Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

Personally, I substitute Baseball for the middle topic because college baseball is in full swing and we’ve been traveling to watch our son, a college senior, play college baseball. When training and coaching salespeople, the theory of how to sell to companies that buy via the RFP process is not enough.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel.

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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 Balance Synchronous and Asynchronous Training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan In today’s buyer-centric world, salespeople need to create value more than ever or they won’t get in front of prospects. If your go-to-market strategy relies heavily on channel partners, that’s one more step you are removed from your ultimate end-user.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Prospects do not want to be sold to. At this point, many sales organizations believe it is time to implement a virtual sales training program led by an instructor. However, that comes after you’ve properly planned for the training to ensure new techniques are implemented in order to achieve modern sales success.

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2020

Companies around the globe have canceled sales meetings and training sessions and are enacting work from home policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Allego

JUNE 16, 2020

At the same time, few can afford to interrupt their busy schedules to attend sales training classes or read stacks of books, manuals and articles. On top of this, travel restrictions during the pandemic have made training even more difficult—both for trainers and for learners.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

This method allows them to connect with global clients without travel, fostering a convenient customer experience. Why Virtual Sales Skills Training Matters The shift from in-person to remote work demands new skills. Prospecting Virtual prospecting utilizes tools like email, social media, and video to reach potential customers.

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Allego

MARCH 4, 2020

Business travelers are facing new restrictions and cancellations as health concerns grow in the wake of the coronavirus. Companies around the world are rethinking travel, conferences, and even their employees’ daily commutes. But what should business travelers do about trips that are essential to their work? Prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Author: Annie Reiss, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudShare While businesses determine how to safely return to something resembling a pre-COVID world, software sales teams are still racing to meet their quotas and keep business moving. Here are some ways that sales teams can remain productive and maximize opportunities with prospects. .

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 6, 2019

The use of an online sales training platform can have multiple benefits within any sales organization. Due to time pressure, cost and changing learning preferences, classroom-based or day long sales training is becoming obsolete. Online sales training platform. Benefits of sales training. Benefits of sales training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Author: Michael Nørregaard When prospects are evaluating your company, they’re looking to ultimately maximize their return on investment. They want minimal downtime, support they can rely on and access to as much training as possible, so they can be in turn, as successful as possible with their deployment. This is crucial.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are. Here are some emails you may be getting, and some suggested wording for your responses to them: Email from Prospect #1: Dear…. “I Email from Prospect #2: Dear…. Email from Prospect #3: “Dear…. “I Email from Prospect #4: “Dear….

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Because travel is expected, you can anticipate greater compensation. This executive position supervises sales managers to ensure company-wide sales trainings are executed. Email Marketing Gartner predicts that only 23.9%

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If your primary marketing strategy has been to “cast a wide net”, consider only going after your white whales – your ideal accounts – instead. Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. Fortunately, there are proven tactics to transform a traditional meeting or training session into a virtual one. What are you hearing from training managers?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now. They cut advertising, travel, training, marketing, and discretionary expense line items. The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now.”). Today’s the last day to get your discounted copy.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 4, 2021

Email marketing is something that’ll never get old. So, marketers are always trying to find ways of how they can make email marketing effective for their company. Now that’s a number that no marketer can ignore. Now that’s a number that no marketer can ignore. Marketing head, In Motion Marketing.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 17, 2024

Owning more properties always means more houses to clean as well as more social media and online travel agency (OTA) listings to update. If you have a high volume of requests that require human responses, you can also consider training a dedicated guest relations manager to use your software and handle inquiries and bookings.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 1, 2024

Watching the markets, the large companies indicate they also face challenging times until their problems are resolved. Moreover, many promotions lead to having a team to train, motivate, and monitor to ensure you produce a better outcome for upper management. Our blog question is, will you test new ideas for successful business growth?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. FastSpring reviewed 30 randomly selected businesses serving B2C and B2B markets across the globe and found a noticeable increase in Q4 sales.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2022

On the last day of the year, Muir traveled the extra mile by recognizing the entire team behind the scenes contributing to the excellent work of the reporting team. Travel was always in my cards and still is today. Fortunately, writing is doable from anywhere, and with the internet, I can mentally travel anywhere I desire.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Internet access, email, and online training were limited to desktop computers. For that time, learning management system (LMS) software was ideal for enterprise learning and development, including sales training. Now, sellers need up-to-the-minute, continual learning in the flow of work about your customers, market, and industry.

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Allego allows sales teams to onboard new reps without having to meet face to face or rely on traditional classroom training. Reps can record a video from their mobile phone sharing market conditions, competitive information, and win stories, and quickly share it with the team.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. Versus the common practice of starting with the product, then shoehorning in the prospect. Absent the product; the only thing left to talk about is what does the prospect wants to do? One of those is thinking. Put a lot of “leads?”

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That means you’re facing the prospect of spending more money month after month, and there’s not much you can do about it. Travel Less. Traveling less when meeting with clients or business associates can save you much money. ” Learn more to train teams, and join the advocacy program.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

We then (hopefully) invest time training those reps before turning them loose on the phones … only to ask them to do several different roles. . Separate prospecting and closing roles. Mid-market team. Read it: Matt, Kyle, and the Less-Traveled Road to Customer Retention. Major enterprise accounts team.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

She and her partner built eWebinar in a way that required little overhead and allowed them to travel and work from anywhere. Companies are using eWebinar to deliver hundreds of webinars to customers and prospects every month without a live host. But these aren’t things that you just know right off the bat.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan On the first Friday in March this year, Jeb Ory led an employee appreciation celebration at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of Phone2Action, a provider of advocacy software that enables organizations to create grassroots marketing campaigns. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Digital onboarding – The COVID-19 crisis is causing the traditional “drink-from-the-firehose” style of in-person onboarding to give way to more individualized and personalized programs that provide new reps with incremental and ongoing training and coaching, in a largely digital format. Group travel is down, but not out.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Dario Priolo and Jeff Myers Last year presented unthinkable challenges to marketers and event organizers. These events are major revenue sources for organizers and important opportunities for marketers to build brand awareness and generate new opportunities for their businesses. It seemed like a good deal.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By Monday, we are more relaxed and motivated to have helpful conversations with teammates and prospective clientele. Some ways to relax on the weekends include going out for a favorite activity or hobby, meeting up with friends, traveling, playing sports, and gaming. Traveling is a great way to let loose and recharge simultaneously.

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Allego

MARCH 24, 2020

Corporate travel restrictions mean less contact with prospects, with the industry, and with the market. As companies cancel events and trade shows, reps have fewer opportunities to connect with prospects and peers. Prospecting. In some cases, either the rep or the prospect (or both) must work from home.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means find something your prospect values – and something you have in common. It’s time to get personal.

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