AI tools now give sellers back an average of 4.8 hours a week, according to Gartner. Yet 72% of sales organizations fail to reinvest that saved time into high-value selling. Winning back the selling day takes two moves, not one: use AI to clear the four biggest time sinks (research, data entry, drafting, meeting prep), ... Read Post
To improve CRM adoption among sales reps, make the CRM give more than it takes: cut manual data entry to minutes a day, configure the pipeline around how deals actually move, run every forecast and pipeline review from inside the CRM, train reps inside their live deals instead of a sandbox, measure usage weekly for ... »
The difference between AI agents vs assistants comes down to how much they do on their own. An AI assistant helps you do a task faster when you ask, like drafting an email or summarizing a call. An AI agent takes multi-step action toward a goal on its own, like researching an account, preparing a ... »
Sales forecasting comes down to five steps: define your sales process and forecast period, gather your historical deal data, choose a forecasting method that fits your data, build the number, and review it against reality on a fixed cadence. The method you choose matters less than most teams think. The discipline of the five steps ... »
Right On Interactive is helping companies use Customer Lifecycle Marketing strategies by surfacing their “best-fit” customers. Surface and Cultivate their Best-Fit Customers Are you curious about the trending topic of Customer Lifecycle Marketing, and how it could help you grow your business? Right On Interactive’s ebook, Lifecycle Marketing 101: What Every B2B Marketer Needs to ... Read Post
Review and score your overall sales ecosystem with Ken Thoreson’s revealing audit. Tune Your Sales Tactics with Ken Thoreson’s Sales Audit Your sales ecosystem is supposed to be a finely-tuned set of activities working together to move sales from lead to close. But do you have unseen stumbling blocks that are preventing the system from ... Read Post
Principles, tactics, and practical advice about using social media as a selling tool. About Social Upheaval Drawing on his experience in re-making global companies, author and sales expert John Golden shares his ebook “Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.” In the book, John explains how every B2B salesperson can add social selling methods ... Read Post
Going back to the earlier part of the last century, sales was traditionally fraught with—and seen as—trickery. It seemed that the most clever salesperson, the one who consistently got the highest numbers, knew how to manipulate prospects. In the 1960s this began to change, when pioneers such as Zig Ziglar sought to raise the reputation ... Read Post
What does fitness mean for a salesperson? Hint: it’s not just being buff. Fitness is an interesting subject. It certainly means staying bodily fit–and the tens of thousands of gyms seen all over our cities serve as reminders of how much attention people have on toned physiques today. But it also means staying fit in ... Read Post
In the world I was born into, people went to school in the traditional way. During that time, you were asked what you wanted to be one day. You went to elementary, middle school, high school and university. You learned a profession, and you worked in that profession most of your life. In those days ... Read Post
Something new vies for your attention every few minutes: emails, text messages, collaboration tools, phone calls, co-workers, meetings, customers, and the list goes on. The result? Productivity suffers. But with discipline and preparation, you can defeat these productivity dragons. We know it’s possible because we recently surveyed 2,377 professionals to find out which habits and ... Read Post
It is always better to have less but more highly qualified opportunities in your pipeline than it is to have a lot of poorly qualified ones. Resources and focus are better served where you have a realistic chance of success. This tool will help you evaluate opportunities and see if they are worth pursuing. Read Post
Sales POP! – conversations with the people who run sales organizations, hosted by John Golden. Published by Coevera, the CRM built for B2B sales teams that sell consultatively.
Nir Zavaro, the Business Storyteller and Amazon #1 bestselling author of F*ck the Slides, explains how to align brand, marketing, and sales by defining one consistent brand character, reviewing it every two months, and using a brand guardian to keep teams aligned. He also shows why a sales pitch should run about three minutes and lead with emotion before data. Learn more at https://nirzavaro.com/
