Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 9, 2020

Use virtual tools to do more, in less time, with better outcomes Out of necessity, we are moving into a digital world in which almost every step of the sales process involves the use of virtual tools. Jeb Blount has been doing virtual sales since 2015. This frees up time to manage other activities in the sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

79% of sales professionals who use AI say AI tools are an important addition to their overall sales strategy, according to our State of AI survey. The Fear of Becoming Over-Reliant on AI Tools AI can be addictive , and 39% of sales professionals are afraid of becoming over-reliant on AI tools. Think of Gong as an example.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 3, 2020

From recruitment and onboarding, to training and skills development, venture capitalists are pouring millions into each sub-sector of human resources (HR). London-based tech startup Headstart , for example, is using advancements in data science to remove bias from the recruitment process.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 11, 2022

I have always been fascinated by the magic of LEVERAGE and want to share my view about how leverage applies to learning, particularly to MEDDPICC ® sales training. The MEDDPICC leverage is about using the MEDDPICC ® Sales Methodology and Training to achieve extraordinary results in a sales team, often unimaginable.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here is an example: ACME Corporation (record 1 – which is the only correct listing of the name). What can you put in place in 2015 to help sales reps be more effective in starting with the best data possible? Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. The issue – dirty data.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My Over the next few months, Johnson helped implement and train the newly formed inbound sales team to focus on rapid response.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2018

Over the last three years, the number of sales technologies has grown from 300 in 2015 to 715 in 2017. While freemium might not be the right strategy for every software business, 2015 saw approximately 22% of businesses adopting a freemium model. Take this example from HubSpot’s own UI (user interface) in 2010 versus 2018.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Published – October 2015. Mike covers three crucial areas of sales leadership with real-life examples, ethnicity, and honesty- leading, managing, and coaching in this excellent sales management book. He provides you with the concepts and tools you’ll need to be effective and proficient in each of these areas.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

” Moderated by Chris Snell , Inside Sales Manager at Care.com , and lead by TOPO’s Chief Analyst, Craig Rosenberg , the webinar dove into specific examples of how the world’s fastest-growing companies use sales processes to drive exceptional revenue growth. TOPO (@topohq) March 18, 2015. Enforce your sales process.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 23, 2014

Some 74% of B2B decision makers, for example, use LinkedIn for business reasons, while 42% use Twitter. Second, Millennials will outnumber Gen-Xers by 2015 and 75% of them use social networking versus 50% of Gen-Xers (and 30% of boomers). Technorati Tags: sales best practices , sales training , sales trends.

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Lessonly

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The purpose of training and development at an organization is to teach valuable skills to employees and to encourage them to continue strengthening those skills over time to bring their performance to the next level. Increased employee retention and performance are just a couple of the many benefits of training. It eliminates errors.

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Lessonly

MARCH 30, 2020

Why is job training considered an investment? Because the importance of training cannot be understated. When companies invest in their people, not only do employees win because they’re better enabled with the tools and skills they need to succeed in their roles, but employers win, too, because training has a direct impact on KPIs.

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SBI

JULY 12, 2015

Get to know your sales tools in just 2 minutes a week. You need to make sure they’re trained on both your internal systems, and your products. And, you need a way to provide convenient, ongoing sales training. Let’s start with systems training. And it produces a library of best-practice pitch examples.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales Stack 2015 was an event with many passionate VPs about how to scale sales organizations. They need to know how to lay the tracks and direct where the train goes. What are some sales tools that you’ve leveraged? What are some sales tools that you’ve leveraged? Emmanuelle Skala agrees.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Examples of Sales Intelligence Triggers.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Perhaps most dramatic, the study found that individual-level growth — which the study defined as learners who measurably learn from training and apply it on the job — increases by 39% with coaching. By every measure, workplace coaching significantly improves training outcomes for employees.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

In sports, much of the science focuses on the athlete: genetics, biomechanics (movement techniques, training regimen), nutrition, and psychology (for mental toughness, behavioral modifications, and positive visualizations). For example, you can say, “ You are one of our best customers ” or “ You’re such a pleasure to do business with.”

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Chorus.ai

MAY 4, 2020

I joined the company in 2015 and sensed early on then that something was missing from our sales program. For example, we can look at monologue times and identify who is taking the most time. Chorus is a fundamental tool in our coaching culture for sales at Cerego. This is how we approach sales at Cerego.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company. It, however, was back in 2015.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company. It, however, was back in 2015.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 15, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Let’s look at an example. What to avoid: We run a training/consulting company with less than 10 employees. Let’s look at a few examples. Let’s look at some examples. Let’s look at some more example emails.

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Outbound Cold Calling Case Study LinkedIn 80

Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

From the comments and questions coming at me in every presentation and broadcast I have done already this year, customer acquisition is the #1 goal for sales leaders in 2015. If it is that important it makes sense to use the best tactics, tools and training to help you achieve the results you are looking for.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

From the comments and questions coming at me in every presentation and broadcast I have done already this year, customer acquisition is the #1 goal for sales leaders in 2015. If it is that important it makes sense to use the best tactics, tools and training to help you achieve the results you are looking for.

Social Media 48

Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Twitter 48

Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Sales reps use an average of six enablement tools , according to Sales for Life. Included in this category are CRMs , intelligent dialers, social media selling tools, messenger programs, web-conferencing programs, etc. Obviously how many and what exact tools are going to vary from company to company. Like what you’ve read?

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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. For example: 65 percent of workers said that remote work would give their productivity a boost. A whopping 43 percent of U.S.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In 2015 Acumen performed a survey at every conference we spoke at asking each member of the audience to define the top 5 challenges they face in sales- filling the pipeline/prospecting were consistency listed #1 or #2! It is a sales training session all by itself! Email, Communications and Connection.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 15, 2018

A 2015 study of more than 350,000 salespeople from over 200 countries showed that the average consultative seller skill set was exhibited by only 48% of salespeople —a mere one percentage point higher than it was four years prior. Training your sales force to leverage customer insights for and from the buyer may not always be easy.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity as a social media channel as well as sales leads tool. 1) LinkedIn Training. (2) Wishing you a stunningly good 2015. Using LinkedIn does require some informal to formal training. Sales Training executive coaching LinkedIn LinkedIn endorsements LinkedIn training sales leads'

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

However the job of sales leadership demands more than revenue focus, in fact in my training programs and client consulting engagements I tell my clients that it is not sales management’s job to achieve quota-that is the salesperson’s job! Scheduled monthly sales training meetings and topics that are planned with specific dates/times?

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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. This is an example of the kinds of detail that will come out during the process. Why is this important enough to write about? The Results!

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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. Make this book one of your Acumen Book Club sales training sessions going into the fourth quarter and watch your quota numbers get crunched.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 16, 2016

Max’s style is to pose a question and then provide the reader the opportunity consider the issue with the examples/case studies and definitions, he focused on “Adaptability, Mental Toughness, Bad-Boss, Ego and EQ”. His five steps with real world examples is terrific. Without trust the relationship becomes dysfunctional.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Here’s an example of how our customers typically tried to connect execution and sales strategy, before FactorLab. What are the three most important sales behavioral changes that will have the greatest impact in 2015? A great example is a customer who was trying to train on twenty behaviors. Eliminate waste.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2018

Based on Salesforce’s research in 2015, top sales teams are three times more likely to use analytics than under-performing teams. Let’s use Myers Briggs as an example. Especially when it comes to implementing our CRMs , for example. 5) Use the Right Tools to Automate Your Sales Process. But you can break the cycle.

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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. In Category #1 there are six resources listed ranging from the Cartoonlink to Office Depot!

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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. For example; last week I had the privilege of interviewing nine high school students for our church scholarship program, during the interview several students spoke about their lives outside of school.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

For example, salespeople could earn a bounty bonus—either in cash or in points that can be redeemed for rewards—for each new client or each competitive replacement of a specific vendor’s customer. Keep a visible scorecard of your goals and results so that everyone maintains a constant awareness of your objectives.

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