Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Companies have a wide selection of sales enablement platforms to choose from, but none deliver the unique blend of compliance focus and enablement support that Allego does for financial services firms. Empower Client-Facing Teams: Speed up training and streamline content delivery to reduce costs and make your teams more agile.

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Insurance Insurance Face-to-face Banking 118

The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Companies spend thousands—even millions—of dollars every year training their salespeople and sales channels on the minutia of their products and services. In fact, many companies use the term “sales training” when what they really mean is “product training.” Because product knowledge is not enough.

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Channels Training Company Benefit 204

Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2020

Sales Leadership Roundtable Discussion. I had 8 senior sales executives join me for an open discussion. In part 1 of this two-part series, they shared how they have kept their salespeople productive and motivated over the last couple of weeks. I really enjoyed a round table discussion that I facilitated a couple of weeks ago.

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Face-to-face Motivation Groups Training 359

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Author: Brian Trautschold As a new hire, structured training and onboarding programs are expected. Today, it is rare to see a company that doesn’t have a strict training program in place from the moment a new hire walks through the door. That’s where sales coaching comes in. In a week, that average increases to 90 percent.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Top of Funnel Hiring 317

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2019

Author: John Harris About five years ago, we established a relationship with Larry Williams, one of the principals in the Williams Leslie Group, to help EnerBank improve sales performance. As a result of ongoing Leveraging Sales Leadership training, we made an important shift in our sales management approach. . .

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching. What is Sales Coaching?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Analysis 130

Allego

MAY 2, 2023

Between layoffs, the “Great Resignation,” and a generation of workers reaching retirement age, businesses risk losing a wealth of institutional knowledge. Addressing the looming knowledge shortfall requires a proactive approach that bakes the preservation of knowledge into daily workflows.

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Video Hiring Face-to-face Banking 114

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In sales, where every conversation counts and every opportunity demands precision, your team needs more than just the ordinary training programs. They need a solution that not only equips them with the necessary knowledge and skills, but also empowers them to be confident in selling.

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Software Software Training Hiring 74

Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. 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.

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Allego

JANUARY 3, 2024

When that happens—when any employee leaves, actually—organizations risk losing crucial institutional knowledge that informs business strategies and offers insight into customer behavior. Start by creating a knowledge bank. Why You Need a Knowledge Bank Workers at both ends of the career spectrum are leaving the workforce.

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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. Even the most seasoned sales reps need proper training to be effective sales managers.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most technology revenue teams include a sales enablement function, but its mission has been evolving over the last several years. Recently, enablement has flexed to provide better support for sales in the face of the post-pandemic business environment and increasingly demanding technology buyers. Train Early, Often, and in Small Doses.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Face-to-face 130

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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SBI

MAY 4, 2021

The Sales Learning Analytics That are Instrumental for Measuring Sales Performance. How Sales Learning Analytics Develop Your Sales Team. Sales representatives cannot sell unless they effectively articulate and convey the value of their organization’s products and services. By Shubhi Tangri, Qstream.

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Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tapping into the Power of Sales Enablement. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures. Equipping sellers with the content, tools, knowledge, skills and coaching required to optimize buyer interactions—known as sales enablement —is essential.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

Sales Gravy

AUGUST 4, 2023

Sales Training Is An Investment In YOU In this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount is joined by Sarah Browner, the Global Sales Enablement Manager at Adobe. As for salespeople, you’ll find out why it’s critical to continue advancing your skills and investing in yourself throughout your sales career.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Face-to-face Training 82

SBI

AUGUST 11, 2020

4 Action Steps For Remote Sales Onboarding. Most organizations have sales teams that work primarily from in the company’s offices and sales reps working from home covering a certain territory. This will require training on how the business has changed and to help employees adapt to new business conditions.

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Hiring Coaching Fashion Face-to-face 181

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many sales reps feel this way, constantly racing to adapt to the unpredictable. Keeping up with new products, trends, and customer expectations can feel like navigating a maze without a map. Fortunately, if you’re aiming for peak sales performance in an uncertain world, you’re in the right place. What Is Sales Readiness?

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. But the most vital thing to remember is that training isn’t just for onboarding. Ongoing training and continuous development are crucial to a rep’s and an organization’s success. Training isn’t just for onboarding.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Enablement Retention 122

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members. And what did they do wrong?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 8, 2024

Sales training is one of the most significant investments an organization can make in their sales team. In fact, research cited by taskdrive.com shows sales training has an average return on investment of 353 percent. In 2023, on average, Janek clients realized a 1188 percent return on their training investment.

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Allego

MAY 13, 2021

Yet most sales onboarding and training programs still focus on traditional formal learning approaches. As a result, 90% of sales learning is formal—the reverse of how people learn in their daily lives. Anyone who’s spent time in sales knows how training takes place. Why doesn’t formal learning work on its own?

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Guarantee Hiring Exercises Video 126

Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Outsourcing Services Training Hiring Workbooks 62

Hubspot Sales

MAY 20, 2022

The demand for sales roles only keeps growing. According to research published by HireDNA, sales roles shot up by 65% in 2021, totaling around 700,000 positions in the US alone. READY TO START A CAREER IN SALES? Be a Certified Professional HubSpot Sales Representative. Inbound Sales. Sales Reporting with HubSpot.

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Hubspot Inbound Course Sales Enablement 112

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals. Let's dive in.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Survey 113

Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity?

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How To Sales Qualified Lead CRM Face-to-face 71

Allego

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post originally appeared on the Training Industry website. You likely gained most of your knowledge on the job. This is especially true for sales teams dealing with evolving products, shifting markets and dynamic customer preferences. How much information do you remember from your onboarding? Probably not much.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 24, 2024

While I have spent most of my adult life hiring and training salespeople, it has been two years since my last new hire and that was for a client. I can train product knowledge and sales skills. I can’t train “attitude” including drive and competitiveness. This is often a challenge with seasoned sales reps.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. All employees require sessions on the best features of the latest products. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. That’s because they overlook the way the B2B sales world has changed.

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