Membrain

AUGUST 19, 2018

Sales Enablement is a hot buzzword bingo term these days. The problem is, were you to ask 10 companies what Sales Enablement is, you’d probably get 13 different answers. Let’s see if we can’t clear up the confusion a bit with a high-level working definition that fits everyone’s situation:

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Nutshell

AUGUST 29, 2023

Your sales pipeline is a representation of the journey your customers take when they interact with your company. From the moment they first make contact with you to well after they book with you, your sales hospitality sales pipeline is key to providing guests with a smooth customer journey.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. They can provide companies with perpetual revenue, and they can solidify your organization’s reputation as a great company to work with. But you are still missing one key ingredient to help turn your company into a referral generation machine.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 26, 2017

I often meet salespeople in my visits to clients and ask them for their favourite strategies when it comes to sales. If they are simply set for you by the company or your manager, there must be something that drives you, personally, towards it, or it becomes just an ethereal objective that serves others’ purposes. Step Two: Values.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Imagine taking over the CEO role of a company just as COVID hit. She was met with the daunting task of revitalizing a company that was “dead in the water” due to the pandemic-induced halt in its traditional training services. Strategic Sales Team Restructuring Harris didn’t stop at marketing transformations.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you’re in inside sales management, then you know all about metrics. The problem though is that those metrics are not what drive sales. You see, it isn’t the activity around the sale that’s most important (and that everyone measures), but rather, it’s the activity that happens during the sale that matters most.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’ve written hundreds of articles with analogies to sales using athletes, musicians, actors, CEOs, politicians, inventors, songs, movies, TV Shows and their leading characters. You don’t need to be a fan or follower to appreciate the sales lessons I introduced and today’s article fits the genre of a celebrity-based analogy.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. Why are SaaS companies embracing it? The smartest companies are embracing Ecosystem-Led Growth, or ELG. The B2B playbook is changing. So, owned media. What is it? Austin’s F1 track.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 17, 2019

Here’s a question: How should sales teams spend their time? There are two primary ways to ensure that sales teams actually have time to sell: Make sure the right teams own the right tasks. Decrease the time spent on “non-sales” tasks, or better yet, automate them. Which one will make your sales organization's lives easier?

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Nutshell

AUGUST 29, 2023

Behind every great hospitality company is a tech stack that helps them manage company processes and keep customers happy. A tech stack is a set of business tools that help a company manage different aspects of their business. CRMs include features such as pipeline management , sales automation , email marketing , and more.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2024

I just returned from a “Day of Development” seminar in Charlotte with the Jon Gordon company. I can’t believe this company is asking me to actually show up to an office!” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Good morning everyone! Several of his books include: “The Power of Positive Leadership,” “The Energy Bus,” etc.

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Nutshell

JUNE 14, 2023

A sales pipeline is a representation of the journey people take when they become customers. Beginning with an introduction to your company and ending with a purchase, every sale requires someone to progress through your business’s sales pipeline. That will ultimately lead to more sales and revenue.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 15, 2019

Some companies have pay problems with departing salespeople. Take a look at how much turnover exists on your sales force. If there's low sales staff turnover, there's a high probability of full payment without incident. Know your company's policy. Compliment your old company or say nothing. Will it happen to you?

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

No matter your industry, every company has some variation of a tech stack made up of the software needed to run their business. So, what kinds of software do you need for a landscaping company tech stack, and how do you start building your tech stack?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2024

That exact same thing happens to salespeople on their sales calls. You probably ended the call with a mind-blowing, spectacularly biased perspective on your likelihood of getting the business and, if forty years in the sales development business has taught me anything, your perspective could be completely wrong. He said two.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

The same concept applies to companies who want to achieve success. Take a forward-looking view at the mindset of sales leaders and how they use the resources available to them. When it comes to sales, you should be asking, “How are these companies handling their sales? 60% were directly involved in sales training.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot! Study these 3 interviewing mistakes and make sure YOU don’t make them the next time you’re trying to land your next sales position.

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Nutshell

JUNE 20, 2023

Your sales pipeline—that is, the multi-stage journey your leads take to become customers—is the key to unlocking more revenue for your retail and ecommerce company. When your pipeline is efficiently managed, you can significantly increase the number of sales your business generates. But how do you do that?

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Sales Leadership At A Crossroad? TOP LEVEL LEADERS – Remove your bias of what you believe a business/sales/sales leadership coach to be. What if it led to top talent retention or the knowledge that your company values were being met whilst also impacting families? Then This Is Your Road to Success!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales people like to talk; if you don’t believe me, just listen to a recording of one of your reps (or of yourself!). Why do sales reps talk so much? A good script—and script playbook—changes companies and careers. In sales, less talking and more questioning and more listening is the key to success. This is a problem.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Enabling sales reps to sell more and sell better is not an easy job — that’s why sales enablement departments (and an entire industry) were created. But sales enablement leaders can’t operate in a silo. They’re often small teams tasked with overseeing dozens or even hundreds of sales reps.

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Nutshell

JUNE 14, 2023

As a tech company, you know the importance of having the right digital tools at your side. That’s the idea behind a tech stack, a collection of business tools you use to manage your company. The question, though, is this: Which types of tools should you include in your tech company tech stack? Great question!

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’ve written hundreds of articles with analogies to sales using athletes, musicians, actors, CEOs, politicians, inventors, songs, movies, TV Shows and their leading characters. You don’t need to be a fan or follower to appreciate the sales lessons I introduced and today’s article fits the genre of a celebrity-based analogy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today, some Luxury car companies dress up the cars from their primary brands as Toyota is known to do with its Lexuses, Nissan with its Infinities, Honda with its Acuras, and Ford with its Lincolns. When it comes to sales assessments, things are also not what they appear to be.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 19, 2023

A successful sales process is still possible during economic downturns, even if it seems like all of your prospects are shutting their doors. You’ll likely apply the inbound sales method, where your process will become more focused on and customized for each individual lead. Allow for longer sales cycles.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Check out the top 100 companies at the end of this post. For sellers, context is everything.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 8, 2023

Passive training isn’t bad, but if you want salespeople to “get it” then you must be able to demonstrate what good sales conversations should sound like and that can only be accomplished through role playing. Not just different, but crucial because sales is a company’s economic engine. Be smart about it!

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 3, 2021

When we dive into the nitty-gritty of sales, there’s a critical difference between sales engagement and sales enablement. That’s why, on today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald discusses what sales engagement is and how you can implement it in your own sales practice. So, what is sales engagement?

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 3, 2021

When we dive into the nitty-gritty of sales, there’s a critical difference between sales engagement and sales enablement. That’s why, on today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald discusses what sales engagement is and how you can implement it in your own sales practice. So, what is sales engagement?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 30, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Everyone has a plan. One area where we see this occur repeatedly is when companies are about to hire a Sales VP or Director AND they want to evaluate their sales force too. Sales VP's aren't like stretchy clothing where one size fits all.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

OR “From a needs standpoint, how motivated is (your company/department/are you) to change/fix/replace/buy XYZ right now?” You’ll get over 500 word-for-word scripts, questions, and phrases to help you open and close more sales starting today! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Finding and hiring good inside sales reps has always been a challenge, and it’s gotten even tougher since the pandemic. The entire work landscape has changed, and working remotely has made it harder on both companies and individual producers. They consistently find solid and profitable inside sales producers—even in today’s landscape.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Over the last two years, as we have been doing research for our book, Inbound Organization (Wiley), we have been speaking with owners, senior executives and managers throughout the world, and we are constantly amazed at the number of companies that “wing it.”. A company strategy is the answer to the question “How are we going to succeed?”

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