The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2021

Sales like most tribes being a bit more civil than antelopes, prefers the 80/20 rule, over herd mentality. I have always been fascinated by how willing sales types are to accept the 80/20. Based on CSO Insights Data, the trend is clear and continuous, quota attainment is stuck in the mid 50%. By Tibor Shanto.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Some are written by sales experts. I am concerned about the subjects being curated for sales and sales leadership professionals. One or two are sales enablement topics.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 19, 2023

Most sales executives realize the impact of managers, not sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. To Coach Or Not To Coach? Alarm bells should be going off in every sales organization. What is the problem?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. And they may not be right for all organizations. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. However, their effectiveness hinges on various factors.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 2, 2024

To maintain team dynamics and deal flow, managers must actively help BDRs succeed in the new B2B marketplace. Managers can help sales reps who are waiting for great leads to be passed along by the BDR team. As 6sense data indicates , BDRs are also multithreading. But BDRs are not always able to reach the right people.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

The sustained growth that can only come from retaining and expanding your customer base relies on sales reps who consistently build genuine relationships with customers. Internal communication and alignment between corporate and sales objectives are crucial for success. Here’s how we put it all together. Measuring progress.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 18, 2024

Your revenue tech stack contains a wealth of information – but that data often lacks context, an actionable next step, and collaborative workflows where reps engage their buyers. Left with a disjointed workflow, team efficiency gets shot, and sellers end up abandoning the tools all together.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 12, 2024

Far from its fictional representations, though, it actually has practical, useful and beneficial day-to-day applications in sales. Sales teams are already seeing AI streamline workflows, coach reps, optimize prospecting strategies and more. What is AI in sales?

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 29, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay A ttract the Right Job Or Clientele: How You Can Breathe New Life Into Your Career If your career has stagnated, now is likely the right time to begin looking for new and better opportunities. It’s best to find a coach that understands your circumstances well.

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Allego

APRIL 25, 2024

In sales, for example, surpassing targets largely depends on the quality of training provided. In fact, companies that have dynamic and adaptable sales training strategies see an average of 10% more salespeople meet their quotas compared to those with rigid approaches, according to CSO Insights.

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Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

Well, it’s no longer just a promise—AI is actively reshaping the way we manage our day-to-day tasks and how we conduct business, particularly in sales. In fact, consulting firm McKinsey & Company says, “AI is poised to disrupt marketing and sales in every sector.” To help you, I dug deeper to see how sales teams can use AI.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We have already discussed in our last post how managing a large sales team creates hurdles at tracking performance, analyzing sales data, providing personalized coaching, etc. Today’s blog starts right there! Next, it alerts you of trends and anomalies within data that are impacting end results.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 31, 2024

Recent corporate belt tightening has put sales-adjacent departments like sales enablement and marketing in the hot seat. Because even though they contribute to and quite literally enable sales, their activities aren’t always as easy to tie to the deal as it is for reps who get phone and face time with buyers.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2024

It’s no secret that sales reps are critical in driving revenue growth. Winning organizations understand that sales is a team effort, and sales teams need the right support to be successful. Of course, many teams support sellers throughout the sales cycle. What is sales enablement?

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SalesLoft

APRIL 12, 2024

The ability to effectively engage and guide your customers through the buying journey is not just a competitive advantage — it’s a necessity for survival and growth. So what sets a Revenue Orchestration Platform (ROP) apart from all the other tools vying for space in your tech stack? Enter the Revenue Orchestration Platform.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being a sales rep is tough but rewarding. Day after day, you plan your conversations, prep your sales collateral, make dozens of calls, face a lot of rejection, and, hopefully, make progress on moving prospects down the funnel. Managing a sales team is a lot of work, too. Enter Mindtickle and HubSpot.

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Highspot

MARCH 25, 2024

How does using one platform for all of your sales enablement efforts help enablement, marketing, and sales boost performance? Here are tips to accelerate sales performance with a unified enablement platform. TIP: Streamline and expedite rep workflows by leveraging a unified platform for your sales enablement needs.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. This is no different in sales. The key to improving sales performance lies not only in the hands of sales reps, but also in the ability of their managers to provide effective guidance and support.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It was a room full of 8-year-olds running through call scripts like pint-sized sales reps. That actually isn’t too far off from how some companies train and coach sales reps today. But old-school sales training will only take you so far these days. 3 Things Top Sales Reps Do During Sales Calls 1.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 2, 2024

While it’s still in its infancy, artificial intelligence already powers so many of our daily experiences – from getting product recommendations on Amazon to depositing a check via your mobile device to asking Siri to compose and send a message to a friend. AI is also transforming the world of business – especially for revenue teams.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

If your sales organization hasn’t felt the impact, you’re probably on edge, hoping to get through this economic crunch unscathed. You’re watching your reps very carefully and doing everything you can to ensure they close deals and hit their numbers. As such, sales reps must think about how to create presence in their absence.

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Autoklose

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sales is challenging. Having proven rules to follow adds to predictability, which is of paramount importance to every high-performance sales development team. For things to run like a well-oiled machine, your SDRs have to feed your account managers with a steady flow of high-quality meetings and demos.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. What do these teams do?

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 15, 2024

In B2B sales, success is often the result of strategic planning, deep customer understanding, and execution. The Pygmalion Effect in B2B Sales Of course, sales is a dynamic and competitive profession. In real life, sales professionals run the gamut of personality types. Ovid’s Metamorphosis is the most familiar version.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 3, 2023

I’ve never been much of a big data guy. What are my/our sales for the month? If a lot of data is what you are looking for … you would be in the can’t help group. While it is getting better, It’s still pretty weak at reporting if big data is your bag. No dough = no data anyway. All of this comes via coaching.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A recent study we commissioned from a leading B2B research firm, surveying 120 global sales leaders, found an average 16% increase in win rate with one thing in common—sales enablement. Here are data-driven tips to come out of this challenging sales environment on top. So, how do you enable your sellers to succeed?

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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Motivate your team in personalized and culture-wise ways.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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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.

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Highspot

MARCH 18, 2024

Sales teams often face hurdles in hitting targets and meeting revenue growth expectations. Luckily, tech advances have paved the way for new solutions to refine sales processes and improve performance. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) sales tools – a breakthrough development in the world of sales.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When reps jump between several tools to get their deals across the finish line, it can waste selling time and slow down deal cycles, while hindering your ability to understand how your go-to-market efforts are performing. How can you optimize your tech stack so reps can sell more effectively and efficiently?

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

MARCH 5, 2024

Distribution is exceptionally competitive, and finding ways to maximize your sales opportunities can help you with that competitive edge. You can use the Customer Product Mix Sheet within SMP’s Dashboards to help make this easier on you and your team. Upselling isn’t about pushing products.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content , such as text, images, or music, by learning from existing data. It uses algorithms to analyze and understand patterns in the data and then generates new, original output that resembles the learned material. Want a GPT for sales content?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 17, 2024

We live in the age of data. But, as it has been said, “Data is like garbage. This is especially true in sales; no metric is used or tracked as much as the win or conversion rates. In this blog post, we’ll explore the reasons behind low conversion rates and provide actionable strategies to boost your win rates.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It was hard to get the right data, hard to build a case for value, hard to predict success and alter implementations. . These days, customer success motions benefit from better, and more plentiful, data, from more sophisticated customer success platforms and from past lessons learned. And they were difficult to pull off.

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