Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Is it up to managers to provide all the coaching reps need, or are they better off bringing in outside support? If you’re considering a future in sales coaching, continue reading to understand the key competencies of the role, common mistakes to avoid, and take the quiz below to test your sales coaching knowledge.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

You’d be surprised as to the depth of dialogue that naturally occurs during this, including feedback that’s not only constructive but also encouraging. This example shows how a sales manager posted a win story from a top rep. Are they reviewing calls and providing feedback on the playback of the actual calls?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Before the year is over, he’s back in the field or on the street. This role confusion doesn’t stop at the manager level. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales. However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. Reps that fail are re-trained.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2022

Running a constructive team effectiveness assessment rests on your ability to understand the qualities that have the most bearing on your team's immediate success. Even if your team effective assessment is positive, look back at the individual answers and see where you underperformed, relative to the others. Is it reviewed each month?

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Allego

JANUARY 8, 2021

In episode 17, sales management authority Frank Cespedes explores how the pandemic has impacted sales training, what sales managers need to know about the new selling environment, and the biggest trends in sales learning. B2B sales—and sales training—have been upended by the pandemic.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Front-line service departments like sales and support thrive when they receive a substantial number of calls daily. But do sales representatives really know how to pitch their products and services to potential clients? Where is your team succeeding, and what do you need to adjust in the sales process?

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Allego

MARCH 2, 2021

Read on for four key takeaways from their discussion and some helpful ideas on how sales leaders can successfully coach in a virtual environment. What is surprising is the disconnect between sales managers’ intent in the coaching they provide and the way sales reps receive that coaching.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

For many leaders, when we hear the term remote sales management, our blood pressure starts to rise. Sales teams are hard enough to manage already, let alone remotely.". Let’s explore some crucial components you can keep in mind when constructing your own sales enablement strategy. There is no need to fear.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For many organizations, sales training and coaching are as linked as peanut butter and jelly. The two follow each other seamlessly: reps attend periodic training, and managers reinforce that training over a longer timeframe. This is great when your organization has a training scheduled.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. AI is no longer a construct of the future. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. 85% of sales professionals say that AI makes their prospecting more effective.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Sales managers. A few years ago we published a blog on the importance of sales managers assessing their prior year’s performance and incorporating the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. A good starting point is to reflect on their past performance as a sales manager.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

75% of most sales processes fail. Think about this: You just invested a huge amount of time, energy and money in developing and training a buyer centric sales process. Our Making the Number research tells us that your peers feel the toughest part of a new sales process is having the team actually use it. Process Design.

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Sell Integrity

JUNE 14, 2021

Particularly when it comes to sales, coaches help reps move past their mental boundaries and perform at higher levels than they even realized were possible for them. They gravitate to levels of productivity they think their manager will accept, and soon enough, those levels become fixed beliefs and habits. Communicate your intentions.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 16, 2021

As we know, sales is a very communicative role that often requires in-person conversations to build relationships and read body language. And having business development calls or sales team meetings from the kitchen table while family members are whirling around isn’t an ideal work environment. Video Conferencing Service .

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

Sales efficiency makes you take a good, hard look at everything that's going into your sales efforts. If you see that your sales are inefficient, you might look to bump up quotas, strip back certain expenses, or adjust any other costs or expectations that could be holding you back. Sales Efficiency Ratio.

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Braveheart Sales

JULY 14, 2022

So, what do these stats have to do with Consultative Sales Training? Well, there are three very specific areas that separate elite golfers from the rest and I believe these same principles can be applied to sales to help individuals become elite consultative sellers. They pre-call plan. We have access to a database of 2.2

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Braveheart Sales

JULY 11, 2022

So, what do these stats have to do with Consultative Sales Training? Well, there are three very specific areas that separate elite golfers from the rest and I believe these same principles can be applied to sales to help individuals become elite consultative sellers. They pre-call plan. We have access to a database of 2.2

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles. Mary specializes in leveraging modern learning techniques and tools to enable and train global software sales teams to achieve revenue objectives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. “When I moved to UNICA my role was sales ops.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Holding back my laughter and amazement I picked up the phone and turned it off. At that moment I was embarrassed because I realized my wife and I were doing them a disservice by always texting another parent if they wanted to have a friend over or setting up FaceTime to call their grandparents. Train for Skill. This is critical.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust. Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. After my lifestyle change , I decided that I no longer wished to manage people. I was a wreck.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Oh, finally, can you talk about how to deal with underperformers, how to motivate people, as well as some tips on how to go about observing people and provide constructive feedback. I then asked the final question I had for this call. I’ll have the contract sent back to you next week. Sound good so far?” I felt off.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2019

For example, your sales reps can ensure their contact details are completely filled out. As a sales manager, you can use data in your CRM to see how your team is performing. How long is the typical sales cycle for your reps? Sales Process, Tool, and Training Adoption Metrics. Gather new leads.

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Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

You need cold hard data, and your sales CRM must capture all necessary information on the deals closed by your reps. To improve your sales effectiveness and make informed data-backed decisions, you need to conduct sales analysis regularly. Sales pipeline analysis. Sales effectiveness analytics.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 21, 2022

Most sales methodologies focus on uncovering and satisfying buyers’ needs. As such, a majority of sales leaders train their reps to ‘go along to get along,’ right from the word go. The Challenger Sales model folks say that’s a problem. Check out Gong’s sales training software. A major one. Your top reps.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

As the Sales Training Connection readership grows, we decided to reprint some of our most popular posts. In this post we combined two posts: Dispatching Three Myths of Sales Coaching and Best Practices for addressing them. Re-institute the Pat on the Back. A Classic - '63 Corvette. Unfortunately, this is not true.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 25, 2012

When it comes to giving coaching feedback – most managers don’t do it enough, many times it is water off a duck’s back, and sometimes it makes matters worse. Lee, in the call yesterday the way you handle the objections didn’t go very well – that is something you need to work on.”. Selling sales managers on coaching.

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Showpad

AUGUST 8, 2018

Once your plan is in place, deliver the materials in an easy-to-digest manner via bite-sized training , videos and gamified learning. While each rep did their initial stand and deliver early on, after running through onboarding materials their pitch should be much more polished and backed up with the knowledge they have learned.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Provide marketing with an understanding of the sales process and the different touchpoints in the pipeline through shadowing or offer training materials typically used for new sales employees. Which sales touch points receive the most objections? Sales receives the improved material and delivers to the customer.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 31, 2018

In sales, results are not only an integral part of the job, but they are the way success is measured for both individual employees and the entire business. The United States Department of Labor says that sales occupations are an essential part of constructing and conserving customer bases for businesses. Avoid Over-preparation.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. Then take those learnings back to it. Don't just install it, train your people on it thoroughly, weekly and quarterly.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 8, 2020

I remember Sue who was a mid-level marketing manager at Coca-Cola. And anytime her child was sick, she had to call in and take the day off of work because she couldn’t get her work done at home. Top Performers Use More Social Proof in Sales Calls The stories that sales professionals tell have to be told the right way to drive impact.

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

“According to Wikipedia, the know it all of all things Internet, coaching is a form of development in which a person called the coach supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training, advice, and guidance.”. Coaching has been proven to work and sales reps find it valuable.

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