Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. Once we got good at selling, we liked it.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2024

Generative AI has changed the game in sales. Increasingly, sales teams use it to personalize content, enhance sales training , improve onboarding, conduct competitive analysis, streamline sales communication, and more. Not so fast, says AI expert Sam Richter. “The You must humanize your communication.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. A few recent examples: Selling to the C Suite. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Rep Focus Isn’t Enough.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training?

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Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. For example, a CEO’s concerns will be different than that of an HR manager. Once determined, reps should be aligned on how to approach each cohort.

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Collateral Face-to-face Sales Enablement Objections 71

Smart Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

Do you really know where you stand with the prospects in your follow-up files right now? I’m not trying to make you feel bad, but my experience is that many sales reps have no clue where they are in the sales process with a majority of the people they are following up with. Come on, really now? Here’s why: 1.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. Prospects trust us. But I had to ask.).

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

Long hours, aggressive targets, difficult prospects. However, it's also a recipe for stress, frustration, and low morale — which, when left unchecked, can quickly affect sales performance. It's no surprise that sales is a tough game, making it essential for sales leaders to keep their team's morale high.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sports 85

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps constantly look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. Opening A Cold Email Template Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? For example: Japan. In this example, the intent is clear and is composed with a more personal tone.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. What if he could help his sales team leave effective voicemails that got more callbacks? Because It’s Your Job.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many sales reps feel this way, constantly racing to adapt to the unpredictable. Fortunately, if you’re aiming for peak sales performance in an uncertain world, you’re in the right place. Our guide provides critical strategies and sales readiness tools to ensure your sellers have the core knowledge and skills to thrive.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge. Sales Knowledge Management to the rescue! Efficiency.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Oracle 71

Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. For example, a CEO’s concerns will be different than that of an HR manager. Once determined, reps should be aligned on how to approach each cohort.

Collateral 52

Collateral Face-to-face Sales Enablement Objections 52

Close.io

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In today’s post, I'm going to give you step-by-step details on how to onboard sales talent with success. In fact: these are strategies that we’ve used and seen others use to turn people with no sales background into some of the best in the industry. What’s inside sales onboarding, you ask? Let’s jump right in.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. In this article we will outline the key elements of trust and how a new sales leader can build trust within their new sales team.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 movement harshly declare that proactive targeting and prospecting for new business is dead. Morning sessions set-up workshops in the afternoon. Simplified. ”

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I usually write or post about bad experiences or examples, but this one is great and I want to give credit where credit is due. We will call the sales rep who sent them, Rob from ABC. If you’re a sales rep and need to get your numbers up, please don’t send generic templates. Respectfully, Robert. From: Rob@abc.co.

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Strategy Education Scale Retention 128

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here’s how to start a conversation (and book a meeting) with almost any prospect in your database or CRM using the “Foot-in-the-Door” email. This simple, 5-step cold email technique works especially well for sales development reps who regularly email: CEOs. IMPORTANT: Be upfront about your intentions with your prospects.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 31, 2014

Sales Training Article: How Social Prospecting Helps Forecasting. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index Image courtesy of Adam R at FreeDigitalPhotos.net It’s a topic that won’t go away. Marketing is not driving the quality sales leads the field needs. You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps.

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Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Referrals 63

Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success. Of course not.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 13, 2022

Wouldn’t it be great to get a peek inside the minds of some of the most successful sales enablement leaders in the business to see the tricks and tools they use to make their sales forces function at the top of their game? We spoke to some of the top minds in sales enablement and asked them how they do what they do.

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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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Lead Rank Sales Process Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 52

Pipeliner

JANUARY 4, 2018

“A man (or woman) who is trained to his capacity will gain confidence. It’s also a quote that should be taken to heart by sales managers. It often happens that when sales managers sign up for that leadership role, they often are lacking in the skills of one major responsibility: imparting the knowledge of what made them successful.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Somewhere between the stuffy boardroom of a local Best Western , and a weekend of company-sanctioned debauchery in the woods is the perfect Sales Kickoff (SKO). How to create a great sales kickoff: Identify specific goals and a focus of the SKO. improve our sales team’s knowledge of our product and space; and 3.) Operations.

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Showpad

JANUARY 15, 2021

As Forbes notes, there’s no “if” or “when” to B2B sales transformation anymore. After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. Above all, a sales enablement platform is key here.

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Factor 8

APRIL 16, 2020

But if it’s leading to mass cold outreach and a tireless blast of pitch pitch pitch, these days it smells not just like sales C-list, it smells like sales Death. . Start by asking how this global trend would affect your prospect and develop 1-3 key benefits for them right now (not features, benefits). Click here.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Inside Sales Segment 36

Factor 8

APRIL 15, 2020

But if it’s leading to mass cold outreach and a tireless blast of pitch pitch pitch, these days it smells not just like sales C-list, it smells like sales Death. Start by asking how this global trend would affect your prospect and develop 1-3 key benefits for them right now (not features, benefits). Click here.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Inside Sales Segment 36

Sales Evangelist

MAY 21, 2020

Learn To Prospect Like An Expert With Steve Kloyda Prospecting isn’t to be taken lightly and there are skills needed before you can prospect well. Steve’s insights have provided clients with a powerful learning experience for anyone who wants to transform their sales and dramatically grow their business.

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SBI

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Pros and Cons of Following Sales Playbooks. When you think of a “sales playbook”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If you’re thinking of a plan or guidebook for your sales team to follow, you aren’t too far off. A good sales playbook: Defines a set of best practices and methodologies important to the organization.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

The sales industry is advancing more quickly than ever before. . These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Once upon a time, “personalized training” meant printing the names of workshop participants on their handout folders. Today, this key component of modern learning means exactly what it says – sales training that is genuinely personalized , genuinely “just for me.”. What are the advantages of personalized sales training?

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

What does this mean for future generations in the sales industry and workforce for that matter because most parents I know do the same things? Some will argue that if you have members of your sales team who are hesitant to pick up the phone, to get rid of them. Please note that I believe in having a well-balanced prospecting strategy.

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