Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Sales Operations vs. Sales Enablement.

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Guru

APRIL 7, 2020

Sales operations and sales enablement are both functions that aim to improve your sales performance. Sales operations ensures that your sales infrastructure — like the CRM system, compensation and incentive plans, KPI reporting, and proposal and contract management — run seamlessly.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

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SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2014

If you are starting to see sales rep turnover. Sales Training Sales Operations Strategy Sales Enablement Director of Sales Enablement' Or you missed the number last quarter. It means you likely aren’t. Most likely the reps were not given the right tools to be successful.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Who is training and who is enabling? Scenario : Two Sales Leaders – Edward and Jason – recently participated in SBI’s Annual Sales Strategy Workshop. Each needed help developing their 2015 sales strategy. Both were asked how they enable their sales guys to be successful.

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SBI Growth

MAY 31, 2014

I recently spoke with a sales leader, Edward, who ran a global training event. The training covered updates to the Sales Process. Sales Training Sales Operations Strategy Sales Enablement Director of Sales Enablement' Reps from across the world attended.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Any customer-facing rep who’s worked at a midsize or enterprise company is familiar with sales operations. Performance.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Today’s article is about how to build a sales operations department from scratch. The best growth executives understand that sales ops is the most strategic sales function in the company. They understand that when deployed correctly, sales ops can impact revenue.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

When implemented alongside strategic training, tools, and engagement techniques, sales operations can help sales teams become more productive and efficient and have a positive impact on both top- and bottom-line performance. Why is sales operations important? Sales operations roles.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In this post, Kathy Venincasa, one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons and a sales forecasting master, discusses what she sees as the top four sales operations best practices. In every aspect, sales operations combines two things I love: sales performance and data analytics. Listen Now.

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In the six or seven years I’ve worked in sales operations, every year seems to have brought bigger and bigger changes, and I have no doubt that 2018 will be no different. I took some time to hear from fellow sales operators about the biggest new trends and predictions for 2018 — here’s what they had to say.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

I was lucky enough to be introduced to a sales team’s top performer for 2013. Julie’s Sales Operations leader thought I could learn a lot from her. Training dollars are being misallocated. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. A 4 day training at corporate.

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Xactly

APRIL 18, 2018

Sales operations and sales enablement are two sides of the same coin allowing your sales team to hone in on the actual selling motions rather than focusing on the back-end processes, tracking down training material, and optimizing the sales teams’ CRM. What is Sales Operations?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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LeadFuze

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s common for departments to have a full team for sales operations, cross-functioning with a traditional team of sales reps. So, what do Sales Operations entail? The definition of sales operations continues to evolve and expand to alleviate growing sales processes. 4 Lead Generation.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Gamify the training. Train on Social Selling.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

How to Utilize Sales Operations Roles in Startups. If you’ve ever wondered why your head of sales is struggling to give an accurate forecast, or if the new reps that were brought in from a high flying SaaS company aren’t selling already, then it might be time for you to start managing operations roles in startups.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

But the Sales Operations and Enablement functions are critical in providing the ability for managers, executives, and leaders to do this. It’s sales operations that provides the systems, tools, processes, training, and programs that sales people execute.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. Plus, insights from sales experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about using AI in sales ethically. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Recently, the Sales Operations Institute brought together industry and corporate leaders to discuss how to build and maintain a coherent and effective sales strategy for corporate advantage. The biggest challenge identified by many of the participants was in creating alignment between readiness programs and sales methodologies.

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 17, 2017

Sales operations insights become key to translating end user experience to the C-Suite and sales organization. However, sales operations insights are only as good as the questions the C-Suite and sales organization asks of sales operations folks. Sales fantasy meets end user experience reality.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 1, 2018

How can sales operations boost revenue with a CPQ ( configure-price-quote ) solution? We’ve talked about CPQ from the perspectives of IT , Sales Management , Finance and Marketing , but what about sales operations and the sales professionals themselves? And sales reps? Willy Loman would be thrilled!

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. In my recent blog post, “The Three Levers of Sales Operations” I discussed the three strings sales operators can tug and influence to get results: Systems, Training and Management. Trap 1: Putting the System before the Process.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 21, 2016

As sales organizations grow beyond the O.G. founding team, and begin to expand to cover additional industries, territories or markets, nailing down a sales operations process that works is as crucial as snagging those front row Rihanna tickets this summer. Training & Compliance. Don’t act like you forgot…).

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Recently, the Sales Operations Institute brought together industry and corporate leaders to discuss how to build and maintain a coherent and effective sales strategy for corporate advantage. The biggest challenge identified by many of the participants was in creating alignment between readiness programs and sales methodologies.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Sales Operations has a different meaning for every organization. In some organizations, Sales Operations keeps the numbers—they provide all the reporting on sales attainment, the forecast, all other metrics. In others, Sales Operations also provides training.

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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you’ve been an avid reader of Lessonly’s blog, you know how vital it is to have a well-stacked bench of talented and well-trained salespeople. But closing a new deal today involves so much more than just the rep; there’s marketing, sales development, sales engineering, continuous sales training, procurement, and so much more.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 7, 2014

Was it bad sales training? Sure, you cover the sales process. Elevator pitch, presentation practice and product training. Sales Process Sales Training Sales Operations Strategy Sales Enablement Director of Sales Enablement' Why did we miss? How do we help grow pipeline?

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Companies find it’s more important than ever for sales reps to collaborate and share best practices with one another. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. What are you hearing from training managers?

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Have you ever heard the comment, “Why can’t we just train the sales team?” But, all too often it’s touted as the end-all be-all solution when the problem isn’t a lack of training, it’s confusing processes, or there is a lack of management. A good process and user experience in a system shouldn’t require too much training.

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SBI Growth

MAY 13, 2014

A technology firm needed Sales Ops to onboard and train new hires. There are some organizations that have proactively created their Sales Ops teams. We have seen a few that have put together a solid Sales Operations Charter. They often own all of the core Sales Ops functions.

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Mereo

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Sales training has been a popular prescription for dried up pipelines and below-par performance. While effective when properly administered, there is ample amount of malpractices and over-promises when it comes to sales training. Read on to learn about the top sales training myths and their counterpoint facts.

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Richardson

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Therefore, most sales managers realize that the time to train is now. Despite this urgency, many have stalled in their training initiative. The reason: starting the sales training process is often the most difficult part of developing the new skills needed today. This outlook is shared across industries.

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Richardson

JANUARY 29, 2020

New hire training for sales professionals is important because the experience becomes an anchor for their careers. The tone, content, and culture of the training forms the basis for how the sales professional will pursue their goals. Companies with a strong new hire training program enjoy “up to 3.5

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 16, 2013

Your July Sales Training Tip: YouTube.com. Normally at this time of the year, I am reminding my clients that it’s time to begin building their 3 rd Quarter sales training plans. Each sales meeting schedule is defined by date/time, topics and assignments-as to who is training on what topics.

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Richardson

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Training a team of sales professionals is difficult. Even a small team of sales professionals can be difficult to train in unison because each professional is busy with their own quotas. Each is focused on their own pipeline that consists of sales at different stages.

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SBI Growth

MAY 9, 2014

Summer’s upon us and you may have a mid-year sales training event coming up. Sales manager coaching is a good place to start. Sales Operations Strategy sales coaching Sales Enablement Director of Sales Enablement' More than a quarter of the year already down. Where should you focus?

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