Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Small Businesses As the host of this enlightening podcast, I had the pleasure of engaging in a thought-provoking conversation with John Golden, from Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM, and John Nieuwenburg , a professional business coach since 2004.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 17, 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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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Leading a Sales Force Restructuring. Are you planning on a sales force restructuring? Before announcing any restructuring/downsizing initiatives, it is important to make sure you have dotted all your “i’s” and crossed all your t’s. Five Steps to Leading Sales Force Change.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

Author: Bob Junke Recently, I had the honor of being asked by the Sales Enablement Society (SES) to offer my definition of sales enablement as an alternative to the one the SES Definition Working Group came up with. Defining sales enablement is important. I hope you find it beneficial. Numerous definitions exist.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. Far too few cross it, though most intend to.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When developing a sales strategy, many leaders aren’t sure where to begin. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to revamp an existing sales strategy, creating campaigns based solely on instincts or assumptions is no longer acceptable. To craft an effective modern sales playbook , data and analytics must reign supreme.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams. Create a plan.

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SalesLoft

JULY 18, 2023

However, those individuals can still fail in a new leadership role if they don’t get the support and training they need to be successful. If you’re a sales coach and you’ve found the right candidate for the role, let us first say congrats! But when sales reps have a question, who do they go to first? Their manager!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Here are 10 of the strongest insights from the discussions, including the importance of effective go-to-market strategies across sales and marketing teams, and how the current wave of economic uncertainty is affecting companies’ ability to make the most of their market opportunities.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Those longer buying cycles can cascade throughout the economy, causing stress on sales teams and making revenue more difficult to forecast.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, sales heroes valiantly fought a formidable foe, developing and broadening their skills to combat the challenges of uncertain markets, supply-chain chaos, rising inflation, and the great resignation. Here are the top sales training trends to watch in the coming year: Delivery Methods.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If the last two years have taught us anything, it's the importance of staying agile. The same is true in sales. As a sales leader, part of staying agile is recognizing the trends unfolding around you and pushing your team ahead of the curve. Read on to discover the five areas sales leaders are prioritizing in 2022 and beyond.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should the thought cross your mind or be in action, our collaborative blog offers insights on How to Motivate Your Employees. Worse, they may seriously consider quitting, which becomes costly to hire and train and see them quit to face the need to hire again. Carry out regular training plus regular maintenance.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The phrase also fits in a distribution sales context as well when you start examining sales gaps between your reps. Examining sales gaps is a great way to find ideas for improving the entire performance of your team. Examining sales gaps is a great way to find ideas for improving the entire performance of your team.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. My life would be a nightmare without it,” says Wing, a ZoomInfo global sales manager who focuses on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In 2022, we crossed over $1 billion in annual revenue. In 2022, we invested more than 117,000 hours in employee training and development. We are proud of the investment that we have made in learning and development, and in training a generation of sales people.” Here are some of the highlights.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Sales operations teams frequently encounter hurdles such as juggling too many tasks, outdated procedures, insufficient data management, and communication breakdowns. When sales performance starts slipping, it’s a call to action for a sales operations strategy makeover. As a result, data silos emerge.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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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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Showpad

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Leading sales enablement initiatives effectively in a turbulent world is not an easy task Staying relevant and ensuring a steady flow of revenue are key challenges for every business these days. Let me ask you this: Have you derived your sales enablement initiative directly from the business goals? business case)?

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In this interview, Jaclyn provides a unique perspective on why her role is important and you can build a revenue enablement team. . I was previously doing sales enablement for Lumere, a 120 person startup in Chicago. How are we cross-training teams? . Meet Jaclyn D’Arcy, Director of Revenue Enablement at GHX.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere.

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Nutshell

APRIL 18, 2024

Your customer data is the key to understanding your customers better so you can improve your marketing, sales, customer experience, and more. An SCV aggregates data from multiple sources, such as marketing platforms, sales interactions, support tickets, and more. That’s where a single customer view, or SCV, comes in.

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Julie Hanson

JANUARY 15, 2024

Yes, it’s important not to talk too much, fidget or overload your slides. Sales is all about transferring energy, but the camera already saps half of your energy before you even open your mouth. To truly leverage the power of video, it’s important to make yourself as visible as possible to your audience for as long as possible.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If there is one thing we at MindTickle have learned in our ceaseless pursuit to create a world-class Sales Readiness platform, it is the value of a strong partner ecosystem. Having a vertical go-to-market strategy has become increasingly important for companies today. Cross-industry training content to uplevel sales conversations.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Essential selling skills to master whether you are starting out on your sales career, maybe you have just completed your onboarding sales training or you are already an experienced salesperson in reaching out to customers. You can begin by listing out all the skills you need in your current sales role.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

Buyers are already short on time, and the last thing they want is to listen to another sales pitch. Research from our 2023 State of Sales Productivity Report found that during a call, buyers asked an average of 18 questions, a significant increase from 13 questions in the 2022 report. As sellers, you’re even more in the hot seat.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 11, 2022

With sales, it’s no different. We learn how to make high impact sales calls by having lots of conversations with customers–whether through social engagement, email, phone, Zoom, or F2F. They are constantly practicing to improve their skills and capabilities. So practice is critical to our skill development.

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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. You’ll have to read on.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

Here’s the most important perspective when it comes to delivering user value. The goal here is to deliver solutions that improve cross-functional workflows. For example, consider the workflows that cross marketing, sales and finance, or customer service, shipping and billing, or IT, human resources and all departments.

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LeadBoxer

JANUARY 10, 2021

Account managers do this by upselling or cross-selling additional products to a current customer. If your sales team is hustling to get anybody and everybody to sign up for your product or service, chances are they’re signing new clients who are destined to churn. The secret to jet-powered business growth is account expansion.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And many have turned to sales enablement. Related: What Is Sales Enablement? At Mindtickle, we recently commissioned a survey of 500+ sales leaders , sales reps, and sales-adjacent professionals to find out how they’re approaching sales enablement – and how that might change in the midst of a potential recession.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He got involved in sales training and launched a sales training company in 2004. Darrell has already helped thousands of people through his sales training programs for global technology companies. Growing revenue for B2B companies There are two metrics for growth: Net new clients Cross-sell.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. 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.

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