Sales

Sales teams win by reaching the right buyer with the right message and following up consistently. These articles cover prospecting, cold calling, and cold email templates, objection handling, closing techniques, sales metrics, and team structure. You’ll also find guides to Salesforce Quick Text, CRM hygiene, and other sales tools, plus ways to reuse your best-performing messages so every rep sounds like your top performer.

How to Calculate Your Company’s Sales Growth Rate

Sales growth rate shows how quickly revenue is rising over a set period. Learn why measuring growth matters, what data to collect, how to calculate the rate, and how to add context so the number means something.

Kerry Provenzano

Key Sales Metrics Every Team Should Track

Key sales metrics show whether your team is putting effort in the right places. See which numbers to track across company goals, rep performance, sales activity, engagement, and inbound marketing results.

Kerry Provenzano

Why Revenue Operations Is Essential to Sales Success

Revenue operations, or RevOps, brings sales and marketing functions together around shared revenue goals. Learn what revenue operations is, why more businesses are adopting it, and how it benefits sales success.

Kerry Provenzano

How to Test Sales Communication Cadences

Testing sales communication cadences keeps a working sequence from going stale. Document your current cadence, choose key metrics to track, and run A/B tests to see which calls, emails, and touches perform best.

Kerry Provenzano

7 Keys To A Successful Sales Cadence

Sales cadences set the sequence of calls, emails, and social touches used to reach a prospect. Build a successful one with seven keys, from using data and defining your steps to automation, buyer personas, and variety.

Kerry Provenzano

Does Your Sales Data Hold The Key to More Sales?

Collecting and using sales data well can guide better decisions across a sales team. See how sales data informs decisions, supports problem solving, reveals areas to improve, builds customer insight, and measures success.

Kerry Provenzano

4 Crucial Building Blocks for Successful Sales Forecasting

Sales forecasting helps sales teams shift from tactical selling to strategic planning. Learn what a sales forecast is, why it's worth the time, and the building blocks for creating a reliable forecast for your business.

Kerry Provenzano

Is Your Sales Tech Stack Broken?

Sales tech stacks, the tools a team relies on to sell, need regular review to stay useful. Audit yours by identifying each element, interviewing stakeholders, finding gaps, and sourcing new tools where they help.

Kerry Provenzano

The Productive Sales Process: Maximizing Results at Every Step

Sales process productivity depends on giving reps more time for high-impact selling. Go stage by stage, from prospecting and first contact to qualifying, presenting, and closing, with metrics and tools for each.

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