CloserIQ

DECEMBER 26, 2018

One of our goals this year was to create and curate the best sales content out there for advancing your career and building top sales teams. Every week we compiled our favorite posts on everything from sales strategies to hiring plans. Here are 20+ of our favorite sales blogs from 2018.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the first step is clear—team managers and leaders must understand and admit that obsolete management practices are resisting innovations outright. Because AI empowers leaders to maximize human strengths rather than getting dragged into metric minutiae. Today’s blog starts right there! But what’s next?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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The Sales Readiness Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

As buying behaviors continue to change, so does the market. To stay competitive, organizations need to find ways to maximize their current opportunities and generate new ones. In this article, we will introduce 5 ways to increase sales performance in 2024 and help your team surpass last year’s figures.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today we feature a blog by Michael DeRosa, the director of professional development at Travelers Insurance, and one of our 2019 Miller Heiman Group Icons. Channel selling is a different breed of selling from direct sales. Here are three ways sales managers can better support their channel sellers by cultivating better relationships.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 29, 2011

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 28, 2022

However, to maximize the opportunity for this to occur, there is important sequencing of this process. Or worse, we blindly take what marketing or someone else provides. It requires us to be curious, “What’s happening in their industries, markets, with their customers, with their competitors?

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 23, 2010

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2022

What do they mean to sales and marketing? For example moving from a sales led customer engagement model to a digitally led customer engagement model may represent huge innovation within our organization or our markets–yet these have been common for years in consumer markets.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

We also introduced you to some of our favorite B2B marketing influencers —including the socially-savvy Ann Handley, Joe Chernov, and Joe Pullizi, just to name a few. However, the B2B marketing world isn’t the only industry boasting some big names in the social sphere. The B2B sales arena has a few social celebs of its own.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Whether it’s marketing, sales, customer experience, there are endless discussions about the principles and practices of great sales and marketing. They talk about investing in developing people and maximizing their performance. Sales Managers Need Coaching And Development Too!

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 4, 2015

Sales managers and the time trap. For sales managers Public Enemy # 1 is time. The more successful a sales manager, the more demands on their time. One simple answer is enough is enough when there is not enough time left to manage and coach your sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Database management. Inside sales. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 23, 2022

They recognize no script can handle everything, instead having a consistent set of dialogs that have been adjusted to maximize meaning and engagement. Persistence is important, flexible persistence enables us to adapt and change based on shifts in our customers, markets, competition. Related Posts: Can Selling Be Effortless?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

While they may provide outstanding skills, increase people’s knowledge in markets, products, sales approaches; it’s critical the people going through these programs understand how to apply what they are doing directly to their jobs. For example, how we position our solutions will vary based on industry/markets.

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Highspot

JUNE 15, 2023

Often, the sales department is a company’s highest expense, which means that maximizing the potential of every rep to scale productivity is mission-critical in today’s economy. Increasing sales productivity ensures that you drive more revenue with each rep you have. Sales productivity is how companies drive consistent revenue.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 21, 2010

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I seldom hear career pathing discussions from sales leadership. Perhaps things like, we move SDRs into AE roles, possibly an account manager role. For a few, possibly sales management. Managers, if they coach, coach for day to day, quarter to quarter performance. This has to be a call to action for top management.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

. • How to avoid discounting and sell at full-price. • The secret to successfully executing a price increase with existing customers. • Proven methods to grow business and maximize profits. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

If that’s not the case – if you’re not engaged in sales enablement or your current approach doesn’t meet your expectations and deliver desired results, I encourage you to read this blog post with an open mind and heart to establish a thorough understanding of sales enablement. .

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2019

I get up, look at my news feed reading blog posts on sales, sales management, marketing, business management. I’ve been actively writing this blog since 2007. ” You can apply that question to virtually anything we do in sales and sales management (perhaps even in business).

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Xactly

MARCH 29, 2018

Whether you’re in sales, finance, marketing, or IT, it’s important that your company can rely on you to get your job done and do it well. As a sales leader it’s important that you motivate your team because nothing kills employee morale like a bad manager. Ready to avoid being a sales management fool?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In our own organizations, we have to do with much less, many marketing and sales programs are being stopped or eliminated, all spending is being reassessed. And then the layoffs–we see reductions in marketing, sales enablement, sales ops, customer service headcount. Related Posts: "We Will Never Revert Back."

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 6, 2015

11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now! Sound investment portfolio-management advice ranges from “hold firm with your existing stocks” to “take advantage of a great opportunity to buy at today’s basement prices”. This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag.

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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. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

They represent the stages salespeople go through from lead to sale. Pipelines aren‘t a rough representation of the ideal customer journey, they are actual representations of the sales process, and there‘s no skipping stages (that‘s a sales manager no-no). Awareness is the very first step in the B2B sales funnel.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 13, 2012

Want to become your sales manager’s new favorite rep? Time is almost up to enter the Smart Selling Tools Sales Software Sweepstakes. Revenue Maximizer Prize. Hurry and enter , or mention it to your favorite sales or marketing department. originally appeared on Score More Sales on March 13, 2012.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2022

I hope I’m not adding to the confusion, but I wanted to begin addressing some of the fundamental issues, bad information, horrible practice: Coaching is a management responsibility! It’s our job as managers to coach and develop those people that report to us. Related Posts: Coaching Managers Does Everyone Need Coaching?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth. The first, how we perform and achieve our goals in our part of the organization, what we do to maximize our personal performance and our groups performance.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For example, one of my clients helps their customers come up with custom formulations to maximize their customers’ abilities to sell their own offerings. Another place I look is in markets and segments very distant from the markets/segments we participate in. That could drive really different ways to engage customers.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Everyday, I have conversations with a wide variety of people, whether senior corporate executives, sales/marketing leaders, sales enablement/sales ops, front line sales managers, sellers, marketers. Every organization, our customers, our suppliers, our markets, our communities face similar things.

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