Mindtickle

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Sales leaders are also still defining what they need and want from sales enablement. The objectives, success factors and KPIs for sales enablement are still being defined and may continue to evolve. Many businesses tend to start with training and select their software based on the features they need.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success. Some are neutral.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 21, 2014

Partner Hiring and Training Lessons from Sage Summit. Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. In building a channel as a vendor or building a partner organization, that’s the No. 1 job of management. 1 job of management. Don’t make that mistake.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Asking these questions keep your costly assumptions about each prospect at bay so you are making decisions based on the facts rather than fiction. Most importantly, these questions help get in your prospect’s head to determine if they understand your value proposition, key differentiators, and the likelihood of hiring you.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Companies find it’s more important than ever for sales reps to collaborate and share best practices with one another. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. What are you hearing from training managers?

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sales training. Here’s the conundrum … You have a 250 person sales team. You are a new, first time Sales Training Director. You replaced a sales manager who did no sales training for a long time. Sales training is not inexpensive. Expectations are likely to be dated.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 10, 2012

Online Training. Why did the last five prospects say no? Tweet Share Most of the time when a prospect says “no” salespeople accept it and leave. Most of the time when a prospect tells you why they say no, they’re not telling the truth. The customer has a personal relationship with another vendor.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 15, 2022

When a sales rep asks us point-blank, ”What is the best way to follow-up with a prospect that goes silent?“ It’s a real question we hear often, and we know sales reps are not wanting to hear a vague reply like, ”It depends on your situation.” They are looking for practical advice to a real-world sales problem.

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What are the benefits of undertaking a social selling training course and what can a salesperson expect to learn? The impact of social selling on the sales process is something salespeople and especially sales management can struggle with. The Social Selling Training Course. Social selling plan.

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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. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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criteria for success

APRIL 15, 2020

Ongoing sales training is key to developing your team, but it can be hard to think of topics to cover. Here are 5 creative sales training topics to use when you’re training your team. Building rapport is obviously a key sales skill, but many people think it’s something that can’t be trained.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Many years have passed since that day and I've had the opportunity to talk to hundreds of prospects and sales people about their prospects. Here is a guest blog from Sales Development Expert, Author and Highly Recognized Leader in Sales Force Evaluations - David Kurlan. The answer to that question is: YES!

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Why You Should Prospect During the Holidays. Yes, you can do sales prospecting during the holidays. Client List. Testimonials. FREE Resources.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2015

Two of the hottest markets for “tools” are Sales and Marketing Automation markets. There are thousands of vendors/solutions, growing by 100’s every year. All of the vendors clamor for attention and visibility. All of these vendors want to “teach” us, which seems right.

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Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Proposal submitted, follow up done but no response from the prospect. Since 55% of selling time is wasted on unproductive prospecting, here are 20 questions that prevent prospects from going MIA, increase sales and keep you focused on the right opportunities to prevent sales frostbite. “I sent the proposal.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. It was a rough start, but within three years I'd been promoted to a sales manager.

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Vendor Neutral

MAY 7, 2021

5 Impactful Sales Enablement Technology Solutions in 2021. Leveraging Trends for Greater Prospect Engagement. Sales enablement and content management solutions help you communicate and engage with prospects, and the value of leveraging content within these solutions has vastly increased. Then there’s coaching.

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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, B2B buyers are on the go, using smartphones, tablets, and laptops to research and evaluate vendors.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

In an ideal world, sales reps would spend all day sending emails, taking calls, and ultimately, doing what they do best—selling. There’s a lot more to sales than meets the eye. Other selling tasks include prospecting, administrative work, data entry, market research, etc. Training and onboarding. Technology and Process.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The second week of my first job, the Sales Manager asked for my forecast for sales at the end of the month? Never having sold before, and no training permitted, how on earth would I know what was to occur? I was tasked with inputting future sales in my sales pipeline. And then the first miracle occurred.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 13, 2022

Be honest, don’t cheat…… Raise your hand if you have had a formal training program on change and change management! If you are a sales enablement person, Does your sales training/learning program included formal training and development on change and change management?

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 18, 2016

Three Magic Questions a Sales Manager Must Know. One of the main roles of a Sales Manager is to help train your salespeople on how to stay on track during a sales cycle. During any sales opportunity coaching sessions consider asking these three questions with any sales opportunity: Why do anything?

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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. Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. And don’t stop at testing them with sales-rep-to-customer interactions.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Does the idea of prospecting scare you? Are you a fearless salesperson or do you procrastinate the activities that will enable you to achieve your sales goals? Even if you’re hiding behind Social Media as your primary lead generation strategy, you eventually need to speak with every prospect! I fear rejection.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

They educate customers on products and services to finalize a sale. Regional sales managers oversee sales reps for a determined district and are focused on helping their team meet sales goals. A regional sales manager has an average salary of $124,000 yearly with bonuses and commissions.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 12, 2012

Harvard Business Review is arguably the most prestigious publication for business leaders and management thinkers. Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “What’s Wrong With Your Sales Training Program.”. Many sales training programs today share the same fundamental flaw.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. Sales enablement, and sales enablement tools, help them do just that. It’s no wonder that Gartner expects sales enablement budgets to increase 50% by 2027. Sales intelligence Sales intelligence software is all about data.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 3, 2013

One of the main jobs of sales management is to help their salespeople see where they are in the sales opportunity. During a few recent client/consulting meetings I realized that this remains an extremely important aspect of any salesperson’s life as well as any sales manager or president of any firm. What to do?

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Sellers also face additional barriers to productivity when there’s less contact with prospects, colleagues, and their industry. Sales managers leading geographically dispersed sellers are doubling down on the fundamentals. You can reinforce training with timely information that’s accessible across locations and time zones.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sales enablement (also called revenue or business enablement ) is important because it prepares your entire go-to-market organization to aid and conduct a more effective sales process and achieve better results. Enablement tools and strategies equip teams with the training, coaching and content they need to be successful.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. You communicate, collaborate, and connect with prospects via desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. You also need to add new skills of engagement, technical aptitude, active listening, follow up, and time management to your toolbox of selling techniques.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 19, 2015

Create a fulfillment mindset for your prospects. My company was one of 12 vendors under active consideration. We were thought leaders; we had visibility; the client loved our solution for advanced sales training; and now we were one of two. My prospect: Had a relationship with an existing vendor for basic sales training.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

JUNE 8, 2010

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. Prospecting (9).

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Incorporate different perspectives into training teams. This sounds pretty basic but in many sales kickoffs, aside from large general sessions, teams for training workshops are broken out by segment (geography, size, industry, function, etc.) This process built further trust between sales leaders and our enablement team.

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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? Sales success is a product of both skill and will. It’s not for lack of activity.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

During the session I lead a panel discussion on “ Killer Strategies for Prospecting ” and I spoke separately on “ Leveraging Your Business by Partnering”. 2. Others believed it was to increase the relationship position as prospects today more knowledgeable because of web site and internet access.

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Lessonly

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sales readiness is a well-crafted mix of rep assessment, sales management training, and coaching. This powerful combination gives reps the skills and knowledge they need to have successful conversations with prospects so they can close more deals. Why Sales Skills Are the Holy Grail to Generating Revenue.

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