SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Make a change in 2014. Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Now that productivity is defined, you need to identify the tools they need. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training Methods: Role plays: Repetition leads to retention.

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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. Your calendar is jammed with big meetings. 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.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 8, 2014

Effective, efficient team sales meetings. To meet these expectations salespeople will need help. So, How can we do a more effective job preparing for team sales calls by conducting better sales call planning meetings? Internal Team Planning Meetings. The quality of sales team meetings we’ve observed vary significantly.

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Meeting Call-back Distribution Software 116

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 17, 2013

With 2014 on the horizon, new sales targets will soon be set. Your 2014 number will inform decisions about the makeup of your team next year. Discover the best way to make your 2014 number. Become world class and make your number in 2014. This will all create more productivity in 2014. Think about it this way.

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Hiring Follow-up Top of Funnel Analysis 292

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been leading sales teams since 2014, and believe me when I say I’ve seen a few things. There are many sales training games that work in terms of engaging your employees to help them understand the psychology of the sales process. Here are some examples of sales training games: 1. What will they get from meeting the target?

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Retail Motivation Training Incentives 109

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? Do I have the right talent on my team to meet these initiatives? It’s foolish to spend additional money on someone who will end up missing quota yet again in 2014.

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Territories Scale Guidelines Groups 300

SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. CMO’s can help sales make the number in 2014. WANTED: CMO’s to Guide Sales to Make the Number in 2014. Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects.

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Marketing Top of Funnel Decision Maker Infusion 335

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Yet these challenges continue to plague workplaces everywhere because leaders don’t do something that’s within their power — train their people in conflict management. Of the respondents, only 44% said they’d had any training to cope with interpersonal conflict in the workplace. FairWay Resolution (2014).

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Opportunity Training Lead Rank Face-to-face 52

Keith Rosen

JULY 14, 2014

Selling Power Features Keith Rosen’s company, Profit Builders on the 2014 Top 20 Sales Training Companies List. Profit Builders is honored to announce that on June 18, 2014 they were included on the 2014 list of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies that excel in helping sales leaders improve the performance of their sales teams.

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Coaching Training Company Social Media 112

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Sales Training Article: How Realistic Is Your 2014 Sales Quota? Gain access to guides and tools to help you make the number in 2014. Register now for a sales training workshop to help you make your quota in 2014. If they don''t meet owner expectations, the whole operation is in jeopardy.

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Quota Training Analysis Research 45

Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. You are trying to get meetings with people, so we need to think about who these people are. A common issue here is that we think too narrowly about the people we want to get meetings with. Is it a good time to talk about this?

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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

The ROI Guy

JUNE 4, 2014

The top challenges was not what most expected: Not the need for more leads, the ability for sales to find more content, new social selling skills, or more sales training. Instead, the study results revealed that the Value Gap is by far the top challenge, indicated by a whopping 71% of execs as their top issue for 2014.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Proposal 70

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.” When you register, you’ll also receive the Reinforcement Framework Tool. You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. Creating tools. Team meetings are run by sales managers. Then you wait.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Vendor Energy 308

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This post includes a link to a valuable tool – the Top Sales Rep''s Satisfaction Index. A few days after my meeting with Brent, I finally found the difference. Read on and be better prepared to retain, hire (or become) a top sales rep in 2014. A well-defined Buyer Persona and a Buyer Process Map are essential selling tools.

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Hiring Social Media Compensation Buyer Persona 314

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Get your copy by signing up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute ". Here are the most common underutilized CRM system formats we see: The Pipeline Tool: Sales reps record projected deals and opportunities in the CRM. They call with questions on meeting notes.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." When an executive meets early in the buying process, win rates can improve up to 80%. Training your sales team how to social sell will immediately improve your sales pipeline. But what you do about it is not.

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Hiring Top of Funnel How To Social Selling 325

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Now, many tools will help you through assessments and there are books available to help walk newer managers through this. First, a couple of tools, then a book. Assessment Tool: Roundpegg. Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment. They help manage the entire life-cycle of employees for you.

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Hiring How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 229

SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

There are certain trainings that can produce these results. Register now for our How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Execute. As a VP, you have various training options with your reps to generate sales. Training typically involves selling skills or negotiation methods. Yet most reps don’t understand it.

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Closing Pipeline Buyer Call-back 306

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

In addition this plan should include personal training requirements, selected activity goals and personalized marketing programs. While this tool important to have for purposes of coaching and planning (I have written often around this topic), brilliant execution on a quarterly basis is critical for success.

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Forecasting Quota Compensation System 73

SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

Use this tool to rank yourself on the Agile vs. Waterfall scorecard. This tool will save you a ton of time. Training organized in “sprints”. Training happens in the field, not in the class room. Call to Action: Prospects are taking meetings again. Your 2014 quota is going up. of this new process.

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Hiring Oracle Lead Rank Lead Scoring 308

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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Training Hiring Trends Retention 52

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

Keeping that in mind, Objective Management Group (OMG) held its quarterly Rockefeller Habits meeting this week. We go to market through a global network of certified partners - our channel - and we spent considerable meeting time talking about them. Train, coach, train and coach some more.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Channels Policies 218

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

People get disappointed with sales training events. They satisfy a box checking exercise around providing training. If you use the wrong tool for measurement, eventually you end up in the wrong place. Ensured that your reps only meet with the right people. Download the tool and measure your year. They are easy.

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Scale Compensation Exercises Follow-up 282

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. The candidate is challenged to handle objections and maintain control of the meeting. Where the Rubber Meets the Road. The candidate’s skills with web-based presentation tools are on full display. Sales can learn a lesson here. The Proving Ground. Expand the Tryout.

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Hiring Proposal Exercises Lead Rank 300

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects. Role of Marketing: Training and quick reference guidance on social selling best practices. BPM’s are a sales tool that maps the decision-making process used to purchase a product or service. These three buyer-centered tools work in concert together.

Top of Funnel 282

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training. The yearly model might look like this: 7500 Attempts/Requests 1500 Conversations 150 New Scheduled Meetings/Calls 100 Quality Opportunities 75 Qualified Opportunities 68 Demos/Presentations 54 Proposals/Quotes 18 Closed.

Lead Rank 240

Lead Rank Sales Methodology Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 240

Score More Sales

JULY 24, 2014

When many professional women in sales I know attend professional conferences about selling, we want to meet, see, and hear successful women speaking on ways to grow revenues in companies large and small in addition to the great men we are proud to call our peers. you can follow at @salesshebang ). See you there!

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B2B Conference Twitter Influencer 206

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

When commercial airlines made flying affordable enough for everyone, it didn''t eliminate buses, trains and cars. Social sellers get found, find prospects and connect using a myriad of social selling tools. But once a meeting has been scheduled, the social must be dropped in favor of the selling.

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Airlines Hubspot Inbound Top of Funnel 196

Allego

JANUARY 30, 2020

For Jamie Cabral, Senior Training Specialist at Empower Retirement, the answer was simple: adopt an agile sales readiness platform. Cabral faced three main challenges: How to deliver more consistent messaging to prospects and clients after a 2014 merger of three organizations. Planning a ‘Revolutionary’ Sales Meeting.

Hiring 93

Hiring Face-to-face Video Groups 93

Sales Training Connection

JUNE 4, 2014

Run a poor meeting. Meetings don’t have to start late, run long, or wander without focus. It’s the manager’s responsibility to run a tight meeting – with focus. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Pivotal Sales Leadership 123

Chorus.ai

APRIL 20, 2020

GitLab has been an all-remote company since it was founded in 2014. Tools and practices to support an all-remote SDR team So, how does the SDR team at GitLab operate successfully in an all-remote environment? Our team is distributed across time zones, so people can’t, and aren’t expected to, attend every meeting.

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ACT Lead Rank Hiring Channels 62

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

APRIL 16, 2019

Employees have a lot of demands on their time: meetings; email; their actual job. But research suggests that when an employee procrastinates and puts off training, it’s not really an issue of time. So, for example, if employees feel anxious or insecure about training, they will likely choose to put it off.

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Research Training How To Scale 40

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Sales Training Article: 11 Traits of a High Performing Sales Culture. A Culture Creation tool is available by signing up for the SBI Making the 2014 Number tour. A Culture Creation tool is available by signing up for the SBI Making the 2014 Number tour. A bonus tool is included to help create a common vision.

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Training Hiring Transportation Territories 53

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 26, 2015

Because the sales rep may not be afforded the opportunity to meet many stakeholders involved in the decision, it is important that the value storytelling and justification be provided in a format that can easily be shared with the advocates – to continue selling long after the initial in-person conversation.

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Case Study Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 79

Sales Training Connection

JUNE 23, 2014

Companies will need to develop go-to-market models that meet both sets of needs. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC. Technorati Tags: sales best practices , sales training , sales trends. Sales Best Practices Sales Training sales best practices sales training sales trends' B2C-inspired customer expectations.

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Lead Rank Decision Maker B2C Trends 108

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Sales Training Article: Creating Social Debt on LinkedIn to Make Your Number. Social debt is one of the most powerful tools to obtaining new referrals. Follow these tips and you''ll be swimming in referrals for 2014. In some cases they may have been trying to secure a meeting for years. That''s where this blog comes in.

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LinkedIn Training Referrals Quota 45

Fill the Funnel

APRIL 29, 2014

The topic itself is probably asked in more sales manament meetings than any other. Each registrant will also receive a personal copy of the 2014 Sales Management Survey conducted by Enkata.com. Most sales people learn best practices from their peers rather than through formal training and reviews. All Rights Reserved.

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Closing Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Social Media 121