ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar?

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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. Developing Sales Ready Messaging® that is provocative and relevant to those known business challenges and initiatives.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 4, 2016

Sales Training Investment. How much money are companies spending on sales training? As reported in a research report by Sales Performance International – “In the United States alone, industry estimates for corporate expenditures on sales training and performance improvement are more than 5 billion dollars annually.”

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Mindtickle

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is based on a webinar on the secret to building a sales enablement powerhouse. Procore was featured on Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2016 and reached unicorn status on Dec 2016. Three challenges triggered Procore’s need for sales enablement. You can listen to the entire webinar here. Functional based.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is based on a webinar on the secret to building a sales enablement powerhouse. Procore was featured on Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2016 and reached unicorn status on Dec 2016. Three challenges triggered Procore’s need for sales enablement. You can listen to the entire webinar here. Functional based.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2016

How many times have you heard this word “obstacle” in many sales training programs or books on sales fact finding? Considering changing your sales behaviors by replacing this overused and now almost trite word with this word – limitation. Now speak the word limitation to yourself. Share on Facebook.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2021

First-Layer Sales Questions. First-layer questions are preliminary questions that initiate a conversation by revealing thoughts, facts, behaviors, and situations. They are the foundation (like lasagna noodles) used to gain a basic understanding of a subject, so they’re the best questions to use when beginning conversations with buyers.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 6, 2016

One important core question presently circulating among those who care about sales training is: What percentage of sales training ought to be done in the classroom vs. some form of guided self instruction? Let’s over simplify a bit and divide all the possible content into two bins labeled – knowledge and sales skill.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1. In order to hit target hiring goals, we needed to create a recruiting pipeline funnel and we needed to understand our conversion rates from application to testing to interviews to offers to acceptances.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 1, 2016

Sales Training Investment. The strategic “it” in this case is the decision about whether you should make an investment in sales training. The sales training discussion needs to be updated and reframed. What is the right question for determining if a sales training investment is appropriate?

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 19, 2016

Medical sales training. If you are a company selling medical devices, equipment, consummables, software or other medical market products/services, a piece of the puzzle for being among the winners is making the investment in your sales team commensurate with the need for change and the opportunity to benefit.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Sales training. If your customers are making changes of substantial magnitude, then the case is made that it’s no longer business-as-usual for your sales team. If your customers are making changes of substantial magnitude, then the case is made that it’s no longer business-as-usual for your sales team.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2017

There’s a lot of buzz around Sales and Marketing AI, but what is real and what is hype? What can we actually expect from AI in the sales and marketing technology in 2018? AI for Sales and Marketing Tech: High Expectations Meet Reality. ” “Sales and marketing will be able to align around the right buyer personas.”

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sales coaching puzzle. A while ago we received a call from a company wanting to talk about coaching training for their front-line sales managers. They were real cheerleaders – they believed sales managers were the pivotal job for sales success and coaching was the sales managers’ key responsibility.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As the fourth quarter begins, many VPs of Sales and Sales Training Directors will be focusing on closing Q4 strong and positioning their sales teams for success in 2016. One item on many agendas will be the annual sales meeting, often sometime during Q1. Sales rep attention. Sales rep attention.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

People who work with me know I believe in leaving your product in the car, makes for a better conversation. In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. The whole notion of “lead to, not with,” having the conversation lead to a product question. One of those is thinking.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 18, 2022

No matter what level of sales you’re in, you are bound to encounter objections. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, host Donald Kelly is joined by the co-founder and former owner of Solo Stove, Spencer Jan, for an in-depth look at Spencer’s experience handling his biggest sales objection.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 18, 2022

No matter what level of sales you’re in, you are bound to encounter objections. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, host Donald Kelly is joined by the co-founder and former owner of Solo Stove, Spencer Jan, for an in-depth look at Spencer’s experience handling his biggest sales objection.

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Objections LinkedIn Survey Lead Rank 40

MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2017

Harvard Business Review (HBR) discussed an interesting concept recently (Sept 2016) where they were comparing what customers actually buy and what sellers offer to sell. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Dollarphotoclub. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat. Managing Director.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

And as a sales leader, you already know this. Your sales reps have a deep knowledge of how prospects can leverage your product, and they can craft customized plans about the best ways to do so. Those are what allow you to tweak your sales process and fill gaps in knowledge as needed. Sales Analysis Reports. Image Source.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 28, 2016

Medical device sales reps. Ever wonder what medical sales reps like most about their jobs? MassDevice reported the findings from a survey of more than 1,400 sales reps in the 2016 Best Places to Work in Medical Sales survey. The sales reps who are least satisfied with their jobs make the least money (6%).

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Lessonly

JULY 12, 2021

I studied Sales at Purdue, started my career as an SDR in Silicon Valley, and since then have always pursued sales roles at B2B startups because I love them. Some roles have felt fairly similar, but here’s what’s varied from place to place: sales training techniques. No magic sales sauce, just my story. Ring, ring!

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SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

We’ve heard from the Salesloft family this morning, with Kyle Porter and friends on the main stage sharing their gratitude for the people and processes that have gotten us to where we are today in the sales development community. the top analyst in the sales development game. And sales didn’t know what was going on.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Date: Thursday, Dec 8, 2016 Time: 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm EST (12:30 pm PST) Speaker: Paul Cherry Register Now It’s a new year, a fresh start, which means we can soon put 2016 behind us. But now’s the time to get your sales team charged up so they can hit the ground running and make 2017 their best year yet.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Sales Process. Listen to a conversation about the need for improving sales process and it usually begins like this: “We have very aggressive sales targets and we’re just not getting there.”. We’re not leveraging our own best practices – a lot of our sales reps are simply doing what they did the last time.”.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Companies spend a tremendous amount of time, money and effort every year to improve the productivity of their sales teams. The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. Second, they can determine which sales reps need the most help.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 21, 2016

Millennials and Sales. What does this mean for Sales ? Whether you are talking about recruiting, selection, onboarding, training or compensation, it is will worth the time to consider whether your processes are in tune with the experiences and expectations of a cohort that will comprise an increasing percentage of your sales force.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer. She WAS our first woman in the sales department. I graduated from college in 2016, which means I haven’t been in this industry very long.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Date: Thursday, Dec 1, 2016 Time: 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST (10:00 am PST) Speaker: Paul Cherry Register Now For many, 2016 has been a tough year. It’s a new year, a fresh start, which means we can soon put 2016 behind us. The good news – 2017 is right around the corner! But what’s the best way to get them pumped up?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 8, 2020

Some of the latest — and possibly most promising — tools for sales teams use predictive analytics, a form of artificial intelligence technology that can optimize decision making around sales efforts. So how do you know which tool, if any, is the best bet for meeting your sales goals? What to Look For in a Sales AI Vendor.

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Lead Rank Software Software Lead Scoring 98

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Date: Thursday, Dec 8, 2016 Time: 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm EST (12:30 pm PST) Speaker: Paul Cherry Register Now 2017… A New Year It’s a new year, a fresh start, which means we can soon put 2016 behind us. But now’s the time to get your sales team charged up so they can hit the ground running and make 2017 their best year yet.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Maybe you’ve just landed your first sales job (In this economy? or maybe you’ve been in sales for years and are looking for a little inspiration. Either way, this list of top sales leaders can help you find the people who might just change the way you do your job. . Head of partnerships at Sales Hacker. Godard Abel.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 18, 2021

No matter who said it, it’s spot on, especially for those of us in the sales world. Winning in sales is kinda sorta VERY important. If you are not winning (closing deals, for example) in sales, your sales career will be short-lived. And if you want to win more, you need a sales pitch that helps accelerate your winning.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Company : AltiSales Noteworthy : Tito is an expert in sales development and all things sales.

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