No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 2, 2014

Set manageable goals instead. The New Year’s resolution checklists are the same every year—mostly about eating healthier, losing weight, and managing our finances better. Our inboxes are crowded with email marketing messages chock-full of New Year’s resolution products and programs. Forget Shaking the Trees.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2022

Your sales reps have a different mix of skills and experience. So how do you know if every seller is ready to face your prospects during sales calls? You could take an educated guess based on the seller’s past experience and previous performance, or you could know for sure by providing your reps with a sales readiness checklist.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hopefully, the start of the new year has you super jazzed about what your sales organization will achieve in 2024. We know we’re excited about the potential our sales team has at PandaDoc. A sales team is the powerhouse behind any thriving software company. It’s no secret that tech has revolutionized the sales process.

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Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

The year is half over for most in the tech space — six months (or less) to achieve goal. But this refocus for sales success can’t wait until the mad-dash and hysteria that inevitably comes at year-end. Sales Teams The second half is the most tumultuous for sales teams. Make a last Sales push for new logos.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 30, 2021

The MEDDIC Score Calculator is a tool which helps sellers and sales managers measure how ready an opportunity is to get closed. Subscribers to the Full MEDDIC Course can now enjoy the new tool at the end of the course. Why The MEDDIC Score Calculator? Who Can Use It?

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s a new year! One filled with hope and promise – a clean slate – and, yes, new sales goals. Hopefully, you experienced a good year last year and got to celebrate a little or even a lot. Now, it’s time to move on to attacking the goals for this year. Really learn what they are working to achieve.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Summer ends and school starts. In the immortal words of sales guru, T.S. Eliot, “To make a beginning is to make an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. And the end is where we start”. And we’re flooded with blogs sharing sage insights about how to do just that – close the year strong.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It’s every Sales Manager’s struggle. In some organization, reps can take up to a year to fully ramp. In some organization, reps can take up to a year to fully ramp. At the end, you''ll be able to download our 30-Day Guide to Getting Reps Productive Fast. Marketing / Demand Generation Campaigns / Lead Management.

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Allego

JANUARY 14, 2021

As sales managers reviewed results at the end of last year, many faced a stark reality: the virtual sales training programs they had cobbled together to get through the pandemic had not produced the desired results. Here are the top four behaviors of companies that have mastered modern sales enablement: 1.

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SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. By the end of 2013 there will be 2.3 Customer 2.0 Customer 2.0’s

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SBI

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Transforming Sales: How to Make Your Way of Selling Into Your Competitive Advantage. In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. And have you made that strategy easy for your salespeople to learn, and for sales managers to coach?

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Why Every Sales Team Needs to Use Mutual Action Plans . For the B2B complex sale, b uying is notoriously a long, hard s log for B2B buyers. That’s why I advise all CEOs and sales leaders to have their sales teams create a Mutual Action Plan (MAP) with buyers. . Trust me —they need more guidance than you think.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That is a question most executives worry about and often have to ask their direct reports, this is especially true when thinking about Sales Management. In some situations the President of the company may have responsibility to manage the sales team or maybe they are attempting to manage a sales manager(s).

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

That’s all it takes for a sales rep to jump ship and take their skills elsewhere. Perhaps you’re an 8-year-old business focusing on retention– or maybe you’re finally in a phase of sustainable growth. Sales reps are trained to track dollars and revenue (yes, you’ve taught them well), so of course they’re going to track their own.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answer lies in lead generation driven by sales development reps. To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. What Is a Sales Development Playbook? Benefits of a Sales Development Playbook How Do You Create a Winning Sales Development Playbook?

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The end of the year can be extremely busy for salespeople who are trying to close up last minute deals to meet their Q4 target. With many clients and prospects out of the office, however, there are opportunities for your entire sales team to assess what’s going well and where there’s room for improvement.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Building a top-notch sales force is a dynamic endeavor. It requires a solid foundation of leadership, market focus, sales process and ongoing management. Is your sales force ‘fit’? Are your sales people thriving or just surviving? How would your sales organization measure up against the best in the business?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 21, 2014

1 job of management. What tends to be missing or where weak vendors or non-productive partners seem to fail, however, are in two other aspects of management’s responsibility: proper onboarding and ongoing training and development. The various tracks cover technology, but also leadership, sales and marketing topics.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Building a top-notch sales force is a dynamic endeavor. It requires a solid foundation of leadership, market focus, sales process and ongoing management. Is your sales force ‘fit’? Are your sales people thriving or just surviving? Are your sales people thriving or just surviving? Sales Fitness Assessment.

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Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence. Why is sales coaching important? How do you coach and develop a sales team? Top sales coaching techniques. What makes a sales coach great? What Is Sales Coaching?

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

Motivating your sales reps is one of the key factors of sales success. In most sales organizations, the sales commission plan is the best way to do this. Your sales commission plan is a portion of your sales compensation plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Mistakes during your sales conversations cost you deals. That means you can’t afford to slip up during sales conversations. has analyzed sales conversations with machine learning and AI for nearly two years. Top sales reps talk at most for 46% of a sales call. Using these 13 sale-killing words.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Sales is the engine that powers your company. But what’s powering your sales? By now it’s universally known that sales and sales team practices have undergone a tectonic shift in recent years. And, even more alarmingly, buyer needs and behaviors seem to be moving way ahead of the sales learning curve.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 1, 2015

Last week while working with a client we discussed this topic in great detail and when I reviewed our Trade Show Planning tools from our Sales Management Tool Kit they were amazed at what they were not doing in planning and executing at their events. Need more sales management resources?

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Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Is an abbreviation enough to save your sales team? Meet the MEDDIC sales process. . If you deal with buyers whose complex, internal politics and buying processes feel like a black box, the MEDDIC sales process gives you a clear path forward. It helps you qualify buyers so the right ones end up in your sales funnel.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

I will always be a believer in sales mentorship programs. Eventually, I took those learnings and taught them to sales reps I was mentoring. As I've seen firsthand, mentorship programs accelerate the learning and promotion processes on a sales team. Sales Mentoring: What's in It for You (the Mentor)? Improved Morale.

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EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

by Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales. Let me ask you a question: Do all of your leads end up buying? Next question: Out of ten leads that you set up to pitch a demo to, how many of those ten end up buying? Companies and sales managers train them in this way (“It’s a numbers game,” they claim.),

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Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

For any coaching initiative to be effective and long-lasting within your organization, there are important obstacles that managers and internal sales coaches need to overcome. Use it as a checklist as you begin designing your coaching initiative. A sales manager might easily say, “I’ve been doing this for 10 years.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 28, 2015

It’s the 4th quarter, and there are 2 things on every sales leader’s mind. Finishing the year strong, and…. In our race to finish the year strong, top of the funnel activity often gets put on the back burner while sales reps put focus and energy on the immediate task at hand – hitting this year’s number.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Every high performing salesperson and sales leader most likely has used this phrase to increase their professionalism. First, this phrase must be used by the sales manager on a regular basis; after every sales call they make with their sales team members and after every role play situation in their sales training meetings.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Published by McGraw Hill, it is a terrific read for all executives and any manager. As you read through the Introduction Kim/Kerry describe their plan of breaking the book into five major buckets with 18 distinct chapters: Self-management and social awareness. HINT: add this book to each managers Executive Development Plan.

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Keith Rosen

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Sales training isn’t dead, it’s evolved. Instead of training salespeople with recycled techniques your competitors are using, developing high performance sales teams requires transforming the traditional salesperson into The Selling Coach. And years ago, my clients stared recognizing it too.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Flannery Sales Systems, we just finalized work with three of our customers on their 2018 sales plans. Usually these plans are delivered in January at a kickoff meeting, and the fanfare around their rollout contributes to the excitement for the coming year. Pipeliner CRM empowers sales teams to truly make their sales targets.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 24, 2022

To measure the success of your sales enablement program, you need to study more than just revenue and the number of units sold. Measuring sales enablement is about correlating sales activities with tangible business outcomes to discover what works and what doesn’t. Track it in a spreadsheet or on your sales platform.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 13, 2016

Successful sales people have always known that being successful in their job requires them to continually learn about the markets they serve, the products offered, the pricing and selling issues related to the product as it grows and changes over the years. For many years the easy solution was to bring everyone in for a sales meeting.

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