Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. Balancing Quality and Speed: Sales teams often struggle to balance quality with pipeline velocity.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s face it: if you’re still relying on old-school sales prospecting methods , you’re falling behind. Now, CEOs and Sales Executives need something sharper, faster, and more precise: AI for sales prospecting. At Veloxy, we believe AI is the game-changer every sales leader needs.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While it checks a lot of boxes for Sales Managers, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to unlock Salesforce’s potential to accelerate sales at your company. Start here: Speed up your selling activities in a few clicks If you’re using another sales acceleration software, most of the principles will still apply.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

I’m not talking about any close friends in sales here. But — there are a ton of folks I know that used to be great in sales. The other day someone who used to be an A+ sales leader emailed me about a position I’d introduced to him as a super hot start-up. So this isn’t a sub-tweet, or sub-post.

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Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

A sales rep is only as good as the time they spend selling. Let Sales AI take care of all non-selling activities so your reps can focus on revenue generation. We already know that AI technology can drive vehicles, but did you also know that it can drive sales? Minor Misconception on Sales AI.

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Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

Crafting a killer sales pitch? If you don’t, your audience will pick up on it and won’t trust or value what you’re saying. If you can master facial expressions, eyebrow gestures, leg activity and torso/arms behavior, you’re well on your way to a successful sale. Use These Body Techniques to Sell More. Facial Expressions.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. They’ll thank you for it.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

The Gist: Some current sales practices actually prevent deals. There are certain strategies, tactics, and practices that prevent sales instead of producing them. Many of them are now so prevalent that sales organizations embrace them, even when their prospective clients reject them. No more pushy sales tactics.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The new year is upon us, and along with it comes new sales resolutions. One of the most popular sales resolutions for 2022 will be a commitment to reduce non-selling activity. Did you know that most salespeople spend over 60% of their time not selling. Streamline sales processes tied to Salesforce, and save time.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2024

This approach assumed that targeting a CEO, CFO or CMO would likely result in a sale. Meetings often involve stakeholders from different departments, so focusing only on key decision-makers may overlook the broader buyer group journey. Each member may have up to 15 interactions with each vendor under evaluation.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

After years of steady sales and profit growth, the 2,300-employee company has hit a rough patch. To aid in this, the company developed a tool called Penny, an AI agent that’s automatically invited to all meetings. It can do this by comparing meeting summaries against the company’s broader objectives.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In sales - especially in product knowledge training - were taught from day one how to pitch, how to present, and how to overcome objections. But too often we forget one of the most basic truths in sales: The more you listen, the more you learn. Silence shutting up and listening is your secret weapon.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. You’re not alone.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Despite discussions of outside sales dying, field sales are far from obsolete. Outside sales remain invaluable to companies, even as we move towards hybrid models. A 2023 study revealed that field sales teams outperformed their inside counterparts by 14%. In this guide, we’ll explore field sales enablement in-depth.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic has contributed a lot to sales transformation. For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges?

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a sales leader, your efforts directly impact the company’s stability and growth. However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. However, it’s not due to a lack of effort by the sales team.

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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

You know these people are not serious when it comes to sales because the replacements they recommend all share the potential pitfalls of the cold call, but lack any of the benefits. Make enough calls, and you will bump into people are grouchy enough to say something rude or just hang up on you. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

And they don’t want to take a meeting with a salesperson if they can help it. And smooth our selling process — their buying process — to its digital best. Marketing flies the plane and sales serves the coffee, perhaps? But B2B companies have been experimenting for decades with lower cost methods to reduce selling expense.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Bookmark Now: Cold Calling - Everything a Sales Person Needs to Know. Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. We help sales teams turn unproductive churning into generative earning.” When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sales Acceleration is the sales enablement strategy that simplifies and shortens sales cycles. It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Sales Acceleration Software is being used to consolidate the sales technology stack.

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ClickFunnels

JULY 7, 2021

The post 9 Best Sales Techniques For Maximum Conversions appeared first on ClickFunnels. Like most artforms, sales is also a science. Here, we’re going to give you the tried-and-true sales techniques that top salespeople use to convert prospects into customers. Need Sales? Start With a Sales Funnel. Cool, right?

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Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

While it might be a slow return in some places, you are probably starting to consider again how you want your sales force to work for your business. After years of remote sales work, you might be ready to evaluate what formula of salesforce will best meet your needs as a business and as an employee. What Is Inside Sales?

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

In SaaS, its easy to assume that virtual selling has completely taken over. Hyrid and work-from-home made it the default paradigm for many in B2B sales. Splunk is very enterprise and its CRO also sees 3x the conversions when they show up in person. After all, Zoom is efficient, email is scalable. Slice does much of the same.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 15, 2022

Even though businesses moving to remote sales have been increasing in the past few years, others have been reaping the benefits of remote sales for years. They have long adopted and understood the power of remote sales, which has helped them establish a strong market compared to their competitors.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sales teams are increasingly adopting a digital-first strategy and focusing on connecting with prospects who tend to prefer self-directed buying tasks. However, prioritizing in-person meetings over digital channels doesn’t mean you can’t leverage technology. What is field sales software? What Makes Field Sales Different?

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are a lot of people out there who might be especially nervous about hitting your sales quota after the shifts that COVID-19 has brought into the climate. Oftentimes, a sales manager doesn’t have specific insight into what is happening in the sales calls that their team makes. The same is true in the sales world. .

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Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

On top of that, they want sellers to meet them “wherever” they are. How can a salesperson meet all of these standards while also enjoying what they do? Much has been said and written about the human side of selling. But why should you understand cultural and business anthropology as it relates to sales?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Learn how easy it is to become the highest-performing field sales professional at your company. Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. But what does tomorrow hold for field sales? Field sales is not dead!

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Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. It’s a time consuming but necessary process, which means mastering the AI sales follow-up can be a game-changer.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. Despite ramping up the numbers, increasingly we are not achieving our goals.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Do not target the companies that already buy what you sell or are highly likely to start doing so. The primary ingredient in phone spam is the fact that what you sell has no relevance for the person receiving the call. Pitch them right away, even if your product, service, or solution requires a complex sale. Step Three.

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Iannarino

JULY 7, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are inadequate for today’s environment. One way to improve your approach is to remove the crutches you have used to sell. To make a point about where we are today in B2B sales , let’s try a thought experiment. Execute your best sales calls with this FREE Sales Call Planner.

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Iannarino

JULY 30, 2021

The same trend has made many best practices so prevalent that entire swaths of selling are now fully commoditized, making many sales conversations transactional rather than consultative. I understand the sentiment behind “that meeting should have been an email,” but you will find me firmly ensconced on the pro-meeting side.

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. What is sales quota?

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

This sales strategy has been part of B2B sales processes and is practiced by sales reps in many sales organizations. This strategy is still effective, as recognizing the prospective buyer's pain points allows for a good and effective sales conversation.

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Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. You need to make sales. But you don’t have a sales manager who can give you the time and attention you need. Not to worry, this FREE eBook will help you Seize Your Sales Destiny. His email began by asking me (i.e.,

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