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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

According to the search results inside this blog, I have written on the topic of coaching salespeople more than 400 times or 25% of my articles. You need to develop a culture of coaching and that begins with requiring it, and having an expert, like me, train and coach sales managers to do it effectively and get an instant revenue bump.

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Sales Incentives, Awards, Lead Follow Up and Sales Effectiveness

Understanding the Sales Force

We have the sales process dialed in and we are training on it now. Dave Kurlan wrote: They should receive the incentive only if the opportunity makes it as far as 2 nd base in the sales process. Until such time, salespeople must be trained to become more effective while marketers must be trained to develop stronger leads.

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Consultative Selling, Commitment and Training - Like Oil & Water

Understanding the Sales Force

The Huffington Post and the Hubspot Blog both published an article, by Dan Lyons about OMG and Kurlan and what it takes to succeed in sales. This article was named Top Sales Article for last week and this article was named a Top 10 Sales Article for last week, both over at Top Sales World. Not really.

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How to Train a Sales Team on Products: Use Modern Software, Not Old-Fashioned Training Techniques

Bigtincan

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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4 Sales Training Strategy Tips to Boost Your Bottom Line

Crunchbase

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. . Investing in team training is a critical part of business success and growth.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

It should be obvious that this article is a call-to-action for CEOs and a cattle prod to awaken Sales Leaders. Most of us don’t have the time and/or expertise to maintain our properties so we hire landscapers, snow plowers, painters, gutter cleaners, tree companies, turf companies, etc.

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Sales Training vs Sales Enablement: Sales Training 101

LeadFuze

Sales training accounts for less than one-third of what you should be doing to enable sales. If your sales enablement initiative is not having a big enough impact, it could be because of the common mistake made by companies to confuse training with enablement. Most sales training is focused on the basics of a company and its products.