The sales industry in the United Kingdom is huge, with Crown Statistics showing that one in every six workers in the country is employed either directly or indirectly in sales. Meanwhile, according to an Aaron Wallis Recruitment and Training survey, 55 percent of businesses believe sales is their most important department. What these two pieces ...
Condensed from a Pipeliner SalesChat Interview with Joel Capperella Interview by John Golden Joel Capperella is a leading marketing consultant with 20 years of strategic marketing execution in enterprise software, SaaS and technical professional services. Joel specializes in guiding his clients to obtain bigger pipelines, increased brand and product awareness, faster revenue and empowered transformation. ...
Do you believe that a large percentage of the buying process is complete before sales needs to get involved (57%, 65%, 67% or even more?) If so, you can thank Doug Davidoff, CEB, Dan Pink, and several analyst quoted in this LinkedIn article published in early 2015. Mr. Davidoff states: The initial research comes from 2011 Corporate ...
A proper follow-up can make or break a sale. It is also highly underestimated in its effectiveness. Without proper follow-up, many sales die. Rookie salespeople make the mistake of assuming that their job is done after the sales call when in reality that’s when the real job begins. An effective follow-up takes planning and tenacity. ...
For some, failure can mean the end of the road on some activity, venture or goal. But that is only true if you give up and just stop. For me—and for many others like me—failure in some area can act as a valuable learning experience that further enables success. This new series of blogs will ...
Recently I was having a drink at my local hang-out, when I ran into a colleague I met a few years ago but who I hadn’t seen since. We recognized each other and engaged in a catch-up conversation. As we moved from small talk to more business talk, I realized that my first impression was ...
Even if you are a Pipeliner CRM customer, you may not be aware of our mission and vision, and how vitally important these are to us and our success. As we hear from customers, Pipeliner CRM is many things. We label it Instant Intelligence, Visualized because it is the most visual CRM solution on the ...
While on the hunt for leads, it’s best that you keep quality instead of quantity in mind. According to “The Critical Importance of Lead Validation in Internet Marketing” study, about half of a company’s leads generated through its website aren’t sales related. Instead, these non-leads consist of things like auto-dialers, phone misdials, spam, sales solicitations ...
