Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2020

Author: Dan Templeton No one wants a stagnant sales team. On the other hand, the thought of scaling a sales team can seem overwhelming and difficult. . If your company is approaching the growth stage, it means that your organization has already identified a steady income base, a monetization procedure and proven sales techniques.

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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? What is sales productivity?

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned sales manager or a frontline rep hustling for results, we get it – the struggle is real. But here’s the good news: there are proven strategies and techniques that can turn the tide to your favor. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

When you’re working deals, mastering the art of closing is essential. However, the pressure associated with a traditional closing approach can be daunting, especially for new sales representatives. Introduce your closing strategy in the first sales meeting. What’s a tried-and-true way to get there?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2024

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. I like to call this “ghosting” — when a sales process is chugging along smoothly with a client, you feel positive that the deal will close, and then your prospect disappears without a trace. Boom — ghosted.

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Gong.io

APRIL 2, 2021

Sales prospecting is dead. Sales prospecting is an essential part of your process. . That’s why I stole these 10 sales prospecting techniques from the best-of-the-best sales pros. That’s why I stole these 10 sales prospecting techniques from the best-of-the-best sales pros.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The same is true in sales. An uncoachable sales team is easy to spot — they lack direction, motivation, and cohesion. But when sales reps embrace coaching, they invest in their success — and the success of their entire team. In fact, more than 70% of people who receive coaching report an improvement in work performance.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. There is no room for failure in today’s competitive sales landscape. It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. There is a certain amount of administrative work. And, there is a certain amount of idle/ad-hoc time that is actually important to sales performance. For example, an issue in 100% of the clients I work with is CRM compliance.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 27, 2024

Sellers need to use effective voicemail techniques to get their calls returned. They also share that sales companies have found that just by incorporating scripted voicemails, return rates jump 22%. There’s opportunity to get your sales calls returned by simply being prepared. Then, add in the teaser.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% So, how can you improve your sales skills?

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Sales Techniques Examples. Sales techniques examples for an ever changing world to which all salespeople now find themselves selling into. We know that sale success is a based on two main things, hard sale skills, like product knowledge, and soft sale skills, which are harder to define. What Is Sales?

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 14, 2020

No matter what industry you are in , the game of sales has changed. Most Important Job of the Sales Manager . With that in mind, the most important job for sales managers is to coach their salespeople to close business. Ineffective sales managers have expensive consequences. Training the Coaches .

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. A significant portion of the B2B prospecting calls you make will end up going to voicemail — making the sales voicemail techniques you leverage and how well you can execute them absolutely crucial to your sales efforts.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques.

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Marc Wayshak

JANUARY 26, 2023

Don’t you just hate it when the sale seems to be going well…but at the end, the close ultimately proves elusive ? It might seem like the end of the sale is the key moment to close the deal. But in reality, the earlier part of the sales conversation is what ultimately results in a closed deal—or not.

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Pipeliner

JULY 12, 2022

Sales are the lifeblood of any business; investing in the training of your salespeople can help you grow your sales in no time and improve your sales representatives’ work culture and motivation. Here’s how sales training can benefit your business: 1. Close Bigger Deals. Improve Productivity.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are no secrets or shortcuts to becoming a high-performing sales professional. And, as a manager of salespeople, to create high-performing sales teams you need to establish clear sales competencies. If they fail to perform the fundamentals consistently, sales performance will suffer. .

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 21, 2021

If you’re a sales professional, you know that choosing the right closing technique is vital for making a sale. If you’re a sales professional, you know that choosing the right closing technique is vital for making a sale. The question close. The assumptive close.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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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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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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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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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. That’s where AI comes in.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is another episode of #AskJeb where Jeb answers a question, from Justin, a sales leader based in Dallas. Justin asked: "What's the best predictive indicator of a person becoming a sales champion." They're the ones that when things go wrong, rather than saying, "Why me? Why is this happening to me?"

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2019

Heading into a closing conversation with a prospect is always nerve-wracking. A "yes" or "no" hinges on far more than just the specific closing sentence or question. A "yes" or "no" hinges on far more than just the specific closing sentence or question. Read on to learn the closing phrases you should (and shouldn't) use.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting , it's more important than ever that you write concise, effective communication. Download Now Here are a few things to consider as you write an email that’d help you with sales prospecting. Check out our post about the best sales email subject lines if you want to see some of these tips in action.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If you’ve been working in sales for a while, you probably know the ins and outs of sales prospecting. If you’ve been working in sales for a while, you probably know the ins and outs of sales prospecting. In recent years, we’ve all had to adapt to the sales digital transformation.

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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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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 31, 2021

Recently, I was approached to talk about The Secrets Of Sales. On reflection, I realized, there are no secrets of sales. They think there is something or that some “guru” has a trick/technique that changes everything to selling. But there are no secrets to sales. When asked, it caused me to pause.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

What do Top Sellers Know on How to Close a Sales Deal. Salespeople who close more deals compared to their colleagues might be working with a different strategy. Negative comments can drag down the success of a sale, so it’s important to eliminate them. Positive reinforcement is also key for closing deals.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Buyer behaviors have undergone massive changes over the past year, forcing sales organizations to evolve their processes to meet new demands and overcome new challenges. When sales leaders use predictive analytics paired with a CRM , they’re more likely to guide sellers to success. Why Predictive Analytics Matter.

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Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

Being a sales superstar requires more than just knowing the key benefits and features of the product or services that you’re selling. Research has found that a successful salesperson has to do at least 8 outreach attempts before a prospect will book a sales call. Why Is it Good To Have A Positive Mindset in #Sales?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 1, 2022

A sales operator works to enable your salespeople to focus on selling. Therefore, hiring the right person for the role is crucial, as such a hire will handle ‘backend’ stuff like lead management, data analysis, process optimization, and even sales strategy. 30 Interview Questions and Answers for Sales Ops. Optimization.

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Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

Sales reps don’t need the latest sales automation tool , CRM, or email template to close deals. Modern tips, tricks, and software certainly have their place, but they help you maximize an effective sales methodology — they don’t replace it. Closing the sale. What is the Sandler selling system?

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