Sales Hiring Is Broken Let me know if this sounds familiar. At my last company, we had to build out our sales team and scale very quickly. We had no benchmark, no structured interviews and, quite honestly, no idea how to hire for our team. We would actually hire two reps at once, praying one […]

Now is the perfect time to ask yourself the question: how can I sell more this year? Whether you are a sales development rep, and account executive there are always ways to improve. Reps can ask more astute questions, solve customer’s pain points faster and better overcome objections. While managers can discover new strategies and […]

I’ve always loved watching great films. And something that I’ve found about my favorite movies is that they aren’t just entertaining, they’ve also inspired me in countless ways. As an example, watching Jurassic Park inspired me to take a paleontology class in college. More recently, I started reading about astronomy after watching Interstellar. But when I see […]

If your sales reps are working in Google Chrome, there are some enormous opportunities to accelerate sales by leveraging Chrome extensions. I personally love using Chrome extensions because they have a nice way of fitting in seamlessly with my workflow, yet simultaneously improving it. Here are six great ones: Assistant.to Free or Paid: Free Scheduling meetings […]

Today’s competitive sales environment requires an advantage to win. Sales managers, often promoted from the field sales force, don’t often get the training or tools they need to effectively manage their sales teams. Even understanding the rhythm of the business, and the difference between winning and losing sales behaviors can be hard. For example: There […]

The following guest post is authored by Amanda Nelson, Senior Manager of AppExchange Content and Community at Salesforce.  If Salesforce is a giant ship, an experienced captain must be at the helm to steer it to success. Salesforce admins are that captain. They decide which sails to trim, and where to steer their ship in […]

In karate, there are a lot of skills that you need to master before gaining a black belt. You might be better at breaking boards with a high kick than anyone on the planet, but that skill alone is not enough . Sales is kind of like karate in the sense that there are a lot […]

If you have a B2B sales team, every sales and marketing activity is leading up to a pivotal moment – a phone call. Your SDRs spend hours trying to connect with viable prospects and marketers expend countless resources just to get customers to call. So the last thing you want is to lose visibility into the […]

Today, if you want to see better sales and marketing results, it’s often as simple as getting better tools. However, assembling a marketing and sales stack can be overwhelming. There are a lot of sales and marketing processes that can be automated and accelerated. But you can’t buy them all, and wouldn’t want to, since not all sales […]

One of the most rewarding aspects of managing an inside sales team is helping your reps to become more successful salespeople. Hiring sales reps is one of the most important investments that a company makes. And turnover is costly! In fact, a DePaul University’s Sales Effectiveness Survey found the average cost of turnover for a single sales […]

The following guest post is by Dan O’Brien, marketing manager at Prialto. If increasing your sales revenue depends on referrals, then you need to focus on building trust. When people trust you, they will refer opportunities to you. While trust is a broad and expansive concept, potential referrers only need to think about it in […]

To build a world-class sales organization, you need to be able to predict the future. And by tracking the right metrics, sales leaders can gain the fuel they need to make smarter decisions and help their sales teams drive more revenue than ever. So if your sales team is not already leveraging predictive analytics, you may be […]