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The 9th (and Final) Sales Productivity Tool: Performance Recording

Anthony Cole Training

In our 9th and final installment in the Sales Productivity Tools blog series, I dive into an essential item on the list: the Performance Recording tool.

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5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot as It Approaches $1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

We kicked off our 5 Interesting Learnings series with “newer” SaaS companies for the most part, and learnings as they IPO’d: 5 Interesting Learnings from PagerDuty, as It IPOs. 5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $700m in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from Zoom. As it IPOs. 5 Interesting Learnings from Bill.com’s IPO. HubSpot is a great one that IPO’d way back in 2014 ??

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Here are the 7 BEST Data-Backed Sales Tips of 2019

Gong.io

There’s no shortage of sales tips online. In fact, Google returns 1,370,000,000 results when you search “sales tips”. Yeah. That’s 1.37 BILLION articles. Some of those results are Gong’s articles, and what sets them apart is our focus on data-backed sales tips. Toss anecdotes and opinions out the window and let data tell the REAL story. As you know, Gong lives — check that, thrives — on (big) data.

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How your sales technology should support sales training

Membrain

How would you feel if I told you that for every dollar you spend on sales training, you may as well be throwing 80 cents of it into a bottomless pit?

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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What Makes a Good Sales Pitch? (What We Learned from Analyzing 500 Sales Calls)

Sales Hacker

What makes a good sales pitch? During my 15-year career in sales development, I’ve built and seen many sales pitches. I’ve also been pitched by numerous salespeople — some good and some bad. So what separates the good from the bad? To find out, our Training and Development Manager Joseph Grieves, analyzed over 500 sales calls in a 6-month period. What we learned was that ALL the best-converting sales pitches include the exact same elements.

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Hreflang Tags: The SEO Attribute for Content in Multiple Languages

Hubspot

Have you ever visited a webpage that was in a different language, and your browser asked you if you wanted to change it to your first language? It's a life-saver, right? Now think about whether you've provided the functionality so your own webpages are ready for a global audience. If you haven't properly tagged or re-directed your content to be optimized in different languages, it may not be gaining the traffic it could be.

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From Engineer To Sales Role – What You Need To Know

The 5% Institute

Engineer to sales; no matter what new role you may be taking up in the sales world, this can be a bit of a career change. However, if you put in the hard work that got you to become an Engineer in the first place, continue learning with an open mind, and execute what you learn – you can potentially have an excellent career in sales. In this article, you’ll learn why going from Engineer to sales can sometimes make people feel hesitant, the things to be careful of when going from an Engineer to sa

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The Impossible to Inevitable Audiobook is out!

SaaStr

Are you already a fan of the Impossible to Inevitable book? You’re in luck. The audiobook has been released and we’ve saved a few FOR FREE just for our readers. Read more to find out how! Impossible Goals, Inevitable Successes. Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it?

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How to Create an HTML Form That Sends You an Email

Hubspot

Sometimes, improving UX can cost a lot of money. And oftentimes, some of the problems website visitors have are easy, simple fixes. That begs the question: How can you find out if customers are enjoying their website experience? The answer may be simpler than you think. Having forms on your website is an effective way to get customer feedback about their experience during their visit.

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5 Clever Ways to Enhance Your Personal Data Security

G2

These days, every aspect of our lives is connected in some way to the internet.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Dave Kurlan's Predictions for Sales Organization in 2020

Understanding the Sales Force

Before I can make any predictions for 2020, let's start with these ten simple truths about selling for proper context. ONE: Selling is not as difficult or as simple as many would have you understand. TWO: While there are certainly nuances that influence how selling changes based on the target audience and complexity, selling is essentially the same whether it is technology, pharmaceuticals, capital equipment, financial services, cars, components, accounting or any of 200 other industries.

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How to switch your team to a new sales stack

PandaDoc

There’s no doubt that having a solid sales stack is a must. In fact, 82% of SDRs agree that sales technologies are critical for closing deals while the companies that don’t use any software for sales enablement are known to be less likely to achieve their goals. Yet, just like a proper sales stack can boost your productivity and help you close more deals, relying on wrong tools can significantly harm your business.

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6 Effective Ways to Use Video in Your Email Marketing

Hubspot

This morning, as usual, I started my day by checking my emails. While this process doesn't usually excite me and is just my method for waking up, I came across a subject line that made my heart race with excitement: Knowing that I would be starting my day with a new music video from one of my favorite bands made me smile. It also made me feel valued as a subscriber to their record label's emails — with just one video, Specialist Subject Records strengthened the consumer relationship I have with

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Pricing And Discounting Are Different!

Partners in Excellence

As usual, I’ve stuck my nose into some on-line discussions. This time, the discussion started on “creating value,” and devolved into a discussion of discounting. Bob Apollo kicked off the discussion with the premise: Discounting is a sign of failure. It’s something I wholeheartedly agree with. Without meaning to repeat Bob’s post, discounting comes as a result of our inability to get the customer to understand the value that we provide and create.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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5 Must-Read Books for Sales Operations Leaders

Outreach

Sales operations is the unsung hero of the sales world. Its role is far-reaching and yet is critical for frontline reps and for your revenue's health as a whole. As a sales ops leader, the scope of the role can be overwhelming, but don’t worry. We’ve compiled a list of five must-read books for sales operations leaders to help you support your sales team with day-to-day tactics or a winning long-term strategy.

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Keys To Success In The New Year!

Membrain

December is always ripe for prognostication and advice for success in the New Year. Pundits, consultant, vendors of Sales/Marketing automation tools will offer endless insight and advice on how to beat your goals, how to be successful, how to have a fast start for the New Year.

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The Beginner's Guide to Customer Targeting

Hubspot

Sometimes, in the marketing industry, you have to close your eyes and take a leap of faith. Other times, you can calculate your moves to execute a strategy with a proven track record. But what about a method of strategic planning that involves taking a leap of faith and calculation? I'm talking about customer targeting, which is a way to divide your target audience further into groups and use fresh, new strategies to capture their attention during the buyer's journey.

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Sales Leaders: What Your Top Performers are Thinking in Your Sales Kickoff Presentation

Force Management

Many of you are prepping for your sales kickoff. We often put so much into the planning of the SKO, that sometimes we fail to give the same amount of attention to the actual presentation we will give at the event. The sales kickoff is often the one chance sales leaders have to get the momentum going at the beginning of the fiscal year. Past quarters are over and done with and the SKO is a time to start fresh, right the course and chart the path towards increased sales productivity and revenue.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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The 8 Biggest Mistakes First Time Founders Make After $50K MRR Or So

SaaStr

Q: What are the biggest mistakes first time founders make after $50K MRR in SaaS? A partial list of the ones I see all the time (and mistakes I made myself): Not having a VP/Head of Marketing in place. $50k in MRR is plenty “late” to have someone spending 50+ hours a week just getting you more leads and managing the leads you do have better. What if at even just $50k MRR, you had a head of marketing that go you just 20% more leads?

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A Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing

G2

Investing in real estate can be an incredibly profitable and fulfilling journey.

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Adapting to the New Era of Search, According to Moz's SEO Scientist

Hubspot

The era of the high Google click-through rate is nearing its end and the age of the low-click landscape is dawning. While Google is still the number one traffic source for most sites on the web, over half of all searches these days result in no click at all. There are a multitude of reasons to explain this shift. More searchers are finding the information they need from featured snippets, which have increased in prevalence tremendously in recent years.

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Words That Sell – Use These To Increase Your Sales

The 5% Institute

In this article, you’ll learn a variety of words that sell in both your sales conversations, as well as in writing. The type of language we use; both in our conversations with potential clients, as well as what we write for our ads are very important, as it can create emotion and persuade people to buy. In this article, we’ll be covering words that sell in your sales conversations, as well as words that sell in replacement of usual words you may use in your copy writing.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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What are the biggest mistakes new founders make when they start a business?

SaaStr

Q: What are the biggest mistakes new founders make when they start a business? My list: Not budgeting 24 months to get to a viable business. Most founders assume 6–8–12 months is enough. It almost never is, especially in B2B/SaaS. It almost always takes 24 months from “go”, or longer, to build a real business in SaaS. More here: If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months | SaaStr.

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Sales Process Development: How to Keep It Fresh

criteria for success

It can be tempting to think of sales process development as a one-time thing. You build your process and you’re good, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. Over time, you’ll need to review and revise your sales process. If you don’t, you’ll eventually need to start back at the beginning and develop a process from [.]. The post Sales Process Development: How to Keep It Fresh appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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The 18 Most-Followed TikTok Brands and Influencers

Hubspot

After reaching roughly 800 million active users within a year and a half of its 2018 launch, TikTok has become one of the fastest-growing social media apps of the last decade. Like any trendy social platform with a huge global audience, influencers and brands are flocking to TikTok. As a marketer who's considering TikTok opportunities, you might be wondering if you should start an account for your brand, or if you should leverage influencers who joined early on and already know how to create eng

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High Ticket Closing – Your Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

High ticket closing is a popular niche within sales that many Sales Professionals are moving towards, because when done correctly – it can be very profitable. But what is high ticket closing; and what is the step by step system needed to make your high ticket closing journey successful? In this article, we’ll explore what is the definition of high ticket closing, as well as the exact step by step process required to sell high ticket products on a consistent basis.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Marketers, Please – A Marketing Inquiry Is Not a Qualified Lead

G2

Marketing’s central objective for B2B companies is to generate leads.

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Beware of the Talk Trap

Engage Selling

There’s a menace in your sales territory today. It’s one that can drain your resources, rob you of your time, lay waste to your sales targets and sink the morale of your entire sales team…effortlessly.

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The 10 Best All In One CRM Solutions in 2019

Hubspot

Sales efficiency: the sales metric that pits your team’s gross revenue against its cost of operation. It’s a gold standard for measuring how well a sales team, department, or process is performing. It’s a simple, straightforward benchmark that can tell you how well your sales efforts stack up with your goals and your competitors’ performance. It might go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: you want your salespeople, teams, and processes to be as efficient as possible.

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Investing In Yourself – The Key To Success

The 5% Institute

Investing in yourself is one of the most important, and smartest things you could ever do with your income. Although there are various ways you can invest your time and money; investing in yourself can be one of the most profitable; for reasons we’ll explore in this article. In this article, you’ll learn what investing in yourself means, why you should be investing in yourself regularly, how to start investing in yourself, and ways in which you can invest in yourself.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.