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Discovery, Demo, or Disconnect?

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales people have been giving tech demos for a long time. Top of the funnel metrics require that SDRs book discovery calls and schedule demos, yet the value of those interactions can be difficult to quantify. SDRs motivated only by activity metrics cast a precariously wide net, without gathering adequate sales intelligence.

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Please Stop the Ongoing Insanity in Bank Sales Training

Increase Sales

During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? ” In reviewing several websites for firms that deliver bank sales training, I saw this familiar statement: Our sales training is “behaviorally driven.”

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SiriusDecisions Interview - From Pitching Products to Selling Value

The ROI Guy

Recently we had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Ninivaggi, the Practice Director for Sales Enablement with leading sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year.

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Losing Big Deals? Fix These 5 Sales Process Fails

Sales Hacker

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. The gap was too big to bridge. 2 Discovery process We didn’t dig deep enough in the discovery process. #3 Price gap We were too expensive. It happens.

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Sales Training Program Expert Tips

The Digital Sales Institute

Sales training program expert tips for anyone involved in sales management or sales enablement some insight into planning any form of sales training. It sounds simplistic to say that sales training is the act of training salespeople or the sales team on the product and sales process.

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The ultimate guide to sales development

Close.io

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Meanwhile, sales has always been driven by quotas. Enter sales development. Overview of sales development. What is sales development? Sales development team members/roles.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

It aligns product, marketing, sales and customer success teams around outcomes that have the greatest strategic value to customers – things that make them better at their business. Sales Training on Customers vs. Products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role.