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. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Allego

MARCH 17, 2020

These days, sales teams also face additional barriers to productivity: corporate travel restrictions mean less contact with prospects, with the industry, and with the market. To ensure that your sales reps work at peak capacity despite travel restrictions, focus on actionable ways to boost productivity no matter where they are.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At the same time, travel restrictions and pandemic protocols have prevented cybersecurity sales training teams from meeting in person.The result has been a surge in demand for scalable virtual sales training. 6 Ways to Enable Virtual Sales Training at Scale. It Must Balance Synchronous and Asynchronous Training.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A review of a sales training course from the perspective of a salesperson wishing to improve their sales skills. In many companies new salespeople begin their role with just some company centric basic training. Like all professions the skills needed to sell successfully can be learned and mastered with training.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

Investing in team training is a critical part of business success and growth. In today’s age of digital transformation, sales management teams must adapt their sales training strategies to evolving consumer trends and the global shift towards remote work. Sales is a dynamic area of business that’s constantly in flux. Image Source.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan In today’s buyer-centric world, salespeople need to create value more than ever or they won’t get in front of prospects. Training is essential to having success with channel partners, and just as in-person sales calls shifted to virtual due to the global pandemic, so too has channel partner training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), client and prospect meetings, and industry tradeshows getting postponed and canceled, how can sales teams pivot quickly to drive productivity in a new (predominantly virtual) environment? Should my online training and events be live or asynchronous?

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Allego

JUNE 16, 2020

At the same time, few can afford to interrupt their busy schedules to attend sales training classes or read stacks of books, manuals and articles. On top of this, travel restrictions during the pandemic have made training even more difficult—both for trainers and for learners. 2 Ways to Kick Your Training Content Into High Gear.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2021

From the ubiquitous Zoom calls to the billions of hours of Netflix streamed, 2020 was truly the year of video. Video usage for sales teams was no exception. Vidyard’s latest research shows a 93% year-over-year increase in the number of businesses using video for sales prospecting and customer engagement. Handoff to a CSM.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel. The portal sharply raised the productivity of Cisco’s specialists and reduced their travel expenses. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels.

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Allego

MARCH 4, 2020

Business travelers are facing new restrictions and cancellations as health concerns grow in the wake of the coronavirus. Companies around the world are rethinking travel, conferences, and even their employees’ daily commutes. But what should business travelers do about trips that are essential to their work? Prospecting.

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2020

Companies around the globe have canceled sales meetings and training sessions and are enacting work from home policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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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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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. Is Online Sales Training Effective? Virtual training workshops just had a stigma. What’s the point?

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

This method allows them to connect with global clients without travel, fostering a convenient customer experience. Why Virtual Sales Skills Training Matters The shift from in-person to remote work demands new skills. Virtual selling extends beyond email and video meetings.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Author: Michael Nørregaard When prospects are evaluating your company, they’re looking to ultimately maximize their return on investment. They want minimal downtime, support they can rely on and access to as much training as possible, so they can be in turn, as successful as possible with their deployment. Travel to them.

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Allego

JULY 21, 2022

They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. More than that, modern sales enablement enables hybrid teams to close more deals thanks to an up-to-date approach to sales training , coaching , and content. Product and Process Training. To do that, however, they need help.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 28, 2019

I recently saw a video on LinkedIn about a traveller who was flying home to his family on Christmas Eve. The video told how the cabin crew member simply made the whole experience this passenger had something to remember…in a great way! A prospect can tell when they are being sold to. Happy selling! Sean McPheat.

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Allego allows sales teams to onboard new reps without having to meet face to face or rely on traditional classroom training. They can pre-board new hires by giving them access to onboarding channels within Allego containing company and product information, welcome videos from the team, and examples of what good looks like.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. Fortunately, there are proven tactics to transform a traditional meeting or training session into a virtual one. What are you hearing from training managers?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. You have to decide what you’re looking for in the perfect mate (or prospect), and then figure out the best way to meet that person (or sales qualified lead). Video conferencing is a great way to get face to face with clients. The year was 1996. Do Your Leads Suck?

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 23, 2016

You’re on the way to the sales meeting with a prospect or client and you’re stuck in a jam. What do I want to get out of it, and what do I want the prospect to get from it? Having asked those questions, now you can decide if spending the time travelling to the prospect is worth it. appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 6, 2019

The use of an online sales training platform can have multiple benefits within any sales organization. Due to time pressure, cost and changing learning preferences, classroom-based or day long sales training is becoming obsolete. Online sales training platform. Benefits of sales training.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. Instead, they hide behind technology, annoy prospects with cold calls, and pester strangers on social media. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Why Account Executives Should Travel. Sales leaders say they don’t need for account executives to travel.

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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. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 22, 2020

For those who are missing the sense of immediacy that comes with selling a customer or prospect face-to-face, now is a golden opportunity to turn your focus to a level of fulfillment that can restore your sales team’s sense of purpose in the world. That’s why training that keeps apace with the times is critical to restoring your sales mojo.

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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. Reps give and get practical advice that they can apply to their prospecting and buyer conversations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Digital onboarding – The COVID-19 crisis is causing the traditional “drink-from-the-firehose” style of in-person onboarding to give way to more individualized and personalized programs that provide new reps with incremental and ongoing training and coaching, in a largely digital format. Group travel is down, but not out.

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Allego

MARCH 24, 2020

Corporate travel restrictions mean less contact with prospects, with the industry, and with the market. As companies cancel events and trade shows, reps have fewer opportunities to connect with prospects and peers. Prospecting. In some cases, either the rep or the prospect (or both) must work from home.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Here are some ways that sales teams can remain productive and maximize opportunities with prospects. . One of the most apparent challenges when working remotely is making that all-important connection with a prospect. Eye-contact is paramount, even virtually, so be sure to use your communication platform’s video function.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. Instead of traditional in-person sales meetings, the salesperson and the prospect are in different places such as their home or work. Keeping prospects engaged. Training virtual teams. What is remote sales?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects. Some methods inside sales reps use to engage with prospects include: Phone calls Video conferencing Email Social media Other online channels Conversely, outside sales reps rely on face-to-face conversations. What do inside sales reps do?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

In the past, a virtual sales meeting, whether by video or phone call, was generally not given the same consideration as an in-person meeting. Requiring each participant to have their video on during the virtual meeting. They also work as sales training materials for onboarding new sales teams, depending on the specificity of the topic.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 26, 2024

While mobile sales tools help sellers engage with buyers, it’s important to note that customers and prospects aren’t using them. Mobile sales content management tool These enable sales reps to find and share the right content with the right prospect at the right time. For example, a sales rep meets with a prospect at their office.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 16, 2019

Watch my video below: My mother always said good news travels fast but bad news travels even faster. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Result. In today’s world, this truth applies more than ever. Sales Motivation Blog.

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Travel restrictions and meeting cancellations have put quotas at risk. Sellers also face additional barriers to productivity when there’s less contact with prospects, colleagues, and their industry. How to Get Ready : Scale remote coaching by asking sellers to record practice videos for existing products or new offerings.

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