Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the strategy of simultaneously setting learning and sales goals. They explore the intricate relationship between continuous learning and improving skills for sales leaders, stressing the need for a balance. In this article, we’ll look at the connection between sales and learning goals.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Rika Cuff , Senior Vice President of Scholastic and Champ Sales at Herff Jones, discusses the importance of sales leadership in sales culture development. Rika’s insights provide valuable lessons for sales leaders looking to create a positive and motivating team environment. Recognition goes a long way.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. I contribute my fair share to the clutter.)

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sales account management, like sales, is selling. For the sales account manager, getting processes down can mean the difference between achieving massive growth and losing customers to the competition. What Is the Difference Between Sales and Account Management? Let’s do a quick overview.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Previously, she has worked as a Copywriter in advertising for a wide range of brands and as an Editorial Manager in publishing for magazines and fiction and nonfiction books. The Power of Commerce APIs Online shopping is gaining ground on brick-and-mortar sales. APIs lay the groundwork for better experiences.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 19, 2024

From the moment new hires step through the virtual door, intentional efforts must be made to cultivate productive working relationships. Doing so helps lay the groundwork for a cohesive and high-performing team. This may include regular performance reviews, anonymous surveys, and informal feedback sessions.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nowadays, it can be easier to market on social media than via email, and we may think that social media has a far better reach. Email Is Compatible with Every Part of the Sales Funnel Effective Zoho email marketing campaigns and other approaches have the advantage of middle and bottom-of-the-funnel content. Celebrate Success!

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 10, 2024

However, if you need to work in a toxic workplace or perform a particularly tough job, learning the skills for thriving in these environments can help in the job and in life. We may not like the people, we have an overbearing line manager, or the job doesn’t pay enough. Do You Need to Invest in What You Have?

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Crunchbase

APRIL 12, 2024

Far from its fictional representations, though, it actually has practical, useful and beneficial day-to-day applications in sales. Sales teams are already seeing AI streamline workflows, coach reps, optimize prospecting strategies and more. What is AI in sales?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I can’t begin to count the number of “experts” filling my social feeds with the sage wisdom and advice on maximizing performance: “Give your best leads to your top performers!” ” They go on to say, “The easiest way to hit your goals is to give all the best opportunities to your top performers.!”

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Mindtickle

JUNE 5, 2023

Episode summary ChowNow was looking to elevate and grow its sales training program using Mindtickle. Cole Lindbergh, Sales Enablement Manager, Revenue Operations at ChowNow , talks about his experience with Mindtickle. We’re obviously using it as our Learning Management System.

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Allego

APRIL 11, 2023

You launched your new sales training program ! You have personalized training, peer-to-peer learning , training reinforcement, and a sales content library filled with just-in-time learning that sellers can access when they need an immediate answer. Now, you need to make sure the sales training program is working.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Preface: I first met Rene Voorhost years ago when he was the Nordics/Benelux sales manager for National Instruments. I don’t recall exactly how we met, I think he saw me speaking and later reached out to say, “Dave, I think there is a better way to think about these things.”

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We have already discussed in our last post how managing a large sales team creates hurdles at tracking performance, analyzing sales data, providing personalized coaching, etc. Simply compiling exhaustive performance analysis no longer cuts it in today’s highly competitive enterprise sales climate.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. This is no different in sales. The key to improving sales performance lies not only in the hands of sales reps, but also in the ability of their managers to provide effective guidance and support. Pricing is available upon request.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 15, 2024

In B2B sales, success is often the result of strategic planning, deep customer understanding, and execution. A self-fulfilling prophecy, it refers to the phenomenon where higher expectations lead to increased performance. Its opposite is the Golem Effect, in which lower expectations result in decreased performance.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Top performers are already using these tools with tremendous advantage, and they always have because that’s what top performers have always done. Sellers aren’t using them, or they use them minimally to keep managers off their backs. But CRM has been a powerful tool that drives sales productivity and performance.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2024

Add on to this the terrifying data on sales performance–a few numbers from EBSTA, in the second half of 2023, 73% of reps missed quota, 23% of reps contribute 83% of revenue (our good friend, Pareto, again), 39% of deals slipping, and win rates plummeting another 47%. It’s better for customers and it’s better for us.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you want to learn how to manage a sales pipeline for an IT company, you’ve come to the right place. That’s where a sales pipeline comes in. But your sales pipeline can’t run itself. You need to manage it efficiently to successfully generate new leads and convert those leads into paying customers.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Consider today’s B2B buyers: They are savvier than ever, performing as much research as they can before talking with a sales rep. Traditional sales enablement methods can’t accommodate those needs. There’s little to no collaboration between sales, marketing, and enablement teams.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2023

The problem in many cases is the content management system you’re using. This divide undermines sales reps’ willingness and ability to adopt new content. As a result, marketing isn’t always able to provide the kind of content the sales team wants. Modern sales content management platforms. There’s a better way.

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Nutshell

APRIL 18, 2024

Your customer data is the key to understanding your customers better so you can improve your marketing, sales, customer experience, and more. An SCV consolidates your scattered customer data into one location so you can better understand your customers and use your data in meaningful ways.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Can they really work remotely and still create great pricing strategies and drive better margins? The role of a distribution pricing manager has expanded in recent years as well. Pricing requires a lot of collaboration with all the teams inside of your company, from sales to finance to purchasing.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 28, 2022

Chorus has been named a “Strong Performer” by Forrester Research and one of the top 14 vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Operations & Intelligence Q1 2022 report. Chorus, part of the ZoomInfo RevOS suite, received the highest possible score across seven criteria, including conversation insights, product vision, and data management.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They help me do my job better and faster. It’s the same for sales and enablement teams. Revolutionize Sales Excellence with AI Watch Revolutionize Sales Excellence with AI to learn how to harness AI to develop sales reps’ skills, leverage Conversation Intelligence to optimize limited managerial time, and more.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. Too often, however, we could/should be doing much better. Think of what it would mean to our customers, our own performance, our companies, shareholders, if we started to more effectively address the potential? We are underperforming the potential.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Enablement teams can now use Highspot to harness actionable insight from customer conversations and empower sales managers to drive consistent performance by efficiently coaching the right sales skills. “We Highspot Meeting Intelligence supports meetings recorded in both Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

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Allego

MAY 17, 2023

As the pressure for sales teams to succeed increases, so too does the need for sales leaders to develop their sellers’ skills and potential. First, many sales leaders rely on an outdated sales leadership approach. In fact, 76% of sales leaders have too many demands on their time, Brandon Hall Group research shows.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

For some, it’s the easiest job to get, to often, the bar to get a job selling isn’t very high (this is a management problem). And a small number, usually top performers, love being sellers–and all that entails. They seem to be challenged by learning and figuring out what it takes to be a top performer.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king. According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. Instead, you must understand how sales reps and prospects are (or aren’t) using sales content.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Imagine your sales team transforming overnight: Tasks that used to pile up are now checked off in record time. With AI, analytics turn into gold, and your sales approach is fine-tuned with precision. Welcome to the big leagues of sales enablement platforms. Key Features: What Makes a Great AI-Powered Sales Enablement Platform?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I spend a lot of time with sales managers, at all levels. Endless forecast and pipeline discussions–usually between managers and not with people. ” Sometimes there’s a bit of a training agenda to these meetings. One on one’s are irregular, and easily pushed off when something the manager prefers to do.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 12, 2024

Here, I first caught a glimpse of the transformative power of technology and its potential to drive positive change in the world. I dabbled in software development, digital marketing, and project management, each experience shaping my skills and broadening my horizons.

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Allego

JULY 14, 2022

It turns out high-performing sales reps prefer to learn the same way. Newly hired salespeople typically go through a formal learning and onboarding program that lasts from a few days to several weeks. And it delivers vastly better results. But that isn’t what employers usually provide. In fact, it’s the opposite.

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