Julie Hanson

DECEMBER 29, 2016

You voted with your mouse on what sales issues mattered to you this year, so in case you missed them or want to re-read, here are your favorite Top 10 Sales Blog Posts from 2016! P.S. Be sure and read to the end of this post for an opportunity to jump start your sales success in 2017. Fill that knowledge gap here.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools. Salespeople can self-motivate, sales managers can do this to motivate their salespeople, sales leaders can use this to motivate their sales managers and CEOs can leverage this to motivate their top Sales Leader.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively?

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 1, 2016

During the last few days I have been reviewing the business data from this leadership and sales blog along with my main website. By reviewing this business data I learned there was an incredible amount of articles, tools, brochures and curriculum outlines downloaded, far more than in previous years. 7 Step Sales Process.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2016

Last week we attended the TOPO Sales Summit 2016 event in San Francisco. It was a great event with over 650 attendees, all interested in improving their sales edge. Scott Albro , TOPO founder, and CEO, opened the summit with a great talk about the State of Sales in 2016. The specialization of Sales.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2016

Last week we attended the TOPO Sales Summit 2016 event in San Francisco. It was a great event with over 650 attendees, all interested in improving their sales edge. Scott Albro , TOPO founder, and CEO, opened the summit with a great talk about the State of Sales in 2016. The specialization of Sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The judges at Top Sales Awards named Objective Management Group (OMG) the Top Sales Assessment Tool for 2016. We believe that we have developed the best Sales Assessment tools in the world but it is gratifying when others validate that belief for us! A very nice way to end 2016!

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2016

Developing models and frameworks is critical for all sales and business professionals. More currently Business Model Generation and it’s Business Model Canvas have introduced very powerful tools to help develop models and frameworks. I’ve gone on to enroll in Design Thinking For Innovation. Other Reading: .

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content. Two things.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Most sales leaders know they should be coaching their reps more. But sales coaching is a broad idea—and its interpretation is often left to chance. According to the Sales Management Association , formal sales coaching strategies tend to be poorly executed or non-existent. Leadership Development Sales Coaching

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-02-29. Author: Mike Reilly. Teaser: Is there any truth at all when it comes to knowing exactly what marketing efforts are driving your revenue growth - if any? The answer lies in adopting three key actions when assessing the ROI of your marketing efforts.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 7, 2016

Alinean is excited to announce recognition, for the third year in a row, as a Top Sales Tool from Smart Selling Tools. The review highlights our unique ability to helps sales rep overcome the top selling challenge - communicating and quantifying unique value to ever more frugal prospects.

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Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 15, 2015

From its inception , CRM has focused primarily on sales, pipeline and forecasting orders. If customer engagement is what it’s all about, then the ability to use CRM successfully as a strategy tool means that everyone in the company has to be onboard. What’s Ahead in 2016 for Manufacturing? It’s not just an IT effort.

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OpenSymmetry

APRIL 29, 2016

The 2016 SPM Vendor Guide is an information resource that provides organizations an introduction to the leading suppliers of Sales Performance Management systems and solutions. For over 11 years we’ve supplied organizations with the tools and best practices required to evaluate which vendor fits best to solve organizational challenges.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives among this demographic like travel, sales leaders can improve their incentives programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. . Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Many of the tools we leverage every day, the workloads we impose on ourselves and people, and how we do our tasks limit our impact and effectiveness. After that foundation, he goes in to great detail in how to create powerful sales stories. I tried his approach for a major presentation at for a group of top sales executives.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives like travel among this demographic, sales leaders can improve their incentive programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 13, 2016

No sooner did we learn about inclusion in the Smart Sales Tools guide for 2016, then the sister publication Smart Marketing Tools includes us in their Smart Marketing Tools reference for 2016 as well! Thank you to the Smart Marketing Tools team for the honor.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-November and December will be quickly on top of you. Once that step is taken, you can take a free sales compensation “assessment” on Acumen’s website.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-08-01. Sales managers can help make this happen by employing the right tools for their teams – tools that simplify the sales process instead of making it more complex. Author: Reza Mohsin, CEO of Speakeasy. read more

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Alice Heiman

JULY 18, 2023

If CEO, Julian Lumpkin, learned one thing from his sales career it was to follow what the most successful sellers were doing and do that. Knowing that all salespeople need case studies throughout the sales cycle, SuccessKit was born. He started his career in tech sales, moved to management, and then founded SuccessKit in 2016.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-12-07. Teaser: The Three Vs of sales tools - voice, video and virtual reality - will only continue to strengthen the buying experience for your prospects and further enable your sales team. Author: Sean Alpert. Here's why it's important to embrace them. read more

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SBI

JANUARY 6, 2022

5 Reasons Sales Enablement is Critical for 2022. Over the past few years, we are witnessing a rapid digitalization of all sales processes. It is best exemplified in sales departments, where until recently many activities were carried out in a traditional way using paper documents and faxes, and, in later years, Excel.

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Bigtincan

MARCH 27, 2018

Mobile Sales Apps are essential today for every field sales and retail organization across the domestic and international market. Google has trained us to rely on information search versus information retention — in 2016, an Accenture report […].

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 19, 2016

First, thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback and ideas on some of the things I covered in last week’s Bits And Pieces ( March 12, 2016 ). Beyond The Sales Process, 12 Proven Strategies For A Customer Driven World , Steve Andersen and Dave Stein. This weeks bits and pieces.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently deliver outstanding results.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Great sales teams don’t just happen. Sales is the heartbeat of your organization and it’s important to invest in the right people. Hiring mistakes can cost you missed sales opportunities and management time in addition to salary and administrative expenses. They are carefully built. Improve the players you already have.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. 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. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 3, 2016

We can barely contain our excitement for Rainmaker 2016. We’re looking forward to welcoming you — our Rainmaker attendees — and introducing you to the best way to integrate your sales development tools: The Sales Development Cloud. Get Your Account Based Sales Development Fix. InsideView. ExecVision.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

Welcome to Rainmaker 2016! We are beyond thrilled that the one and only conference 100% dedicated to sales development is officially underway. This is the evolution of sales development. In the beginning days of the sales development movement, we were in the Pioneering era, with a new frontier of specialization to navigate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

Author: Jake Shaffren The 2016 presidential election in the United States brought “fake news” into the vernacular of a growing number of Americans. But when you’re in sales, learning the truth about a prospect’s needs is critical. Nowhere else in the sales cycle is independently verified information from trusted sources more important.

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The Bridge Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Account-based revenue is a concept as old as outbound sales. The names have varied—whale hunting, selling to big companies, target account sales, and so on—but the desire has always been the same: Get strategic on big accounts. Over the last 3+ years, the thinking, the tools, and the tactics have continued to evolve.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2016

Books/Reading: One of the most articulate writers and thinkers in sales is Jack Malcolm. On April 7-8, I’m attending Topo’s Sales Summit in San Francisco. Based on my conversations with Craig Rosenberg (@Funnelholic), I think it will be one of the best sales focused conferences of the year. Profound and moving!

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% Tying strategy to the sales process.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 12, 2017

Technology tools have become a ubiquitous part of modern business. When a new strategy or project is assigned to a business manager, their first reflex is often to look for a tool to help them accomplish it. However, there are certain strategies that can’t be accomplished with the simple addition of a new tool.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. That’s why 2016 saw DiscoverOrg double down on non-IT datasets. In August, we released datasets for the C-Suite and Sales department. How’d we do it? Why is that relevant?

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