Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. You communicate, collaborate, and connect with prospects via desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. You also need to add new skills of engagement, technical aptitude, active listening, follow up, and time management to your toolbox of selling techniques.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 15, 2022

When a sales rep asks us point-blank, ”What is the best way to follow-up with a prospect that goes silent?“ It’s a real question we hear often, and we know sales reps are not wanting to hear a vague reply like, ”It depends on your situation.” They are looking for practical advice to a real-world sales problem.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. Fortunately, though, sales management is a craft that can be learned. This will help a sales manager to get up and running.

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DocSend

MAY 17, 2022

A lot of what a sales enablement tool does is teach reps how to sell or store information they need to sell. These capabilities are a really great fit when sales managers want to choreograph how a rep should sell. DocSend is designed for sales reps who own the strategy and process of their deals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Additionally, sales spends too much time on non-selling activities, which may include searching for relevant content, or even creating sales collateral themselves. Finding the right contact – and context – for sales outreach is time consuming. This is where sales enablement technology comes in.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2022

Ensuring multiple data sources are standardized as they join your database is important for critical go-to-market activities such as customer segmentation , territory planning , and prospecting. Applied across an entire sales team, this batch process leaves plenty of opportunities for variation in a number of important fields.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

One of my favorite examples of a documented sales process comes from Wildfire and includes the following information by stage: Key questions to ask the customer. Collateral that should be given to the customer. Build sales collateral. The sales process is only as good as the value it provides to your customers and reps.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 20, 2024

SalesFuel’s Voice of the Sales Rep found that “your price is too high” is the top objection they hear. This concern is followed by prospects not having enough budget. She recommends sharing “specific literature, customer references, case studies, or other sales collateral that can affirm that, be sure to share them.”

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

If your organization is aiming to improve sales effectiveness, leverage marketing collateral and win deals faster than ever before, a sales enablement program is a productive place to start. What is sales enablement? A sales enablement platform, for instance, is the glue holding the two departments together.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2022

Prospects are on vacation. Taking action will at least improve your attitude and at best snowball into a steady stream of sales. Prospect, prospect, prospect. Paying attention to trigger events and using them as sales openings is a best practice year-round, but can be particularly helpful during a slump.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. The entire organization can make better decisions by surfacing insights and analytics that you would only get if you sat in on every sales or customer success call.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Qualia, a real estate company, uses software that allows sales managers to listen in and “whisper” feedback. . A wider range of personality types can flourish in virtual sales, so the recruitment pool is larger than for field sales. . The salient question now becomes, what cannot be sold virtually?

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Allego

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You have a sales content library full of collateral, videos, reports, eBooks and more. Proving the impact of your sales content can be tricky. With deal content tracking, you tie specific assets to individual deals in progress—all the way through the sales cycle. Effective Sales Content: Measure, Optimize, Repeat.

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Allego

JULY 31, 2023

They need access to multiple things related to their job, such as how to use sales tools, sales collateral, product information, presentation decks, HR documents, and training materials. Buyers receive outdated sales collateral. Sellers don’t know how to use sales tools. Can you find the content?

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As a football coach may pump up the team for the fourth quarter, sales managers can provide extra motivation. Here, managers can add incentives for increased activity, such as additional calls to close deals, and allow reps to be flexible with offers. For many sales organizations, time speeds up in the fourth quarter.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And if so, what does it look like to sales professionals? In this post, we're going to discuss what it means to quiet quit in sales, what it looks like, and what sales managers can do when they think it's happening in their teams. Sales rely on won deals. In truth, we hadn’t set that person up for success.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The step that was missed was testing and refining the company’s message, target market and conversion of interested prospects into customers. This step could ideally happen in parallel to the founders making their initial sales. It’s not our job to produce collateral that clearly communicates the message. Sales Management'

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LevelEleven

JANUARY 9, 2019

Then there’s the possibility their prospects will be on vacation. A deal may be close to closing as the holidays approach and then, out of nowhere, the prospect goes dark! This also offers the opportunity to approach your prospect with a new technique. Ask your prospect what their plans and goals are for 2019.

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Sellers also face additional barriers to productivity when there’s less contact with prospects, colleagues, and their industry. Sales managers leading geographically dispersed sellers are doubling down on the fundamentals. A New Era of Sales Management. It’s a new era of sales management for virtual teams.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Most content management systems focus on storing just-in-time reference content such as slides, brochures, FAQs, and videos needed to educate prospects. Reps give and get practical advice that they can apply to their prospecting and buyer conversations. Sales Teams Need More than an LMS. Coaching and Feedback.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

In an ideal world, sales reps would spend all day sending emails, taking calls, and ultimately, doing what they do best—selling. There’s a lot more to sales than meets the eye. Other selling tasks include prospecting, administrative work, data entry, market research, etc. Thursday is the best day to prospect.

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LevelEleven

JANUARY 9, 2019

Then there’s the possibility their prospects will be on vacation. A deal may be close to closing as the holidays approach and then, out of nowhere, the prospect goes dark! This also offers the opportunity to approach your prospect with a new technique. Ask your prospect what their plans and goals are for 2019.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To amplify its impact, many companies integrate the playbook into a collaborative sales training platform that allows SDRs to easily access the playbook’s resources, engage in interactive learning modules, and apply the acquired knowledge in practical scenarios. Link to appropriate resources or a content management solution.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This tool’s automation capabilities allow companies of all sizes to support sales enablement through simple workflows. Best for: Collateral tracking. Attach helps you track how prospects engage with materials you send them, empowering you to make relevant follow ups. Best for: Identifying prospects. Image Source: Attach.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sellers take the time to truly understand the challenges and pain points of each prospective buyer and gain their trust. To illustrate consultative sales in action, consider your most recent, significant purchase – either in your professional or personal life. Active listening is key to building trust with the prospect.

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Allego

MAY 17, 2022

When it comes to sales, reps are often at the forefront. They’re responsible for moving prospects through the sales pipeline in order to convert them into customers. From case studies to solution briefs to presentation decks, marketers provide the content and resources sales reps need to navigate buyer interactions successfully.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. What is a strategic sales plan? A strategic sales plan is a detailed strategy that outlines how you’ll target and sell to high-value prospective clients.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being a sales rep is tough but rewarding. Day after day, you plan your conversations, prep your sales collateral, make dozens of calls, face a lot of rejection, and, hopefully, make progress on moving prospects down the funnel. Managing a sales team is a lot of work, too. Enter Mindtickle and HubSpot.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Lead Scoring and Prioritization Sales and marketing teams can develop and refine a lead scoring system that identifies and prioritizes potential customers based on specific criteria. A joint effort attracts the right kind of leads, with the sales team focusing its energy on prospects with the highest likelihood of conversion.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2023

Boosting the Effectiveness of Prospecting Prospecting is the holy grail of sales. That said, it's also one of the most challenging steps in the sales process, which over 50% of salespeople admit to struggling with. Luckily, prospecting is one of the tasks that can be successfully automated with AI.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Too much activity management. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. “Welcome to the team,” said my new sales manager, as he dropped a giant yellow pages phonebook on my desk. Too much reliance on selling tools. Upcoming: Not enough training in the industry/space. Not enough humility. That was it!

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Allego

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to sales, remote work presents a unique set of issues. Sellers also have less contact with prospects, colleagues, and their industry. Sales managers leading geographically dispersed sellers are doubling down on the fundamentals. Do prepare for a new era of virtual sales management.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. First and foremost, both closely partner with sales managers to support reps through every touch point of the sales cycle.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Foundational What is a sales enablement program How to align your sales enablement with sales process development How to align enablement efforts with the buyer’s journey How to align sales and marketing teams together Programmatic Onboarding and training Role-playing Content Coaching Analytics What is a sales enablement program?

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

What is a B2B sales funnel? . A B2B sales funnel is a stage-by-stage model that depicts how B2B prospects move through the buying process. In either case, it‘s important to remember that the sales funnel is a model; it‘s a representation of the buyer‘s journey. . Let‘s make something clear: Sales funnels ?

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Showpad

JANUARY 23, 2020

5 Types of Sales Collateral Your Team Needs to be Successful. To avoid being lost in the shuffle of salespeople your prospects hear from every day, you’ve got to capture their attention quickly, and act fast to keep it. Make sure your Sales reps are equipped with the essential collateral that will win over buyers.

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Sales managers need these answers to understand what went wrong and how they can help sellers avoid making the same mistakes in future deals. From the get-go, conversation intelligence can help sales managers highlight skill gaps for both individual team members and the group in general.

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