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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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. 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. Of course, you don’t have to limit the use of the notification bell to prospects and influencers.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Tools Distribution 62

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. Data’s essential role in letting RevOps know what’s working (and not) and how to adapt for continual improvement. Our Panelists.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

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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Inside Sales Trends Outsourcing Services Face-to-face 209

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). I recommend building a ‘skunk-works’ team and begin to experiment if you want to lead and avoid being left behind in a Social 3.0

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Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 83

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 Research shows that responding within the first five minutes increases the likelihood of conversion by a factor of 10.

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Inbound Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Outbound Sales Team 227

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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Dave noted that Bain research of past recessions showed a stark difference in the fates of businesses that remained assertive in a slow economy, compared to those that took a more conservative approach. Training and onboarding in a virtual environment has created plenty of obstacles, especially for new sales reps. Get a Demo 3.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. They’ve also researched what our competitors have to offer. In 2015, 43.6 Sales reps spend months working with a prospect, only to end up in an indefinite holding pattern.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Cold Calling 120

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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Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

Since it requires a solid understanding of current AI technologies, sales reps should also be trained on how to use AI, troubleshoot issues, and detect when AI is underperforming. For example, a face recognition system can be trained to detect white faces more quickly than their darker counterparts.

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Data Hiring Guidelines Lead Rank 83

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). Much to the researchers’ surprise, all the waiters had to do was start with a positive comment.

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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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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged, with little reason for optimistic spending growth predictions. YoY decline from 2014. increase compared to 2014.

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Forecasting ROI Proposal Decision Maker 72

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. During the last 6 months we have researched what major issues people are facing in their organizations. Prospecting. Andy add’s an entire section designed around Amp Up Prospecting.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Maximizer 82

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. If you research effective diets, every one of them is very similar in these areas: Exercise a few times every week. Approach prospects with a customer service mindset.

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Outbound Cold Calling Case Study LinkedIn 80

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. direct mail, personalized tele-prospecting outreach).”.

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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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Hiring Scale Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 99

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s the Sandler Sales methodology’s "uncovering levels of pain" to get to the root cause of a prospect’s buying motivations, or the Challenger Sale’s "powerful requests" method to understand how serious a prospective buyer is, sales professionals use decades worth of research and experience to understand their customer’s buying motivations.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Marketing Quota 100

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Recently we had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Ninivaggi, the Practice Director for Sales Enablement with leading sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. What does SiriusDecision’s research indicate as the top business issue for sales in 2015? We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year.

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Jeff Shore

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. Are you setting yourself up for success in the sale by creating that customer-centric environment? If not, then you’ll want to find out how from Eric Chester.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

As you and your team kickoff the New Year, there are some important research findings you should factor into your 2017 sales enablement and content strategy. The good news, the research is crystal clear. Those that get Value “right” can overcome these challenges and reap significant rewards.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I especially enjoyed how James takes the reader from sharing information on his personal sales background (helps everyone relate to the challenges in selling) to research on High Value Selling vs Lower Value Selling and how the closing process and the sales process must change with high value offerings with levels of success up to 42%.

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Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 9, 2020

The challenge is, not all salespeople know how to use these virtual tools and it’s inhibiting sales growth. Jeb Blount has been doing virtual sales since 2015. The question was how to utilize all these virtual tools for sales and blend these into a viable way to sell and prospect. Are you part of this selling process?

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Tools Face-to-face Video Channels 52

The ROI Guy

MAY 7, 2015

When you examine your sales pipeline and compare your wins vs. losses, research from SBI indicates that an amazing 58% of deals don’t get lost to the competition, or end up in your hands – they result in “No Decision”. Have you diagnosed the challenges properly, showing the prospect that the issues are bigger than they imagined?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Proposal Decision Maker 77

Platinum Rules for Success

DECEMBER 26, 2018

After writing 17 books and delivering over 3,000 professional speeches around the world, Jim Cathcart collaborated with Jeffrey Gitomer and Dr. Tony Alessandra in 2015 on the award winning sales skills assessment, Sales IQ Plus. Targeting explores the markets or groups you may target as prospective buyers.

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Loyalty Sales Cycle Lead Rank Lead Scoring 87

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

My Top 10 Skills are: (1) LinkedIn Training (2) LinkedIn Marketing (3) Executive Coaching (4) Coaching (5) Thought Leadership (6) Digital Strategy (7) Personal Branding (8) Writing (9) Communication (10) Social Networking. Wishing you a stunningly good 2015. Bad Prospecting LinkedIn Social Networking' Many thanks!

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Networking LinkedIn Harvest Distribution 48

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! Don't just install it, train your people on it thoroughly, weekly and quarterly. I prefer a cell phone to show localized caller ID so prospects actually pick up.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

And, according to The Digital Evolution in B2B Marketing, a 2014 research conducted by the Marketing Leadership Council of CEB (now known as Gartner) in partnership with Google, this person will not face a sales rep until 57 percent of their buyer’s journey is done. You get on the project and do an online research.

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Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

SBI

AUGUST 22, 2019

.” “We use this feature every day internally — our sales managers use Recommendations to uncover calls with coachable moments, while our reps use it to handle crucial deals and personal training,” said Joe Caprio, VP of Sales at Chorus. About Chorus.ai. 1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth sales teams.

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Coaching Hiring SAP Lead Rank 57

Sales Training Connection

APRIL 10, 2015

One framing of the answer to this dilemma is – better technology, better marketing and better training. . Better training. As the customer’s expectations about the role of the salesperson shifts from being a product facilitator to a trusted advisor there is a demand for sales training programs to integrate new content.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. Will the Russians launch sales training schools like future ballerinas or Olympians?

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2018

Based on Salesforce’s research in 2015, top sales teams are three times more likely to use analytics than under-performing teams. Research shows that the more often you review a metric, the more likely you are to achieve your goal. How many prospect phone numbers are actually usable? What percent of fields are filled?

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Data Hiring Margin Demand Generation Targets 53

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2012

I'm pleased to have as my guest today Tony Jaros, SVP of Research at SiriusDecisions. He has led the research function at SiriusDecisions for more than 10 years, overseeing the creation of content including demand creation, product marketing, marketing communications, general strategy, sales training, hiring and client service.

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Lead Rank Video Inbound Lead Scoring 145

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The ability for your reps to “handle objections” is a key to achieving 2015 sales success, this according to a recent interview of Jim Ninivaggi, Sales Enablement Practice Director for SiriusDecisions. Comes straight from a 3 rd party, such as independent analyst research, customer success stories and “voice of customer” videos.

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Objections Real Estate Face-to-face Buyer 87

LeadIQ

APRIL 24, 2018

My connection to organ and tissue transplantation began in September of 2015. My wife and I had just moved to Seattle and little did I know the job hunt was training me for my future job as an SDR. Tip #2: Spend time researching your prospects. All stats provided by Donate Life America.

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Face-to-face Call-back Software Software 75

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So the first step was to identify a promising startup, and I did that through a bunch of different conversations and research online about the fundraising track record. I think in 6 River’s case, especially at that time, the company was founded in 2015 and I joined in 2018. Besides how much money they’d raised?

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