Hubspot found that the average sales close rate is between 15 and 27%, depending on the industry. With over 70% of deals falling through, everyone has plenty of lost or dropped sales opportunities in their CRM. These prospects fail to convert numerous reasons, from no decision, postponed, budget constraints, contact departure, to even a slow […]

Computer-telephony integration (CTI) solutions can help your company connect your company’s phone system to your CRM. When a phone system is connected to a CRM, it not only enables marketers to see how their efforts are influencing the outcomes of calls, but it also enables marketers to share contextual CRM data with reps in real time. […]

The most important rule in sales isn’t always be closing (ABC), it’s always be helping (ABH). And in order to help prospective clients, you need to ask a variety of questions. Without asking questions, it can be impossible to know how best to help a prospect, or if you are even the right vendor to […]

As we dutifully work toward the private beta launch of our iPad release, Revenue.io has been grateful for continued press coverage. Buzz has especially been generating around our use of APIs to integrate voice metrics and analytics data into CRM tools. Multinational telecommunications titan Alcatel-Lucent used Revenue.io as a case study in their recent whitepaper […]

Modern sales reps have more communication channels available to them than ever before. SMS messages, email, social media, even video all provide a conduit to engage with contacts. However even today, the phone still prevails as the most effective sales communication tool. The phone is still the only communication method through which sales reps can […]

We’re occasionally asked why we chose to target our initial product line toward Salesforce.com customers. While Salesforce is currently the world’s largest CRM vendor, that only happened recently. One of the main reasons we partnered with Salesforce is because they’ve grown their business, in part, through smart acquisitions. Each new acquisition adds new dimensions to […]

Best Practices for More Selling Time for Sales Reps How much time are your inside sales reps spending selling? A few years back, I read a study saying that average sales reps only pay 35% of their time selling. My first thought was, “That can’t be right!” But think about it – how much time […]

One of the most common questions I hear salespeople ask is, “how do I beat my competitors?” As we all know, it tends to be a lot harder to win large deals when you’re competing against other companies (especially ones that may be more established than yours). So if you’re competing for large deals, there’s an […]

Sales professionals have one of the most straightforward job descriptions out there: sell. However, salespeople only spend a third of their time selling, and sales managers spend twice as much time on administrative items than they do coaching their sales teams. Modern salespeople battle two main opponents for their time, communication channels and sales tools. […]

Maximize Your Sales Effectiveness with Advanced Call Routing In the past, call routing systems were complex, hardware intensive, difficult to manage, and uncompromising. Now, it’s the exact opposite. Modern day call routing systems are application-based, incredibly powerful, and simple to use. In fact, call flows in solutions like Revenue.io can be created and modified through […]

Sales automation is one of the key factors that will contribute to the success or failure of your team in the next few years. Sales teams require an ever-increasing amount of data in order to make themselves, as well as departments like marketing, support, and product successful. The majority of this data collection has fallen […]

One of the best parts of modern-day marketing is the massive amount of data that is available to us. This data provides complete visibility into the performance of marketing campaigns, especially those that capture inbound leads. With this insight, we can maximize our inbound efforts to collect as many leads as possible. This newfound ability […]