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    What's the Future of B2B Sales? (Expert Interview)

    enJanuary 10, 2022
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    About this Episode

    As the Founder + CEO of Skaled Consulting, Jake Dunlap helps executives around the world accelerate business growth with data-backed sales solutions. Before building Skaled, he held the roles of VP of Sales at Nowait (acquired by Yelp), Head of Sales + Customer Success at Chartbeat, and VP of Sales at Glassdoor (acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2 billion dollars in 2018).

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    Key Takeaways:

    Today’s customer has done their research. They can be 80% of the way through the sales process before you have contact with them. You need a strong understanding of the sales process — which is almost universal — and a clear picture of where your customer is in that process when they make contact.

    With sales technology, to get your full ROI, make a solid plan for deployment, systems integration, and continuous optimization. Identify the bottlenecks you have, and choose/use technology to address existing problems.

    Jake’s Top Sales Tech Stack Recommendations:

    For customizing and tracking steps in your sales process, Outreach.
    For a strong, clean data collection tool, LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
    For analytics to gauge the impact of your content, InsightSquared and Vidyard.
    For following up with personalized gifts, Sendoso.

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