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A Straightforward Guide to Precall Planning

Hubspot Sales

The most important skill for sales professionals? Cold calls or warm leads, hot prospects or chilly receptions, making contact is critical. RAIN Group recently found that 82% of buyers say cold calls were the impetus for eventual meetings, but 63% of sales reps say they don’t enjoy making cold calls. Making calls.

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Keep Your B2B Sales & Sanity Intact During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Sales Hacker

In sales, it’s normal to deal with slow seasons, bad seasons, and horrible seasons. The COVID-19 outbreak has been hitting the world where it hurts since February, ultimately affecting our lifestyles, our plans, and, naturally, our businesses. Is there a future for your sales and company? This is a lot to take in and adjust to.

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5 Reasons Not to Outsource Sales Development (and 3 Reasons You Should)

Hubspot Sales

What is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing can be a good way for organizations to increase lead generation and sales without investing in onboarding and the cost associated with full-time sales reps. Sales outsourcing -- outsourcing in general -- isn't new. They have automatized their sale process.

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How To Connect And Engage With C-Level Executives

InsideSales.com

Don’t Burn Bridges. At Abstrakt , we’ve scheduled more than 100,000 B2B sales meetings in the last eight years, so we have unique insight and hundreds of thousands of hours put into mastering this skill. As a sales rep, you should know that you should try and get to your C-level decision-makers as soon as possible. Get Social.

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10 Best Practices for Enterprise Sales Team Management

Xactly

Sales team management plays a big role in the success of an organization. As the bridge between executives and sales reps, managers communicate corporate goals with their teams and keep reps on track to hit their quota. It’s important for sales leaders to manage their teams effectively.

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6 Tips for an SKO Agenda that Won’t Bore Your Reps

Showpad

Your sales kickoff (SKO) is not just another sales meeting; it’s a time to gather all your reps at the start of the year to review the past 12 months and motivate them as the next 12 ramp up. Follow these tips to guarantee your sales reps stay focused and on track and carry that with them post-SKO.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 9 of 10 – The Best Product Launches Launch the Story, Not the Product

Product Management University

Play the role of prospective customer and see if any of these headlines give you a reason to read the body of the press release. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. Technology companies are infamous for launching “the product” instead of launching the value story around the product.

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