Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In 2011, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick shared that mid-level managers could have greater impact on company performance than almost anyone else in an organization, yet they are “often overlooked and sometimes maligned.”. The Becker Hospital Review which shared the results of a 2014 Insigniam study that focuses on middle managers.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 29, 2015

Sales Management: The need for creativity! This past week I had opportunity to work with a great client at their worldwide sales conference in Miami. Learn about different things: study a language, read a book, take a course, get active. What was the most creative sales tactic you have used? The good news?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2018

He was also named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. He’s skied more than 1 million vertical feet in 2013 and 2014 at Vail Colorado and more than 600K vertical feet each season since then. Reason Number Five: He runs A Sales Guy U.

Journal 171

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? While you could come up with a complicated plan that won’t deliver results for half a year or more, you can get better results, faster, by implementing a DRIP Marketing Plan. DRIP: The Secret to Reliably Penetrate the Market. For a time.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 8, 2015

Android and iPhone users age 18 and over spend 30 hours and 15 minutes using apps each month—a full half-day more than in 2011—according to a 2014 Nielsen study. But the same study shows that people should be making eye contact 60 to 70 percent of the time to create a sense of emotional connection. We’re fickle.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This helps sales management to proactively manage and measure team strengths. Nancy: What does Qstream do?

Up-Sell 139

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 11, 2014

The cost associated with replacing one sales rep – particularly top performers – is 35% to 200% of annual total cash compensation.” From our own observation in markets such as high-end medical devices the customer, in this case the physician, may “go” with the sales rep if they leave for a competitor.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

On page 100 she quotes an Aberdeen Group study on the use of social intelligence: 21.4% Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. increase in top-line revenue. annual increase in the number of salespeople who make quotaWhy? Buy this book.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

That evolution is what will strengthen relationships between buyers and sellers and bring success to sales organizations as we face an increasingly challenging global economy. The article also cites other studies agreeing that sales strategies based on building relationships are critical for closing deals.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2014

After discussing the current sales environment, networking, in effective cold calls, lack of experience and a great deal of interactive discussions we created an approach that can immediately change your sales and marketing approach. Do you have existing Case Studies that fit their need? Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Networking Jigsaw Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile 84

Pipeliner

JUNE 13, 2018

He is the Managing Director of Specialized Sales Systems and founder of United Sales Resources. s origins, in 2014 when he wrote Simple Rules for Leading Sales Teams in the Social Selling Era , which garnered a significant amount of views considering the magazine’s infancy. His contributions date back to SalesPOP!’s

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

Today a system is built in one part of the world, implemented in another, and marketed in another. Measure the right sales activities, manage to those activities, and coach your reps on the behaviors that turn those activities into revenue. This requires a shift in metrics, and in the seller’s mindset.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 18, 2015

Obviously I am drawing the analogy back to you as the sales leader. I see many times where the executive or sales manager are caught off guard; missed forecasts, someone leaves the team unexpectedly, marketing programs are unsuccessful or salespeople cannot accurately sell products/services or your company.

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SBI

JUNE 3, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This helps sales management to proactively manage and measure team strengths. Nancy: What does Qstream do?

Up-Sell 57

Up-Sell Revenue Closing Buying Cycle 57

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the Conclusion chapter he summaries the prior chapters by using a case study of a situation where companies have focused on the Soft Edges and where they have not-and the results. Buy this book for each member of your management team and weekly, discuss one chapter at your management team meetings.

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SBI

JANUARY 13, 2015

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Most traditional sales contests have three problems.

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Tenfold

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The same survey says that the executives observe a lack in the quality of their sales data. A 2013 study by business services company Experian has found that 91 percent of businesses suffer from data errors. In fact, the same Experian study has found bad data to be responsible for an average 12 percent loss in revenue.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

How to reassess the market for now and for later. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to reassess the market for now and for later [31:43]. We’re about a $3 billion market cap company in the human resources space. We went public in 2014. Who is Barrett Boston and what is TriNet. We’re on iTunes.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit?

Ideal Customer Profile 111

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Over the years we have written numerous articles about the front-line sales management position. We have consistently labeled the front-line sales manager as the pivotal job for developing and sustaining a superior sales force. Let’s assume you are a front-line sales manager who wants to become a Sales Director.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 27, 2014

According to a recent Corporate Executive Board (CEB) study , the individual salesperson “no longer reigns supreme”. As the CEB authors noted: “On the most effective sales teams, particularly B2B, the individual no longer reigns supreme. Transformational Market Change. Sales Management Support.

Health Care 106

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Close.io

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This is the main sales challenge of a startup I talked to in a sales consulting session. They think they've got product/market fit. And you need to sell the company as a business that is stable, growing and winning in the market. Their product is strong. Their business is doing very well, through referrals.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 8, 2022

But this creates an overly crowded market that exhausts potential buyers with product placements, ads, and DMs. But when done right, social media can still be a great tool in your sales arsenal. That’s the major difference between social selling and social media marketing. For years, we’ve been over-marketed to.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 58

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Best-selling author of Embrace Your Edge, Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Hang Black.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

Ideal Customer Profile 40

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It was sales. So going through the recession, but just in general, sales was not talked about in the curriculum in school. Maybe we had marketing. We wanted to do this for PR, kind of thinking about the marketing attribution. I know you have product market fit. This was 2008. It wasn’t a class. You can do it.”

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the top destinations on the web for all sales subject matter. How to Make Sales and Marketing Meetings More Effective and Impactful. Blogger Blurb: Max Altschuler and Gaetano DiNardi put out some amazing content over at Sales Hacker. Leah Bell is the Content Marketing Specialist for SalesLoft. WoodPecker.

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