DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Map your strategy to the customer journey. Training, training, training.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 26, 2024

billion in 2016, it’s the highest of the 2020s. There’s a chance that ad spending will return to normal this year since sales are anticipated to do the same. A recent article from Wards Auto says that millennials are the generation most likely to buy their vehicles online. billion on advertising in 2023. billion spend from 2019.

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CommercialTribe

MARCH 5, 2019

But what about the sales manager ? Beyond saying “hit this number,” the expectations of today’s sales manager are nebulous. This is the first article of a three-part series on sales manager productivity. More B and C sales reps to goal. The Plight of the B and C Sales Manager.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” Bad Leadership.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2016

For the last several weeks to maybe months, sales managers and salespeople are looking to 2017 business growth. Within this annual or quarterly activity is the setting of sales quotas or goals. In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, David Brock looks at the dramatic loss of dollars because of these poor retaining processes.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

These dire predictions can be troubling for the American worker, but perhaps less so for sales professionals who have become accustomed to hearing warnings about their job security for over a century. In 1916, The New York Times published an article that posed the question, “Are salesmen needless?” Moreover, the U.S.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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Gong.io

MARCH 17, 2021

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Samantha and our sales manager sat down and dialed into the call. . Follow me to read upcoming research.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For Sales Managers – make sure that every one of your salespeople signs up to get access to this training. There are two days of training here, for free from many of the most sought-after sales trainers and consultants on the planet. This is one of those opportunities! I will be looking for you in the registration list!

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, we will outline what a Social Selling policy is, what it should include, and what advantages you can gain by implementing a formal strategy. Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, it has evolved into the go-to-platform for sales professionals. The goal is to have your sales team’s time be invested wisely.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is someting that I want to start doing in 2016 and I realized that I do not have a definitive list of podcasts that I will benefit from. Let’s crowdsource the best list of sales, management and business podcasts available so that we can all learn from them. Original article: What Podcasts Do You Listen To?

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

One way we do that is by delivering sales effectiveness thought leadership via the IMPACT Sales Training Blog. We’ve rounded up the 7 most popular articles of the year in hopes that they will inspire you to tackle your biggest sales challenges in 2016 and make it your best year yet. Top 7 Articles of 2015 .

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

JULY 26, 2019

A combined view on Learners’ Sophistication and Proficiency I found Julie Dirksen’s (Dirksen 2016) approach, to position Learning Goals in a space defined by the two axes (Level of Sophistication and Level of Proficiency), very pertinent for a holistic understanding of setting Learning Goals. Literature: (Biech 2017) Biech E.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I was stunned reading an article in Fast Company: Five CEOs On The Skills It Takes To Land The Corner Office. It’s stunning to me, that no one in Fast Company’s article recognized any of this. By contrast, in their November 2016 issue, Harvard Business Review looks examines the top CEOs in the world.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Whatever the chances of it happening, the probability of you achieving your sales goals are much better when you have thought about HOW you are going to achieve it and have a PLAN in place to make it happen. If you’re a sales manager reading this, your role is to accomplish your company’s sales goals through the people that report to you.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2019

For those of us reading the business and financial news regularly, you’ll start to notice two common threads: that millennials work differently than other generations and often have a hard time integrating into the workforce, and that most sales teams need more quality people. 3 factors that might be keeping millennial men out of sales.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

Yet, some business leaders continue to resist the trend, while others remain unsure of the ways in which a sales enablement initiative can benefit their organization. In 2016, 60.7% A high-quality sales training program needs to be reinforced through coaching. of companies back in 2003.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With Rekener, Brainshark will provide cutting-edge visibility into sales team activities, behaviors and productivity, helping customers make real connections from improved readiness to increased revenue. Founded in 2016, Rekener was developed to provide a simpler way for sales and marketing professionals to use data to drive growth.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

DECEMBER 10, 2016

This is a repost of an article by Karen McCandless on Oct 28, 2016 at lab.getapp.com Two million. The percentage of companies that have trouble recruiting sales staff with the necessary skills. That’s the number of jobs in the US manufacturing industry that are likely to go unfilled over the next decade due to a skills gap.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

As a sales manager, most of my sellers hit the accelerator hard as needed. I wish I had the wisdom back then to encourage all of my staff to look a sales cycle ahead to evaluate whether their pipelines were sufficient to deliver the numbers needed for them to be YTD against quota or better. Read more sales training articles.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve outlined below a series of steps , a process , that you can follow to begin gathering the information you need to develop your own 2017 Territory Sales Plan. If you were thinking you were going to rely on what you didn’t close in 2016, you are a little late to the party. Discounting: What has it cost you in 2016?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 23, 2016

I’ve been obsessing about this date, May 24, 2016 for some months. It is the target date we established for the launch of Sales Manager Survival Guide. If you are a new front line sales manager, you probably have discovered there’s no roadmap to what it takes to be successful in the job of a sales leader.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 28, 2015

It’s the 4th quarter, and there are 2 things on every sales leader’s mind. Building pipeline so that their team is on track for a good 2016. For example, try introducing a “5 alive” concept by having your reps take a weekly article or web link representing a market insight, and sending a personal email to 5 high-level stakeholders.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Popular sales blogs and LinkedIn posts are filled with articles espousing the virtues of macro sales theories like social selling and insight selling. But there are few sales experts writing about how to better execute the day-to-day basics, the fundamentals. Sales Management. © 2016 Mike Weinberg.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

Yet, some business leaders continue to resist the trend, while others remain unsure of the ways in which a sales enablement initiative can benefit their organization. In 2016, 60.7% A high-quality sales training program needs to be reinforced through coaching. of companies back in 2003.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

After all, sales commission is a direct reflection of effort and performance, right? Performance is Not The Problem As we referenced earlier in this article, men aren’t outperforming women in a way that might explain the gap we see in commission pay. So, what gives? We can’t wait to share this project with you!

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

But every time I read these articles and start discussing the big issues for the coming year, I get this overwhelming sense of “Deja Vu All Over Again.” This is my prognostication, these will be the critical issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2016. Value Creation/Value Delivery. No related posts.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As a sales manager I found loss reports to be virtually worthless. How does your 2016 pipeline look? In doing so he took responsibility for ending relationships without saying there was someone new (there usually was). The underlying issue was that he wasn’t worthy.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 30, 2020

In too many cases, the issue is only revealed following the loss of the sale to a competitor. I recently came across a nice little 2016 article by Sarah Niedoba writing for Canadianbusiness.com about 5 deal breakers that kill your sales.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

First, let’s explore that topic from a sales leadership perspective, then drill down and examine what it means for designing sales training. Not long ago CSO Insights published a report entitled Sales Management 2.0: ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC. Technorati Tags: sales training.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 2, 2018

To begin, I must re-emphasize what I said in my last article in this series on Salesperson Fitness. Even though in this article we’re focusing on the mind, I’ll point out again that concentrating on one while neglecting the others does not work. How can someone change their behavior and react differently?

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 2, 2018

To begin, I must re-emphasize what I said in my last article in this series on Salesperson Fitness. Even though in this article we’re focusing on the mind, I’ll point out again that concentrating on one while neglecting the others does not work. How can someone change their behavior and react differently?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. Trish Bertuzzi founded The Bridge Group to help B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the 2016 year-end article, one of these tips was shared by a top sales coach, Jim Rosas. I knew Jim from the “networking and sales scene” here in Chicago, and I found him to be super-smart and super-generous. Just a few months after the article was published, he passed quickly and suddenly.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Probably the most popular approach to complex B2B sales, solution selling has been around for decades. It is still being taught to many sales reps around the world, and there are compelling reasons to do so. Ed Wal is another accomplished sales leader who decided to share his expertise through a book.

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