Sales Operations

Today’s sales operations leaders must harness data and insights to optimize processes, maximize sales productivity, and deliver on sales targets. Read our latest sales operations insights to help achieve these aims and support sales and organizational objectives.

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It’s Time For Sales Leaders To Coach Sellers Like Athletes

Seth Marrs 4 days ago
Sales managers now have the visibility needed to coach sellers beyond the basics.
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What Salesloft’s Acquisition Of Drift Means

Seth Marrs February 13, 2024
Salesloft’s acquisition of Drift is a first step into marketing technology for sales tech vendors.
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Understanding The Real-Time Revenue Execution Platform Landscape

Seth Marrs January 24, 2024
Real-time revenue execution platforms strengthen prospect identification and digital engagement while also providing capabilities that ensure the best buyer experience. Learn more about how they can improve business outcomes.
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B2B Summit North America 2024: Your Ticket To Turning Disruption Into Growth

Srividya Sridharan January 23, 2024
Explore the strategies and tools needed to drive customer-obsessed growth at our premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product teams.
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What I Learned About Sales Technology In 2023

Seth Marrs December 20, 2023
The past year was an exciting one for the sales technology market. Here are some of the highlights, along with a look ahead to 2024.
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What Google’s New Spam Protection Means For Sales And Marketing

Seth Marrs December 11, 2023
Learn more about the impending changes to Gmail and Yahoo spam rules, along with what you can do about it.
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Shift From Manual To Automated Account Planning To Deliver Results

Steve Silver November 13, 2023
I’ve been involved with account planning programs for over 30 years — first as a sales rep, then as a sales manager, then as a sales operations leader, and, finally, as an analyst and advisor. And in all that time, resistance by sellers to the process of creating and leveraging account plans remains high. Why? […]

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Conversation Intelligence For B2B Revenue Drives AI-Generated B2B Insights

Seth Marrs October 31, 2023
The recent evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Intelligence For B2B Revenue, Q4 2023, revealed trends that help customers understand what they should look for in providers when purchasing CI solutions.
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An Overview Of The Current B2B Revenue Conversation Intelligence Landscape

Seth Marrs October 16, 2023
The COVID lockdown rapidly advanced the adoption of digital versus in-person communications, creating a significant demand for conversation intelligence (CI) solutions. CI solutions for B2B revenue allow sales teams to translate unstructured digital conversations into actionable insights.
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Revenue Operations: Nine Myths And Two Realities

Laura Cross September 15, 2023
Revenue operations has exploded in popularity, but misconceptions about it abound. Here, we reveal nine common myths and highlight two key realities.
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Apollo And Mediafly Funding Signals Renewed Interest In Sales Tech

Seth Marrs August 29, 2023
This blog covers the impact that Mediafly and Apollo’s recent funding will have on the two firms, the sales technology market, and buyers of sales technology.
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Clari’s Acquisition Of Groove Is A Milestone For Revenue Tech

Anthony McPartlin August 15, 2023
Clari’s acqusition of Groove cements the convergence happening at the core of sales tech and is a milestone for the market.
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2024 Planning: Revenue Operations And Four B2B Must-Do’s

Ross Graber August 9, 2023
With 2024 planning season rapidly approaching, preview Forrester’s four B2B revenue operations “must-do’s” to drive customer value and business growth.
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2024 Planning: Asia Pacific Leaders Can Afford To Tone Down The Caution

Dane Anderson August 1, 2023
After a challenging past few years, business leaders in Asia Pacific can expect a brighter 2024. Learn how to capitalize with Forrester’s Planning Guides.
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Conversation Intelligence Is The Key To Unlocking Sales Productivity

Seth Marrs July 31, 2023
This blog describes how conversation intelligence solutions can reverse the seller productivity decline and increase win rates.
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How B2B Companies Will Win The Competition For Growth

John Arnold July 25, 2023
The competition for growth is fiercer than ever for B2B companies. To win, marketing, product, and sales leaders need to build a growth engine based on three fundamentals that are also simple, powerful, challenging, and achievable.
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Check It Out: Now Is The Time to Examine Your Revenue Operations Capabilities

Vicki Brown June 29, 2023
Realize your maximum revenue operations potential and define your revenue operations strategy by starting with a maturity assessment of your revenue operations capabilities.

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Is Your Tech Stack Confusing Your Sellers? Help Is On The Way.

Seth Marrs June 26, 2023
The proliferation of sales technology has created significant potential, but the volume of new tools is confusing overworked sellers who do not have time to learn about all these new capabilities. Sales technology providers have realized this and are now building new workflows to simplify this process, making it easier for sellers to get the most from their company’s technology.
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The WIIFM (“What’s In It For Me?”) Of Revenue Operations

Anne Slough June 23, 2023
We interviewed a variety of sales, marketing, and revenue operations leaders to understand why revenue operations has grown dramatically in recent years and what assumptions leaders make about establishing a revenue operations function. Here's what they told us.
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