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What If Pay Equity Comes to Sales Teams?

Understanding the Sales Force

Today's article is different from most of my other articles because there is no opening analogy, very little data, and a complete lack of humor. It's such a serious article I was ready to delete it before I clicked the publish button. If you don't like the subject, the content or the writing, it's OK. This needed to be written.

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This is What Would Happen if Bob Got Promoted to Sales Manager

Understanding the Sales Force

As I reviewed it, I said to myself, "If Bob were promoted to sales manager (I don't even want to put that thought out there), this is what it would look like." It was literally the worst because he was in the 1 percentile, meaning that 99% of all sales managers are stronger than he is.

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What to Do if Your Sales Team is REMOTE

Grant Cardone

It all starts with the right framework… Entrepreneurs and senior staff had to learn tough lessons when […] The post What to Do if Your Sales Team is REMOTE appeared first on GCTV. The post What to Do if Your Sales Team is REMOTE appeared first on Grant Cardone - 10X Your Business and Life.

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What If Buyers Were Better Buyers?

Partners in Excellence

But what does this really mean? They struggle with identifying what they need to do, defining their goals, helping them understand questions they should be asking, who should be involved in the buying process, identifying what others have done–how they have managed the process, how they manage risks, mistakes they have made.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. Data normalization. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot.

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What If We Stopped Focusing On Sales, What If We Focused On Selling?

Partners in Excellence

The post What If We Stopped Focusing On Sales, What If We Focused On Selling? We realize that sales people become more orchestrators, engaging different parts of the organization in selling–to support the customer, as they buy. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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What If You Only Have 100 Potential Customers?

Partners in Excellence

Using this logic, at some point we are trying to reach the roughly 8B people on the planet (I’m exaggerating, but you get what I’m saying.) We need to rethink what we are doing. What if our total addressable market was 100 enterprises? Who are they, what are their roles/responsibilities, what drives them?

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Cold Calling Tips and Tricks

In fact, less than 2% of today’s cold calls actually result in meetings, and 63% of sales professionals say it’s what they dislike most about their jobs. What’s the verdict? The cold call still works.

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The Best Learning Methodologies for Developing Elite Sales Leaders

Speaker: Steven Rosen MBA, Author, Executive Coach, Speaker and Top 50 Sales Influencer

If you had to choose between investing in sales manager training vs sales rep training what would you do? It is well recognised that the frontline sales managers are the key to driving performance in sales organizations.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

What’s involved in their maturity process? What to look for before entering a buyer’s agreement with a vendor. Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

This means enabling everyone to understand what to get done and who’s doing it. When your team clearly understands what path they’re on and why they’re on it, they are that much more likely to achieve results. If you’re a sales manager interested in learning how to effectively manage your sales team, then this webinar is for you.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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Found - The Best Sales Learning Methodologies

Speaker: Joe DiDonato, Chief of Staff, Baker Communcations, Inc

He will also tell you what he shared with the Venture Capitalist community on how to pick which EdTech technologies will likely succeed based on educational research. Joe is an engaging storyteller that uses easy-to-understand language, who promises to share what methods succeeded and which methods failed over his long career.

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Best Practices for Marketing Database Cleanse

Finding a vendor to cleanse and optimize your marketing database can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for. ZoomInfo has produced this eBook to help marketing leaders understand best practices around cost and value when it comes to choosing a B2B contact data provider. This buyer’s guide will cover: Buying Considerations.

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How to Buy Sales Training That Delivers Results

What are the criteria you must consider to ensure that you maximize your return on investment? If we've learned anything over the last two years, it’s that if your sales team is not actively developing skills you are falling behind. 40% of businesses missed their revenue targets last year. Only 24% of salespeople hit their quota.