The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although SPM strategy varies by company and industry, the most effective sales performance management strategies typically involve a combination of the same core pillars. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. Today, we’ll see: ?

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But with sales enablement tools, you can understand the attitudes, content, and skills that help your sales reps reach their objectives. What to look for in a sales enablement tool. These data points capture roadblocks in the sales process, and you can offer sales rep coaching and training when needed.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Most of us don’t have the time and/or expertise to maintain our properties so we hire landscapers, snow plowers, painters, gutter cleaners, tree companies, turf companies, etc.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At the same time, travel restrictions and pandemic protocols have prevented cybersecurity sales training teams from meeting in person.The result has been a surge in demand for scalable virtual sales training. 6 Ways to Enable Virtual Sales Training at Scale. It Must Be Tailored for the Specialty.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The average Sales rep relies on support from the account management, customer service, and Marketing teams. As such, it’s counterproductive for there to ever be a “ Sales enablement vs. Marketing ” dynamic, even though the departments are often full of competitive personalities. Not exactly.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 28, 2020

We’ve entered a new era of sales training. But today, sales reps expect more creative and comprehensive career development tools, and customers expect salespeople to be valuable industry experts. Sales instruction must now include new methodologies that didn’t exist even 10 years ago. What is Sales Training?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 25, 2018

The obvious answer is, “Duuugggh Dave, it’s Sales Enablement……” But if you think about it, sales enablement is about helping our sales people achieve the highest levels of performance/productivity in executing our business strategies in the face of the customer.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 28, 2020

We’ve entered a new era of sales training. But today, sales reps expect more creative and comprehensive career development tools, and customers expect salespeople to be valuable industry experts. Sales instruction must now include new methodologies that didn’t exist even 10 years ago. What is Sales Training?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Practical Tips to Improve Sales Operations Dealing with the complexities of change management and overcoming resistance requires simple, practical solutions. We’ll talk about how good leadership, special sales incentives, and clear jobs can help make sales ops better.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

Investing in team training is a critical part of business success and growth. Your sales team is the backbone of your company, and your employees are just as vital to business success as your customers. You can’t simply train your sales reps once, send them out into the world, and expect them to adapt to new challenges without fail.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Not all sales training works. In fact, research by Gartner found that sales reps only remember 13% of the information a month after their sales training. Motivation plays a big role in sales reps’ willingness to engage with sales learning. Personalize the sales training for your reps.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Recruitment and Training Building a competent, successful sales team is crucial. Managers are involved in recruiting, sales coaching and training, and onboarding new sales representatives. Incentives and Recognition Reward top performers with appropriate incentives and recognition.

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Xactly

APRIL 18, 2018

Sales operations and sales enablement are two sides of the same coin allowing your sales team to hone in on the actual selling motions rather than focusing on the back-end processes, tracking down training material, and optimizing the sales teams’ CRM. What is Sales Operations?

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2022

The right channel partner training software can help with this. Online or offline access on nearly any device , so channel partners can access trainings anytime, anywhere. Easy content authoring , so you can create personalized, engaging trainings for each channel partner. With Brainshark: .

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Enablement success…or not? According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. A new playbook for enablement. Skills, not a script.

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Awarathon

JANUARY 1, 2024

Awarathon Awarathon is a dynamic tool for video roleplay-led sales coaching. Its virtual training environment leverages AI to help sales teams make effective, winning pitches. In this innovative system, sales reps engage with Trinity, an AI persona, through a phone camera or web screen.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Author: Lauren Boutwell As the field of sales enablement has evolved and matured, so, too, have its supporting technologies. Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Validate training and certify reps. million words.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Enablement success…or not? According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. A new playbook for enablement. Skills, not a script.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 7, 2017

There are many functions powering modern sales teams, Sales Enablement, and Sales Operations are two examples. While Sales Enablement and Sales Operations may solve different problems in your organization, they need each other a lot more than you may realize. Sales Ops bookends Sales Enablement.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 7, 2017

There are many functions powering modern sales teams, Sales Enablement, and Sales Operations are two examples. While Sales Enablement and Sales Operations may solve different problems in your organization, they need each other a lot more than you may realize. Sales Ops bookends Sales Enablement.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark Unveils READY20 – the Only Sales Enablement Event Dedicated to Furthering Sales Readiness: Multi-Day Conference Will Be Held in Boston in August –. Sales Enablement. today announced that it has acquired Rekener, a leading sales scorecard provider. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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SBI

JANUARY 26, 2021

The strategy was to put “learning in the path of work” so that team members did not have to stop what they were working on for training. Q: What metrics should customers of Sales Enablement solutions use to measure the impact or progress of their activities?

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SBI

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With that growth and evolution came new challenges: how to manage and train their sellers and partners with consistent messaging across their sales ecosystem. How to ensure sales enablement platform adoption with the right mix of CRM, collaboration, and content integrations that meet sellers and partners where they prefer to work.

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you’ve been an avid reader of Lessonly’s blog, you know how vital it is to have a well-stacked bench of talented and well-trained salespeople. But closing a new deal today involves so much more than just the rep; there’s marketing, sales development, sales engineering, continuous sales training, procurement, and so much more.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

Sales teams consistently reach their goals when sales operations do their job effectively. Sales operations vs. sales enablement. Sales operations are often confused with the similar-sounding term, sales enablement. What are the responsibilities of sales operations? Sales rep support.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Most sales organizations do a pretty good job of managing the well-known levers of sales management such as – hiring the right talent, actively managing the pipeline and CRM reports, optimizing OTEs and incentive structures. Is Sales Enablement a nice-to-have, or do you really need it? Source: demandmetric.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Most sales organizations do a pretty good job of managing the well-known levers of sales management such as – hiring the right talent, actively managing the pipeline and CRM reports, optimizing OTEs and incentive structures. Is Sales Enablement a nice-to-have, or do you really need it? Source: demandmetric.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 16, 2023

Offer sales incentives with an achievement system A powerful way to motivate salespeople is to offer incentives. However, the achievement system that awards these incentives should be set up in a way to ensure that incentives are earned and not simply given out for participation.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a result, coaching and the steady production of fresh, new sales training ideas can be major stressors for sales managers, particularly on SaaS sales teams. Everything, from conversational approach to presentation design to follow-up method to prospecting strategy, can come under the banner of sales training.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Practices were strict, physical training was mandatory, and we were encouraged to ask for anything we needed to prepare for tournaments — extra reps, a specific food or drink, even a certain playlist on our iPods. Another important aspect of a remote sales environment is the feedback process. B2B Sales Environment.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The key is to focus on educating and inspiring your team at three critical points – pre-, during-, and post-SKO – so they have the training and motivation they need to succeed in the new year. In this guide, we’ll break down exactly how to do that virtually, by answering questions like: What makes sales kickoff training effective?

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Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

These sales materials are not limited to external use; they also include internal resources like sales playbooks , battle cards, and sales plans, often known as sales enablement content. These internal tools equip sales teams with the knowledge and strategies to connect with customers. Enter Highspot.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Some such technologies might include: Customer relationship management (CRM) platform Sales enablement platform Revenue productivity platform Business intelligence platform Content management system Sales enablement vs. sales operations In the world of sales, sales enablement and sales operations are two terms that are used often.

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