SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Poorly executing one of these major initiatives will cost you your job in 2014. Sales enablement tools can’t get a cursory review. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute."

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SBI Growth

JULY 1, 2013

You see visions of making your 2013 and 2014 sales number. It’s possible you need to dip into your 2014 budget as well. However, if you execute, this budget reallocation will pay off in spades during 2014. At the end of the business case you should be able to say: “Yes, I can afford this project because of the ROI in 2014.”.

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SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2013

Have you started thinking about 2014? Want to know what your peers are planning for in 2014? Attendees well receive an Overachievers Tool Kit. A BPM is a tool that maps the decision making process used to purchase a product, service or solution. Have you started planning for 2014? If not, you should be.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Gain access to guides and tools to help you make the number in 2014. This will then inform your thoughts about your 2014 quota. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. Bottom-Up Quota Setting.

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SBI

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Read more… Top Marketing Tools. 2014’s Not Over, But These #TopMarketingTools Have Already Won. Read more… Top Marketing Tools. 2014’s Not Over, But These #TopMarketingTools Have Already Won.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 3, 2014

2014 is upon us! Interviews that we have conducted with top sales reps around the world support these 5 steps to set yourself up for a strong and meaningful 2014: Target Your Time : Time is the one resource that we cannot get any more of. Use the time management tool to track the activities you have identified. Next Steps.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This brings up the first issue you need to think about in 2014 – are you and your company in all the right places online so that potential buyers will find you? The post 9 Steps to Boost Sales in 2014 Part 1 Visibility appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 30, 2013

And an even greater number of post and articles telling you all the things you should do in 2014, most of which are retreads of things they advised you to do in 2013. So in 2014 Stop. Being Trendy – There is always a new trend, a new tool, a new way, to be successful, but new is not always better, it’s just new.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2013

CRM: Your CRM system will have to do’s for you (assuming you are setting next actions in your CRM system) – if not, START THIS in 2014. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The best sales organizations treat the playbook as the most important tool to success. While this may seem obvious to some, many organizations do not place enough emphasis on it. In addition, they lack the coaching and reinforcement. Without it, your team runs the risk of missing the number again. Author: Andrew Urteaga. Follow @UrteagaSBIi.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2013

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. The post 9 Steps to Boost Sales in 2014 Part 3 Execution appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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SBI

AUGUST 28, 2014

Want to accelerate your revenue marketing with tools that let you identify, prioritize and nurture leads? Perhaps you want tools that deliver rich content that lets you convert more prospects into leads and leads into opportunities. You’ll find them and more in our new Top Marketing Tools of 2014 guide.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 24, 2014

How will you use them to top the Leader Board in 2014? You want to maximize your competitive edge going into 2014. Use the Training Monetization Tool to qualify how these changes will affect your results. Use the Training Monetization Tool to record the actions that you intend to take. During SKO, time is at a premium.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 17, 2014

This post is the second in a two-part series on third-party tools that will help take your presentations to the next level in 2014.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The post Peer influence: A powerful tool to boost learning appeared first on Rapid Learning. The blog post and Rapid Learning video module are based in part on the following scholarly article: Carr, P. B. , & Walton, G. Cues of working together fuel intrinsic motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 53, 169-184.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. By attending, you will get a copy of our Content Grader Tool + dozens more tools free. This unique tool helps your team focus on producing continuous great content.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

For 2014, I’m predicting it will be the year of execution and strategy and most companies won’t be ready. There is a massive influx of tools available to sales organizations. You have to have identified your sales tools of choice; Insidesales.com , Insideview , Hoopla , Tellwise , Gainsight , TAS , Qvidian , etc.

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SBI

JULY 23, 2013

What if you were given notice today, that your sales plan will double in 2014? You can do those things and more… if you have the right tools designed to improve sales performance. 9 New and Exciting Sales Tools Added. Our newly revised (free) 2013 Top Sales Tools guide is coming out this week! You have the power in you.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 6, 2014

Today it’s all about building a network with tools such as LinkedIn. If you want to use LinkedIn as a prospecting tool, that’s fine but do it right. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Go ahead and throw barbs at me for being willing to connect with people who I don’t know intimately.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Let the Scorecard tool do the math delivering an overall customer priority score. If you’re below revenue target, budgets get squeezed, programs scrapped and hiring frozen. Assign a weighting to each variable.

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SBI

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Get your Walking Trail of Must-See Tools at #DF14 Infographic and do your feet a favor. While you’re at it, look for people wearing these buttons and you’ll spot those we’ve selected as Top Sales and Marketing Tools of 2014: For the expo hall, you’ll want to bring an empty thermos or water bottle.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. The HubSpot Sales Platform gives sales professionals the tools they need to sell more deals faster in one integrated suite.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2014

Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning.

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SBI

MARCH 5, 2013

What if today you were given notice that your sales quota will double in 2014. You can select and provision for sales tools that will make it possible for reps to sell more. There are many more tools to put in your arsenal along side your CRM system. CRM is NOT a productivity tool, nor is it a revenue generation tool.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Top Sales Tool for 2014. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of FrameAngel at FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. This tool has been around for a few years now. Win-Loss reviews were implemented and conducted.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Couple that with preparing for 2014 and you are maxed out. Schedule a review of your 2014 plan at your office here. The implications of you not being deeply engaged in 2014 planning are many: Bad Earnings — You get an unfair number. How You Avoid Losing the 2014 Battle. This tool will get you going in under a week. #2

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 17, 2013

With 2014 on the horizon, new sales targets will soon be set. Your 2014 number will inform decisions about the makeup of your team next year. Discover the best way to make your 2014 number. Become world class and make your number in 2014. This will all create more productivity in 2014. Think about it this way.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Sales Enablement tools are Hot! Developing and offering sales enablement tools is a multibillion dollar industry. It seems every week I get at least one email of a tool that is intended to help improve the effectiveness of sales people, managers, or anyone involved in sales.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 26, 2013

The attached tool provides a sample of 15 of a possible 80 competencies. Marketing owns the buying process when the rep is not present. Is your team prepared to influence the buyer when the rep is not present? Start by identifying the competency requirements for each of your team members. I’ve selected some marketing skills.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

With it, you identify areas to improve so your team can make 2014’s number. Had Herb used the tool, he could have better supported Sales. The tool has 9 clickable boxes – each brings you to an explanation. It will also provide steps to undertake for making 2014’s number. What to do for 2014? What to do for 2014?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Your thoughts should now turn to 2014. Before you really make any decisions, start with these questions: What are my key strategic initiatives for 2014? It’s foolish to spend additional money on someone who will end up missing quota yet again in 2014. Then there are the ‘B’ Players who are poised to take their next step in 2014.

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SBI

JULY 22, 2014

He skipped 2013, perhaps because the market was moving too fast because, as of the 2014 version, the map has grown to a staggering 950 companies. At Smart Selling Tools, we’ve been reporting on sales solutions for seven years. We’ve kept a dynamic Top 40 Sales Tools guide updated for two years. In 2012 it grew to around 350.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Planning for 2014 requires a fresh look at the metrics that will determine success. They are all leading indicators that can help you forecast success in 2014. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” In this post we will dig into the top 5.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2020

You would be correct, except the quote comes from a piece in Forbes in 2014, “4 Steps To A Successful Business Transformation.” They urge leaders to equip reps with digital tools, and the example they give is Skype or WebEx. But this isn’t about tools, those are just the manifestation of the thinking, the problem is the thinking.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 4, 2014

Sales leaders have their goals for 2014. This post is for Sales Leaders to plan for success in 2014 and beyond. The Sales Leader 2014 Planner helps with the “first 4 hours”. The 2014 Plan has 3 times that are particularly busy. Creating the Sales Leaders 2014 Value Statement. Here’s how to use the tool: 1.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014 ? I recommend you read it and download the tool. As 2013 winds down, 2014 naturally ramps up. Schedule a review of your 2014 SKO at your office here. Instead, spend that time engaging reps with something that will pay dividends in 2014? SKO is on the horizon.

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SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. CMO’s can help sales make the number in 2014. WANTED: CMO’s to Guide Sales to Make the Number in 2014. These three buyer-centered tools work in concert together.

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