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. Becoming “brilliant in sales execution” during each stage is critical. Sales training is moving to a mobility mode.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 16, 2015

According to Bain & Company , B2B sales executives have seen a tremendous disruption in recent years – and there’s every reason to believe the trend will continue. In most B2B markets the buying process has changed dramatically. Only 40% said their sales reps have a strong understanding of their company’s differentiation.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Whether or not you have put in place a sales process – it is happening everyday. It is whatever your salespeople are doing Monday morning to navigate the customer’s buying process. The real problem is not, therefore, a lack of sales process. Lack of definitional clarity. It’s about being on the same page.

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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. The folks at Bain surveyed 550 B2B sales executives. First, focus on how customers are buying in today’s market.

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Alice Heiman

JANUARY 17, 2023

In order to bring more certainty and less volatility , Collective[i] focuses on two main innovations: Automate everything possible in the sales process in order to reduce seller admin work and improve CRM accuracy; Train teams on the agile sales process in order to scale revenue. 27:57] We switched to Agile. [29:11]

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Author: Giuseppe D’Angelo Inside sales have never been hotter, and the sales field is experiencing considerable change. 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. Increasing demand for skilled inside sales reps.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For example, if you sell marketing automation solutions, you could join a Marketing Live Event and interact with others at the event. Were in the past a LinkedIn super admin was most likely a marketing person, this new feature opens the door for sales reps to drive engagement. .

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s the subject of my latest Sales Talk for CEOs podcast, where Erik Frank – CEO and President of Tristate Amature and Electrical Works – shares the details on the major overhauls that are happening in his 101-year-old business. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations?

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Awarathon

AUGUST 8, 2023

“An AI-powered video roleplay software is one of the most effective sales tools for streamlining your sales process, assisting your organization in meeting sales quotas, and forecasting sales for the upcoming quarters online effectively.” It focuses on sales readiness through sales enablement and training.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Mediafly acquired his company Alinean, a pioneer in value messaging and interactive sales tools.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

What is all this talk about a Sales Process? Whether your organization is using CRM or not I find that most organizations have not taken the time to define, write out and train their sales team on how to use prescriptive a sales process. How you define a sales process is important. Update CRM.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, the past several months have only bolstered my belief in the impact that a sales team can have on an early-stage product. 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. Here’s why.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 24, 2015

Therefore Marketing needs to work with Sales to provide the information necessary to educate the customer before the sales process begins, as well as, throughout the various buying stages as sales progress. Sales managers don’t properly coach sales reps to sell the new product.

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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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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

AUGUST 25, 2019

‘Sales efficiency’ and ‘sales effectiveness’ sound like vague concepts, but they can actually have a significant impact on the success of your sales strategy. Since 2007, sales quotas have risen 33%, but the percentage of reps hitting quota has fallen by 25%. TimeTrade ).

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of those strategies is summed up by this very ‘relevant to 20th century sales leadership behaviour’ statement : “If officers are unaccustomed to rigorous drilling they will be worried and hesitant in battle; if generals are not thoroughly trained they will be inwardly quail when they face the enemy.”.

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

There are more than 700 sales technology vendors and every day the list grows.). What are the ongoing costs to support these tools and what training is required to maximize them? How will you ensure buy-in & adoption from the sales reps? I’ve found that for many sales leaders, the answer is no. The result?

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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. Andy has put together 40 chapters of concise, practical and most important the right information that when implemented can drive your sales to the next level.

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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.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 1, 2021

Use sales technology solutions to create concise, storyline-driven, visual presentations AND to track prospect engagement after the presentation. Julie Hansen, Performance Sales and Training Julie Hansen is a virtual presentation expert and founder of the Selling On Video Master Class. Our Panelists.

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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. Lack of Integration Of sales professionals, 16% mentioned that the lack of integration to existing systems/data is a major roadblock for them.

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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. We wanted to launch the Sales Development Summit to give Sales Dev leaders their community to connect, to learn more, do more, and become more.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Transferable Skills: Once you land a job in sales, you can do anything. You can use your communication skills to go into customer service, or your product knowledge to go into marketing. Overall, working in sales requires grit , resilience, and a thick skin. Every sales process is different.

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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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Sales Training Connection

MAY 15, 2015

As a foundational point, it is important to emphasize that it is not just the sales team that needs to adjust and adapt. In B2B markets success is achieved when everyone comes to the party. So if the sales team needs to change so do all the other players such as marketing and technical support. Buying Process.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Sales Tips: Want a Future in Sales? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Companies continue to provide extensive product training to sellers. They analyzed job qualifications for Sales Directors. Marketing (23%). Become a Business Expert.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This secret I thought was very interesting as most sales managers either don’t train enough or train very poorly on sales skills, sales operations or product/industry information. The balance of Sales Managers probably train too much early in the salesperson’s life and then fail to reinforce effectively.

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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. Defining your CPP is a critical step to the success of your sales process.

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OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

This year’s edition features organizations that expand across the broad spectrum of the SPM and Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) continuum and offers options to help provide transparency across the entire organization for sales related processes. Coaching and Training. Sales Comp Admin and Design.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 4, 2020

Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for sales professionals to slip into safe mode and reach for the demo. While the demo can be a sturdy crutch for hobbling through the sales process, I would argue, strongly, that it has little value in growing a recognizable stream of sales. That’s the path to sales success.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Sales detective. There is little doubt that salespeople in the B2B market are finding their buyers’ journeys more complex and more subject to change than ever before. These added complications are due to factors from the disruptive trends of the time to the simple fact that more people are engaged in the buying process.

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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. I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. The Takeaway.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

In no particular order, here are 35 leading women in sales you should be watching in 2023. Joyce Zhang Gray CEO and Founder, Alariss Global Joyce Zhang Gray is building an ecosystem of remote, global sales professionals at Alariss, where she is the CEO and founder. In this role, she advises and accelerates go-to-market and U.S.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Not so with inside sales, where alignment between sales and marketing is critical for the creation of effective collateral and messaging. As a field sales rep, your personality and in-person presence did a lot of the work of creating impressions and credibility. Get more sales tips in your inbox.

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