
Capture your invisible pipeline of sales leads
The most common way to think about leads is to put them in two buckets: inbound and outbound. The first is owned by marketing and the...

Announcing our 10th book – The Sales Handbook
We’ve just published our 10th book – The Sales Handbook. Sales is the lifeblood of every business. Without it, you have no way of...

How sales teams can use video to turn leads into customers
When it comes to capturing people’s attention, there is nothing quite as effective as video – according to one study, 69% of people have...

Revenue reporting: fresh insights for your sales and marketing teams
The number of tools used by sales and marketing teams only continues to grow, and with that expansion of options, it is more crucial than...

How Custom Bots can reshape your entire sales cycle
In many ways, how we do business today is a model of efficiency and convenience – people come to our websites and we sell to them. That...

The Beginner’s Guide to Real-Time Sales: get started with the future of selling
In sales and marketing, speed is everything. The fate of your business depends on how quickly you can turn promising leads on your...

Avoid the land of no decision: 6 critical questions for every discovery call
In sales, it’s normal to spend hours rehearsing for an upcoming demo and fine-tuning the deck. But when it comes to the discovery call,...

6 essential chatbot recipes for sales and marketing teams
Chatbots push salespeople and marketers past the physical limitations of being human: our need to sleep, our dislike of repetitive tasks,...

License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota
In sales, there’s one number we obsess over – our quota. As soon as one month ends and another starts, we can’t help but ask, how am I...

4 steps to improve your sales pipeline management
If you’ve ever looked at your diary, notebook, sticky notes and email inbox in the middle of a busy sales period and thought, “This isn’t...

Don’t forget the service in SaaS: how your sales team can provide world-class service
Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. When software and service aren’t equal...

Sales Days: 5 ways you can learn from your sales team
Sales is a client facing role, meaning you are communicating with customers and potential customers on a daily basis. Over time, you can...

What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together
As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in sales that what worked well in our product for...

Your sales team needs account plans. Here’s how to create them.
Account plans are one of the most important weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal. They bring together critical information about your...

From first touch to qualified lead: how to build a live chat sales funnel
The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with high-quality leads. But for someone in Sales Operations,...

The one simple question our bot asks that saves our sales team hours
As the rise of bots and automation continues apace, a lot of people are wondering how the sales process and lead qualification will be...

From hi to buy: 6 live chat sales techniques
Adding live chat to your funnel is a great way of generating more sales and targeting specific leads in a more effective way, ensuring...

Write the perfect sales message with these 7 rules
When was the last time you made or received a sales call to or from someone you didn’t already know? While the death of cold calling may...

How to master competitive selling in a crowded marketplace
The SaaS industry has exploded in recent years due to relatively low barriers to entry, readily available venture capital funding and a...
























