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Why It’s Time to Rethink the ROI of Your Sales Training

Sales and Marketing Management

Today’s sales leaders agree on today’s top sales training challenges: it’s too expensive, there’s not enough time, and there’s a lack of engagement. Add to this the fact that when surveyed, the majority of sales leaders question the effectiveness of their current sales training programs. Practice-Driven Sales Development.

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When the Training Wheels Come Off

SBI Growth

Our research shows that Julie is not alone. Training dollars are being misallocated. By signing up for our 7th annual Research Tour your team can learn why. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. The Need-Payoff that she had been trained on was thrown out the window.

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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day.

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The Top 5 Reasons Your Sales Training Will Fail

Hubspot Sales

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. So, how do you make your training a success , not a flop? Top Reasons Your Sales Training Will Fail. Some are neutral.

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Know Your Customer

Score More Sales

Earlier this year, IBM published the results of a study that was done by Forrester Research about how today’s empowered customers are thinking, and the importance of really knowing your customer. Jeff Ernst, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research narrates the overview click here to view the video.

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Bigtincan to Acquire Brainshark

SBI

The deal combines two of the leading providers of Sales Readiness solutions for training, coaching and onboarding, adding enterprise-grade capabilities to create the most complete Sales Enablement Platform in the market. Brainshark”). For more information about Bigtincan (ASX: BTH), visit: www.bigtincan.com or follow @bigtincan on Twitter.

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What Sales Managers Get Wrong

Shari Levitin

Diego, a trained scuba instructor, fled Argentina for Cancun in his mid 30’s to create a better life. It wasn’t long before the Director of Marketing of the hotel and real estate division offered him a job as an appointment booker (SDR), where he quickly made five times the money he made pointing out tropical fish.