The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Presenting to Donald Trump. Architect Barry Thalden, hotel and casino designer and one of my dearest friends for the past 50 years, tells of presenting a proposal to Donald Trump: “I managed to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump. My presentation was on slides. Presentation. Sales Training. Territory Alignment.

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Pipeline Hotels Cold Calling Compensation 242

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2021

Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc., ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Get Access Today.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some think great sellers are born , but more often than not, they’re made through virtual sales training, teaching, practice, and support. Below we outline 10 skills your sales team can develop with help from a virtual sales training platform. It bears repeating: Generic pitches and presentations don’t work with buyers today.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

and free up time for managers to coach the reps on how to add more value in their territory for better outcomes.” There were a hundred million actions in my territory every year. I think you can get AI to figure out what the likely outcomes are based on all risk factors and the market you’re selling into etc.

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BrainShark

JULY 1, 2022

When it comes to measuring sales training ROI, most advice is either self-explanatory or ambiguous, such as “decide what success looks like” or “set expectations for your training.” Then, we’ll discuss the specific metrics you can track, as well as several best practices for calculating sales training ROI.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Unless you invest in a good training program (and your people). A full 58% of business managers claim they received no management training at all ahead of their start date. Even more alarming, recent Sales Xceleration research uncovered only 20% of companies allocate funds for critical sales leadership training. sales guidance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2018

Author: Tim Riesterer Most training and learning efforts are based on clusters of competencies, supported by a curriculum or catalog that gets scheduled on interest and availability. Just think about all the situations that might crop up suddenly, presenting challenges that you need to address right away. Limiting, right?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Every new customer you bring on who isn’t the right fit presents a churn risk — and if they don’t follow through, take direction when it comes to implementation, or see value from the product, their bad customer experience reflects poorly on you and your company. The prospect is not in your sales territory. Their vertical market (i.e.

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Julie Hanson

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Imagine being just two minutes into your presentation and someone in your audience announces, “ Please stop, I’m bored.”. Prize winners have 1 minute to present before being interrupted by an 8 year-old saying, “Please stop, I’m bored.” A decision that audiences do all the time during any presentation.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. It seems that every week we are being told that sales training is not working in a very high percentage of cases – 85-90% was one statistic I read just yesterday. JF Corporation.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

With training and coaching to support the development of critical sales skills, organizations can equip their sellers to close more and bigger deals, all while ensuring time with buyers is well-spent. Presentation Skills. Territory Management. An effective sales readiness strategy is essential to their success. Communication.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

Here are two suggestions: Provide additional training. Target marketing dollars in their territory to generate more leads and give them a boost. If none of these kinds of problems appear and the person makes the grade, then you can increase your investment in their development. What skills does the new hire still need the most work on?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. That mock presentation will reveal how persuasive they are, how effective their delivery style is, and—again—how they counter objections.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

When it comes time to book a speaker for your next panel, presentation, or podcast there’s a lot to consider. Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. Training & Coaching. Territory Account Manager. Leadership. Sales Growth.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

Sales calls, presentations, proposals, territory plans – every key sales rep activity and interaction is (ideally) captured in CRM so leaders can answer their most critical questions at a glance: Are my salespeople doing the right things? Sales managers are now in the spotlight and CRM needs to shine in all the right places.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Some aspects of sales training are easy to measure others not so, but it is a fair question when I am asked what they can expect from an ROI standpoint. Companies have shown selectivity with other training or development programs. Given that, why train them?

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training. Five designs have proven to be particularly effective for new hire sales training.

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Hiring Training Exercises Face-to-face 82

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

We’re all in unchartered territory now. And finally, if you are a manager or company owner who has had to send your sales team to work from home, then now is the perfect time to give them access to my new on-demand inside sales training. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Sound familiar? And for good reason.

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Allego

JULY 14, 2022

After that, they are released to their territories and don’t receive any further systematic training until the next national sales meeting six to 12 months later. Formal training is one-size-fits-all and does not account for individual competencies. Agile Training Gives Veritas a Competitive Advantage.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You’ll receive business guidance, marketing assets, training, and much more. If you’re a franchisor, you’ll want to ensure that all of your legal ducks are in a row so you can present your best self to new franchisees. Purchasing a franchise is an excellent way to become a business owner while buying into an established brand.

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SBI

AUGUST 11, 2020

Most organizations have sales teams that work primarily from in the company’s offices and sales reps working from home covering a certain territory. This will require training on how the business has changed and to help employees adapt to new business conditions. 1: Personalize the remote sales onboarding experience.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. The presentation was developed as a comparison to what is happening in 2026 versus ten years earlier in 2016. Let’s tune in and listen to what Dr. Beckett has to say.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We have a one hour training session every week. They underwent extensive product training and sales skills reinforcement. Here, out of twenty-one territories, four were empty (19%). Vacant territories, accounting for inbound requests, generated 50% revenues of a staffed territory. They’re not dogs.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

Finding and hiring the right kind of people with the right mix of skills, developing a compensation plan, identifying training needs and aligning everyone with business goals can all be daunting. . . Author: Dave Gerry Building a winning sales organization is no small task. And that’s in normal conditions. Sales Takes the Lead.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale Compensation 284

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 3, 2018

You can build a great brand in your territory that differentiates you from the competition just by treating your reps with respect and recognizing their efforts. Depending on the experience and confidence of the rep making the presentation, the effect could help them sprout wings or simply be a hot, fiery mess. it backfires on you.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 12, 2012

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “What’s Wrong With Your Sales Training Program.”.   Somehow, “successful” sales training has become associated with a thick binder of material the salesperson lugs home from the class (never to open again). It’s Not Based Upon Win-Loss Customer Interviewing. . 

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Anne Miller

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What began as a pleasant conversation with a cousin gradually moved into divisive political territory. Ryan stopped this train wreck of a conversation in the making by saying, “ Let me ask you a question. And, then we continued to present our arguments in a more civil manner.” Metaphors Make Presentations Memorable!

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training.). The good news is in the last several years there have been some good things happening in new hire sales training.

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Hiring Training Exercises Video 100

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Marketing might be called in for a presentation design. He’s looking at compensation analysis, territory design, and sales structure. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills. She recommends reading the latest books or product training. Reps that fail are re-trained.

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 3, 2024

I have personally lost count of the number of webinars or presentations I attended that used the example of the technology adoption rate shrinking (or rather, disappearing) since the days of Netflix launch over two decades ago. A typical case would be how rapidly ChatGPT infiltrated schools!

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Smooth Sale

AUGUST 25, 2022

Typically, companies provide comprehensive training for their new representatives on how to acquire the initial sale, but omit building client loyalty and revenue. The essential yet overlooked part of sales training raises the question, ‘Are you building client loyalty? T oday may be the day to revamp training.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 1, 2016

Sales Training Investment. The strategic “it” in this case is the decision about whether you should make an investment in sales training. Fast forward to the present – can you hear those same voices? The sales training discussion needs to be updated and reframed. Our experience says absolutely. New product.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How are your leads and your territory? Join Our Next Training: If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then this live, interactive online B2B & B2C inside sales training is exactly what they need to get excited & confident about selling again! Upcoming Schedule.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

I don’t like objections any more than anyone reading this, but it is part of the territory, just like 100 mile-hour pucks coming at your goalie mask; until you accept that you will always lag. Most companies I cold call have committed to a sales training organization, internal or external. I need to change fields.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 13, 2012

In sales the risk is real, and all to present in many organizations. I have written before about the tendency for many sales VP’s to say they don’t see the need to skills train their reps because their team has 15 plus years of experience. Good thing they have the 60% – 70% guys to distract.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

It listed information for all the prospects in my California territory including the company name, revenue figures, address, telephone number and — of course — the decision maker’s name and title. After all, that’s what they beat into our heads during the intensive five-week training program I’d just completed: Go for the decision-maker.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 137