SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

If you’ve been in sales long enough, you’ve seen this mistake unfold. The newly promoted manager repeats behavior that made him successful as a rep. He neglects his skill development and sales initiatives. This role confusion doesn’t stop at the manager level. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales.

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Highspot

JULY 20, 2022

Right now, only 24% of sales reps are confident in their ability to close deals. If reps are unable to close deals and hit quota, they’re more likely to leave. However, with the right tools in their arsenal, managers can largely avoid this issue. Uncover Coaching Insights with the Rep Scorecard.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a sales manager, a strong team is the best asset you can have. But in order to build a great sales team, you need to hire the best possible candidates for the job. The following are three stages of the interview process we outline in our comprehensive eBook, The Ultimate Guide to Hiring for Sales Managers. .

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Chorus.ai

MAY 19, 2020

One major similarity is the use of a unified sales process or methodology. How do you ensure your investment in sales training sticks? Building scorecards helps everyone understand what type of information we need to be gathering in calls with customers. But with proper coaching, that doesn’t have to be the case for your team.

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Allego

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While salespeople of all levels desire more coaching, sales leaders and coaches say they are already stretched too thin and do a lot of coaching as it is. These seasoned sales executives discussed the current state of sales coaching and shared five key takeaways sales coaches can implement today to become better coaches. >>

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Braveheart Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Well, you are not alone and as a sales leader, I have some ideas to help you help your sales team. They get excited in a sales conversation when there is some positive response from the prospect or customer. Then they believe the sale is all but closed. They fall behind the sales plan. And guess what?

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BrainShark

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lessonly by Seismic is one of the most popular sales learning solutions available. AI-powered video coaching (so sales managers get instant insights into reps’ sales skills). AI-powered video coaching (so sales managers get instant insights into reps’ sales skills). Adobe Captivate Prime. SAP Litmos.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 16, 2022

They also make a huge impact on the effectiveness of sales kickoff events, which are basically intensive, multi-day sales training sessions (with a bit of celebration thrown in). There are sales enablement tools to enrich and streamline every stage of the SKO process for a highly effective event. Brainshark Coaching.

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re trying to maximize sales rep performance and drive results, coaching should be an essential part of your strategy. CSO Insights reported that sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment over the span of five years. Let’s not think that coaching is a natural skill for our managers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 27, 2016

At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Managers spend too much time in offices. Luckily, in this great era of sales enablement, there are options to capture and coach the conversations your team has. Coaching at the Call Level.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Everyone, including me, writes a piece this time of year about closing the year strong. For the most part these are aimed at front line sales people, and the better ones offer choices that make sense year-round even if initially implemented in Q4. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . With special thanks to S.G.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There is no shortage of sales onboarding solution options to choose from and most of them offer basic instructor-led training that is created once and typically isn’t updated for months or years at a time. Visual data points on sales KPIs (like bookings and close rate) that quickly allow you to see where reps are struggling.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

In B2B sales, activity leads to results. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. In a soft economy, close rates will drop due to cautious customers. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. Most sales teams are still using yesterday’s onboarding program. Their words not mine.

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BrainShark

JULY 20, 2022

Mindtickle is a popular sales readiness platform, but comparing alternatives is an essential step in deciding on a solution that satisfies your team’s needs. In this post, we cover seven Mindtickle competitors starting with a detailed display of our sales readiness platform — Brainshark , a Bigtincan company. . Chorus.ai. Brainshark.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.),

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SBI Growth

JUNE 23, 2013

One of the best indicators of future sales success is pipeline health. In this post we will discuss how pipeline reviews can expose Sales Management. Here is an example pipeline review between a Private Equity firm and Sales Leader. This Sales Leader had aggressive goals. Sales Leader: Ok. You get the idea.

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LevelEleven

MARCH 23, 2020

Productivity is one of the leading indicators of profit for an organization, especially in the world of sales. Although managers would like to think their team members are spending 100% of their time closing deals, it’s more like 40% according to the LinkedIn State of Sales Report. The answer may surprise you.

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SBI

JUNE 28, 2021

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Brainshark’s coaching solution allows sellers to practice, get feedback from their peers, receive coaching suggestions from their manager, and also get automatic recommendations from our Machine Analysis.

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2022

Additional benefits of virtual sales training include: The ability to quickly refer back to a specific training as a refresher before sales calls or to answer specific customer questions. There are several different things to consider when building a virtual sales training program, so it can be difficult to know where to start.

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BrainShark

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

That’s why most sales reps shy away from video coaching assessments — despite its potential to help grow their careers and client portfolios. So how do you encourage sales reps to embrace video coaching technology and use it regularly? Get strategies from our own Head of Sales Enablement Beverlie Heyman below. Sell the value.

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Braveheart Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Well, you are not alone and as a sales leader I have some ideas to help you help your sales team. They get excited in a sales conversation when there is some positive response from the prospect or customer. Then they believe the sale is all but closed. They fall behind the sales plan. And guess what?

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 30, 2020

In normal times, sales managers carry the heavy weight of many responsibilities, including coaching their sales team, ensuring a positive customer experience and improving financial results. If before we thought that sales managers were running on sand rather than on pavement , they’re now treading quicksand.

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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. The post MEDDIC Score Calculator appeared first on MEDDIC ACADEMY: Sales Courses, Training, Coaching for Enterprise B2B and complex sales. Why The MEDDIC Score Calculator?

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SBI

MAY 14, 2021

Allego , the leading sales learning and enablement platform provider, today announced its enhanced Conversation Intelligence product. Certify rep proficiency using scorecards and inline feedback by posting point-in-time feedback and associating a configurable scorecard with any given call.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 18, 2019

The function is called Spaces, and it sort of like a crude project space and file manager. I have long argued that sales managers with dashboards are reducing their team’s accountability. It’s one thing to know your sales manager is looking at numbers, and it’s something different to have to report those results out loud.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Transforming Marketing Chaos into a Structured Success As the host of the Sales POP Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM podcast, I recently had the pleasure of hosting Austin LaRoche, the CEO of Attack Interactive. Austin suggested a solution to this problem – the scorecard model.

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BrainShark

JUNE 9, 2022

Additionally, in our experience of working with companies like Zoom, Samsung, and BTG, we’ve found that a good mobile sales onboarding software should also let you: Build and assign checklists of onboarding tasks to new reps. That way, reps won’t have to block out a piece of their day to get in front of their computer.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Push the envelope of sales enablement by driving efficiency through AI, scaling coaching with actionable insights, tying enablement efforts to business results, unifying the sales tech stack, and engaging buyers with digital experiences. Enablement is vital to acclimate to changes in the business climate.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2012

If the CEO fired your SVP of Sales tomorrow, would you get the job? If you want a quick way to find out if you possess the skills to beat your internal peers for the SVP Sales job click here to attend one of our no-cost Make The Number session and get a copy of the SVP Sales Readiness Assessment. Click here for a perspective.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

These are words Millennials used to describe one-on-one meetings with Sales Managers. These are Millennial Sales Reps that report to Gen X or older Sales Managers. It’s not uncommon to see sales forces with these mixed generations – older managing younger. In some cases, even younger managing older.

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LevelEleven

APRIL 26, 2019

Lack of performance management. You may be conducting quarterly or yearly reviews but that is far from effective performance management. If your employees are less engaged, they may be lacking the reassurance, direction, and coaching provided by a performance management system or program. Management by (only) numbers.

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Allego

MAY 11, 2021

We’re excited to announce the release of integrated Conversation Intelligence , further expanding our suite of sales enablement capabilities. Automate and Scale Sales Coaching. The new release of Allego Conversation Intelligence adds capabilities to allow teams to scale critical sales functions.

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BrainShark

JULY 1, 2022

When it comes to measuring sales training ROI, most advice is either self-explanatory or ambiguous, such as “decide what success looks like” or “set expectations for your training.” The most important piece of the puzzle is being able to track each sales rep ’s training progress and their key performance indicators ( KPIs ) in one place.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

Change is constant in the age of the coronavirus, and it’s having deep effects on sales organizations. LinkedIn and Korn Ferry recently took a deep dive into the impact of the coronavirus on sales organizations. Below, we highlight five of the most critical of these trends affecting sales organizations.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 22, 2021

59% of sellers today have an oversized Need for Approval, which basically means they need to be liked more than they need to close business. Additionally, 85% of salespeople have self-limiting beliefs about sales and selling. How to fix it: Managers need to meet with salespeople and identify what is going on before the problem grows.

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