Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Are You Paying Enough Attention To Your Sales Teams? Sales teams are expensive, complex and powerful, so they should be made as productive as possible. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. B2C sales cycle lengths are much shorter, taking days or weeks.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

AI has arrived, but it’s mostly been implemented by consumer goods and services companies to personalize marketing messages, enhance their knowledge of customers, manage inventory and increase customer loyalty. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

For that time, learning management system (LMS) software was ideal for enterprise learning and development, including sales training. Now, B2B buyers are on the go, using smartphones, tablets, and laptops to research and evaluate vendors. Research shows that retention goes down as the volume of information goes up.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. This intense focus will equate to higher net revenue booking and retention.

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Hiring Retention B2C Demand Generation 93

Allego

MARCH 23, 2023

High-performing sales teams can use this AI-powered tool to gather data to help sales reps overcome their unique challenges and raise overall team performance. Here are three ways data from conversation intelligence software can help sales managers improve sales performance: 1.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales organizations experienced 58% higher voluntary turnover in 2021 than in 2020. The professional and business services industry (which includes B2B sales) had the fifth highest turnover rate in 2021. ( The downsides of job hopping can be truly detrimental to companies, sales teams, and even the sales reps themselves.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.” You’re not so good. .”

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

The same idea applies to B2B environments. B2B buyers are 34% more likely to buy from sellers that master customer experience. You can offer a more personalized experience throughout the sales cycle with a smaller segment of qualified prospects. Increases customer retention. Not necessarily.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.” You’re not so good. .”

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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Openview

JANUARY 18, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to close bigger deals. How much would revenue go up if your entire team was closing deals like your best sales rep? Let’s talk about how to become the manager of a sales team where every rep performs at their absolute best. Your team’s success starts with you.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Underperforming B2B sales teams spend a disproportionate amount of their time—more than 50% in some cases—serving customers that contribute 20% or less to the company’s revenues. In all honesty, overreliance on tribal knowledge transfer and ad hoc training programs trigger large sales team failures quite often.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In the highly competitive B2B tech space, it’s easy to market your offer with so many tools and channels available. In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. So our net revenue retention for current customers is 160%.’

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. To be fair, 9/10 sales training companies refused to deliver virtual sales training too prior to the pandemic.

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Benefit Training Retention Ideal Customer Profile 59

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

Mary Shea VP Global Innovation Evangelist, Outreach Mary Shea produces thought-provoking research on the sales technology landscape, the future of buying and selling, and the importance of having diverse, equitable and inclusive B2B sales organizations.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn and Korn Ferry recently took a deep dive into the impact of the coronavirus on sales organizations. And the gap between the traits that buyers expect in sellers and the traits that sales managers prioritize is widening.

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Trends LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring 85

Highspot

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Then, work to drive clarity around what “great” looks like at each stage of the sales talent lifecycle, both to understand whether or not talent is meeting goals, as well as to create transparency around growth and professional development opportunities. Empower Your Sales Managers. September 10, 2021).

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

which assists sales trainers in selecting the appropriate providers. Dave, a former sales rep, sales manager, VP of sales, competitive sales strategist, consultant, and sales trainer, has worked in 26 countries—with companies from the Fortune 10 to start-ups. By Dan McDade.'

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks. It’s ripe for novel AI applications.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2020

With the average sales manager devoting just 9% of his or her time developing direct reports, there is a tendency for sales coaches to focus on training sellers on the ins and outs of the products or services they are selling.

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Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Customer Hiring 156

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

In addition, sales managers should keep on eye on a rep’s long-term development. Good coaching helps sales reps close deals. Great coaching motivates, inspires, and builds tomorrow’s sales leaders. Choose a training program that links to your coaching and trains managers to effectively coach the material.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

To do this, you need to have a high-impact and effective sales training program to help your salespeople excel. The Importance of Building Sales Skills The sales landscape has dramatically shifted: 44% of B2B buyers said they don’t want to speak to a sales rep. Learn by doing. Make it easy to understand.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

To do this, you need to have a high-impact and effective sales training program to help your salespeople excel. The Importance of Building Sales Skills The sales landscape has dramatically shifted: 44% of B2B buyers said they don’t want to speak to a sales rep. Learn by doing. Make it easy to understand.

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Training Scale How To Hiring 52

Mindtickle

APRIL 13, 2021

The average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, according to the Sales Management Association (SMA). The SMA also tells us that the average sales new hire only becomes productive after 11.2 Research from DePaul University found that it costs almost $115,000 to replace a sales rep. . months to ramp up. .

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Hiring Report Hubspot Sales Enablement 52

Mindtickle

APRIL 13, 2021

The average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, according to the Sales Management Association (SMA). The SMA also tells us that the average sales new hire only becomes productive after 11.2 Research from DePaul University found that it costs almost $115,000 to replace a sales rep. . months to ramp up. .

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Hiring Report Hubspot Sales Enablement 52

Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only that, but for B2B sales, the desire for virtual communications extends to buyers. And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Like it or not, virtual selling is here to stay. You aren’t alone.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The sales profession isn’t what it used to be. Today’s sellers are dealing with the high expectations of savvy B2B buyers, decision-by-committee, disruptive technology, M&A, product innovations… and more. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

On building a sales organization as sophisticated as contemporary B2B buyers …. Every B2B trade publication, analyst, and even company (Hi!) Here’s a secret: Contemporary sales leaders are just as well equipped as their counterparts in procurement. How Do You Improve Retention Rates for B2B Sales Teams?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In complex B2B buying, it’s popular to talk about being consultative and/or creating value with our customers. We talk about sales people as problem solvers, working with our customers to identify and help solve their problems. So our coveted retention/renewal aspirations are threatened.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It also helps sales teams show improvement and advocate for further investment in headcount or training for various teams. Here’s a use case: imagine a B2B company that makes architectural planning software for firms of all sizes. The sales team at the company is divided into regions.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Essential Steps of the Sales Process Navigating the sales process is a journey with a specific destination – closing the deal. Each step is integral to a successful sale, guiding sales managers and salespeople from prospecting to closure. Prospecting Prospecting is the initial scouting mission in sales.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. Sales and referrals have always gone hand in hand. However, in B2B selling, there’s too much at stake. Today, of course, with the internet and social media, there are countless websites for greater reach. In that, it can be easy to take them for granted.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 1, 2015

Investing time to find the right person such as a sales coach, business coach or sales training consultant. Unfortunately, there are still quite a few small business owners and sales managers who live in the quick fix, band aid world. Sales training is not the panacea for ineffective to poor leadership.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 22, 2020

As a longtime sales leader and consultant to B2B sales leaders and CEOs at companies of various sizes, across various industries, I know teams that stay positive and adapt quickly will survive in a tough economy and come out strong on the other end. Don’t forget about sales coaching, which is a pillar of sales success.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 27, 2016

Luckily, in this great era of sales enablement, there are options to capture and coach the conversations your team has. We use ExecVision to enable sales managers and peers to offer point-of-need feedback based on a scorecard that is customized to fit our specific needs. Ritualizing Celebration Around Small Wins.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 24, 2024

Micromanagement, characterized by excessive control, close supervision, and intrusive oversight, is a counterproductive management approach. In B2B sales, autonomy, creativity, and adaptability are essential for success. Therefore, micromanaging your sales team can have detrimental effects on morale, productivity, and outcomes.

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