Gong.io

MARCH 19, 2020

New sales model? Sales team temporarily grounded? Here’s what you – aka sales professionals – need to know to make the switch. . It’s the ultimate test to becoming a world-class inside sales rep. . It’s the ultimate test to becoming a world-class inside sales rep. . in our Inside Sales Skills Bundle. #4

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Gong.io

AUGUST 16, 2021

Standard advice that works on most sales calls just don’t translate for cold calls. The post Cold Call Stats: 8 Data-Backed Techniques To Blow Up Quota appeared first on Gong. Stat #6: Monologues are 50% longer in successful cold calls. In case the other stats haven’t convinced you yet: Cold calls are a different beast.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 15, 2018

Having spent his career running sales teams at Salesforce.com, Paul Snelson now found himself leading the 70-rep sales organization at TouchBistro. Like many SaaS sales teams, Paul has a specialized sales model. But the rate of converting these leads into sales meetings was low. Booming Leads, Busting Close Rates.

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Selling Skills SalesForce Inbound Lead Rank 78

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 6, 2014

You can move yourself to a higher level in your sales career. But it’s not going to happen if you only feel urgent when you have to make your number. What would happen if you took that same urgency and applied throughout the year? You can put a booster rocket into your prospecting and […].

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Tom Hopkins

JUNE 6, 2017

Let me show you how to guarantee you’ll never meet your quota. The post How to Guarantee You’ll Never Meet Your Quota appeared first on How to Selling Skills. Related posts: Setting Realistic Sales Goals. It’s really easy. It’s actually why so many people […]. What is a Goal?

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 6, 2014

Blog Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation goals quotas sales motivation sales quotas' At one point in our discussion, we were talking about volume opportunities for the next 12 months. One salesperson immediately jumped in and stated how he expected to achieve “x” growth.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID. The two critical activities are selling and coaching. . Virtual Selling.

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Coaching Face-to-face Selling Skills Call-back 282

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders, be honest — you're curious about what your peers are up to. If you don’t have the time or resources to commission your own data, you’re in luck because we’ve compiled a list of important data points sales leaders need to know. Sales Leadership Stats. Sales Performance. Remote Selling. is invaluable.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 5, 2018

My new LinkedIn sales training courses take out the guesswork! Is selling really tougher today? And my new sales training courses on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com are your ticket to referral selling. Sales: Referral Selling by Joanne Black. Referral Sales Training Courses Can Make the Difference.

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Selling Power

MAY 7, 2018

I never really imagined sales would be my career until I closed my first cloud deal as an inside sales rep at Microsoft in 2016 and crushed my sales quota.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Blog Professional Selling Skills goal setting goals quota sales quota year-end' It’s something that must be done. Don’t allow yourself to fall victim to your own shortcomings.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

We won’t touch on revenue, percentage of quota, customer retention, etc. 66% of Sales Reps believe that increasing the time invested by sales managers would help to increase their sales. Now is the perfect time to approach the subject when you’re in discussions regarding quota, compensation and 2013 goals.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 22, 2015

What are the best B2B salesforce.com hacks for selling in the digital age? I will be part of a tweet jam on May 28 at 2 pm Eastern with 35 other selling experts to give you the tips that can be gamechangers. You have an opportunity to find out! Find out more about this […].

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 25, 2013

Maybe you’re near your quota and discounting your price “this one time” with this customer will give you the boost you want. Here’s a video I did as part of a Sales Mastery Summit. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Be cautious, though.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: Number 5 in this 9 part series. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. “Welcome to the team,” said my new sales manager, as he dropped a giant yellow pages phonebook on my desk. That was selling in 1996.

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Sales Tools Tools Cold Calling SalesForce 108

The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2013

I am speaking specially of advice doled out by some sales pundits that serves more to placate and patronize readers than help them improve their selling skills and success, delivering clichés and politically correct feel good myth, instead of proven and practical road tested advice based on experience. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Call-back Intent Quota Consumer 292

Mereo

APRIL 14, 2021

Sales leaders, we are a quarter into this year now — and your salespeople have a great opportunity waiting for them. To meet organizational quotas. Unfortunately, many sales reps turned sales leaders have forgotten the reality of being feet-on-the-ground and out in the field. A Balance of Sales Execution and Hope.

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Strategy Sales Leadership Quota Face-to-face 88

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Only about one-quarter of sales leaders believe that their managers effectively coach and develop their sellers. In part, that’s because sales managers spend less time coaching—14%—than they do on selling, forecasting and administrative tasks, according to our latest study, 2020 Trends in Sales Management.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Top of Funnel Lead Rank 80

Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Building out a sales organization has historically been an incremental process: Scale in a linear fashion by hiring one salesperson at a time. However, relying solely on employing full-time sales workers may soon become a restrictive and potentially detrimental model. More than one-third of global sales involve salespeople.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In creating a culture for success, the sales leader plays a key role with customers, but it is not at the end of the year when everyone is chasing the last order to make quota. The manager who only appears before a customer at the end of the quarter or year, looking to close an […].

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Has your sales department ever calculated the cost of sales reps with average sales skills? However, upon deeper reflection, it’s unequivocal that top sales reps are exponentially more productive than average reps. This article explores the pitfalls of average sales skills and the path to high performance.

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Referrals Exercises Discount Study 62

Mereo

MAY 5, 2022

An effective sales enablement program requires constant attention, assessment and adjustment from leadership. Rather sales enablement programs must continuously evolve to serve your salespeople as they, in turn, serve the changing needs and preferences of the buyer. OVERALL SELLING PERFORMANCE . OVERALL SELLING PERFORMANCE .

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 28, 2014

Undoubtedly, you have a quota or objective to meet, and for many salespeople it’s not just a volume amount, but also a dollar amount. Objective for most salespeople is to ensure their sales reach a specific dollar amount. The best way to do this is to minimize the use of discounts and maximize the revenue from each sale.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The Sales analytics category has exploded in recent years, both in number and diversity. Metrics are the bedrock of any sales function (in fact, one could argue that no enterprise function is tracked, measured and analyzed more than sales!). Here are 3 key sales metrics you may be missing: 1.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Analytics 139

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Building your sales team looks easy on paper, but how do you cut through the noise of LinkedIn, job boards, and sites like AngelList to find the best candidates? You’ll be able to attract solid candidates searching for sales roles in your area, industry, and/or niche. Step 1: Pick a channel. Step 2: Use LinkedIn (the right way).

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Hiring Quota Scale Lead Rank 89

Showpad

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Reps should be confident, adept at recognizing a buyer’s challenges, and quick on their feet—along with a long checklist of other sales skills that help them build relationships and close deals. They need thoughtful sales training and proactive coaching from their manager.

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Scale How To Sales Enablement Guidelines 52

Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sales Managers – it’s what you say and how you say it. A hallmark of a great sales manager is being a good communicator. For example, front-line sales managers are the critical screens through which messages travel from top management to the sales team. ©2013 Sales Momentum ®.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Sales Leadership Quota 124

Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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Maximizer ROI Training Incentives 52

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

At this point, your 2013 sales number is essentially decided. I speak with many VP Sales who say the same thing every year: “We have some underperformers that are killing us.” It’s foolish to spend additional money on someone who will end up missing quota yet again in 2014. Assessing Your Sales Team.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned sales manager or a frontline rep hustling for results, we get it – the struggle is real. Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

It is trying to do it without taking a quota hit. We find numerous obstacles Sales VPs and Sales Managers face. Doing it smoothly without worrying about missing quota. This is called sales hiring gymnastics. It wastes time and costs sales. It told us all sales leaders have faced this challenge.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 300

Allego

JANUARY 20, 2022

2022—It’s a new year with new sales goals, resolutions , quotas, and expectations. What sales tech trends can we expect? Do our sales reps have the right skills to succeed in this continuing remote-work world? Do our sales reps have the right content to help them win deals? Top 5 Sales Webinars.

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Allego

JANUARY 6, 2023

2023—It’s a new year with new sales goals and expectations. How can your sales team do more with fewer resources? What’s the most effective way to train your reps and get them selling faster? Do your sales reps have the skills to sell in virtual or hybrid settings? Top 5 Sales Enablement Webinars.

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Webinar Metrics Sales Enablement Buyer Coaching 62

Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building. The strategy ensures reps are well-prepared to meet and exceed sales targets.

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