Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Prospective clients have done their homework as to their issues and potential solutions via the internet or other relationship.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

But when you get referrals, the trust your prospects have with their colleagues is transferred to you. For those of us who sell solutions, our jobs will increase by 10 percent, according to a 2015 report by Forrester. Two things being equal—and they never are—people buy from those they know, like, and trust.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 16, 2015

As Bain points out: “Many buyers will have researched a supplier, queried some of its customers and screened the supplier out of consideration before the supplier’s rep has an opportunity to contact the prospective buyer. So what are some things a company can do right now to do a better job getting ready for 2015? Selection.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. I remember participating in a “Prospecting Scavenger Hunt” in 1985.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A similarly scary statistic came from Docurated’s State of Sales Productivity 2015 study, which found that salespeople only spent 1/3 of their time actually selling. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. Training, training, training.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

2015 was a big year for The Brooks Group, and we’re going to brag a little. Our achievements this year included: Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Training Industry. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Selling Power Magazine. Top 7 Articles of 2015 .

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. If one believes the “horse with a different color” message, then the question for those of us concerned about the field of sales training becomes: What are we going to do about that? If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. For example, if you follow a prominent prospect, you will be the first to be notified if you clicked the bell icon on their profile. Of course, you don’t have to limit the use of the notification bell to prospects and influencers.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

High–Profit Prospecting. 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. Time Management for Prospecting. It is a sales training session all by itself! book review-.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. So you pay your sales reps money to prospect and find buyers – it makes sense that you also invest in having the best representation of your company when they find it online. Inbound Marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems remain the most critical, enabling sales teams to collaborate, managers to stay on top of business, and customer-facing people in other departments to share one prospect or customer record.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Improving remote engagement experiences with prospects and customers. Prior to Alinean, Tom founded Interpose, a provider of total cost of ownership (TCO) measurement and analysis software tools and training. Data’s essential role in letting RevOps know what’s working (and not) and how to adapt for continual improvement. Our Panelists.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. What is the impact of that on the use of freed resources, training, managing, and more? Shouldn’t the freed-up time, resources, training, and more – resulted in increases in output? Smaller Treadmills.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

So in addition to having multiple records for the same companies (both prospects and clients), there is another big area of bad data – as follows: Contact person is no longer with the company. Tag (categorize) the record appropriately as a pre-prospect, prospect, qualified, proposed, or client. How do you cleanse the data?

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

What are the ongoing costs to support these tools and what training is required to maximize them? That includes tracking prospecting, networking, email outreach, calls, meetings, pipeline growth, deal velocity, and, of course, closed-won and closed-lost outcomes. Why did you choose certain tools over others? The result? LinkedIn ®.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

ZoomInfo’s platform also allows for sales and marketing organizations to work from the same data and develop automated workflows across departments, bridging marketing and sales teams and helping them better target their prospects. Giving your team the right tools, training, and support helps everyone. Get a Demo 3.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the best first steps you can put into place (aside from hiring an expert to help you put a full plan in place to get your sales and marketing ready for 2015) is to focus on listening. Listen for Prospective Buyers. Listen for prospective buyers who are asking about which products / brands are best in your industry niche.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 1, 2021

Engage your prospect from the first minute of your sales presentation. Take the spotlight off you and shine it on your prospect’s challenges. Use sales technology solutions to create concise, storyline-driven, visual presentations AND to track prospect engagement after the presentation. Our Panelists.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What you see in ZoomInfo today is a lot of the vision that I had for DiscoverOrg in 2015, 2016, but I never built a good enough engineering and product team to make that vision come to life,” Schuck said. So, he dusted off his old vision document and asked the new engineers if what he wanted was too hard.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting. No wonder salespeople hate it.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In 2015 they hosted over 30,000 attendees—and this year is going to be even bigger, better and more exhilarating. Grant Cardone , CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Dave Mattson, CEO and President Sandler Training. The first Summit in 2013 attracted more than 15,000 sales leaders from all over the world. Sign up here!

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made B2B sales reps irrelevant. In 2015, 43.6

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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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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

AUGUST 25, 2019

The 2015 MHO Best Practices Study reveals that “having a strategy and knowing the right things to do [is] a huge differentiator between top performers and others” Sales Efficiency and Sales Effectiveness – What Do They Mean? Step 2: Give sales reps the proper training. billion annually, nationwide.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). In essence, how are you connected via your team by 2nd and 3rd degree to any client prospect. This Social 3.0 The Social 3.0

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 27, 2023

The more friction you require your prospects to tolerate in your sales process, the longer the decision-making process. For example, how often do prospects struggle to align their calendar to your sales reps calendar? Creating a frictionless buying experience that has a high impact is what the modern sales process should accomplish.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2022

While cold calling is part of most sales jobs, especially during the prospecting process, it can’t make up the bulk of what you do or you’ll quickly face burnout. Ask them how they primarily get their prospects and how they determine whether the prospect is a sales qualified lead. Con #1: Poor performance can affect your pay.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2020

SDRs need to prioritize meaningful connections with prospects. If you want to crush your first 100 days, you have to be able to take any hiccups in stride, quickly pick yourself up when you hit the ground, train yourself to consistently regain composure, and always be prepared to move onto the next call.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. Prospecting. Andy add’s an entire section designed around Amp Up Prospecting. A critical success factor for 2015. I kept nodding my head and saying; Yes, Yes, Yes as I turned the pages.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 30, 2015

Ask the right questions to eliminate prospects that aren’t going anywhere. One of the biggest time wasters I see salespeople do is working with prospects that just aren’t going to do anything. By asking lots of questions to determine if you really have a prospect. Make a list of the “Gotta Do’s”… and then do them.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged. Why Change Now? – Why Your Solutions?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

Since it requires a solid understanding of current AI technologies, sales reps should also be trained on how to use AI, troubleshoot issues, and detect when AI is underperforming. For example, a face recognition system can be trained to detect white faces more quickly than their darker counterparts.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Get Your 2015 Started Right. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. To avoid starting 2015 with unqualified pipelines, consider taking a hard look at quotes or proposals more than 60 days old. I hope this can help you make 2015 a prosperous year.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged, with little reason for optimistic spending growth predictions. YoY decline from 2014. increase compared to 2014.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. In addition to Prospector which has been improved greatly over time, they have a new tool called Cadence which helps SDRs to know how and when to attempt to connect with their prospects.

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