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5 Steps to an Effective Sales Strategy

SBI Growth

The board is not happy with the results of your last strategic sales initiatives. Cost of sales is rising and no revenue lifts to show. In addition, you made sure you built the proper consensus between sales and marketing. We will then help prioritize sales initiatives your leadership team will execute.

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The Key for Sales Ops in Driving Change

SBI Growth

As a Sales Operations leader, your success depends on getting change initiatives to stick. Register for SBI’s 7 th Annual Research Study “How to Make Your Number in 2014” and find out. Our research shows you the essential changes needed to make the number in 2014. Change initiatives in Sales Operations take many forms.

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The Six Skills of Great Sales VPs

SBI Growth

Not all “A” Player sales reps were meant to be managers. If you’ve been in sales long enough, you’ve seen this mistake unfold. He neglects his skill development and sales initiatives. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. His team flounders.

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Look for Potential in the Next Generation of Sales Hires

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? Image Copyright: iqoncept / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2014 Dave Kurlan'

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The One Thing You Cannot Skip When Hiring an ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Planning for 2014 is in full swing. You just got off the weekly call with the Sales Leadership team. Your boss, the SVP of Sales, has some ‘great’ news. “We We got budget approval to add new sales heads. Start recruiting now so we can start of 2014 with a full team.” What is Topgrading for Sales?

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39 Stats About Diversity In Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

If you regularly read the HubSpot Sales Blog, you know we talk a lot about entrepreneurship. cities that experienced slow job growth between 2014 and 2019. Between 2014 and 2019, the greatest growth in women-owned businesses happened at the two extremes of the spectrum: low-revenue companies and million-dollar-plus businesses.

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B2B sales – is more better?

Sales Training Connection

The professors constructed six persuasive scenarios and had hundreds of undergraduates read the scenarios and play the buyers role. But the study was about B2C sales. Because of the type of sale and the buyers, the study construct does raise some flags about its applicability to B2B selling. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®.

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