SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. An example of the offering is below: Content audit and map. This is happening because part of the content production training includes mapping persona content to the Buyer’s Journey.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Couple that with preparing for 2014 and you are maxed out. Schedule a review of your 2014 plan at your office here. To make matters worse, everybody in the planning sessions (finance, product, training, HR) has never made a number. How You Avoid Losing the 2014 Battle. You are sprinting to finish the current year.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Top Sales Tool for 2014. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of FrameAngel at FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. It has never been more necessary than it is heading into 2014. It''s low hanging fruit for 2014.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 27, 2014

2014: How will you stand out in the marketplace? You can achieve this in a variety of ways, and in my session at WPC I shared 10 actual examples and other marketing ideas. From a sales perspective, we also stress that your sales team is trained to execute more effectively within a Thought Leadership philosophy. About the Author.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Sales training. Each year lots of companies spend lots of money on sales training. Is sales training as effective as it needs to be? Today, sales training is significantly better than it was ten years ago. Only 32% described their own organization’s training as effective.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 9, 2014

Jason Kanigan at Salestactics.org interviewed Richard about sales training trends earlier this week. Most companies have purchased some sales training – especially around basic selling skills. Sales training has changed over the last 20 years. Online training is becoming increasingly more prevalent.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Or training to add emerging practices to your sellers’ skill sets. For example, if it is a talent or learning improvement, HR will pay. To learn how other top companies fund initiatives, register for this event: How To Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. Here’s an example scenario. Your Challenge.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Your thoughts should now turn to 2014. Before you really make any decisions, start with these questions: What are my key strategic initiatives for 2014? It’s foolish to spend additional money on someone who will end up missing quota yet again in 2014. Then there are the ‘B’ Players who are poised to take their next step in 2014.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014 ? As 2013 winds down, 2014 naturally ramps up. Schedule a review of your 2014 SKO at your office here. Instead, spend that time engaging reps with something that will pay dividends in 2014? For example: Discussion of a new buyer persona. SKO is on the horizon.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Most companies are in the heart of their planning process for 2014. Today’s post provides recommendations for revising your approach for 2014. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially. Get LinkedIn upgrades.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ZoomInfo conducted an analysis of 60 million professionals in its database and found that approximately 2,250 roles with the word “diversity” or “inclusivity” in the title existed in 2019, compared to only 876 in 2014. . Host Formal Trainings. how many employees attended a D&I event). Establish Effective Mentorship Programs .

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sales Training. It is not a career risk to be out front advocating your company place a priority on sales training. For example, my colleague Neil Rackham did some great research on what specific sales behaviors are more frequent in successful sales calls. Business Case for Sales Training. The answer is – Yes!

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 16, 2014

Sales training investments. While sales training programs aren’t multi-billion dollar investments, we think some of the points the McKinsey & Co principals shared around considerations in making multi-billion dollar purchasing decisions have implications for sales training investments – whether in the millions or the tens of thousands.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Disinformation, for example, is one such problem set problems involving climate change, problems involving terrorists, and evolving technologies. [03:53] The New York Times , for example, editorialized that the strategy represented “a shift that is both urgently needed and long overdue.” 03:53] We use simulations and games.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 16, 2014

Planning your sales training curriculum for 2014? At this time of year most sales training managers are into planning for the year ahead. In previous blogs we have touched on the idea that what you do before and after the sales training is as important as the sales training itself.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 20, 2014

I''ll give you an example. This week, I spent two days training a room full of experts from the sales training space. This particular group was made up of veterans - sales experts who have been with OMG for as long as 25 years, so I can''t really do sales or product training with this group.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” It’s a customizable example of how to create a reinforcement plan that works. It’s a customizable example of how to create a reinforcement plan that works. You spend all your energy upstream of the training event.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Converting to Agile Performance Reviews will help you Make the Number in 2014. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Training classes and workshops won''t get it done. Learn from the example of leading sales organizations. Who Killed the Annual Review?

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LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

What are Sales Training Programs. Sales training programs are any type of formal or informal training that helps employees sell more effectively. The fast-paced, online, data-driven sales environment requires new sales training programs to empower the team. Why are Sales Training Programs Important.

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." For example, reduce new-hire ramp time by 20%. For example, set a goal of increasing qualified leads by 10% in 6 months. Hank''s DLA experience: Hank’s team was trained on the use of the onboarding process and tools.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 3, 2013

It was done via event based training. Because you believe you have capable people, you delivered the training. During the training, everybody nods. The CEO was asking him “did the training work?” You would have been able to build on that throughout 2014. Why 2014 Can Be Different—Agile Execution.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sales Training. companies spend millions of dollars on sales training for their salespeople. And, by sales training we are talking about sales skills training not product training. An equal amount is spent on product training as well. Internal training departments develop some programs.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training. Five designs have proven to be particularly effective for new hire sales training.

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Go for No!

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At a commencement speech delivered in 2014, actor Jim Carrey said, “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.”. For example, your eyes pass over a tree and you don’t notice the snake hanging from it. Our brains are designed to help us survive. Fear plays a BIG role in that. Is the fear appropriate?

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 19, 2013

Many of you are building your 2014 sales goals as you read this, and if you’re not, you need to start. Let’s use an easy example. Blog Professional Selling Skills Prospecting Sales Development Training Sales Motivation sales goals sales motivation' Reason is simple: Things don’t always go as planned.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

Examples of these might be: Company believes in outsourcing Company believes in long-term partnerships Company likes to use the latest technologies to get an edge People in the company are open to change and learning People in company love soccer and ice cream (my ideal client). That is those that are observable from outside the company (i.e.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

An example of a successful, but not necessarily busy salesperson, would be the one whose two whale-sized deals generated three times more business than the rest of the sales force combined. Can they be trained to do things more effectively or, if necessary, in a completely different way? Everything is relative. Can they be saved?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Use the RACI concept to map out key processes and tasks ( download the tool above for an example ). Training on defining the problem. By doing so, you will realize 80% of the benefit in 2014. Ensure your team knows exactly what is expected of them. Clear accountability will make your team more effective. You have two choices.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Here are examples of 3 more scenarios that reveal the true capabilities of a candidate: Sales Operations Leader - Scenario: Data quality of the current CRM system is highly inaccurate. An example of past work is not a substitute. Sales can learn a lesson here.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 8, 2014

We train and coach and provide salespeople tools in many areas: call execution skills, sales strategy, business acumen, sales negotiations – but we tend to provide less help in how to run a meeting. For example, they must learn how to better manager a call where there are multiple players on both sides of the table. Call Management.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Sales Training Article: 4 Things to Avoid at Sales Kickoff. How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014? How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014? Schedule a review of your 2014 SKO at your office here. As 2013 winds down, 2014 naturally ramps up. For example: 1.Discussion

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

People get disappointed with sales training events. They satisfy a box checking exercise around providing training. In the graphic above, you see an example of how to plot the new capabilities. You can start to prioritize what capabilities you drive in 2014. Hard projects are those you should do. They make the number.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 8, 2020

SSE certification demonstrates that the entire service organization is committed to improving service delivery efficiency and optimizing the customer experience; it requires at least 90% of an organization’s management and front-line support staff to complete the Certified Support Professional training program. to 96.51% and is still growing.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Over the years we have written a lot about two obvious initiatives that a companies must get right as starters – sales training and front-line sales management coaching. And like in those professions top performers do not rely on the training and coaching from their respective institutions, they take personal responsibility.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

The examples are dated, but the methodology is the same—because it works. So, in 2014, I published Pick Up the Damn Phone! I managed major training projects part-time and was on several faculties teaching sales programs. The book was published in 2006, and it’s selling even better today. It’s worked for the past 23 years.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ZoomInfo conducted an analysis of 60 million professionals in its database and found that approximately 2,250 roles with the word “diversity” or “inclusivity” in the title existed in 2019, compared to only 876 in 2014. However, when supplemented with ongoing discussions, formal trainings are great for educating employees.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He trained his sales leadership team at each company to expect change. For example, when Jim rolled out a custom sales process two years ago, he hired a firm to help him. Technology, training, process and tools. Complete this 2014 planning assessment. Why Jim is Good— He has figured out how to make the complex simple.

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