something remarkable. Deals in which an account executive was on a texting basis with a prospect were 5 times more likely to close. This makes sense. After all, many of us text with our friends and close acquaintances a lot […]

All master sellers have something crucial in common: a passion for continuous self-improvement. After all, no matter how much you master your craft, there’s always room to improve sales skills. Whether you’re starting your sales career or you’ve closed multiple seven-figure deals, we think you’ll benefit from these 7 proven ways to take your sales […]

Local Presence enables inside sales reps to automatically dial prospects using local area codes. Local presence dialers can lift call connection rates by up to 400%, because prospects tend to be far more likely to answer unknown calls from local numbers, rather than toll-free or long-distance phone numbers.  Revenue.io’s Local Presence empowers your sales team […]

You’ve probably heard of the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. There is a lot of wisdom in the book and I won’t spoil it for you. But, if you are new to revenue operations, fondly known as “RevOps,” what can you do to be more effective at being an operator? […]

As a savvy salesperson, you know sales are built on relationships, and a key part in building relationships is tailoring your sales approach to your buyers. This is easy to do with sales enablement and acceleration software like Guided Selling by Revenue.io, but there are plenty of other ways to improve your relationship-building skills if […]

What’s the difference between an SDR, BDR, AE and CSM?  Sometimes it seems like the sales industry is full of more acronyms than the U.S. government. So if you’re confused about the differences between these roles, it’s understandable. To further confuse matters, if you go to two different companies, they might call the same inside […]

Maintaining strong and positive relationships with your customers is key to account management. Breaking the fourth wall, so to speak, and showing your customers that they are interacting with a living, breathing individual can break tension and increase customer satisfaction.  There are many ways to foster this kind of relationship, and in today’s world, text […]

Over the last few years, there has been an unbelievable expansion in tech. Continued investment from venture capital and private equity, open-source code, infrastructure gains, and APIs have all created a “Cheesecake factory menu” of options in your software solutions. Take MarTech as an example – in 2016 there were nearly 4,000 MarTech solutions in […]

Conversation Intelligence has quickly become a revenue-critical technology for sales and marketing teams. It’s easy to see why: revenue teams are able to unlock exponential growth when they extract actionable insights from their conversations with buyers. The reality is 70% of sales training is forgotten within a week according to Gartner’s research.  But it doesn’t […]

Understanding how to attract, retain and expand customer relationships has become increasingly crucial as customer acquisition costs soar and conversion rates decline. In response to this pressing need, a movement called Revenue Operations (RevOps) has emerged in recent years. RevOps aims to unify marketing, sales, and customer service into a cohesive strategy and organization, helping […]

When is the best time to make sales prospecting cold calls?  To find out, we launched a major study, mining call data from millions of sales calls to uncover which times of day are ideal for key sales activities, including the best time to make cold calls.  Below, we’ll reveal the results of that study. […]