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How AI Will Help (and Harm) Sales Teams

If you’re not using AI to increase your sales team’s productivity, you’re going to fall behind. That said, HOW you use AI in sales matters just as much as whether or not you’re using it.

Posted on August 31, 2023

What is HubSpot Meetings and How Do I Use It?

Communication is key to achieving business success. Thanks to the digital age, communication tools have expanded into a wide range of possibilities.

The HubSpot Meetings tool is one that sales teams and business executives can use to not only streamline communications, but to also eliminate the friction that often leads to missed sales opportunities.

Posted on March 14, 2023

HubSpot Deal Stages: 7 Keys to Success

Some of the most common issues we see when evaluating clients' use of HubSpot stems from issues with how they use deals and deal stages. Data cleanliness, user adoption, forecasting accuracy, are all impacted by how you use deals.

Thankfully, as common as these mistakes are, they’re avoidable — and reversible.

Posted on October 24, 2022

Tagged HubSpot, Sales

Inbound Lead Follow-Up Tips to Convert More Customers

You’re a B2B tech company with a truly exceptional product, service, or solution.

It fills a need, solves a problem, and eases the pain of your target audience. So, in an effort to get some solid leads into your funnel, you launch a content marketing strategy to attract, engage, and delight potential customers.

The marketing is working! The leads are steady, consistent, and qualified. Revenue...

Posted on November 06, 2020

Tagged Sales

SaaS Sales Tips: 4 Ways to Close More B2B Deals

One of the most important goals for a SaaS company is acquiring new customers. In fact, a study from Reply.io showed that new customer acquisition was the highest priority for more than 89% of SaaS companies – followed by existing customer renewals and upsell/add-on sales.

Posted on January 30, 2020

Getting the Most Out Of HubSpot Live Chat

In a world of nearly constant emails, social media posts, and marketing messages, the idea of a conversation is often lost.

Posted on November 04, 2019

Sales Tips: 3 Things You Need to Be Successful At Sales

If you do a quick search for "sales tips", you'll get more than 1.5 million results. Whoa. It's safe to say there's a wealth of information out there for how to get better at sales, whether you're in sales or not.

Posted on March 19, 2018

Tagged Sales, Sales Tools

The Top 5 Free Sales Tools in the HubSpot CRM

CRMs can be amazing tools for salespeople and marketers. But they can also be a huge pain.

It’s all about how you use them.

We see a ton of companies who use their CRMs only to store customer information, and many don’t even do that well. Your CRM shouldn’t be a big messy database that sucks up all your time and gives you an anxiety attack every time you open it.

Posted on February 20, 2018

Building Buyer Personas: Interview Questions, Examples, and Template

As marketers, our lives get easier when we know more about our ideal customers. The more we know about them, the easier it is to communicate with them, offer value to them, and sell our products and services to them.Buyer personas are an awesome tool for ensuring that we have all the information we need, and organizing that information in a way that's easy to understand. Essentially, buyer...

Posted on January 23, 2018

Tips for Building Rapport in Sales by Using Video

Building rapport is all about being authentic and human.

By definition, rapport is “a relationship marked by mutual understanding and trust.” Establishing those kinds of relationships is what sales people have been trying to do for years, with varying degrees of success. But in this digital, global world, we can’t rely on the same rapport-building tactics that worked for them just a couple...

Posted on January 04, 2018

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