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90 Days to Make an Impact with Louis Poulin of Buildertrend
Guy and Louis Poulin, VP of Revenue Operations at Buildertrend, discuss boosting revenue efficiency, key growth drivers, and leveraging AI for deal qualification on the Revenue Insights Podcast
Happy Customers Lead to More Customers with Kathleen Booth of Pavilion
In this episode, Guy and Kathleen explore community-led marketing and its impact on pipeline growth, how data can be used to drive a community-led GTM strategy, and how to improve customer retention through cohort analysis.
You Can’t Sell to Someone Who Can’t Buy with Michael Dalley, CRO at Aerial Vantage
In this episode, Guy and Michael explore the lessons Michael has learned over his twenty years of sales leadership experience. Discover the importance of forecasting accuracy, the potential of the Challenger methodology, and why you can’t sell to someone who can’t buy.
From Inbound to Outbound: The Sago Sales Transformation with CRO Katharine Reagan
Katharine Reagan, CRO of Sago, joins the Revenue Insights Podcast to share how Sago pivoted from Inbound to Outbound sales, discussing key metrics, qualification methodologies, and sales pipeline stages.
How Top Sellers Use Data to Win Big with JD Miller
Discover how data analysis transforms sales performance. Learn strategies for personalized outreach, relationship building, and data-driven sales planning from Kantata’s CRO, JD Miller.
Mastering Sales and Customer Lifecycle Through Value Hypothesis with the GTM Team from Mabl
This week on the Revenue Insights Podcast, Anthony Palladino, Blake Kelly, and Kirsten Vonck from Mabl discuss the Value Hypothesis framework, consultative selling, customer success, and building credibility in sales. Learn how to drive sales success and improve customer lifecycle management.
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Explore our most popular articles on how to build more pipeline, close more deals and retain more customers.
How to improve AE quota attainment (according to data)
23% of reps are contributing 83% of revenue. Here’s how to solve it (with data)
How to close more target accounts with deal qualification
Sales methodologies guide sellers on how to engage prospects at various sales stages. At the very first stage, qualification methodologies (such as Challenger, BANT, MEDDPICC®, etc.) have long been established to create structure and process when opportunities enter the pipeline. Ultimately, the goal is to create consistency at different stages, ensuring sellers follow best practices…
How to Run Pipeline Reviews (according to high-performing sales teams)
Pipeline reviews, love them, or hate them, are a vital fixture in a salesperson’s week. Done well, they are an opportunity for guidance, reflection, and improvement. Done poorly, they waste time, create frustration, and can leave reps feeling alienated. Pipeline reviews tread a fine line between helping a rep to make quota or creating friction…
6 Ways to Close More Deals (backed by data)
Sales communities flood with opinions and conjecture on how to win more deals successfully. In truth, all this advice is dependent on many factors. Who are you selling to? What industry are you targeting? What does the sales process look like? How long is the average sales cycle? How many stakeholders are typically involved in…
The Four Pillars of Revenue Operations with Jake Hofwegen, VP of Global Revenue Operations and Enablement at Contentful
In this episode of the Revenue Insights Podcast, host Lee Bierton is joined by Jake Hofwegen, VP of Global Revenue Operations and Enablement at Contentful. Jake shares how the function of revenue operations (RevOps) has evolved over the past decade. He breaks down rev ops into four pillars and shares his experience in scaling tech companies from 220 million to over a billion in ARR. Jake also shares the benefits of pivoting to a six-month planning cycle while finding the right balance between planning and implementing.
How to Deliver Better Lifetime Value from Customer Insights with Rouzbeh Rotabi, Chief Revenue Officer
In this episode of the Revenue Insights Podcast, host Lee Bierton speaks with Rouzbeh Rotabi, Chief Revenue Officer and revenue leader at Orum, Marqeta and more. The free-flowing discussion pivots around staying engaged with your customers and using the insights to tailor your go-to-market strategy. Rouzbeh explains how feedback from customers and prospects can identify pain points that can be addressed with messaging and positioning. A quick caveat, they can vary from market to market. Lee and Rouzbeh also discuss implementing feedback loops and engagement metrics to identify risk and shape strategy. There’s a brilliant piece on leveraging revenue efficiently for sustainable growth, a paradigm shift from the growth at all-cost strategy—“Slow down to speed up.”
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5 Ways to Use the Ebsta Integration With HubSpot to Improve Sales Performance
How to improve adoption of HubSpot with Ebsta
B2B Sales Benchmarks: 2023 H1 Update
The latest update from the 2023 B2B Sales Benchmarks analysis of over $37bn in pipeline.
How to improve AE quota attainment (according to data)
23% of reps are contributing 83% of revenue. Here’s how to solve it (with data)
How to Run Pipeline Reviews (according to high-performing sales teams)
Pipeline reviews, love them, or hate them, are a vital fixture in a salesperson’s week. Done well, they are an opportunity for guidance, reflection, and improvement. Done poorly, they waste time, create frustration, and can leave reps feeling alienated. Pipeline reviews tread a fine line between helping a rep to make quota or creating friction…
Why Relationships Will Be Your Secret Sales Weapon in 2023
The B2B space is a crowded one and we’ve got the secret to standing out. Account-based selling is the answer! This approach treats every account as a market of one by taking a more personal approach.
ABS has the potential to drive more wins, shorten your sales cycle and close larger deals for your businesses.
7 Most Common Mistakes When Annually Planning Sales
Planning has two main approaches. Let’s call them proactive and reactive planning. Good sales plans include both. They account for hurdles in implementing new initiatives and track the right data needed to evaluate rep performance, addressable market, and initiative value. Great sales plans go one step further. They approach planning as a constant process of…
Revenue Insights Podcast.
Learn from high-performing leaders how to create efficient and sustainable go-to-market teams.
90 Days to Make an Impact with Louis Poulin of Buildertrend
Guy and Louis Poulin, VP of Revenue Operations at Buildertrend, discuss boosting revenue efficiency, key growth drivers, and leveraging AI for deal qualification on the Revenue Insights Podcast
Happy Customers Lead to More Customers with Kathleen Booth of Pavilion
In this episode, Guy and Kathleen explore community-led marketing and its impact on pipeline growth, how data can be used to drive a community-led GTM strategy, and how to improve customer retention through cohort analysis.
You Can’t Sell to Someone Who Can’t Buy with Michael Dalley, CRO at Aerial Vantage
In this episode, Guy and Michael explore the lessons Michael has learned over his twenty years of sales leadership experience. Discover the importance of forecasting accuracy, the potential of the Challenger methodology, and why you can’t sell to someone who can’t buy.
From Inbound to Outbound: The Sago Sales Transformation with CRO Katharine Reagan
Katharine Reagan, CRO of Sago, joins the Revenue Insights Podcast to share how Sago pivoted from Inbound to Outbound sales, discussing key metrics, qualification methodologies, and sales pipeline stages.
How Top Sellers Use Data to Win Big with JD Miller
Discover how data analysis transforms sales performance. Learn strategies for personalized outreach, relationship building, and data-driven sales planning from Kantata’s CRO, JD Miller.
Mastering Sales and Customer Lifecycle Through Value Hypothesis with the GTM Team from Mabl
This week on the Revenue Insights Podcast, Anthony Palladino, Blake Kelly, and Kirsten Vonck from Mabl discuss the Value Hypothesis framework, consultative selling, customer success, and building credibility in sales. Learn how to drive sales success and improve customer lifecycle management.
Data & Studies.
Discover the latest factors driving revenue from our analysis of billions of dollars of pipeline.
B2B Sales Benchmarks: 2023 H1 Update
The latest update from the 2023 B2B Sales Benchmarks analysis of over $37bn in pipeline.
How to improve AE quota attainment (according to data)
23% of reps are contributing 83% of revenue. Here’s how to solve it (with data)
How to close more target accounts with deal qualification
Sales methodologies guide sellers on how to engage prospects at various sales stages. At the very first stage, qualification methodologies (such as Challenger, BANT, MEDDPICC®, etc.) have long been established to create structure and process when opportunities enter the pipeline. Ultimately, the goal is to create consistency at different stages, ensuring sellers follow best practices…
6 Ways to Close More Deals (backed by data)
Sales communities flood with opinions and conjecture on how to win more deals successfully. In truth, all this advice is dependent on many factors. Who are you selling to? What industry are you targeting? What does the sales process look like? How long is the average sales cycle? How many stakeholders are typically involved in…
The top 8 benefits of using CRM
Learn what a CRM is, why it is important and the top 8 benefits which will take your pipeline management to the next level.
4 Dirty Data Types: How To Clean Your CRM
Learn why updating your CRM is valuable, problematic data types, ways to clean up dirty data and the benefits of a clean data and hygienic CRM.
Revenue Operations.
Expand your knowledge of how to draw insights from your data and create predictable revenue models
Improve your win rates by 117% by spotting these slippage red flags
easily identify the telltale signs of risk that an opportunity is going to slip. Equipped with this knowledge, sales teams can then be proactive to salvage these opportunities, close them faster and improve win rates.
How to Analyze your Sales Pipeline – Measuring Your Pipeline Health
The key to understanding how your pipeline is performing is knowing what state it is in. The gauge of that is pipeline health. In the first of our series, we looked at creating the foundations of your pipeline and the metrics that are needed to know what is happening within it. In this article, we…
What is Revenue Operations?
They say all roads lead to Rome. If you imagine Rome as revenue, then the role of revenue operations is to make sure that those roads are built in the most efficient way and that they are effectively signposted. Revenue operations, or “rev ops” in it’s shortened form, is the strategic alignment of sales, marketing,…
How Set Up Historical Trend Reporting in Salesforce
A Guide to Set Up Trend Reporting in Salesforce Reporting in Salesforce is one of the most powerful features you have when trying to demonstrate the value of a business. Building key reports in a matter of minutes with a simple drag and drop interface that anyone can use is extremely effective. Being such a…
The Guide to Setting Up Forecasting in Salesforce
Companies use sales forecasting to predict business performance. It’s a helpful tool for budgeting and setting expectations for the C-Suite. Sales forecasting is crucial for almost any business, because it affects sales deployment, financial planning, budgeting, operations planning, and marketing planning. Since sales forecasts have far-reaching impact, it’s critical that the forecast information is as…
Salesforce Reports Best Practices (with Examples)
Marketing guru Seth Godin once said, ‘the art of moving forward lies in understanding what you leave behind.
News & Updates.
Keep up to date with the latest News & Updates on the Ebsta systems
Bringing Revenue Intelligence to Salesforce
Have you ever tried to build furniture without the instructions? You can follow your gut and may end up with a completed project – but there will always be a few screws left over. Your sales team can feel like that too. Their CRM may show them the parts – but without the data and…
See how forecast submissions have changed with Ebsta Waterfall
Waterfall Chart shows how your team’s commit and upside forecasts have changed, and more importantly – understand which opportunities drove this change.
The Ultimate Forecast Submission Tool for Managers
New view for managers to review their teams pipeline, inspect their opportunities and change the forecast status.
Deal Qualification Guide Scoring
Give each of the 8 MEDDPICC® criteria a score from 1-10, helping reps to define what success looks like – so they can plan to close it.
Turn insight into action with Pipeline Insights
Pipeline Insights give you complete pipeline visibility so you can identify deals at risk before it’s too late.
Deal Qualification Guide
Follow Ebsta’s 8 step process from popular sales methodologies to identify the factors that lead to deal success.