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How HubSpot's New AI Tools Are Transforming Mid-Market SaaS Sales
The SaaS Sales Shift: From Fragmented to Unified The life of a mid-market SaaS sales leader has always been a balancing act. You're asked to scale revenue, increase efficiency, and gain a clear view of your data, but ...
How to Run the Best Pipeline Review Meeting (+ 10 Questions)
Any salesperson can tell you that managing your sales pipeline can be incredibly complicated. Organizing top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel interactions and setting up content and resources to facilitate the buyer's ...
27 Common Sales Problems & How to Fix Them
Having some sales problems? As a team embraces the inbound philosophy, it’s important to recognize opportunities to re-engineer processes around sales best practices. Many techniques that were once favored in ...
6 Pain Points All Sales Teams Will Face in 2022
Most of 2020 and 2021 were filled with challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As companies prepare for 2022, they’ll find many of the same issues along with a few new ones. Not everything is due to the pandemic, but ...
How to Generate Leads Without Cold Calling (+ 10 Tips)
Raise your hand the last time you enjoyed receiving a phone call from an unknown number. In fact, more likely than not, you simply reject them. And in the event that you do answer a cold call, you likely look for an ...
10 B2B Sales Techniques for 2021 to Close More Deals Fast
B2B sales offers up some unique challenges for sales teams to conquer. The sales techniques must be highly targeted to help your team gain leads and close deals. While B2B offers different challenges than B2C, there are ...
How to Use Sales Battlecards to Close More Deals (+ Free Template)
How much does your sales team know about your competitors? The chance is that even if they know some information about these important items, they probably don’t know enough. Your sales reps need to be well-versed in ...
6 Sales Forecasting Methods That Help You Plan for Future Growth
Making smarter decisions when setting goals, budgeting, prospecting, and hiring is possible when you are able to forecast sales accurately. Sales forecasting can play an important part in the success of your business. ...
9 Types of Sales Trigger Events & How to Use Them (w/ Examples)
Trigger events are a great way to fuel your lead generation efforts. If your sales team doesn't practice using them while prospecting, then you're missing out on opportunities. Once you know what to look for, ...
10 Business Development Tactics You Need to Fill Your Pipeline
An increase in marketing efforts often yields more leads. But an increase in traffic can sometimes bring in low-quality leads. This is where your business development reps come in to try to weed out low-quality leads by ...
40 Sales Qualification Questions to Help You Find the Right Prospects
Even the most brilliant sales pro can't sell to a prospect who isn't actually qualified to buy. But that's exactly what too many sales teams are trying to do. They're pursuing bad-fit people who are not prepared to make ...
Business Development: Your Solution to Building Healthy Pipelines Fast
What Is Business Development? Business development is the process used to identify and qualify potential leads by reaching out to prospects to further gauge their needs, interest, and qualification level. This helps ...
How to Build a Comprehensive Sales Strategy for 2020 (+ Example)
To function at their best, all parts of your business need a strategy. We see that every day in content marketing. Content is the leading way to engage and connect with B2B prospects, but it has to be consistent to ...
16 of the Best Sales Techniques That Close More Deals (+ 4 That Fail)
Looking to sharpen your sales techniques? We encourage you to dive into inbound sales techniques if you want to see really positive results. Inbound sales takes the old, interruptive sales process and turns it on its ...
How to Use Documents on LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Sale Cycle
As a salesperson, you know that LinkedIn is an important tool to master. The platform is great for connecting and building relationships, finding new leads, and even keeping up with industry trends. Sales has evolved ...
Always Be Closing Is Dead. 5 Ways Social Selling Helps You Crush Quota
Everyone in sales should know the ABC acronym: Always Be Closing. Made popular by a line by David Mamet in Glengarry Glen Ross, the mantra embodies the attitude of every salesperson today. Because who doesn’t want to be ...
Consultative Selling: Everything You Need to Know
An unpopular opinion, but selling is truly an art form that requires a pretty diverse set of skills. There are so many different styles you can learn and approaches you should master. One of the most impactful being ...
5 Crappy Sales Hacks That Don't Work (+ 5 Tips to Use Instead)
Want all the secrets to sales? Well, let us assure you – these sales hacks that you’ve probably been trying are absolute bologna. Unfortunately, many common sales techniques used today are actually more likely to drive ...