SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Rep Focus Isn’t Enough. Rep time allocation. Sales Process.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. Trust is the foundation for building strong teams, creating a positive work environment, and producing winning results. Good Judgement.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. Once we got good at selling, we liked it.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your sales team’s success depends on effective prospecting, and effective prospecting depends on effective prospect planning. Help your salespeople fill their pipelines with qualified prospects that lead to more sales, using these 8 steps. Establish an Effective, Sequential Sales Process . Clarify Messaging .

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

However, it's also a recipe for stress, frustration, and low morale — which, when left unchecked, can quickly affect sales performance. It's no surprise that sales is a tough game, making it essential for sales leaders to keep their team's morale high. How Mood Impacts Sales [Stats]. How Mood Impacts Sales [Stats].

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training?

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

My roots also include the industry that I still consider to be the highlight of my almost 45 year B2B sales and management career … signage and, starting today, we are offering specialized sign sales services to this market segment. Nimble CRM for Sign Sales. Sign Sales Training. Virtual sales meetings.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 10, 2016

The dust had just begun to settle at the end of Rainmaker 2016, the largest sales development conference in the world. To satisfy this hunger, Ralph Barsi and Jacco van der Kooij led a tactical workshop for those champion attendees. Attendees walked away from the workshop with a ton of ABSD action items. To serve your customers.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps still look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. It’s not hard to see why — after all, only 24% of sales emails are opened ( source ). Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? ” Example 2: Selling Sales Consulting.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Has the Great Resignation caused you to re-think your sales team hiring practices? And the sales department is not immune to this phenomenon. To reach your sales goals in 2022 preventing a sales talent exodus is critical. To reach your sales goals in 2022 preventing a sales talent exodus is critical.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 11, 2023

Your sales team plays an essential role in driving revenue and reaching goals that stretch across the organization. Your seasoned, super-star reps lead the way. So should you be worried about churn in your sales department? Sales teams have higher-than-average turnover rates than other business units. In short, yes.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

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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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

MARCH 8, 2011

Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Our Training Approach. Corporate Sales Training. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. Sales Management Training. Sales Store.

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Carew International

APRIL 29, 2021

The Carew team has been facing the same needs and issues of sales professionals and leaders in business everywhere. Here is a list of skills that you and your organization should consider when developing current team members and hiring new sales professionals: Video Proficiency and Virtual Camera Presence. Digital Organization Skills.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In today’s post, I'm going to give you step-by-step details on how to onboard sales talent with success. In fact: these are strategies that we’ve used and seen others use to turn people with no sales background into some of the best in the industry. What’s inside sales onboarding, you ask? Let’s jump right in.

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Showpad

JANUARY 15, 2021

As Forbes notes, there’s no “if” or “when” to B2B sales transformation anymore. After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. Above all, a sales enablement platform is key here.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The post Four Tested and Proven Sales Training Techniques You Need to Know by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. A key part of developing a successful sales team is using sales training techniques that actually work. Sales Training Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Performance.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

Sales being the hyper-competitive place that it is, a business can potentially live or die by its ability to bring sales professionals up to speed. 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.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 13, 2023

Episode summary In this video, Chris Jackson, Distinguished Architect, Global Strategy & Operations at Cisco, talks through how his sales enablement organization is using Mindtickle for sales training. Measuring how training impacts revenue attainment is a key KPI for Cisco.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 19, 2020

On today’s Daily Briefing, Jim Benton was joined by Glenn Clark , Senior Director of Sales Enablement at Smartsheet. They discussed the unique challenges of sales enablement in our new normal, and how sales enablement is more essential than ever to gear managers up for remote coaching, onboarding, and deal management.

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SalesLatitude

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first-line sales manager is one of the most rewarding, yet overworked positions in the sales chain. Client and team meetings, account and territory planning, financial and administrative work, management requests, and sales rep coaching are just a few of the sales manager’s responsibilities.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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SBI

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Pros and Cons of Following Sales Playbooks. When you think of a “sales playbook”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If you’re thinking of a plan or guidebook for your sales team to follow, you aren’t too far off. A good sales playbook: Defines a set of best practices and methodologies important to the organization.

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Smart Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

I’m not trying to make you feel bad, but my experience is that many sales reps have no clue where they are in the sales process with a majority of the people they are following up with. Repeated messages with no value position you as a vendor…a salesperson whose goal is to sell them something. Come on, really now?

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 10, 2017

Sales Tips: Warning for VPs of Underperforming Sales Teams. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. VPs of underperforming sales teams have, and will, find themselves in the same position as these three former NFL head coaches.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 25, 2014

Many who work for companies – especially mid-sized ones selling to other businesses – get stuck in doing the same old things year after year to build sales. Just four years ago, I had a different target market and was giving workshops around the U.S. to help entrepreneurs grow sales to ultimately grow their businesses.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance,” he said. Morning sessions set-up workshops in the afternoon. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 16, 2017

This simple, 5-step cold email technique works especially well for sales development reps who regularly email: CEOs. Instead, it’s designed to open to door to a conversation that leads to a meeting/partnership/interview/sale/etc. Positive reply rate: 15.6%. Books, courses, seminars, workshop, etc.?). Marketing VPs.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Importance of Effective Sales Coaching. As a start to our sales coaching journey, let’s begin by understanding why effective sales coaching is so important. . Every potential client is unique and no rep, manager, or sales leader can predict every outcome for every deal. Top Sales Coaching Techniques .

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

What does this mean for future generations in the sales industry and workforce for that matter because most parents I know do the same things? Some will argue that if you have members of your sales team who are hesitant to pick up the phone, to get rid of them. Train for Skill. Give them constructive feedback and stay positive.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

The sales industry is advancing more quickly than ever before. . These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Sales management is one of the most difficult jobs out there. Your responsibilities span the organization -- along with the VP or director of sales, you're working with people in Product, Marketing, HR, and so on. Rallying reps to hit their quota is no easy task, especially when every team member is motivated by different things.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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