Sales 2.0

MAY 15, 2023

This is the sixth in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Dave is also the author of the “ Sales Manager Survival Guide.”​ This interview is with Dave Brock.

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Ideal Customer Profile Up-Sell Buyer Survey 221

Partners in Excellence

MAY 11, 2023

We even have data on their individual and organizational behavioral styles. As managers, we have data about our people and their performance that we have never had before. We have historical performance data, behavioral style information, and more. We are blessed with enormous amounts of data on virtually everything.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The piece got decent traction, was fun to write, and produced some interesting perspectives on both sides of the argument — so I figured it might be worth it to try the process again with another hot-button sales issue. Argue from the perspective of 'sales commissions are ineffective and should be done away with.'

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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. Lay a robust foundation. really takes a toll on you.

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Hiring Sales Management Lead Rank Hubspot 93

Awarathon

APRIL 12, 2024

Understanding the role of Generative AI in training The rise of Generative AI is transforming fields with the ‘adapt or perish’ mantra, and sales training is no exception. Generative AI is on the cusp of revolutionizing sales training programs. Let’s go through this in detail.

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Coaching Training Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 52

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. A survey of 330 U.S.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2018

The What, Why, How, and When of Executive Sales Coaching. Traditionally, CEOs, presidents and business owners were the group that benefited the most from executive sales coaching. They need to determine which groups of leaders can benefit the most from executive sales coaching. Why Executive Sales Coaching .

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s a persistent fear that AI might replace the human workforce, including sales teams, rendering them redundant. AI, with its ability to process vast amounts of data and perform complex tasks, is a powerful sales tool, no doubt. Well, humans and AI have their own, individual ways of learning!

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In sales management, a common saying is, “Hire slow and fire fast.” Secondly, it neglects coaching and training to boost performance. In addition to reassessing this approach, here are productive ways to hire, fire, and support a sales team: The Slow Hire/Fast Fire Approach. Monitor performance. It’s simple.

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Hiring How To Coaching Retention 118

Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2023

Only one department — and sometimes only one individual — can access and make use of the information in a data silo. Company culture and old-school organizational structure from a time before cloud storage can also contribute to siloed data. Having good data is no guarantee that a business will make good decisions.

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Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

One of the primary rules of sales is to talk to someone who has the power to make a buying decision. Some have their eye on short-term stock performance, while others are looking to invest in long-term growth. CFOs aren’t immune to emotional buying decisions, but their job is to focus on the numbers. How Do I Approach a CFO?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2020

If you started paying more attention to the sales enablement needs of your organization, you’re not alone. For sales organizations that have been waiting to implement dedicated sales enablement measures — the time is now. In 2020, Crayon placed even greater emphasis on sales enablement to support their sales force.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. After all, poor and outdated organizational structures breed misalignment across departments, delayed action and performance inefficiencies.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For our organization to work, to achieve it’s goals and purpose, each subsystem must work, effectively, together. Regardless of our role, we can only succeed if all the other subsystems we depend upon perform as expected. We learn how they must perform to contribute to the overall organizational goals.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 20, 2023

Collaboration is an essential ingredient for a successful and high-performing workplace. It involves different individuals coming together to achieve a common goal. Breaking down these silos and fostering cross-departmental collaboration can lead to innovative solutions and improved organizational performance.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I asked my question because I believe being really interested in selling is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to be successful in SALES. One can be interested in selling but for the wrong reasons, which then becomes a hindrance for sales success. To answer even your first question:” Are you interested in Sales?”

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Motivating a Small Business Sales Team Motivating a small business (SMB) sales team is paramount for sales success. Achieving sales targets significantly depends on motivation. Achieving sales targets significantly depends on motivation. Secondly, let data guide your decisions.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2020

Setting SMART goals can be an effective approach for setting personal or individual goals, however it can be challenging to measure the progress of an entire sales team with this framework. In sales organizations, reps can easily get wrapped up in their own quota and workflow. Sound familiar?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 31, 2023

How these products performed—whether they addressed needs and solved problems—was an afterthought. When it comes to sales training , however, sellers become clients. As salespeople themselves, sales organizations might think they need sophisticated solutions, like a complex methodology. With this, features won the day.

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Training Workbooks Face-to-face Lead Rank 62

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Our suggestion is to implement or improve your Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs. KPIs are best used to inform the activities of your most revenue-impacting teams — sales, customer success, delivery, and marketing, to name a few. During a volatile time, returning to the basics can help your organization regain some wins.

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Promotion Lead Rank Lead Scoring Motivation 52

Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There are two sides to every sale. And with limited hours in the day, sales reps must focus their time and energy on those that are most likely to convert. These qualities can include annual revenue, employee range, industry, customer base, organizational maturity, and geography, among a myriad of others.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Coaching Education 97

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It states that individuals, acting in their own self-interest, will deplete a shared resource, called the common. If we view customers as a shared resource, the application to sales is clear. You also need sales. Rather than focus on how much you sell, build your sales culture around the customer.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Revenue operations, or RevOps, is a relatively new organizational role. RevOps is largely about effective alignment and collaboration. Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy. Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy. Enabling Revenue Operations.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

Nutshell

JUNE 12, 2020

Promoting a sales manager internally is tricky, but hiring an outsider might be even trickier. Current sales reps can make great candidates for open positions within the company. Effective managers enable effective teams. You need both effective managers and great sales reps for a team—and your company—to reach its goals.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To 98

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 10, 2020

What does it really take to be successful in sales? Though one’s idea of success can vary from person to person, there are some core proficiencies top reps and sales organizations have in common. Core Competencies in Sales. At a high level, there are core skills that are a must for a career in sales. Communication Skills.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Gatekeeper Negotiation 142

Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Although we are approaching a new year, many of 2023’s selling challenges will continue to impact your B2B organization’s 2024 performance. One of the major AI challenges faced by sales and marketing teams was the issue of the quality. Some initiatives were cut altogether, while others were paused until later in 2023 or even 2024.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Demand Generation Agencies B2B 45

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

Cold calling is the bane of plenty of sales reps' professional existence. HubSpot Sales Hub. HubSpot Sales Hub's extensive call tracking capabilities make it one of the premier cold calling software solutions available. It also lets you place calls directly from your desktop and automatically log your sales calls.

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Cold Calling Software Software Hubspot 84

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 21, 2023

Thanks to the outstanding work by Matt Dixon and Ted McKenna in “ The JOLT Effect ,” we are now beginning to understand the impact of “Fear of Messing Up,” or FOMU on buying deccisions. (I We see heightened demands for performance and hitting the numbers. But what about Seller FOMU/FOFU? What do we do?

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Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Resources Up-Sell 95

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In sales and sports, the difference between victory and defeat often depends on leadership. Imagine a leader who turned around a struggling sales team’s performance and increased results by 300 percent. To put this in a sales perspective, imagine a sales team that missed quota eleven months out of the year.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having talented sales reps is often a result of investing in effective sales coaching. Having talented sales reps is often a result of investing in effective sales coaching. Sales coaching is a long-term investment that can lead to positive outcomes for organizations that do it right. Collaborative.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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Sales Management Strategy Lead Rank Coaching 52

Smooth Sale

MAY 15, 2023

Proven Strategies to Achieve Total Business Success 1) Focus on Your Core Competencies Focusing on your core competencies is vital to the long-term success of any business. Doing so allows them to focus on strengthening these areas further and dedicate resources towards improving them.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For sales enablement practitioners, this requires proactive evaluation of how you manage customer-facing talent, content, and communications to deliver exceptional buyer experiences. Here are the five areas you’ll want to focus on in 2022. Here are the five areas you’ll want to focus on in 2022. September 10, 2021).

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Face-to-face Sales Talent Sales Methodology Sales Enablement 98

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sales leaders at most high growth companies are constantly training and upskilling their teams to be more effective in the field and/or hiring new talent and ramping up them faster so they can start selling and closing deals as soon as possible. Gain a greater level of visibility and insights into your teams’ readiness.

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Analytics Report Sales Management Hiring 81

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2022

The goal of any sales organization is, ultimately, to increase revenue. Which means the goal of any effective sales leader is to inspire and motivate their sales team to hit, or exceed, their revenue targets. But first — what is a goal driven sales environment? What is a goal driven sales environment?

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Hiring Lead Rank How To Cold Calling 118

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2019

Stripped of everything else sales is simple. At it’s core, sales is about: “Finding a person/company with a need, helping them solve it.” They look for the short cuts, the technologies, the things that claim to make sales easy, so that they can avoid the work. (It But too often, we confuse simple with easy.

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Channels Sales System Conversion 84

Sell Integrity

JUNE 14, 2021

Saying there’s no time for coaching or that someone has already reached their potential are just two of the prominent misconceptions around sales coaching. But some simple and very effective sales coaching techniques- when applied consistently and with sincerity and skill- can greatly raise the game of individuals and your entire sales team.

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