Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. This has to do with the customers need to quickly take action, their existing knowledge and margin/COS pressures. Sales training is moving to a mobility mode.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Customer Focus/Customer Centricity. Customer Engagement.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 16, 2015

As Bain points out: “Many buyers will have researched a supplier, queried some of its customers and screened the supplier out of consideration before the supplier’s rep has an opportunity to contact the prospective buyer. So what are some things a company can do right now to do a better job getting ready for 2015? Selection.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. According to Bain & Company, B2B sales executives have seen tremendous disruption in how customers buy in recent years – and they see no reason to think it won’t continue. Customer Expectations. First, focus on how customers are buying in today’s market. Two make the short list.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

2015 was a big year for The Brooks Group, and we’re going to brag a little. Our achievements this year included: Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Training Industry. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Selling Power Magazine. Top 7 Articles of 2015 .

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems remain the most critical, enabling sales teams to collaborate, managers to stay on top of business, and customer-facing people in other departments to share one prospect or customer record.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. Third, you can attend other Live Events and participate in conversations with your ideal customer profile (ICP). For example, if you follow a prominent prospect, you will be the first to be notified if you clicked the bell icon on their profile.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. So you pay your sales reps money to prospect and find buyers – it makes sense that you also invest in having the best representation of your company when they find it online. Inbound Marketing.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Improving remote engagement experiences with prospects and customers. Prior to Alinean, Tom founded Interpose, a provider of total cost of ownership (TCO) measurement and analysis software tools and training. Marko currently serves as a Director of Product for Varicent and is focused on helping customers drive efficient growth.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

High–Profit Prospecting. High-Profit Prospecting b y Mark Hunter, published by AMA (American Management Association) has laid out solutions to one of the top sales problems facing every sales organization. Time Management for Prospecting. Customer Engagement Dos and Don’ts. It is a sales training session all by itself!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Some attempt to go after every customer imaginable and completely lose focus, while others freeze up and decide to do nothing. Your plays should be a living, breathing part of your strategy, and market conditions and general prospect and customer feedback should inform how your team takes your product or service to market.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“What you see in ZoomInfo today is a lot of the vision that I had for DiscoverOrg in 2015, 2016, but I never built a good enough engineering and product team to make that vision come to life,” Schuck said. I want to be able to sell into the largest swath of [our] 20,000 customers as I can,” Schuck said. “I

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Nutshell

AUGUST 15, 2018

A 2015 study of more than 350,000 salespeople from over 200 countries showed that the average consultative seller skill set was exhibited by only 48% of salespeople —a mere one percentage point higher than it was four years prior. Training your sales force to leverage customer insights for and from the buyer may not always be easy.

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Jeff Shore

AUGUST 8, 2018

Company culture affects the sales environment you create for your customer. Are you setting yourself up for success in the sale by creating that customer-centric environment? If you know your product and take the time to know your prospect, it's the difference between - I hope this goes okay and feeling 10 foot tall and bulletproof.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the best first steps you can put into place (aside from hiring an expert to help you put a full plan in place to get your sales and marketing ready for 2015) is to focus on listening. Listen for Prospective Buyers. Listen for prospective buyers who are asking about which products / brands are best in your industry niche.

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

What are the ongoing costs to support these tools and what training is required to maximize them? In this article, I want to show you how I answered the questions then and how we help our customers answer the same questions now at Vengreso. Why did you choose certain tools over others? Answering these questions is a big challenge.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2022

You can use your communication skills to go into customer service, or your product knowledge to go into marketing. While cold calling is part of most sales jobs, especially during the prospecting process, it can’t make up the bulk of what you do or you’ll quickly face burnout. Con #1: Poor performance can affect your pay.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In 2015 they hosted over 30,000 attendees—and this year is going to be even bigger, better and more exhilarating. Grant Cardone , CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Jim Steele , InsideSales.com President of Worldwide Sales and Chief Customer Officer. Dave Mattson, CEO and President Sandler Training. Sign up here!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My Over the next few months, Johnson helped implement and train the newly formed inbound sales team to focus on rapid response.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 27, 2023

An effective sales process is built back from a customer buying journey. Sales Skills Definition: Indeed defines sales skills as a specific skill set that facilitates identifying sales opportunities, building a rapport with customers, and successfully closing sales. How often are meeting participants absent from online meetings?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2020

SDRs need to prioritize meaningful connections with prospects. Curiosity is fuel for meaningful conversations with business owners and the most impactful way to learn about your customer. You need to want to hear what your customers have to say, and let them know that you do.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). In essence, how are you connected via your team by 2nd and 3rd degree to any client prospect. This Social 3.0 The Social 3.0

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

Though AI can reduce the number of low-level tasks, the sales industry will still need a human touch — with 60% of customers agreeing to it. The thing is that more advanced AI technologies and custom solutions require hardware with a high level of computational power to run algorithms efficiently, like Nvidia GPUs (Graphic Processing Units).

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting. No wonder salespeople hate it.

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

AUGUST 25, 2019

The 2015 MHO Best Practices Study reveals that “having a strategy and knowing the right things to do [is] a huge differentiator between top performers and others” Sales Efficiency and Sales Effectiveness – What Do They Mean? Step 2: Give sales reps the proper training. billion annually, nationwide.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Empower Customers. In sports, much of the science focuses on the athlete: genetics, biomechanics (movement techniques, training regimen), nutrition, and psychology (for mental toughness, behavioral modifications, and positive visualizations). When you are with a client or potential customer, give them good labels. Get Emotional.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Powerful Strategies that Move Customer Fast, Favorable Decisions. Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. Selling through customer service. Prospecting. Andy add’s an entire section designed around Amp Up Prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA. In fact, a demo without discovery can often leave a prospect feeling left out in the cold.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

First, here’s the question we’ve been asking our experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. It's not a distraction. It is about a lot more than technology.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged. Why Change Now? – Why Your Solutions?

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales Stack 2015 was an event with many passionate VPs about how to scale sales organizations. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? And are customers happy with our performance so far?” I’ve been focusing more on the basics and less on sales efficiency, customer acquisition cost, etc.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 27, 2016

Selling to the Point by Jeffrey Lipsius is a unique sales training book and I have read many. When he understands how the salespeople are trained and sees firsthand the changed relationships they have with their clients he begins to believe-so much that he uses the sales training idea’s to improve his own “social dating opportunity”!

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to improve your customer engagement with more sales reps.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to improve your customer engagement with more sales reps.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Get Your 2015 Started Right. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. To avoid starting 2015 with unqualified pipelines, consider taking a hard look at quotes or proposals more than 60 days old. I hope this can help you make 2015 a prosperous year.

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