Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 5, 2015

When asked about his early management challenges, Roger Ferguson – CEO at TIAA-CREF – shared: “You have to get the balance right between leaving them alone and micromanaging.” Although Roger was discussing management in general, we thought his advice was particularly relevant for sale managers. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 25, 2015

Given the substantial amount of money that companies commit to training every year, the notion of learning more about how to get it right is a question of interest. When asked about their companies’ biggest challenge with training programs, the respondents reported that the one growing most in concern was the lack of metrics.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 27, 2015

Sales Manager. Well, a sales manager with the “super salesperson syndrome ” will probably exhibited some of these 6 characteristics : Sell rather than coach. When push comes to shove, S 3 sales managers will spend their time selling rather than sales coaching. Take over sales calls.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 15, 2015

You have to act like a leader before you’re appointed to a leadership position, and you have to manage your own leadership path … only be exiting your comfort zone can you develop “outsight”— the term she coins to describe the valuable perspective gained through actions.”. So let’s translate this message to sales management.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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Top of Funnel Sales Process Webinar Metrics CRM 52

Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

High-Profit Prospecting b y Mark Hunter, published by AMA (American Management Association) has laid out solutions to one of the top sales problems facing every sales organization. It is a sales training session all by itself! His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We have created this guide to help you get the sales recruitment process right and ensure your sales manager and company hire qualified candidates every time. It, however, was back in 2015.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. . We have created this guide to help you get the sales recruitment process right and ensure your sales manager and company hire qualified candidates every time. It, however, was back in 2015.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Although a superior sales force is extremely difficult to assemble and train, once you have one, it is of the few sustainable advantages left. Sales excellence is more difficult to achieve. Not only is superior sales performance more important than ever; it’s harder to get there. Example – New Product Launches.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That is a question most executives worry about and often have to ask their direct reports, this is especially true when thinking about Sales Management. In some situations the President of the company may have responsibility to manage the sales team or maybe they are attempting to manage a sales manager(s).

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

Whether your organization is using CRM or not I find that most organizations have not taken the time to define, write out and train their sales team on how to use prescriptive a sales process. The more prescriptive process you create, the greater success your sales team will experience. The Results! What happened?

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 4, 2015

That we would say is a pretty good example of resilience in action. Suppose you are a sales manager – what could you do. If resilience is a skill, then it can and should be learned and coached like any other sales skill. Lobby to incorporate in sales training. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales Stack 2015 was an event with many passionate VPs about how to scale sales organizations. The most talked about and important issue for sales organizations is how to properly scale that ensures long-term growth while minimizing the damage done to the company. What are some sales tools that you’ve leveraged?

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

What make it better is he then provides potential scenarios, examples and test situations where any salesperson can relate to their current list of prospects. Buy this book for this chapter alone-it will increase the velocity of your sales cycle. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

employees reported working remotely all or some of the time in 2017, compared to just 23 percent in 2015 and 19 percent in 2003 , per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rise in remote work has created new challenges and opportunities for managers tasked with leading geographically dispersed teams. A whopping 43 percent of U.S.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

She managed to bring in the first five customers — not an easy task at a new startup — and built credibility among Techstars executives who selected Flyte as one of the top 10 companies that went through the accelerator program.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 21, 2015

The objective should be formulated in terms of the commitment desired from the customer that moves the sales cycle forward. Examples include: an appointment with a more senior person, an opportunity to present your solution to the buying committee, or a trial placement of your solution. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2016

As an example under Category #1: Art, Humor and Film, Stu estimated the cost/contact to be between $1-$500, as you progress you read about various real world examples that Stu or others have implemented to achieve amazing results rates. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 26, 2016

If you are not familiar with the question posed above it’s a mantra from my Boy Scout days and training. Whether you are a Sales Manager that regularly reads this blog or any other job role I wanted to raise this topic as I see this as a major question in our world today. Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

Building a Culture of High Performance: Sales Games. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for the 4th quarter and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. Never run contests to the last day of the month or sales period.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Incentives 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When I landed in Dublin in 2015, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 26-year-old who had severely under-estimated and oversimplified the work in front of me. I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 10, 2015

We talked and learned that he wasn’t interested in working on sales skills, sales strategy, or even sales presentations. Fortunately, the salesperson had a sales manager who was helping in those areas. What the salesperson was interested in was: How can I do a better job managing my time? Better training.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 20, 2015

If you are a VP of Sales, a sales manager or a salesperson, where you come down on this question will dramatically impact what you do as the future unfolds. For example, it is likely that they will need to upgrade your skills if they elect to stay in Sales. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2018

While a data driven sales coaching approach is still challenging to many sales leaders, the importance of chasing the right sales metrics is growing by the day! Based on Salesforce’s research in 2015, top sales teams are three times more likely to use analytics than under-performing teams.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Recruiting is a commitment; it should consume about a fifth of the sales leader’s time, and the process should be as well organized as the company’s sales methodology and forecasting systems. The following information is used in our online video training course for sales managers: https://app.wagmob.com/ken/.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As deals slip and wins are sparse, sales confidence dips with the sales rep, sales leaders, and even other departments like marketing and finance. Forecasts are used by reps, sales management, and executive teams to predict upcoming revenue, plan expenses, and make hiring decisions. Sales support burnout.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

But studies are showing that the old B2B sales and marketing mix isn’t working anymore. In fact, BrightFunnel report found that from 2014 to 2015: It took 52% more marketing touches to close a deal. The total number of touches were evenly split between pre-sales (53%) and the sales cycle (47%). As it worked. For a time.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68

Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

. – Yuchun Lee, CEO and Co-founder, Allego And back in 2015, we realized the seller needs not just learning, but also how to leverage content effectively in their communication with buyers. The training organization set up some e-learning, and you had to sit in front of a computer and just watch. That’s fundamental to what we do.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

In other words, your sales playbook arms your reps with all the content and strategies they need to close a deal. The benefits of a sales playbook. Although crafting a sales playbook takes a lot of time, you’ll start seeing the results almost instantly. Second, a playbook frees up time for selling.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Guidelines Lead Rank 121

Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Senior Vice President and General Manager, American Express Meetings & Events, Issa Jouaneh predicted a boom in the event industry for 2019 after a tremendous slowdown as recently as 2015. In fact, for some industries (like biotechnology and genomics, for example) conferences are far and away the best source of potential customers.

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Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 30, 2019

I started with one-on-one coaching for reps, and then those reps took their training back to their companies, and I started hearing from entrepreneurs and other business owners who needed to replicate themselves so they could scale their companies. I launched into the consulting side and helped businesses set up their sales teams.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 8, 2015

Sales Tips: Taking Stock at Mid-Year. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sales calls are as unique as snowflakes. As a sales manager, I learned a long time ago that train wrecks happen a month at a time.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Sam Jacobs : When you say you went at it hard from a technical perspective, does that mean that you trained yourself how to be an engineer? So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR. And then 2015, we did 4.7 In 2015, we did 12 and a half, and then 25 million. We can talk about that.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. Turning the camera on to the customers to garner their insight is a great way to align sales and marketing. Think social cross-training.

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