Roadmapping is a key ingredient for RevOps success. A strategic operational roadmap not only drives alignment across your organization, but it also helps keep teams accountable and focused on the work that’s going to have the biggest impact on revenue. Still, many teams find it difficult to make roadmapping a sustainable part of their operations […]

Coaching is one of the most impactful things you can do for your reps. And when you create a culture of coaching, reps stay longer and hit their quota more frequently, managers are able to provide better coaching and get more out of their teams, and organizations are able to hit their goals. In other […]

The legendary race car driver Bobby Unser famously said about racing, “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” And that’s just as true when it comes to conducting a winning product demonstration.  When an opportunity to demo your product arises, the preparation you put in beforehand has the most significant impact on the success of […]

Don’t sell to meet quotas. Sell to solve problems. As Andy Paul (host of the wildly popular Sales Enablement Podcast) puts it, “The job of a seller is to listen to the buyer and understand which thing is most important to them, and then help them get that.”  And the only way to do that […]

According to original research by Revenue.io, 77% of reps struggle to find enough time to complete everything they need to during the day. Salesforce research agrees with this, uncovering the bleak fact that reps only spend ⅓ of their time selling. So what’s taking up reps’ time? Ask the reps themselves, and they list: Logging […]

When you’re choosing a dialer, reps will offer endless lists of features. Some of these are truly necessary, while others are just pretty ornamentation that won’t actually help your team reach its quota. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the seven most important dialer features. While this list is by no means comprehensive, […]

When our VP of Sales was looking through our internal data recently, he stumbled on something remarkable. Deals in which an account executive was on a texting basis with a prospect were 5 times more likely to close. This makes sense. After all, many of us text with our friends and close acquaintances a lot […]

All master sellers have something crucial in common: a passion for continuous self-improvement. After all, no matter how much you master your craft, there’s always room to improve sales skills. Whether you’re starting your sales career or you’ve closed multiple seven-figure deals, we think you’ll benefit from these 7 proven ways to take your sales […]

Local Presence enables inside sales reps to automatically dial prospects using local area codes. Local presence dialers can lift call connection rates by up to 400%, because prospects tend to be far more likely to answer unknown calls from local numbers, rather than toll-free or long-distance phone numbers.  Revenue.io’s Local Presence empowers your sales team […]

You’ve probably heard of the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. There is a lot of wisdom in the book and I won’t spoil it for you. But, if you are new to revenue operations, fondly known as “RevOps,” what can you do to be more effective at being an operator? […]

Many of the sales managers we speak to have told us in no uncertain terms: it’s getting harder and harder to retain great sales talent. One of the best ways to retain talent is to hire the right candidates to begin with. But that’s easier said than done. Because of the strong competition to hire […]

As a savvy salesperson, you know sales are built on relationships, and a key part in building relationships is tailoring your sales approach to your buyers. This is easy to do with sales enablement and acceleration software like Guided Selling by Revenue.io, but there are plenty of other ways to improve your relationship-building skills if […]