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Episode 77: The State of Sales 2021

It’s another day for another $2 million funding, this time from Outreach. Overall they’ve raised $488.5 million. When HubSpot when public they only raised $100 million; $35 million from debt, and that was thought of as a grand slam. Companies like Outreach and Gong raising 5 times that, is that a good thing? In this episode Mike and Doug touch on funding for private and public companies, and they dive into another report, the State of Sales 2021 for US & Canada, put out by LinkedIn.

Episode 76: Under Armor, Nike & The State of Proposals 2021

There has been an explosion of State of [insert title name] Reports, to the point that when you...

Episode 66: Gartner's Report: The Future of Sales - What We Think

Experience, intuition and data have to come together. You don't get a good hypothesis from data....

Episode 49: How The Buyer Has Changed

Has the buyer actually changed? Or for that matter has their journey really changed? In this last...

Episode 47: Want Faster Sales Traction: Narrow The Focus & Expand The Yield

How do I grow and get more people to know about us? How do I grow successfully? Mike and Doug dive...

Episode 43: Interview with Kevin Dunn - Force, Friction & the Flywheel

Is the flywheel a good metaphor for the business funnel? What even is a flywheel? Guest Kevin Dunn...

Episode 42: Interview with Lou Orfanos - The Future of Selling is Frictionless

What is frictionless selling and is it a bad thing? This week on The Black Line Podcast, guest Lou...