Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

CEOs, do you want to unlock the secret to sky-high sales? Barry Trailer from Sales Mastery Advisors highlights a goldmine of opportunity: diving deep into repeat and referral sales. Interestingly, the survey suggests a direct link: the stronger the processes and relationships, the better the sales performance.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of sales, the farmer archetype takes center stage, tending to leads, nurturing sales, and elevating the business through relationship-building. In the B2B realm, sales often commence at a specific division rather than the company’s top level.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having a bad sales month? Two days until the end of the month; your quota is complete by 67%. What makes a bad sales month? A bad sales month can be attributed to a variety of factors, ranging from internal processes to external market conditions. Sales experts set off the common seven: 1. We’ve all been there.

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2024

A sales rep Scorecard is a report that tracks key performance indicators about members of your sales team. It’s used by enablement and sales managers to track and improve the performance of their sales reps by surfacing gaps in training and areas where they’re struggling or succeeding.

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Allego

JULY 21, 2022

They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. That’s where sales enablement comes in. One of the best growth strategies for manufacturing companies is implementing an effective B2B sales enablement strategy. Tactics include: Creating a centralized repository of updated sales materials.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And it was that motivation — paired with his empathy, intelligence, and creativity — that allowed him to play an instrumental role in building HubSpot’s sales department from the ground up as the company's first sales director and sixth employee. Capture the hearts and minds of your team as a manager. billion in just nine years.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In football, winning the fourth quarter is pivotal. In sales, the fourth quarter is equally important. As a football coach may pump up the team for the fourth quarter, sales managers can provide extra motivation. For many sales organizations, time speeds up in the fourth quarter. Incentivize.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. No salesperson wants to miss their quota. How to Create a Sales Prospecting Action Plan.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most technology revenue teams include a sales enablement function, but its mission has been evolving over the last several years. Recently, enablement has flexed to provide better support for sales in the face of the post-pandemic business environment and increasingly demanding technology buyers. Train Early, Often, and in Small Doses.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we help you navigate the intricacies of sales performance metrics, guiding you on which ones are pivotal and how best to measure them. What Is Sales Performance? Sales Performance vs. Sales Metrics Why Analyze Your Sales Performance? Why Analyze Your Sales Performance?

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Sell Integrity

JUNE 18, 2021

Being a coach for sales teams has never been more important. Here are 10 sales coaching articles that can inspire new thinking, motivate your sales leaders and ultimately move the needle on your sales team’s performance. When your sales leaders hear the word “coach”, what comes to mind for them?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2019

Sales managers often get promoted to their position from the rep ranks. When they were individual quota-carriers, it was relatively easy to assess their sales pipeline. Managers must develop a more systematic process to test sales pipeline heath across the organization as a whole.

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Sell Integrity

JULY 13, 2020

No matter how rapidly and dramatically external events may change, the top sales challenges seem to stay the same, year after year. Why aren’t salespeople and sales organizations able to make much headway in overcoming these common struggles? But the sales challenges persist. Sales Quota Achievement.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a sales leader, it should be no surprise to hear that preparing your team to win starts with building knowledge through continuous training and reinforcement. We recently teamed up with Heinz Marketing to create The New Sales Enablement Standard: How Today’s Sales Leaders Grow Revenue With a Sales Readiness Approach.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As a manager, you wouldn’t like to see poor sales results. However, declining sales graphs isn’t a pleasant sight for your sales team too. Demotivated sales reps find even the simplest of tasks challenging. Being the head of the team, you need to empower your sales team and boost their morale.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sales coaching puzzle. A while ago we received a call from a company wanting to talk about coaching training for their front-line sales managers. They were real cheerleaders – they believed sales managers were the pivotal job for sales success and coaching was the sales managers’ key responsibility.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 19, 2021

Many market success stories can be traced to strategic sales and marketing shifts initiated by perceptive business leaders. Pivots large and small. It doesn’t take a full pivot to succeed. New world, new sales strategies. But let’s take a look at five places it might go when businesses reevaluate their sales strategies.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. It sets out everything your sales team needs to know about your sales process, including what they need to do at every stage of the B2B sales funnel to convert high-value leads.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sales enablement is having a moment. If you work in sales or marketing, chances are you’ve recently heard the term sales enablement. With that in mind, I asked our experts to answer five questions about sales enablement: What is Sales Enablement? How Do Analysts Define Sales Enablement?

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

80% of all sales are made by 20% of salespeople. You surely would want to prove your sales manager or seniors in the new company that you are amongst the 20% who have the potential to win. You need to gain control over your sales game and shine immediately to make an impact on the sales manager as well as the team.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How well can you explain (or defend) the way your company compensates sales employees? In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid. Let’s get into it!

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Allego

JULY 15, 2021

Welcome to the Allego Customer Spotlight, where we share insights from conversations with customers who rely on Allego to help transform their sales learning and enablement. Mat spoke about the evolution of sales enablement and his advice for getting buy-in from senior leadership. We need to train sales reps on how to sell it.’.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. My initial goal was entirely different.

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Highspot

MAY 26, 2022

Sales can be a brutal business, made all the more so by the variety and complexity of sales materials and sophisticated training. Reps are expected to internalize a tremendous amount of knowledge—about the product, buyers, and the sales process itself—and any gap in knowledge can potentially turn buyers away.

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Keith Rosen

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We understand that in most organizations, the the sales manager has become pivotal. They are driving the sales team, which is the company’s engine room. The primary objective of a professional sales manager needs to be: “To achieve consistently superior results through the performance of every key individual.”.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2018

What is agile sales? Agile sales takes project management strategies from the IT world -- such as sprints, daily stand-ups, and constant iteration -- and applies them to selling. This methodology helps sales teams be more flexible, data-driven, and effective. Two words: Agile sales. How to implement agile sales.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2022

The companies that emerge victorious from uncertain economic climates are those that made a key pivot at the right time and emerged successful. In order to be an outperformer in this downturn, your organization must make a pivot at the right time. The key to making the productivity pivot: Activity data.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 17, 2020

According to LinkedIn’s 2020 State of Sales Report , buyers are becoming increasingly less responsive, with 44% of salespeople reporting a decrease in responsiveness to outreach. This research also indicates sales cycles are increasing, with 44% of salespeople saying their customers buying cycles have increased.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sales enablement is having a moment. If you work in sales or marketing, chances are you’ve recently heard the term sales enablement. With that in mind, I asked our experts to answer five questions about sales enablement: What is Sales Enablement? How Do Analysts Define Sales Enablement?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2021

After spending many quarters creating sales forecasts, you should have the process down and deliver precision accuracy. Unfortunately, sales forecasting is not that straightforward. Fortunately, sales forecasting tools are available that can do a lot of the heavy lifting by using algorithms to create more accurate forecasts.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The sales pipeline is the lifeblood of every sales team, providing a visual representation of where all opportunities stand in the sales process. It gives sales reps and leaders insight into deal size, sales velocity, revenue forecasts, and more. a sales rep’s quota.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The sales cycle is not an exception to this rule, and by extension, neither is sales enablement. . In fact, sales-related processes may benefit from the clear delegation of duties across the team more than any other aspect of services (as opposed to something like account management, which can be somewhat more fluid). .

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Highspot

MAY 11, 2021

It’s not the latest and greatest playbook, or a conversational intelligence tool, or even hiring top sales trainers. What will help your sales team win time and time again is your company culture. Because consistent sales performance hinges on rep productivity. And the world of sales is drastically changing because of it.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a sales leader, it should be no surprise to hear that preparing your team to win starts with building knowledge through continuous training and reinforcement. We recently teamed up with Heinz Marketing to create The New Sales Enablement Standard: How Today’s Sales Leaders Grow Revenue With a Sales Readiness Approach.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A sales plan or sales strategy can be the difference between an organization merely surviving, or a company exceeding all sales objectives. With so many ups and downs this year, as well as company pivots and new long-term strategies, sales planning is more important than ever before for success.

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