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There’s nothing funny about sales…or is EVERYTHING funny about sales? That’s the question for this week’s Closing Time guest, Tom Boston.
The daily trials and tribulations of the modern seller are happening in offices and homes across the world every day. As a former Brand Awareness leader for SalesLoft, Tom created a safe, fun place for salespeople to relate to each other and find camaraderie in a profession that can often feel lonely and full of rejection.
In this episode of Closing Time, Tom shares his journey from SDR to Chief Funny Guy, offering insights into humor in B2B sales and some tips and tricks on standing out with personal branding. We were lucky enough to catch him on the cusp of his next professional venture. Come have a laugh with us!
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Connect With:
• Tom Boston: LinkedIn // YouTube // Twitter // Instagram // My Sales Coach
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Simple copy wins now more than ever. That’s what data from Unbounce, the global leader in landing page creation and optimization software, showed in the newly released 2024 Conversion Benchmark Report.
Analyzing proprietary Unbounce data from over 57 million conversions across multiple industries, the report found a 2x conversion rate with simple copy and some eye-opening results on mobile vs. desktop.
In this episode of Closing Time, Alex Nazarevich, VP of Growth Marketing at Unbounce, shares key insights from the report. This is also your chance to get acquainted with Alex, who will be hosting future episodes of Closing Time!
Watch the episode on YouTube.
Want to dive deeper into the data? Get access to the 2024 Conversion Benchmark Report today.
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Connect With:
• Alex Nazarevich: LinkedIn // Unbounce's Website
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Getting your startup from the minimum viable product (MVP) to unicorn status doesn’t happen by chance.
In this episode of Closing Time, we meet Stijn Hendrikse, GTM sales coach and author of T2D3 - a handbook for early-stage SaaS leaders. T2D3 stands for tripling your annual revenue for two years in a row and then doubling it for three more years.
Stijn talks through the six stages of successful start-up growth that cross product, sales, and marketing. This episode is packed with insights to help startups achieve sustainable growth and build lasting customer relationships.
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Connect With:
• Stijn Hendrikse: LinkedIn // T2D3
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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You’ve heard of the six go-to-market motions, but there's a new kid on the block...buyer-led growth. Meet Sean Piket, a fractional CRO and founder of RevXsell. Sean is passionate about buyer-first, customer-centric B2B selling, and he coined buyer-led growth to help sellers recognize the way today’s buyer wants to buy.
This isn't a new motion but rather a driver that influences all six current motions—removing friction, teaching your sellers to be facilitators of the buying process, and redeploying your SDRs are all on the table. Learn more in this episode of Closing Time.
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Connect With:
• Sean Piket LinkedIn // RevXsell
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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B2B sales has never been more of a challenge than it is today—buying committees are complex, sales cycles are long, and buyers are inherently risk-averse. When you’re focused on the big picture (closing deals and hitting quota), it’s easy to forget how your daily activities drive your success or hold you back.
In this episode of Closing Time, Kevin Dorsey, a SaaS Sales Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Sales Leadership Coach, reveals his "10 Commandments of B2B Sales Success”—a set of daily practices that will keep you sharp, focused, and ahead of the competition.
From carving out time to roleplay and working in bursts to reflecting on your wins and preparing for tomorrow, these commandments are forged from real-world experience and proven strategies. Kevin encourages sellers to try them out for 30 days and see the difference in their sales performance.
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Connect With:
• Kevin "KD" Dorsey: LinkedIn // Kevin's Sales Training
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Many businesses aspire to move upmarket to enterprise, but there’s a catch—long, sometimes painfully long, deal cycles and demanding customers can make it a challenging arena.
If your small business deals aren’t fueling your growth, here’s a tip: don’t underestimate the mid-market advantage. Mid-market companies (typically with 50-250 employees) offer a sweet spot for scaling your business.
In this episode of Closing Time, we sit down with Steve Oriola, CEO of Unbounce, a landing page builder that recently acquired Insightly CRM. Both companies are key players in the SMB and mid-market space. Steve shares his insights on reaching this market, effective strategies for sales reps handling mid-sized deals, and an exciting preview of what the recent merger means for customers of both companies.
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Connect With:
• Steve Oriola: LinkedIn
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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You can’t argue with the data—today’s business leaders are on LinkedIn, networking and building relationships with sales reps like you.
In this episode of Closing Time, we welcome Morgan Ingram, CEO of AMP, a B2B Influencer Marketing firm, to share his advice for using LinkedIn (& Sales Navigator) to increase win rates. He’ll provide tips on what to do—and what NOT to do—on the platform, share his perspective on how the algorithm is changing, and explain how you can adapt your activity to maintain and improve your results.
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Connect With:
• Morgan Ingram: LinkedIn // AMP // Commish Newsletter
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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It's a new month/quarter, and you are back to zero again. Staying motivated in any role is difficult, but it’s even more so in B2B sales.
In this episode of Closing Time, we welcome Jordan Benjamin, host of the Peak Performance Selling podcast. Jordan shares tips for avoiding sales burnout, bringing his perspective as a salesperson, sales leader, meditation coach, and yoga instructor. He’ll talk through the types of energy salespeople bring to their role, how to focus on the role of helper and the mind-body connection that he uses to coach salespeople and leaders.
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Connect With:
• Jordan Benjamin: LinkedIn // Peak Performance Selling podcast
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Free trials can be a double-edged sword in B2B sales. While they offer prospects a hands-on experience with your product, they can also lead to prolonged sales cycles and missed opportunities if not managed correctly.
In this episode of Closing Time, Dave welcomes Salman Mohiuddin, a seasoned sales trainer and coach, to explore his framework for free trials in sales cycles. They delve into understanding the "why" behind trial requests, setting clear success criteria, engaging executive sponsors, and providing a white-glove experience to ensure trial success.
Trials are where deals go to die. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Tune in to refine your trial strategy and use it to close more deals efficiently.
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Connect With:
• Salman Mohiuddin: LinkedIn // Salman Sales Academy
• Dave Osborne: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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It’s midway through 2024, and you’re a new sales leader…congratulations! Now you’ve got to get to work. The current and future state of the organization is on your mind.
How can you make an impact right away, keep 2024 goals moving, and still begin to plan for 2025 quotas?
In this episode, Dave welcomes Meg Peterson of On Deck Leadership Consulting to discuss what it’s like to join an organization in this role at this moment in time and how successful sales leaders can navigate it.
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Connect With:
• Meg Peterson: LinkedIn // On Deck Leadership
• Dave Osborne: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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To gate or not to gate? Or “Gate-gate.” Either way, this is a controversial topic in B2B marketing.
In this episode of Closing Time, we welcome Anthony Kennada of AudiencePlus, an online content experience platform. Anthony walks us through the value of owned media and talks about how to determine what is ‘exclusive content’ and therefore worthy of a gate of some kind.
He also explains how having a first-party relationship with your audience is vital to lowering the cost of distribution, measuring the impact of content, and connecting audience engagement to bottom-line revenue.
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Connect With:
• Anthony Kennada: LinkedIn // AudiencePlus website
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Sales reps often get tangled in complex tactics, losing sight of the basics that truly matter. But in today's competitive market, what really stands out? Exceptional customer experience.
In this engaging episode of Closing Time, Neil Rogers, a marketing expert, speaker, and author of "Bar Tips: Everything I Need to Know in Sales I Learned Behind the Bar." Neil draws from his book to highlight the powerful parallels between hospitality and business, showcasing how the art of relationship-building can skyrocket sales performance. He also unveils the Positive Activity Process, a daily routine that boosts productivity and fosters a positive mindset.
This episode underscores the profound impact of treating customers with kindness and the immense value of small, thoughtful actions in driving business success.
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Connect With:
• Neil Rogers: LinkedIn // Website
• Dave Osborne: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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In today's digital age, data breaches have become a pressing concern for businesses of all sizes. Incident response service providers play a crucial role in mitigating these risks, helping companies swiftly identify and manage sensitive information after a security incident.
Assessment First is one of those companies. Its CEO and founder, Kris Wasserman, and his team provide data privacy solutions for data breach coaches and insurers.
In this customer spotlight edition of Closing Time, Kris speaks to the value Insightly has driven for his businesses since he became a customer in 2022.
From early struggles with bloated legacy CRMs like Salesforce to the seamless integration of Insightly's enterprise CRM, Marketing, Service, and AppConnect tools, Chris provides a comprehensive look at how these solutions have streamlined his company's processes. He also shares the innovative ways his team uses dashboards and integrations to enhance efficiency and client satisfaction.
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Connect With:
• Kris Wasserman: LinkedIn
• Melinda Prescher: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Sales cycles taking longer. More people on buying committees. It’s not your imagination – B2B sales is getting more difficult for both vendors and buyers.
On this episode of Closing Time, we welcome Allyson Havener from TrustRadius to discuss the 2024 B2B Buying Disconnect Report and why this is 'the year of the brand crisis.'
Allyson shares data-backed insights around the shrinking shortlist of preferred products, the increasing involvement of C-suite executives in purchase decisions, and the critical role of brand over demand generation in today's market.
Struggling to gain executive buy-in for brand spending? Allyson and her team at TrustRadius have your back. Download the full report: https://bit.ly/3XAOPT2
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Connect With:
• Allyson Havener: LinkedIn // TrustRadius
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Still sending the same boring emails? You may get lucky here and there, but your open and response rates are likely abysmal.
Sam McKenna, CEO of #samsales consulting, says that personalization in sales outreach is the key, but you need to take it even further. Genuine, research-based engagement will always win over generic, high-volume tactics.
In this episode of Closing Time, Sam shares practical examples of using her trademarked “Show Me You Know Me®” model in cold email, nurture email, social media, and more. Tune in to learn how to cut through the noise and make your outreach truly stand out in a sea of same.
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Connect With:
• Sam McKenna: Website // Twitter // LinkedIn
• Val Riley: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Ready to take your business to new heights? One of the biggest roadblocks to growth can be outdated tools that can't keep up with your ambition. This is especially true for mission-critical systems like your CRM. You need a solution that scales alongside you, not hold you back.
In this episode of Closing Time, Jerome Redmond, CEO of American Truck Training (ATT), shares his inspiring story of how Insightly's scalable CRM helped him haul his business from "zero to multi-millions." ATT, a commercial driver's license (CDL) training school in Oklahoma City, was founded to address the growing need for skilled truck drivers.
Jerome, an Insightly customer since 2012, dives deep into the value that Insightly CRM + AppConnect has brought to his business. He'll reveal the top reasons why Insightly has become the engine driving his success and how it can help your company shift into high gear too!
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Connect With:
• American Truck Training: Website // Jermone's LinkedIn
• Melinda Prescher: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Sure, getting leads from marketing is great. Leads served up from your SDR team? We love it! But real revenue growth happens when AEs are also self-sourcing pipeline.
Sales leaders, if you want your AEs to get excited about outbound, it's up to you to explain the "why" and enable them with fresh tactics for success.
In this episode of Closing Time, Jason Bay of Outbound Squad helps reps and their leaders really get outbound going by setting realistic activity targets, employing a solid contact strategy, and leveraging situation-based personalization.
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Connect With:
• Jason Bay: LinkedIn // Outbound Squad
• Dave Osborne: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Small changes...BIG results. If you want to grow your business, spending money on getting more web traffic may seem like the right move.
However, Sahil Patel and his team at Spiralyze take a different approach. Why not increase conversions from the traffic you already have?
In this episode of Closing Time, Sahil shares specific tactics to increase web conversion rates on landing pages and web pages. What content converts higher for enterprise vs. SMB? To include or not to include videos? Where should testimonials, client logos, and badges land in the hierarchy?
Learn what small adjustments you can make today to yield big results in the future.
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Connect With:
• Sahil Patel: LinkedIn // Website
• Chip House: Twitter // LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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Quality discovery questions separate good sales reps from great ones.
In this episode of Closing Time, Chip House welcomes Krysten Conner, a sales coach whose résumé includes experience at Outreach.io, Salesforce, and Tableau.
Krysten shares five of her nine ‘deal doubling’ discovery questions, making you come across as informed yet curious and positioning yourself as a helpful advisor rather than a pushy seller.
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Connect With:
• Krysten Conner: LinkedIn // Website
• Chip House: Twitter // LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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If you're not directly serving clients or customers, then what's the point of having a CRM? Nonprofit companies, especially in dynamic industries like film and television, face unique challenges—they must navigate industry shifts, uphold value for their members or communities, and ensure smooth operations without increasing costs.
And having a powerful CRM like Insightly on your team can make all the difference. In this episode of Closing Time, Melinda Prescher talks with Neil Hatton, CEO of UK Screen Alliance, about leveraging Insightly CRM to maintain efficiency during the pandemic, the Hollywood actors' strike, and beyond.
Neil shares how Insightly CRM, paired with integrations via Insightly AppConnect, has automated administrative tasks and member communication, allowing them to focus on what's at the core of their business—advocacy for their members.
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Connect With:
• UK Screen Alliance: Website // Neil LinkedIn
• Melinda Prescher: LinkedIn
• Insightly: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter // LinkedIn // YouTube
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