Three Simple (and Free!) Tactics to Boost Sales Performance
Most sales organizations are not unlike a college class being graded on the Bell Curve. Typically, 20 percent are top performers – these A+...
Close More Sales with Lead Validation
Lead validation is the labor-intensive process of listening to recordings of phone inquiries and reading form submissions generated by SEO, PPC, email marketing and...
Understanding Sales Equity
So Just What Is Sales Equity?
To borrow a phrase from the financial industry, “equity” (the value you receive) is simply your “asset” (what you...
The Dangers of Not Attributing Customer Calls to Digital Marketing
Digital marketing has gone mobile. And thanks to smartphones and click-to-call, consumers are responding to search, social, display and other digital ads and campaigns...
Self-Service Data Prep: the Secret to Fast, Accurate Sales and Marketing Analytics
Data quality and data access plague analytics – especially in sales and marketing. Let’s face it, whether your role is sales operations or marketing...
Three Things that Keep Sales Managers from Making Intelligent Decisions
When it comes to the productivity, effectiveness and overall success of sales teams, data is key. Having accurate and useful data can make or...
The trick that makes sales training stick
“We spent $2 million on a selling system a few years back and our reps won’t put it into play. So we’re looking to...
It’s Not Your PowerPoint, It’s You
PowerPoint was originally created to improve and enhance presentations. With over 30 million PowerPoint presentations made each day, it has evolved into the default...
Not Just For Kids: How Gamification Can Help Fill Your Channel Pipeline
Gamification has become a popular method of improving sales because it works. Putting measurement devices such as leader boards, point totals, and scorecards in...
How to Make B2B Data an ROI Catalyst
More than ever, marketing departments are feeling pressure from CEOs and sales vice presidents to prove the return on considerable marketing investments. Producing attention-capturing...