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5 Takeaways from a Sales Management Training

SBI Growth

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. Talent development is a key differentiator heading into 2014. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

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Why Your Sales Ops Plan for Next Year May Already Be Obsolete

SBI Growth

Most companies are in the heart of their planning process for 2014. Today’s post provides recommendations for revising your approach for 2014. There’s solid evidence that your Marketing counterparts are responding. 58% have increased their content marketing budget. Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially.

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Creating the Ideal Performance Culture

SBI Growth

As you plan for 2014, are you investing enough in both? Your people will need new capabilities to thrive in a changing market. Performance culture is studied in depth in our 2014 Research Tour. It mapped to a proposal generating tool. He wanted the market to view his company as the place for ‘A’ players.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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The Value Gap: SiriusDecisions Summit Reveals Top Sales Challenge for 2014

The ROI Guy

If you were able to attend SiriusDecisions’ Summit, the Woodstock for marketing and sales enablement held this year in out hometown of Orlando, you were treated to significant research results as to the biggest challenges Sales faces over the next year. t=a&d=763946139.

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Could it Really be The Death of SPIN Selling?

Understanding the Sales Force

For instance, today I was training a great group of salespeople and we worked on that very scenario. Neither did I talk about capabilities, present or propose, or talk pricing other than to get their commitment that they would spend more to do business with me. It was only a role-play and it wasn''t real.

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