Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 11, 2015

Sales teams. Ask most sales management whether they have ever used some form of competition as a management technique and most will answer – “yes – and if I must say so it worked great.”. Stories abound about how competition can be used effectively inside a sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you’ve worked in sales, revenue operations, or finance for any amount of time, I don’t have to tell you how important sales compensation is. You already know the right sales compensation plan can motivate your team, improve their performance, and boost overall job satisfaction. Successful Sales Compensation Programs.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. 7 Sales Best Practices.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Conduct assessments to find reps consistent to what it takes to succeed in sales at your company. Train and coach frontline sales leaders. Studies show this is the best place to invest in training with follow-up coaching for reinforcement. If your frontline sales managers get it right, they will impact everyone on their teams.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. I’ve got bills to pay! Thanks for the input. Don’t do it.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Boost Sales Performance The playbook empowers SDRs to effectively overcome challenges and get the most out of opportunities. When they are equipped with tools and resources to do their job, the business will experience increased conversion rates, higher revenue, and more successful sales outcomes.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s a two-way exchange of information that requires a seller to create engagement with an inbound lead or an outbound lead and take the online conversation to an offline discussion. The key to sales engagement is getting our buyer to respond and say, “Yes, I’d like to take a meeting. How Does Sales Engagement Work?

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LevelEleven

JULY 10, 2018

To help get you started, LevelEleven created a comprehensive KPI report featuring the most prominent metrics being used by successful sales managers. Out of all of the industries we studied, technology had the most unique set of KPIs with more than 50 percent difference compared to the other industries. Unique KPIs by Industry.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

An Understanding Of Human Behavior In-depth understanding of buyer psychology helps salespeople tailor their approach based on individual client preferences – another key takeaway from good quality sales training sessions. Studies show this increases success rates dramatically. Boost your #sales game.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And in this day and age of cutthroat competition, the War for Talent, and fast-evolving B2B sales and marketing environments, you need the best B2B sales and marketing professionals serving on your behalf. Hiring for Your B2B Sales Team. Segmenting Your B2B Sales Team. Others may insist on phone conversations.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The ability to listen to an almost inexhaustible supply of training, case studies, and applicable tips via sales podcasts shouldn’t be taken for granted. From individual sales reps to Founders, there are so many great “shows” to help you become better at your job.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 2, 2021

The Sales Management. Podcast with Mike Weinberg Hosted by bestselling author, speaker, and coach Mike Weinberg, this podcast is directed at everyone from executives to aspiring sales managers. It focuses on how to create a healthy sales culture that generates high performers and dramatic long-term sales growth.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rev up your sales process with the best sales books. Need a reason to pick up a new sales book? In fact, a five-year study of self-made millionaires from author Tom Corley found that 88% of respondents read for at least 30 minutes a day. Sales Blazers by Mark Cook. The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

This is especially true for inside sales teams where time off the phone or digital channels can result in revenue lost. A great advantage of sales training programs accessed online is that it allow salespeople to learn, relearn and upskill in their own time and pace without taking up internal resources.

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 11, 2020

Cold Calling Motivation for Sales Teams: What Sales Managers Can Do to Motivate Reps. Many of these rules came into existence due to the Lead Response Management Research Study , a breakthrough report that changed the industry. That way, you will be able to lead them further along the sales funnel faster.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In a Harvard Business Review post, Rafi Mohammed reviewed an interesting McKinsey study on the relationship between price increases and profits. In the study McKinsey worked with the Global 1200. It is important that this knowledge is understood not only by sales management but also by the sales team.

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Set dates and times for sales rep to call (or visit) based on what works best for prospect (we get some push back on this from sales, but in most cases sales reps have more flexibility in their schedule than does a busy prospect). Send lead details and audio to sales management and the sales executive.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 29, 2019

And what sales techniques help reps get more business, handle objections, and have better overall sales conversations? We made a list of the sales skills of the best sales reps, and you know what? Why Sales Success Decreases over the Years. Sales conversations. Number of sales activities.

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ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

Seller MUST: invest in technology that will enable sales reps to have all the relevant information at their fingertips so they can engage, educate and guide the buyer to the right buying decision. The statistics are firmly established and organizations with inside sales are well aware of the changing buying environment.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. Engagement : Read the studies. 14 – Don’t buy sales methodology.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 13, 2020

Looking for the best sales books? Whether you’re looking to improve your sales pitch, learn the secrets of closing, or learn how to influence people, read on for some of the must-reads for any inside sales rep. RELATED: Winning Sales Tips And Sales Strategies From A Hungry Team Who Dared To Dream.

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Close.io

MAY 20, 2019

And the customizable leaderboard helps sales reps stay focused on activities that generate results. Whether you’re a sales manager trying to get the most out of your team or a rep gunning for the top spot, you need to understand which sales KPIs and metrics to track, why they matter to your company, and how you’re going to use them.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Much of the analysis makes sense if we are managing large numbers of people and are looking at how we allocate our time to those large numbers of people. But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales. They are hovering around 10 people (some studies have this lower). Think about it. When do we coach?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2018

But without the benefit of face-to-face presence, inside sales reps must do this verbally. Studies have found that we like to surround ourselves with people who think like we do. Here’s what a very early conversation might sound like. Sometimes, this can be done non-verbally. Prospect : I don’t really need help with X.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A recent Gartner research study into B2B buyer profiles found that over 45% of the 430 B2B technology buyers surveyed were millennials, plus 73% of millennials who work in business are involved in the technology purchasing process for their companies. The most common average annual contract value for a SaaS sale is between $25K to $50K.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Of the sales technologies listed, here are the 13 least known according to participants (in order, starting from the least known). See full study for more. Percentage of participants who were unfamiliar with each type of sales technology. 1) Sales Gamification. Presentations are a big part of the sales process.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 6, 2017

Here’s some of our conversation: Tell me a little about one of your favorite Business Value campaigns / programs you’ve developed and rolled out recently? For marketing programs, measurement should track the number of leads captured, opportunities generated and conversions to deals.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 10, 2013

In the interview “hot-seat” this month is Nancy Bleeke, author of the best-selling book “Conversations That Sell”. Our regular feature writers, Barb Giamanco, Nancy Nardin, Babette Ten Haken and Tamara Schenk are joined by sales management guru Keith Rosen. “Time Management” by Dr.Tony Alessandra. .

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

And of course our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from siloed conversations to a streamlined and customer-centric journey. Joined IBM as a sales rep, and then it was a sales manager, sales executive.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

.  Leadership  a motivated and well drilled sales team will outsell one twice it’s size, but only if they have great sales leadership. Sales People are not motivated by Sales Managers, they are motivated by Sales Leaders. Imagine a sales person as a knife.

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Velocify

MARCH 7, 2013

So we put our resident sales scientists to the test, mining millions of sales calls to build out a formula for one of the most common questions we get asked from sales managers. How many leads should I be assigning to my sales reps each day and when do I need to hire more sales reps based on my lead flow?

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

” Zero-Time Selling gives every sales professional, sales manager, entrepreneur and CEO the tools to be completely responsive to that customer request. Author Andy Paul clearly understands that neither sales people nor buyers have the luxury of time. Like it or not, we’re all in sales now.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since a SaaS product is typically more complex to use than a physical product, prospects need a lot more education and training from sales reps before they feel prepared to buy. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I can’t believe how many times I’ve witnessed a sales conversation that went really well. With inside sales techniques, you stand no chance at hitting a target that small. Pros & cons of inbound sales. There are a lot of pros to using an inside sales strategy. Everything was in place. Let’s look.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. Build one-pagers, white papers, brand collateral and an array of enticing sales material. Step one: study your competitors. Track and harness trigger events.

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