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How to Keep Your Sales Kickoff Energy from Fizzling

Sales and Marketing Management

In this episode, we talk with two leaders of incentive program providers about the science behind keeping the energy and enthusiasm generated by sales kickoffs going throughout the year. The post How to Keep Your Sales Kickoff Energy from Fizzling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Data Science and Sales Operations: Driving Greater Predictability Together in Uncertain Times

SBI Growth

For Sales Operations leaders on a calendar year, we are rapidly approaching annual planning season. As if it wasn’t difficult enough to identify where your organization’s growth will be derived from next year while trying to forecast the back-half of.

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The Secret to Hiring Sales Superstars

Steven Rosen

Hiring sales superstars is critical to building a high-performance sales team. These tools are designed to assess and predict, providing a scientific basis for forecasting a sales candidate’s success. They help identify cultural fit, manage different sales approaches, and offer developmental feedback.

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More Junk Sales Science in HBR Blog

Understanding the Sales Force

What do donuts, chips, cake and ice cream have in common with some of the articles that are written and published about salespeople, sales selection and assessments? Over the years, there has been no better source of junk science written about sales and salespeople than the reputable Harvard Business Review Blog.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Outreach

Sales outreach is an art and a science. We bring the science—proven tactics, strategies, and methods that really work. By the time you reach the end of our guide, you’ll be a sales outreach pro. The art is what you bring to the table—your flair for conversation, your work ethic, your dedication.

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10 Sales Attributes That Don't Differentiate Top Salespeople from Bottom Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

This is the science of sales performance and sales selection and the last time I wrote about it was in this article from February of 2022. For comparison, the most recent example of a blowhard writing junk science without being scientific about what top salespeople do differently can be found in this article from August of 2022.

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Getting Selling Down to a Science – Data Science, That Is

Sales and Marketing Management

The post Getting Selling Down to a Science – Data Science, That Is appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. The seller who genuinely understands their client wins consistently. Doing this in a systematic, repeatable and predictable way is what separates the best from the rest.

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10 Sales Leaders Share their Strategies for Writing Winning Proposals

Far too many sales teams treat proposals as little more than glorified information packets. But any sales leader will tell you that — love them or loathe them — these strategic sales tools are one of the most powerful instruments in their arsenal of deal-closing weapons. This balancing act is crucial.