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Three Recent Hurricanes Show the Path to More Effective Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Salespeople who reach THE decision maker are 341% more likely to close the business than those who fail to reach the decision maker. Objective Management Group (OMG) has assessed nearly 2.4

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Using LinkedIn Groups To Network And Engage With Key Decision Makers

MTD Sales Training

Recent statistics released by the LinkedIn Ads group showed that nearly 50% of LinkedIn members are in a key decision maker role such as Manager, Director, Owner, Chief Officer or Vice President – once again proving that LinkedIn really is the biggest and best decision maker search engine in the world! Marketing Manager.

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Ominous Signs for Sales Teams and Baseball Can Help

Understanding the Sales Force

The stock market has lost nearly all of its gains and the only thing we haven’t yet seen is massive layoffs. You should spend money on training and development for the twelve challenges I listed above. What are the twelve biggest challenges? Suppose your team’s best players get injured, making it difficult to compete.

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Onboarding In Sales: Training + Leadership

Sales and Marketing Management

There is no one-size-fits-all model to selecting and training the top sales leader, so a holistic onboarding program needs to rely not only on training and sales tactics, but also on leadership and coaching. Training practices should start from the top-down, with leaders directing the selling methodology. Leaders, Take Part!

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Why Technical Decision Makers remain Skeptical of You

Babette Ten Haken

Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. First, they do not assume anything, including the validity of marketing and sales materials. Also, they dissect all data put in front of them to justify your selling position. However, technical decision makers are most skeptical about popular fake data.

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. The Rise of Cross-Functional Teams.

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Virtual Training Can Outperform the Classroom

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer When it comes to creating lasting behavior change in salespeople, the assumption is that virtual sales skills training is a pale imitation of in-person classroom training. But what if an online training alternative could be proven as effective?—?or than classroom training? Live classroom training.

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