Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 16, 2023

Even though they may have similar roles and goals, no two sales reps are the same. Why, then, are so many sales leaders treating them the same? Managers should make a point of defining areas of improvement to streamline sales processes and training techniques for individual reps.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2019

I recently met with the VP of Sales of a large, publicly traded company who told me that nobody gets fired for missing quota in their company. Keep reading to learn a simple, 3-step method for doing pipeline reviews that work. Step 1: Win what’s winnable. Step 2: Achieve balance. Step 3: Set coaching goals.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 19, 2020

A remote workforce can be difficult to navigate especially for sales enablement leaders. Regardless of location, sales enablement leaders must keep customer-facing teams actively engaged. In this context, the 2 C’s of readiness enablement, Communication and Coaching are critical to get right. .

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A successful career in sales is not for the faint of heart. According to a Bridge Group study , the annual turnover rate for sales professionals is 34.7%. Sales Burnout. With the role of a sales rep often being a high-stress, high-pressure position, burnout is a common occurrence for those who work in the field.

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Emissary

JULY 18, 2022

Most technology marketing teams have employed account-based marketing (ABM) to help close B2B deals. Instead, work with sales to assess each candidate’s fit to your ideal account profile. These companies may have been overlooked for your ABM program in the past but could make good candidates today. We call these the “Five Cs:”.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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BrainShark

APRIL 23, 2023

But navigating this growth and the change that comes with it can be a challenge, especially for sales reps. Enter Sales Readiness The good news is there is a solution and its sales readiness. Key sales readiness activities such as assessment, training, and coaching help develop more productive, agile, and ready sellers.

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Allego

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Power of Personalization in Sales. This applies to sales, too. If sales reps can personalize their sales calls, emails, and conversations, they will see much greater success. If sales reps can personalize their sales calls, emails, and conversations, they will see much greater success.

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. You learned about the three critical success factors of enablement , how to l everage sales enablement for digital transformation and how your leadership is required to lead through change. For instance, sales enablement creates an ROI of up to 15.3%

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The B2B sales process is fundamental knowledge to any sales rep. To help guide your training and coaching efforts, let’s break down the stages of this process at a high level, as every organization will have its own interpretation. Broadly, the stages of the B2B sales process are: 1.

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Nutshell

MAY 29, 2018

Building a sales process gives your future sales efforts a much greater chance of success, but your work isn’t done until it’s part of your organization’s DNA. Missed the last installment of our sales process series? Click here to read How to Build a Sales Process.

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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 4, 2020

Keys to Making the Sales Process ENJOYABLE for You and the Customer The sales process is a journey that can vary in the amount of time invested. They offer one-on-one coaching with entrepreneurs to figure out what their best offers are, how to unlock their superpowers, and how they can communicate in an honorable way.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2018

It is immediately helpful for them on their first call with prospects all the way through to closing calls. Active Listening is a four-step process: Truly listen to the prospect. Active Listening isn’t only applicable to sales, nor is it a new thing. Salespeople don’t hold all of the cards anymore.

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Xvoyant

JUNE 3, 2020

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “relevance” as “the state of being closely connected or appropriate to the matter in hand.”. World-class coaching enables leaders to be relevant to salespeople, helping them change activities, develop new skills, and improve performance. Coaching is about being relevant. By Rob Jeppsen.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A sales process is to selling as a recipe is to a cake. Without the proper steps in a particular and strategic order, you will fail at both selling and baking a cake. At one point in your life, you’ve probably had some type of baking conundrum. This is the same reason why having a B2B sales process is so important.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 23, 2019

Effective coaching is vital to sales team success. Yet so many sales leaders miss the mark on effective. Often, it’s for one reason: They confuse coaching with training. In this episode of the B2B Sales Show, Grace Tyson sits down with Matt Cameron talk sales coaching. In This Episode.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 11, 2023

Selling skills for new salespeople usually have some differentiators from the sales skills that a more experienced salesperson has due to learning about the sales process and understanding all the steps in the sale alongside product knowledge. Selling today can range from the uncomplicated to the deeply complex.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 19, 2020

A remote workforce can be difficult to navigate especially for sales enablement leaders. Regardless of location, sales enablement leaders must keep customer-facing teams actively engaged. In this context, the 2 C’s of readiness enablement, Communication and Coaching are critical to get right. .

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Xvoyant

AUGUST 28, 2019

I recently met with the VP of Sales of a large, publicly-traded company who told me that nobody gets fired for missing quota in their company. Keep reading to learn a simple, 3-step method for doing pipeline reviews that work. Step 1: Win what’s winnable. Step 2: Achieve balance. Step 3: Set coaching goals.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 9, 2017

The researchers observed how 800 reps applied 23 different sales skills that had been identified for success. The sales pitch. Sales coaching can make all the difference. This is where coaching comes into play.”. But sales coaching for the sake of coaching isn’t enough. Customer interaction.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 9, 2017

The researchers observed how 800 reps applied 23 different sales skills that had been identified for success. The sales pitch. Sales coaching can make all the difference. This is where coaching comes into play.”. But sales coaching for the sake of coaching isn’t enough. Customer interaction.

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BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. That being said, there are tools and best practices you can use to speed up the process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A 1:1 sales meeting provides sales managers and sales reps time for reflection and goal setting, as well as an opportunity for both sides to raise their concerns. As a manager, you shouldn’t look at your weekly individual meetings as simply a time to go over sales numbers. 1) Start by listening. 1) Start by listening.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. As companies work to establish processes that embrace and support the buying journey from contact to close, an interesting result occurs. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email. February 2012.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

As a sales manager, your job is to drive growth. The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. In other words, you can’t just be a sales manager. You have to be a sales LEADER. Sales Performance. Sales Performance. How do you do that? Self-Improvement. Creativity.

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Increase Sales

JULY 5, 2013

During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? ” In reviewing several websites for firms that deliver bank sales training, I saw this familiar statement: Our sales training is “behaviorally driven.”

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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CommercialTribe

JULY 19, 2018

Does your sales training budget ignore frontline sales managers? Today’s sales market is more competitive than ever before. With product and competitor information available at their fingertips, prospective customers no longer base their purchasing decisions solely on information provided by sales representatives.

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Xvoyant

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “relevance” as “the state of being closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand.”. World-class coaching enables leaders to be relevant to salespeople, helping them change activities, develop new skills, and improve performance. “If Coaching is about being relevant. by Rob Jeppsen.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Brian Birkett , the SVP of sales at LeanData. Brian is a long time sales executive and sales leader. He brings a diverse background in sales management experience spanning from startups to large public companies in both field and inside sales.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 9, 2022

In case you weren’t able to tune in, we’ve got a recap of the podcast below, covering major themes such as: The importance of strategically aligning sales and marketing. The eight steps to digital-first selling. Establishing a feedback loop from sales to marketing. Metrics that matter more than closing deals.

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OnePageCRM

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

That’s the cost of a sales rep mis-hire, according to research by Dr. Brad Smart of Topgrading Inc., a firm that helps companies assess sales candidates. But how do you identify a great sales hire? Not all sales people come from the same aggressive ABC (Always Be Closing) mold. Estimated reading time: 23 minutes.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Coaches live to lift people up and help them succeed. But coaching sales teams in particular can be tough. I mean, how do you coach someone when you see the results of their work (quota), and not how they work (inside their conversations with customers)? You’d never expect that person to be able to coach their team well.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

You’re well aware of the trends affecting the sales industry right now: Low pipeline Declining win rates Smaller opportunity sizes Customer churn Needless to say, this market is quite literally giving teams a run for their money. Invest in point solutions (e.g. Invest in point solutions (e.g. It’s your lack of workflow.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. That said, with companies spending $2,020 per sales rep on average, sales training can be expensive.

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