Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2022

Sales trainer Amy Franko shares highlights from a webinar she presented recently for SMM Connect on the most important metrics for sales managers to monitor. She talks about how she goes to market and how companies can be smarter buyers of sales training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Their vertical market (i.e.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 4, 2018

These questions and countless others often show salespeople are looking at sales from an old, out-of-date, perspective. These days, it isn’t about how good you are at selling; it’s about how good you are at determining the needs and wants of your buyers. It means knowing what buyers would tell you if you would only listen.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Buyers struggle doing their “jobs” ……buying! We poor sellers struggle, if it weren’t for these inept buyers, selling would be so much easier. ” We spend billions in teaching sellers how to sell, endless training on products, more sales skills training. Just reflect for a moment.

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. Create Engaging Content: Your sales training content must be engaging, relevant, and effective. It should also be practical and directly applicable to their daily sales activities.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

This is number 7 in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Traditional sales models vs. AI-enabled selling. According to Heidi, “Buyers have spoken. Think about that.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On average, sales reps don’t know the answer to 40% of product questions asked by customers. That’s just one of the many surprising findings from new Allego research on the current state of sales enablement for companies nationwide. The report, Who Owns Sales Enablement? Findings Reveal Inadequate Seller Training.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? So those are the metrics we advise customers to measure.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 13, 2019

When we talk to buyers, we often ask what inspires them to remain loyal to suppliers. What is it that makes buyers really want to do business with you? What is it that makes buyers really want to do business with you? Put simply, it’s by dealing with and going beyond the needs of buyers that will make you top of the list.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

In those times, a seller’s dynamic personality was all that was needed to keep buyers focused. When buyers are staring at a screen during a virtual meeting, they can more easily multitask. . A lot of this is happening during your virtual sales meetings without you even realizing it. . Working on other projects.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The majority of Lead Development Reps are inexperienced, undertrained, and ill-equipped for today’s buyer. However, buyer behavior has changed. Informed buyer’s are entering the sales process with companies later than ever before. We are now living in the era of the self-directed buyer. Guess what?

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 2, 2019

They see the obstacle of ‘the comfort zone’ as being a major obstacle in working with the potential buyer. This is the essence of the new sales process as we see it: the opportunity to share insights and observations with prospects so they see their world from a different perspective. You can assist them in developing their market.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then Google REALLY started marketing! What does this teach us as sales reps? It takes persistence, a proven sales cadence, and many calls to finally persuade a qualified buyer to buy from you. This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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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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SBI

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Customer References & Buyer Confidence. So many of these buying decision factors apply to B2B buyers. As Brent Adamson, Distinguished Vice President, Gartner has written about and presented on , all the sales motions that go on must ultimately help build buyer self-confidence in making the decision.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 31, 2024

Recent corporate belt tightening has put sales-adjacent departments like sales enablement and marketing in the hot seat. Because even though they contribute to and quite literally enable sales, their activities aren’t always as easy to tie to the deal as it is for reps who get phone and face time with buyers.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Most sales professionals recommend using a sales methodology that involves uncovering a buyer’s biggest problem or pain point. While this is essential for sales success, it’s also only half of the story. Sellers hear a buyer’s complaint and often jump to problem-solving far too quickly.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 2, 2020

In a world where it is increasingly difficult to separate out one offering from the next, sales training aligned to your buyers journey can be a key competitive advantage as it will allow you to deliver relevant experiences matched to each step along the process. Buyer Journey Questions. We think it’s time for a change.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. Reps must understand buyers’ needs and challenges and how to convey the value of what they’re selling. What should they do?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Though the Harvard Business Review prematurely declared it dead a decade ago , today’s top sellers have found new ways to leverage solution selling that speak directly to the attitudes and needs of modern buyers. Related: Top 14 Sales Methodologies for Your Selling Systems. Table of contents. What is solution selling? Absolutely not.

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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

In fact, a recent study suggests that 91% of B2B buyers are active and involved in social media, while 75% are significantly influenced by social content when forming their buying decisions ( source ). But—as B2B marketers and sales professionals—we have a lot to learn about social selling. What is Social Selling?

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales Training Programs Online. Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. Online sales training has both advantages, disadvantages, and parity with the more traditional approach to upskilling salespeople.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Awarathon

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Publish Date: 26th Nov, 2020Publish By: Sagar Pradhan, Growth Marketer What should a successful sales training program provide? A successful sales training program provides coaching to sales reps. It includes the essential skills required at every step of their buyer journey.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 12, 2022

A free series of B2B sales training video examples to help any business or salesperson improve their sales knowledge. We know that salespeople need regular access to sales training and there are a lot of options available online. B2B Sales Training Video – Selling Definition.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

How to sell and engage buyers in the digital, remote, and noisy world is definitely a challenge we all face. Without a learning pathway, very few of us salespeople will ever get to master the sales skills to be truly successful. The modern buyer demands more and expects a more personalized, tailored experience. Yes, salespeople.

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Allego

AUGUST 23, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Allego has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Revenue Enablement Platforms. Revenue enablement platforms, formerly sales enablement, provide key functionality enabling resources that generate revenue via content, training and coaching.”.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key.

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Allego

MARCH 7, 2023

Product marketers play a critical role in any company’s success. They’re conduits of information and the connective tissue between product developers, the marketing team, and the sales force. If you’re tired just reading that list, imagine how product marketers feel. 3 Habits of Highly Effective Product Marketers 1.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 13, 2021

Stay Ahead With These Sales Training Courses this 2021! Predictable Revenue, sales hacking, and now account-based everything has massively impacted the sales profession over the last 10 years. In partnership with LeadFuze, Sales Hacker has launched FREE LeadFuze Certified Sales Hacker Bundle.

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