DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, according to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , the number of businesses with a dedicated enablement function has increased from 19% to 33% since 2013. This is likely because enablement strategies are wide-ranging in scope, meaning it can be difficult to know which aspects to prioritize.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Speaking of Top Sales World, they just published a page showing all of the greats (I'm honored to be included) that have been inducted into their Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame in the past 3 years. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan I will share the article I wrote for EcSell below. What did you learn? (c)

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. Well, it’s true.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2013

During their annual conference, many topics, methods, strategies, and product evaluations are presented and discussed. There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. This issue also features the 2013 Award Winners of the Top Sales & Marketing Awards in 18 Categories.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 20, 2013

Believe it or not in spite of all the articles, books, sale training coaching and enterprise consulting on creating a culture of high performance, there are still Fortune 500 companies who are clueless when it comes to creating a united sales strategy where there exists a culture of collaboration among their sales management and team members.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

One of the biggest problems a VP of Sales faces is prioritization. Prioritization through 3 lenses: What sales productivity problems should you fix in 2013? This post is written for the VP of Sales trying to determine which sales productivity problem to prioritize and which ones to ignore. You don’t run Marketing.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 2, 2013

But you can excel in 2013 because of your shortcomings in 2012. And with these answers come chances for improvement in 2013. Talent Assessment of Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Build specific competency and accountability based scorecards for Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Lead Generation.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Focus on new product sales. Obtain market penetration projections.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 19, 2013

Medical device sales and sales managers. The medical device market faces transformational market challenges – decision criteria shifting from clinical to economic, decision-making moving from local hospitals to IDNs, the rise of GPOs, and the dramatic impact of new governmental regulations.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Developing an account strategy. The importance of selling strategically is an idea repeated time and time again – the larger and more complex the sale, the louder the advice. In major accounts, one-size-does-not-fit-all is a cornerstone proposition for formulating a winning account strategy. Confusing goals and strategy.

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SBI

MARCH 20, 2018

A dozen years ago, if you asked the average sales leader about their sales enablement strategy, the likely response would’ve been, “Huh?”. It’s not as if companies in years past weren’t training and enabling their sales forces; it’s just that the term “enablement” wasn’t yet a common part of the B2B sales lexicon.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 4, 2012

A post for Sales and HR leaders to ensure success of 2013’s Sales compensation plan. Fast forward to April of 2013. A Chief Sales Officer is meeting with Sales VPs and the VP of Sales Operations. They are trying to decide between keeping and scrapping the recently-implemented Sales Comp Plans.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Some of them are marketers who, in order to push their applications, must convince you that marketing can handle both finding and closing sales - all via the internet. Others are from the big new inside sales industry. Image credit: rtimages / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Register here.

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SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

The market outpaced him. You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2018

But there are only two I attend, primarily, to learn and discuss the most critical issues facing sales, marketing, and business professionals. The Gartner/CEB Sales and Marketing Conference , in Las Vegas, October 9-11, is one of those. To register, click on the link: Gartner/CEB Sales and Marketing Conference.

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Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Gerhard had been in the UK recently for a Sales 2.0 We are eliminating phone calls since we are much more focused and more productive using video calls” – David Keene, Head of Enterprise Marketing, Google, UK. 30% of reps don’t develop a competitive strategy. Sales managers should hire learners, not students.

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience.

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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

According to some just released research by YP , local search is growing exponentially and changing the way for small businesses to market their solutions. ” The local search market is projected to nearly double from its revenue of $5.7B Many small businesses are putting together marketing budgets for 2013.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 9, 2014

The salespeople charged with selling to and through a channel are different - in many ways - and their goals, expectations, activities, skill sets and strategies must be different as well. Channel sales is quite different. Retailers are a great example of this channel and the work they do is marketing and display centric.

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SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. Sales & Marketing.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2013

There are SMB and mid-market sales organizations who have not embraced a cloud-based, customer relationship management system, better known as CRM or SCRM. Now there are very capable CRM products on the market that are extremely low cost – even free for micro businesses. A TOOL JUST FOR SALES MANAGEMENT?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

I was lucky enough to be introduced to a sales team’s top performer for 2013. Julie’s Sales Operations leader thought I could learn a lot from her. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. It simply reinforced the strategies she was already employing.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Strategy (4418). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics. Tools (2872).

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Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

To stop the cycle, sales leaders and the CEO need the discipline to spend Q4 focusing on the team and the organization in addition to Q4 revenue and closing out the year. Starting the new year right, and in this case 2013, means having the right structure, people, processess, and strategies in place. revenue growth.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Channels Policies 218

Pipeliner

MAY 22, 2020

Sometimes discounting signals failure, but it can also signal vitality, for example, when a company executes a high-growth strategy to grab market share in a nascent market. Every marketer needs it in his or her tool kit. Discounting is as essential for marketers as a jig saw is to a carpenter.

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Increase Sales

JULY 18, 2013

The obvious problem in sales is the first one that comes out during that initial first contact or within the more formal fact finding meeting. And much of the marketing is geared to those plentiful small business problems.Sales Training Coaching Tip: 99.1% Inconsistent sales management. Incomplete strategies.

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Small Business Small Business Coaching Facebook 160

Increase Sales

AUGUST 28, 2013

Possibly no where is there more job role confusion than in B2B sales for small businesses to even Global Fortune 500 firms. Listen to salespeople talk and many will say they are not into marketing or marketers. Sales management is looking to increase sales. Salespeople are seeking income from closed sales.

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Small Business Small Business Social Media B2B 137

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2021

As far back as 2013, only 24% of executives believed their employees were highly engaged. Related Posts: 70% Of Buying Process Completed Without Sales Involvement! How Important Are Partnerships To Your Sales Strategies? Does LinkedIn Actually Impact Sales? So we shouldn’t be surprised. And we created it!

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 22, 2012

If you aren’t able to answer YES to all 3 questions then sign up today for our Q3 Tour Research: How your Peers are allocating People, Time and Money in 2013. His tool on measuring sales management impact can help you figure out where you stand. Market conditions, hot products, and blue bird deals. Where do You Stand?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Let’s make this interactive, I will start the list and then it is your job to add to it, let’s all work together to increase each other’s success during the last few months of 2013! These ideas can be designed for sales leaders or individual sales performers. 4) Hold a sales training session on Negotiating in October!

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Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

Not only must sales leaders now think about how to manage Millennials, they have to develop strategies to sell to Millennials. As more customers deem sales calls intrusive and interruptive, companies will shrink their sales teams to better fit the market demand.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 29, 2013

Sales people's comfort-risk mix. Sales reps, like most of us, have a propensity to stay within their comfort zone. Some sales people think that’s what sales management wants so it is an issue of expectations. Others are fearful of being branded as tough to manage or a loose cannon if they take too many risks.

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Travel Training Engineering Strategy 107

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 29, 2013

Sales people and heads of Sales, from the sales manager all the way to the CSO fail because they don’t know how to get it done. I’ve spent much of January listening to my clients and their sales staff go through their 2013 sales plans. B and C sales players act similarly.

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