Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. If a company is going to among the winners in today’s disruptive market, they will not only need a sales team that is better at doing what they are doing, but one capable of doing something different. First, focus on how customers are buying in today’s market. How well are companies meeting the challenge?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Much of this is due to the technology that is beginning to drive the sales process much the way it has driven marketing for the past several years. In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. The range of sales tools is becoming as diverse as those on the marketing side.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. For example, if you sell marketing automation solutions, you could join a Marketing Live Event and interact with others at the event. Of course, you don’t have to limit the use of the notification bell to prospects and influencers.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Improving remote engagement experiences with prospects and customers. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. He is also an AWS Certified Practitioner and Certified by Facebook in Digital Marketing. Our Panelists.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

ZoomInfo CEO and co-founder Henry Schuck and Chief Marketing Officer Bryan Law led the discussions, along with Bain partner Rishi Dave. A recession can be a great opportunity to grow It’s easy to panic when the market is shaky — and many companies do. They implement aggressive cost-cutting strategies and initiate layoffs. Get a Demo 3.

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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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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. It is a sales training session all by itself! book review-.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Hiring salespeople before you have a product that’s ready to go-to-market might be a high-leverage way to test your product-market fit, pricing and packaging, and product’s readiness. This isn’t to discredit surveys or market research; both deliver critical insights about your customer sentiments and journey. Here’s why.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. What is the impact of that on the use of freed resources, training, managing, and more? Shouldn’t the freed-up time, resources, training, and more – resulted in increases in output? Smaller Treadmills.

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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? That includes tracking prospecting, networking, email outreach, calls, meetings, pipeline growth, deal velocity, and, of course, closed-won and closed-lost outcomes. Why did you choose certain tools over others? The result? Click To Tweet.

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Schuck has bootstrapped a data business, built a go-to-market team, gone through an IPO, and acquired other companies. 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.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. Listen for Prospective Buyers. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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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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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. As it worked.

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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). Most importantly, no sales messages to links being posted to selling websites or marketing videos. This Social 3.0

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

I’m going to be speaking with some of the brightest minds in the sales and marketing world at the Sales Acceleration Summit. 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. There will be something for everyone.

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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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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. Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

Accordingly, Italy banned ChatGPT over privacy concerns in April, while the European Commission has already proposed a legal framework to take control of AI and monitor its use in the EU market. For example, a face recognition system can be trained to detect white faces more quickly than their darker counterparts.

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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

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 ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% We think there is a more systemic issue in the predictions: a major "sea change" in technology spending and purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy. YoY decline from 2014.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 27, 2023

The more friction you require your prospects to tolerate in your sales process, the longer the decision-making process. For example, how often do prospects struggle to align their calendar to your sales reps calendar? In other words, it’s not a market problem caused by a shortage of sales talent. Curious to learn more?

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. In addition to Prospector which has been improved greatly over time, they have a new tool called Cadence which helps SDRs to know how and when to attempt to connect with their prospects.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. Prospecting. Andy add’s an entire section designed around Amp Up Prospecting. A critical success factor for 2015. I kept nodding my head and saying; Yes, Yes, Yes as I turned the pages.

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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. Conclusion.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales Stack 2015 was an event with many passionate VPs about how to scale sales organizations. Diversity is a hot topic in many workplaces, and there seem to be many inclusion initiatives to help diversify the job market. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Who currently have job openings for marketing help.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

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). Make it something the prospect can be infected by. Set the agenda and stay in control.

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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 15, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Here’s a print version… The REPLY Method For Cold Prospecting. The fundamental principle behind every prospecting activity should be: Don’t prospect to make a sale, prospect to start a conversation. Watch the Video.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Companies continue to provide extensive product training to sellers. Marketing (23%). Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6! Sales Tips: Want a Future in Sales? Become a Business Expert.

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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 train and develop talent in your company. It, however, was back in 2015.

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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 train and develop talent in your company. It, however, was back in 2015.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When I landed in Dublin in 2015, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 26-year-old who had severely under-estimated and oversimplified the work in front of me. This opportunity gave me a huge amount of experience and training that has impacted how I think about building teams and how I think about coaching and communicating with people.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Based on independent research from MHI Global / CSO Insights, taking your value marketing and selling to the next level can: Reduce the number of deals ending in “No Decision” by 30% Improve win rates to 51% (a 40% improvement) Boost the number of sales reps meeting / beating quota to 69% and increasing the average annual revenue attainment to 87%.

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