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16 of the Best B2B Sales Tools to Help Your Sales Team Grow Better

Hubspot Sales

B2B sales tools are meant to automate day-to-day processes, increase efficiency in all aspects of the sales process, and simplify various aspects of a sales rep's day to save valuable time — time that can be spent focusing on prospects and deals. In this piece, we'll review what B2B sales tools are, why your team should be using them, and 16 of the best options available today.

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How to Break Through the Noise and Create New Conversations with Prospects

RAIN Group

As a seller, you’re trying to build relationships with potential buyers. People buy from people they know, like, and trust. The more you get to know your buyers, and let them get to know you, the easier it is to sell to them. But first, you have to break through the noise, capture their attention, and create conversations with them. This is easier said than done.

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Improving Sales Performance: Sales Leadership and Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

The pandemic affected more than just the health and daily lives of people across the world. It affected behaviors and perceptions—including how media is used. With media plans reconfigured and millions of dollars’ worth of ad budgets shifted - to say the rug was swept out from under the advertising industry is an understatement. In case you missed Episode 8 of the Improving Sales Performance series , here’s a breakdown of the conversation that host, Matt Sunshine and guest, Gary Pizzati had on h

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How to Succeed at Finding Bliss [PODCAST]

Sandler Training

Mike Montague interviews Akshay Nanavati, best-selling author of Fearvana, on How to Succeed at Finding Bliss. The post How to Succeed at Finding Bliss [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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A Sales Manager's Guide to Coaching Reps that Seem Uncoachable

Hubspot Sales

Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight once said, “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you — as the coach — are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.”. It's a powerful sentiment that provides some sage advice for coaches working across virtually all sports, fields, and occupations. But when it comes to sales, some managers might have trouble delivering on it — often through no fault of their own.

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2021 Tech Trends: Why the Human Touch Needs to be Felt Digitally

NG Data

2020 has accelerated digital adoption across all populations – we are all more reliant on our apps, phones, and browsers in everything from buying our groceries to purchasing cars, or even accepting new mortgages. Across the board, companies have accepted that their data must be more accessible and connected in order to differentiate their services and make authentic connections with their.

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Improve Sales Performance via Virtual In-Field Coaching

The Center for Sales Strategy

"I see the value in spending time with my sellers in the field coaching them, but I just don't have the time.". We’ve heard this a lot from sales managers over the years, pre-COVID and during COVID. Finding time to watch sellers in the field is a challenge to time-starved managers. The average time to coach a seller on a typical 30-minute, face-to-face appointment is actually around two hours when you factor in things like travel time to and from an appointment.

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To Succeed at Sales Prospecting, You Must Have This

Hubspot Sales

As The Office ’s Michael Scott famously noted, it was Wayne Gretzky who said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." In other words, you can't succeed unless you try. That winning mindset allowed Gretzky to become a Hall of Famer, and the leading scorer in NHL history, with more goals and assists than any other player. Winners like Gretzky set goals and believe they will achieve them.

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Revolutionize the Selling Process with Partnership Technology

CoSell

Selling is a constantly evolving field. Partnership technology gives you a clear competitive advantage to know more about your customers and prospects. With all the new advances in technology and software, we can work more efficiently than ever before. We can streamline sales techniques, and transform the selling process in ways our predecessors never could have envisioned.

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How To Improve Strategic Planning

Aepiphanni

2020 has ended and more people are glad it’s finally over. We all know that the flip of the calendar page from December to January is not going to change anything immediately. For most people, it is a psychological release of whatever challenges happened the previous year and an opportunity to step into the chance of a much better year. In the business world, January either triggers the start of a.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Your Sales Team: In Touch With Your Organization?

Engage Selling

Is your sales team in touch with your organization? That is, do members of your sales team stay updated on new developments in the rest of your organization? Are they aligned with what the marketing teams are telling prospects? Do … Read More » The post Your Sales Team: In Touch With Your Organization? first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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The Secret to Managing Salespeople? Start with Their Myers-Briggs Personalities

Hubspot Sales

If you're looking for another article about why your sales team should only hire ESFJs, you've come to the wrong place. While it's true that not everyone is a perfect fit for the sales profession, most people just need the right motivation and management to thrive. And understanding your team's personalities (as well as those of potential hires) can help you motivate, develop, train, and collaborate with individual contributors more effectively.

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Weekly Roundup: How Sales Pros Are Adapting to Remote Work, Mastering Virtual Communication + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "The secret to getting ahead is getting started.". -Mark Twain. - AROUND THE WEB -. > How Sales Pros are Adapting to Remote Work – Sales Hacker. Nearly a year in and we’re still not ready to call it a new normal just yet. With the shift to work from home, remote selling has become a cornerstone of successful sales strategies in 2020.

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How to Assess if You’ve Made Your Talent a Competitive Advantage

Force Management

You monitor rep performance, but what processes have you put in place to build “B” sellers into “A”s and retain your highest performing people? Do you hire what you think are top performers, only to see that they aren’t worth their cost in the long run? As a sales leader, you cannot underestimate the importance of owning your sales talent process. Don’t make the mistake of relying solely on human resources to navigate the recruiting process for new sellers, especially when you have the opportuni

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Sales Managers: Get Out from Behind Your Desk | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

As sales managers, you can’t solve your team and company’s problems if you’re not talking to customers directly. Especially during these uncertain times, I know many of you have become comfortable with just sitting behind your desk. However, you need … Read More » The post Sales Managers: Get Out from Behind Your Desk | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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7 Ways to Encourage Sales Accountability

Hubspot Sales

For any growing company, the speed at which you hire means continuously tweaking your sales training playbook to find a balance between group sessions and one-on-one coaching. You need a sales training process that will equip each salesperson with a certain baseline of knowledge, and empower them to implement what they’ve learned. One of the ways to ensure that salespeople can retain their knowledge and successfully move on from the training period is by teaching them to take ownership of their

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B2B Sales Transformation Tactics to Implement Right Now

Showpad

As Forbes notes, there’s no “if” or “when” to B2B sales transformation anymore. After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. The difference now is that recent, truly transformative events have pushed sales operations forward toward innovation and a fundamental rethinking of how best to communicate, collaborate, serve clients and drive revenue.

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Let’s Get Real About How Many Contacts It Takes To Get An Appointment

The Center for Sales Strategy

There's certainly a lot of banter these days about how many contacts a salesperson must make in order to secure an appointment. We all know it takes more than 2 or 3 calls, but how many does it really take, and why?

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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5 Virtual Success Tips for Sales and Marketing Leaders

CoSell

As business leaders, we’re always on the lookout for success insights. We’re hungry to know how to build success, maintain success, and promote success while working virtually. There’s no question that our world has and is facing unprecedented challenges and uncertainties. Yet, it is up to us to lead—and to do this, it helps to learn what other sales and marketing leaders are discovering for virtual success.

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7 Confidence-Killing Habits to Avoid in Sales

Hubspot Sales

Think of an experience you had when you were trying to make a purchase, and the salesperson helping you lacked confidence. Perhaps they weren’t sure of the product’s features. Or maybe they didn’t do a good job explaining how their product can help you solve your problem, because they didn’t understand what you were looking for. Confidence is a key differentiator between reps who meet or exceed their goals, and those who struggle to gain momentum.

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Four New Sales Habits for 2021

Revenue Storm

When reaching out to friends and colleagues in the new year, there is a familiar feeling permeating amongst all of them – “…thank goodness 2020 is over and let’s hope 2021 is better!”. We all know hope is not a strategy. How many times has your boss said that? So, I thought we could look at 2020 and consider four practical sales habits we, as sales professionals, could implement in 2021 to take ownership of and accelerate our path to success. 1.

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The Center for Sales Strategy Announces Two Leadership Promotions

The Center for Sales Strategy

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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5 Incredibly Powerful Lean Visual Management Tools

Kainexus

Visual management tools surround us. Although they are so ubiquitous, we might not even think about them. When your car is about to run out of gas, a light will alert you to the problem. Your fitness app may even show you how close you are to your daily goal. Your brain can quickly process these visual clues and use the information to make decisions.

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7 Steps to Establish a Successful Sales Mentorship Program

Hubspot Sales

I will always be a believer in sales mentorship programs. Early in my career, the hands-on training I received from my mentors taught me more than any other experience. I can remember deals at every company I've worked for that I simply wouldn't have closed without help. Applying these learnings to subsequent deals enabled me to win them on my own -- and in a much smaller time frame.

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Overcome Fears and Learn to Delegate in the Workplace

CMOE

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”. – Theodore Roosevelt. All great managers must learn to delegate in the workplace. There’s a reason that a decisive leader like President Theodore Roosevelt talked about its importance.

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3 Goals Your Sales Reps Must Achieve Early in the Sales Cycle

Sales Readiness Group

As a sales manager, you have a limited amount bandwidth to go on joint sales calls with your sales reps. While going on joint calls with reps is important, if you have to be on every single meeting, you wouldn’t have time left over to be a manager.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Are You Paying Attention to What Matters in This Pandemic?

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

What are you paying attention to during this pandemic? What you’re focusing on can make a big difference to your business, your career, and your health.

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ROI of Scaling Improvement with KaiNexus

Kainexus

KaiNexus customers capture more daily improvements from staff, run more efficient strategic projects and events, coach more effectively, and streamline their improvement process. They engage everyone from the frontlines to the executive leaders in a thriving improvement culture to accelerate their rate of change —and it shows. The more engaged your employees are with improvement work, the more impact you’ll see.

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How to Build Your Ability to Work Under Pressure

CMOE

The ability to work under pressure means you can still perform your job duties well, even in the presence of stress. These stressors may be caused by unforeseen circumstances and uncontrollable variables or by factors that can be predicted. To work effectively under pressure, you must not let these stressors distract you; it’s essential that you remain level-headed.

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Moving into CS Leadership Through Growth

Strikedeck

Mel Bilge shares her approach to growing success inside of a startup, and moving from the individual contributor role into a leadership position. The post Moving into CS Leadership Through Growth first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.