Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While 2024 is bound to have its fair share of challenges, many sales leaders have kicked off the new year feeling cautiously optimistic. How exactly will these sales leaders approach the year ahead? Recently, we surveyed more than 750 sales leaders to get a better idea of what’s happening in their world.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king. According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. Instead, you must understand how sales reps and prospects are (or aren’t) using sales content.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Author: Tim Riesterer When it comes to creating lasting behavior change in salespeople, the assumption is that virtual sales skills training is a pale imitation of in-person classroom training. But what if an online training alternative could be proven as effective? than classroom training? Live classroom training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Allego

JULY 14, 2022

It turns out high-performing sales reps prefer to learn the same way. After that, they are released to their territories and don’t receive any further systematic training until the next national sales meeting six to 12 months later. Formal training is one-size-fits-all and does not account for individual competencies.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But if you have the right sales coaching tactics and technology and your sales reps have a positive mindset, you can transform your fresh sales reps into prospecting powerhouses who thrive in the world of cold calling. It helps them appreciate sales calls as a process and workflow, and something that can become repeatable.

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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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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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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

A distinction without a difference when measured by outcomes as opposed to emotion. People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. What if every time they responded you see it as a question, an opportunity to educate? A Rose By Any Other Name.

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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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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 5, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: What Your Business Needs for A Smoother Training Experience What Your Business Needs for A Smoother Training Experience Training employees is a crucial part of running a business. The easiest way to do all this is to choose an LMS (learning management system).

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 28, 2021

In Radical Value , I observe that every company exists only to deliver more value to customers than it costs to produce. Customer satisfaction scores are close, measuring perceived value delivered , but are “too-late-to-fix-anything” trailing indicators – nothing to manage to. Differentiated, Outcome-Weighted Lead Scoring.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. Kudos if you’re already there.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I have talked a lot on this blog about the need for sales people to get past or over their product. It may do great things, open many doors, expose abundant opportunities, but there is no denying, that it is something that is delivered after the terms are agreed to. Rosetta Stone.

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Allego

DECEMBER 2, 2021

That was one insight among many in a new research report from The Josh Bersin Company: The Sales Employee Experience. That was one insight among many in a new research report from The Josh Bersin Company: The Sales Employee Experience. Bersin’s research shows that an EX strategy is critical for creating sales success.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Imagine your sales team transforming overnight: Tasks that used to pile up are now checked off in record time. With AI, analytics turn into gold, and your sales approach is fine-tuned with precision. Welcome to the big leagues of sales enablement platforms. Key Features: What Makes a Great AI-Powered Sales Enablement Platform?

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Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

Well, it’s no longer just a promise—AI is actively reshaping the way we manage our day-to-day tasks and how we conduct business, particularly in sales. In fact, consulting firm McKinsey & Company says, “AI is poised to disrupt marketing and sales in every sector.” To help you, I dug deeper to see how sales teams can use AI.

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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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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2023

Reps and other customer-facing roles are constantly seeking ways to improve their efficiency and productivity. AI empowers sales reps, account managers, customer success teams, and presales in their day-to-day work, leading to better customer interactions and improved business outcomes. Enter AI and Generative AI.

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Highspot

JUNE 1, 2022

Spring 2022 Release introduces the definitive model for enablement success and new product capabilities to equip, train and coach revenue teams. ” Business-to-business sales is undergoing a tidal shift. . ” Business-to-business sales is undergoing a tidal shift. Equip reps and buyers with the resources they need.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 26, 2022

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Our collaborative Blog offers insights upon asking, ‘ Do You Want Key Tips for Better Business Marketing This Year? Most businesspeople can likely use key tips for better business marketing this year. Most businesspeople can likely use key tips for better business marketing this year.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 22, 2023

My Story Sadly, most salespeople and management believe you must relentlessly talk through the meeting 90% of the time to get the sale (or grab it), making it anything but conversational. The process makes the role highly stressful and non-gratifying, often leading to the desire to find a ‘better’ job elsewhere.

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Allego

MARCH 31, 2023

While we may strive for sifting and recruitment strategies that leave us with rock star sales reps, it’s never bulletproof. Even when you provide sales coaching, a sales rep may still leave. The average tenure of an SDR (Sales Development Rep) stands at just 1.4 If only it always went like that!

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

His sales reps were able to focus on delivering better, more meaningful content without spending as much time on training as before. Why seek out a new sales tool anyway? For JW and the Cisco sales team, there wasn’t a compelling event that forced them to assess Salesloft.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 27, 2020

The following list of ideas about training salespeople is for those in B2B sales training or who aspire to train others. Many ideas come from my experience as a person being trained to sell, with a few coming from watching others, and more from my own experiences. Respect the people in your sessions.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As marketers, we tend to think pretty highly of our content and the role it plays in helping generate revenues, but drawing a direct line between content and results is misleading. At Mindtickle, we think sales content management should be more about sales while still providing all the good stuff for marketing.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 25, 2022

Effective sales coaching can improve quota attainment by 21% and win rates by 19%. As it significantly impacts your team’s revenue generation, it’s essential to keep in mind essential sales coaching tips and techniques — even in your busiest periods like the end of the quarter. Provide regular training for your sales coaches.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. A survey of 330 U.S.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The sales profession isn’t what it used to be. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? It’s no surprise that 20% of salespeople say their training needs a complete overhaul. What about sales training programs?

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SBI

JUNE 13, 2019

Yet formal learning comprises 90% of most sales onboarding and training programs–the reverse of how people learn in their daily lives. And if sales training fails, the ramifications are significant with lost deals, missed quotas, and revenue shortfalls. What’s a better approach? But that’s not all.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Highspot

MAY 12, 2020

This is particularly challenging when you consider the role of functions like account management or customer success in building lasting customer relationships. Without the critical content, guidance, or training they need to elevate every interaction, post-sales engagements will suffer. The New Reality of Post-Sale Success.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They help me do my job better and faster. It’s the same for sales and enablement teams. Revolutionize Sales Excellence with AI Watch Revolutionize Sales Excellence with AI to learn how to harness AI to develop sales reps’ skills, leverage Conversation Intelligence to optimize limited managerial time, and more.

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Allego

MARCH 29, 2022

Over the past two years, sales enablement professionals created new ways of training their teams. From sales kickoff events to learning reinforcement, everything moved online. As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, many people involved with sales learning and development are now wondering what comes next.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’d welcome the opportunity to be your partner in 2021 to become more customer outcome focused in how you build, market, sell and deploy your solutions. We’d welcome the opportunity to be your partner in 2021 to become more customer outcome focused in how you build, market, sell and deploy your solutions. In This Issue.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

But if customer value is always the end game, make quantifiable customer outcomes the driving force in your product management maturity model and the path becomes shorter, faster and easier to measure. Here’s the most important perspective when it comes to delivering user value. It’s what your team can do for the customer.

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