Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2019

Author: Lewis Robinson Sales meetings have become so normalized that people forget how powerful they are toward the growth of an organization. Sales meetings today have become just another item on the to-do list. That attitude, however, significantly impacts the ability of a company or business to meet its objectives.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2022

If you are new to receiving these sales tips, or even if you have been subscribed for a while, I want to give you something that will help you sell more. It’s not often that we get something for free, but I’m going to give you some resources, some inside sales techniques that will help you sell more with less resistance.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Insights into taking a sales prospecting training course with recommendations on course content, topics and learning outcomes. The essence of any sales prospecting training course is for the salesperson to learn how to engage prospects for lead generation and how to extend their influence for future sales opportunities.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. What is inside sales?

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A recent Ignites newsletter article ‘ Wholesale Change: Skilled People ‘Are Going to Have to Reinvent Themselves ’ summarized how funds’ data-driven sales processes, growing product/platform complexity, increasingly time-pressed advisors, and the internet’s erosion of wholesalers’ information advantage make a hard job even harder.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Discover how mastering virtual sales strategies can elevate customer interactions, even in complex sales cycles. Virtual selling is a technology-driven approach to sales. Unlike traditional face-to-face interactions, sales reps use digital tools to engage with customers remotely. What Is Virtual Selling?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 21, 2014

Partner Hiring and Training Lessons from Sage Summit. Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. In building a channel as a vendor or building a partner organization, that’s the No. The various tracks cover technology, but also leadership, sales and marketing topics.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The global pandemic forced sales teams to change their processes and go digital. Organizations must adapt their sales strategies post COVID-19 to meet customer expectations. Whether you’re looking to implement a remote sales strategy or improve your current strategy, keep reading. What is remote sales?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 21, 2013

Sales Leadership: Bringing a Sharp Focus to Your. Sales Meetings. more on that later), in both environments I have begun to revert to a similar sales management technique to achieve the desired results. Write each entry underneath your sales goal. For example $250,000. The 50% list becomes your “upside” list.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With so many channels available for sales reps to connect, engage, and nurture relationships with potential buyers, getting sales referrals has become even more critical than before to book more sales appointments and grow the sales pipeline. Not all sales or customer referrals are made equal.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With so many channels available for sales reps to connect, engage, and nurture relationships with potential buyers, getting sales referrals has become even more critical than before to book more sales appointments and grow the sales pipeline. Not all sales or customer referrals are made equal.

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2020

What’s the best way to promote consistent sales messaging and enhance teamwork among 6,000-plus employees spread across 20 business units and two continents? For Jamie Cabral, Senior Training Specialist at Empower Retirement, the answer was simple: adopt an agile sales readiness platform. Facing Three Communications Challenges.

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Highspot

MAY 6, 2021

And yet, many sellers are wasting their opportunities to connect with potential buyers and lead them into the sales process. Changing the channel or message could make all the difference. Unfortunately, too many sellers think their job is done and the sale is a fait accompli. Well, many sellers do exactly that.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2021

Salespeople use the language they learn in the sales arena, persuading prospects and closing deals. As a result, marketers spend time and effort crafting and perfecting the materials they think sales needs, only to have them go unused. Problem #1: Sales Materials Don’t Include Buyers’ and Sellers’ Voices. Markets change fast.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. When to Hire a Salesperson.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. When to Hire a Salesperson.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only that, but for B2B sales, the desire for virtual communications extends to buyers. Buyers became accustomed to—and prefer—virtual meetings, demos, and asynchronous communication. Coaching distributed sales teams and providing feedback. Here are five best practices that organizations can apply to enable sales success.

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Allego

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Yet few firms harness the speed and ubiquity of mobile to advance their training initiatives—or to capture the wisdom of their highest performers. One of them is through formal training— national sales meetings , regional meetings, courses, and certifications. But there is real value in informal channels.

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KO Advantage Group

OCTOBER 15, 2021

COVID-19 has changed everything about the way we do business - and sales are no exception. If you’ve wondered what virtual sales means, this article will break down the differences between virtual selling and traditional sales and give you the tips, tools and techniques you need to take advantage of this new era we find ourselves in.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

A new research study unlocks the key to using social media for sales. Is it just another term to check off your buzzword bingo card at the next sales meeting you attend? You bet, and it’s critical to increasing B2B sales effectiveness. Not every social outreach is going to result in a sale, nor should it.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 7, 2022

Organizations trying to drive their sales strategies by looking in the rear-view mirror of customer insights quickly found themselves outmatched by competitors with forward-looking sales strategies. The pandemic put the kibosh on in-person sales meetings and fueled a rise in the adoption of digital channels for sales interactions.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In this interview, I talked with Amanda Georgoff , Enterprise Sales Rep at SalesLoft. She has 15+ years of frontline experience selling software and services to CFOs, CMOs, Heads of Sales and other functional executives at F500 companies across her time at SalesLoft, Xactly and CEB (now Gartner). REGISTER HERE. Listen and enjoy!

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 22, 2020

Sales development representatives (SDRs) have one of the most important sales roles because they channel customers to pitchers who close deals. They ensure an organization delivers an efficient revenue machine by making the sales cycle streamlined, but what does a day in the life of an SDR look like? 12 pm – Lunch.

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SBI

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Mediafly , a leader in sales enablement, interactive content and value selling, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InsightSquared , a leader in revenue intelligence, forecasting and analytics. What happens in the sales meeting is no longer the sole indicator of deal health.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2020

Because it is one thing to be in a sales meeting and learn about all the advantages these solutions supposedly provide and it is something very different to measure the actual results a customer sees in their company to understand if they got their money’s worth. Shorter Sales Cycle. Reduction or Elimination of Sales Training.

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Allego

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In Part 1 of this series summarizing Allego’s webinar: 5 Modern Learning Principles To Drive Higher Sales Performance , we examined ways to make sales learning content more personalized, as well as easier and faster to create (Principles #1 and #2). Sales Training Reinforcement. Or you could say, “Let’s create a document.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Our goal for this year was to expand the Allego platform and provide our customers with the most capable sales learning and enablement solution to help them succeed day-to-day while improving their top-line growth and bottom line efficiency,” said Yuchun Lee, CEO and Co-founder of Allego. Training and Enablement Made Easy.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But with sales enablement tools, you can understand the attitudes, content, and skills that help your sales reps reach their objectives. What to look for in a sales enablement tool. What to look for in a sales enablement tool. Growth and development: Insights on sales rep performance can spot weaknesses and strengths.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 14, 2020

Before we get into what makes the best sales process for professional services, we need to dispel the head trash most professional services have about selling. And if everyone is expected to bring in business, but no one truly “owns” sales, lack of accountability is sure to creep in. I know what you’re thinking. Asking for Referrals.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Online Training. Tweet Share In my early intensive days of learning sales and attitude (1972-1973), I was taking a four-hour sales and attitude training class EVERY DAY from 8am-noon. All of my fellow learners (there were nine in the group) immediately took a lunch after the training – except me. Good stuff.

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Allego

JANUARY 23, 2020

On two separate occasions, I was brought into an asset management organization to run retail sales/distribution in the United States. They have created, rehearsed and delivered their own “National Anthem” from their home offices’ marketing collateral to their point of sale interactions from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales teams around the world have been forced to quickly adapt and learn remote selling techniques, due to the coronavirus pandemic. million professional salespeople in the U.S , and field sales make up 52.8%. In May 2020, 71% said they were conducting more than half their sales virtually. According to U.S.

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SBI

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I asked thought leaders from various sales technology firms, how they think SalesTech will change the way salespeople sell in 2019. Historically, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have tended to create work for sales people, rather than simplify their job. 2019 is going to be a great year to be a sales professional.

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