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 […]

Learning to create strong, unique voicemails is highly advantageous for SDRs, AEs and CSMs alike. Specifically, personalizing your voicemail drops is a fantastic way to enhance your sales strategy and stand out amongst your competitors. And yet, many sales reps report struggling with this task.  We at Revenue.io understand the challenges of producing perfect voicemails, […]

Discovery calls are designed to find a buyer’s pain points, unearth priorities, and understand their needs. It’s your first chance to wow a buyer. It all starts with building trust and rapport. If you can’t do that, your deal will be dead in the water. That’s why getting discovery calls right is so important. The […]

What’s the difference between an SDR, BDR, AE and CSM?  Sometimes it seems like the sales industry is full of more acronyms than the U.S. government. So if you’re confused about the differences between these roles, it’s understandable. To further confuse matters, if you go to two different companies, they might be calling the same […]

Conversation Intelligence has quickly become a revenue-critical technology for sales and marketing teams. It’s easy to see why: revenue teams are able to unlock exponential growth when they extract actionable insights from their conversations with buyers. The reality is 70% of sales training is forgotten within a week according to Gartner’s research.  But it doesn’t […]

When is the best time to make sales prospecting cold calls?  To find out, we launched a major study in 2019, mining call data from millions of sales calls to uncover which times of day are ideal for key sales activities, including the best time to make cold calls.  Below, we’ll reveal the results of […]

There’s more pressure on revenue teams today than ever before. In order to keep up with growing demands, teams are relying more and more on outbound sales. And with this growing reliance on outbound sales, new tools and technologies are appearing to make it easier to connect with buyers.  But we wouldn’t be good data-driven […]

Somewhere, not too far from here, is an old house that creaks and moans. Ghosts drift along the floorboards and swoop through the windows, frightening anyone who dares come too close. The neighbors say they can occasionally hear mutters of: “…Went with a competitor…” “…Not ready to make a buying decision quite yet…” “…Champion went […]

It’s a cardinal sin to be boring in sales. It’s not your value proposition that’s initially interesting to your buyer. It’s you. Creating a working connection with a buyer, or a human, demands that you demonstrate a sincere interest in them as a person. It also demands that you be interesting to them in return. […]

Objections. They’re a pretty hot topic (did that sentence make you feel like you had on a Nirvana shirt?). The other day, I heard an ad on the radio from some guy who claimed to be “the world’s best sales trainer.” He was selling his sales program, and said he could teach you how to […]

Every day, someone somewhere is publishing a mediocre podcast episode about B2B sales. Look no further than your podcast app and social feeds for proof. If you listen closely enough, you can hear someone switching on their mic and hitting the record button. And for all those podcasts, there are listeners. In 2020, an estimated […]

Why are you wasting valuable sales time having salespeople negotiate contracts? I’ve grown plenty of high performing sales teams. I’ve never spent a dollar on training my sellers on negotiation. That’s not their job. Not to mention most sellers are horrible at it. (Though most think they are great at it.) What many sellers consider […]