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The Problem with Self-Directed Sales Training and its Role in Developing Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Yesterday, Andy Miller and I delivered onboarding training to a group of new partners at Objective Management Group (OMG). The group learned more from that spontaneous two-hour discussion than they ever would have learned from the sterile slides. With self-directed training That. Self-directed training is passive.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing.

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New Data: Top Salespeople are 7562% Better at Winning RFPs

Understanding the Sales Force

Personally, I substitute Baseball for the middle topic because college baseball is in full swing and we’ve been traveling to watch our son, a college senior, play college baseball. When training and coaching salespeople, the theory of how to sell to companies that buy via the RFP process is not enough.

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Using the Gig Model to Build a Sales Engine

Sales and Marketing Management

Most models for building a sales engine haven’t changed much, yet those traditional channel networks are costlier to develop. It’s also an advantage to customers who want the best fit for their needs, or want to see trainers in more than one location because of family or business travel reasons.”. Through a channel partnership network?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel. Building a successful virtual sales engine also may require shifting the mindset of the sales staff. Take the role of a product sales specialists or technical sales engineer.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Innovating from the Top: How a Former CMO Revitalized a Company as CEO (Ep107)

Alice Heiman

Harris shared her riveting journey of steering the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and moving from 100% in-person training to 100% online training basically overnight, revealing not only the challenges faced but also the exact strategies she implemented to drive rapid growth and adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape.

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Sales Enablement In a Remote Work Reality

Sales and Marketing Management

With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), If you don’t already have contingency plans and processes in place, the time is now to build and hone frameworks to support a work-from-home period and travel freezes for your sales team (and organization at large). we just need to adjust.”.