Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

AI is one of the latest technologies that’s making a big impact on the world of sales. AI tools can provide sales teams with valuable insights based on data, identify new leads, personalize customer experiences, and optimize sales processes. Want to learn more about sales automation?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. Plus, insights from sales experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about using AI in sales ethically. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

After all, that’s what they beat into our heads during the intensive five-week training program I’d just completed: Go for the decision-maker. The training program, called "Professional Selling Skills," took a then-new consultative approach to sales. The 7 Steps of the Sales Process. Here they are. Preparation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. Here''s the premise: Companies that have been rigorously enforcing sales process should stop doing so because it is resulting in longer sales cycles, decreased conversion rates, unreliable forecasts and depressed margins. So they say.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work? Closing is about finalizing a sale and creating a lasting relationship that can lead to more opportunities.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Enter the Miller Heiman sales process — a framework that helps your team manage and close complex B2B deals. . In this article, we’ll explain the Miller Heiman sales process in detail, including what it is and what sets it apart from other sales methodologies. What is the Miller Heiman sales process?

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SBI Growth

MAY 4, 2013

Every year, Sales Reps are forced into mandatory training. Their company wants them to learn a new process or skill. As expected, the Sales Reps complain and resist. The question Reps want answered: how does this training help me make more money? My advice to Sales Reps: stop complaining and do something about it.

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Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Is an abbreviation enough to save your sales team? Meet the MEDDIC sales process. . If you deal with buyers whose complex, internal politics and buying processes feel like a black box, the MEDDIC sales process gives you a clear path forward. What exactly is the MEDDIC sales methodology?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). But the payoff is salespeople who understand your business, your customer, and your sales methodology -- a wicked combination that leads to bigger returns, faster. Pre-week training.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

In this video, I’m going to show you some top sales management training tips on this concept. Check out the 9 keys to building a high-velocity sales team now: 1. Scalability is basically the starting point for building a high-velocity sales organization in the first place. Scalable offering. Career progression.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The B2B sales process is fundamental knowledge to any sales rep. To help guide your training and coaching efforts, let’s break down the stages of this process at a high level, as every organization will have its own interpretation. Broadly, the stages of the B2B sales process are: 1.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in!

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For this reason, we recently published comprehensive lists of helpful YouTube channels for recruiters and YouTube channels for sales professionals. Today we’re closing out this three-part series with a post for our marketing audience. So, if you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. 1. Marketing 360.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In fact, the client onboarding phase that follows a closed deal is one of the most decisive risk areas anywhere in the sales cycle. Knowing how to handle new clients in a changing market can be tough — and even under regular circumstances, not knowing how to handle them can hurt your business. That’s a lot of risks.

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BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. That being said, there are tools and best practices you can use to speed up the process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 8, 2022

This objection—like all others—is a perfect one to script an effective response to, and here is one of my favorites: Objection: “We’re happy with who we’re using” (Or any variation like, “We’re all set”): Response: “That’s perfectly OK; I didn’t expect you to be in the market today. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up. As a result, your content can’t be just a companion to a sales-led customer conversation?— There are four forever changes transforming sales training and enablement from here on out: Marketing is the sales development team.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

In fact, 62% of buyers anticipate sellers when they’re in the process of looking for a solution to solve their pain points. Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Align with your marketing team for unified lead scoring and qualification.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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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criteria for success

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A sales process is to selling as a recipe is to a cake. This is the same reason why having a B2B sales process is so important. What is a Sales Process? The process moves prospects through the funnel from the awareness stage to a signed and sealed opportunity. The Value of a B2B Sales Process.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 12, 2018

Dave Stein is a legend in the sales training industry and he has teamed up with Steve Andersen to publish an essential book for anyone in business-to-business selling. It enables any seller to create a winning sales process that goes beyond being customer-centric to truly understand the world of the customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Author: Brian Trautschold As a new hire, structured training and onboarding programs are expected. Today, it is rare to see a company that doesn’t have a strict training program in place from the moment a new hire walks through the door. That’s where sales coaching comes in. In a week, that average increases to 90 percent.

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Alice Heiman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If you could read their minds, or if you asked, what would your sales leaders say it is and what would your sellers say? In the price-sensitive market landscape, he champions the mantra of selling value over price, urging sellers to convey their solution’s tangible ROI. But what truly stands out?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. The philosophy behind this channel reads as follows: Smart entrepreneurs who want to thrive in today’s marketplace must master the fields of psychology, marketing, and human behavior. Billy Gene is Marketing Inc. Today’s blog post is for you!

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Vengreso

AUGUST 1, 2023

Embarking on the journey of SaaS Sales Training can feel like navigating a labyrinth. The truth is, without proper SaaS sales training, scaling your software company becomes an uphill battle. Vengreso's transformation from sales training firm to influential SaaS enterprise is a testament to business evolution.

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Nutshell

MAY 29, 2018

Building a sales process gives your future sales efforts a much greater chance of success, but your work isn’t done until it’s part of your organization’s DNA. Missed the last installment of our sales process series? Click here to read How to Build a Sales Process.

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PandaDoc

MAY 16, 2024

In addition, we’ll give some examples of companies using this sales method and offer tips for successful indirect sales. Key takeaways Indirect sales consists of selling products and services through intermediaries. Indirect sales can be measured through sales reports, market research, competitor analysis, and more.

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Openview

MAY 7, 2019

Bringing in outside training and/or building a sales enablement function is an expensive investment, yet it’s critical to the success of your sales organization. Regardless of your go-to-market strategy, arming your sales team with the tools, tactics and processes is paramount in their ability to execute.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

There is now no doubt, NO DOUBT that the company I am honored to lead as CEO is the world’s largest digital sales training company. We’ll also give you a powerful summary of what it takes to start your own digital sales process. Why did we focus on flooding the digital sales training space like this?

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If there’s one thing of value that hasn’t been changed due to the current market downturn, it’s data. That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

Don’t assume your sales team knows this as well as you. Train continuously: recommend quarterly. Building the account profile is the first step in any sound sales strategy. SALES STRATEGY STEP 2: SET UP BUYER PROFILES/PERSONAS. This process will likely be different at your organization. Who to target?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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