Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2016

Lean Communication For Sales , Jack Malcolm. How we engage our customers in understanding what they value, how we articulate the value in the most impactful manner possible is critical to our success in sales. Jack’s one of the best people I’ve met in helping us understand how to engage our customers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Salespeople can self-motivate, sales managers can do this to motivate their salespeople, sales leaders can use this to motivate their sales managers and CEOs can leverage this to motivate their top Sales Leader. It’s almost too easy. This is brainless!

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-November and December will be quickly on top of you. It will help you judge the effectiveness of your existing sales compensation plan.

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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. Streamlining the sales process.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Most of your customers will shut down in less than 4 weeks. If you are chasing your 2015 sales numbers you need to return from this holiday weekend highly energetic, focused and ready to sprint to the finish line. The other reality is that 2016 is only 36 days away. Please share with me where you are in the process.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

It sounds simple – but it struck us with a few word of substitution these steps would provide a straightforward framework for sales managers to use when working with their sales teams to review sales strategy. Delineate their interpretation and analysis of the sales situation – is this a viable opportunity and why?

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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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Sales Training Connection

JULY 27, 2016

New sales managers. You are now a sales manager. Even after some initial guidance from colleagues, most new sales managers find themselves struggling to figure out how to balance the requirements of the position. So, in reality, the answer is usually one of smart management not prevention.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 17, 2016

Sales Management Excellence. Herminia Ibaraan, an INSEAD professor, published a provocative book arguing that in today’s market if you desire to get better at management you must venture outside your comfort zone. There is little doubt that front-line sales managers are the pivotal job for building an effective sales team.

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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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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% Tying strategy to the sales process.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

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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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 1, 2016

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Then they write and tell me their sales organizations have been transformed, with a close rate of well more than 50 percent. Can your sales reps put a sentence together?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

The new application is a part of LinkedIn's Sales Solutions suite and can only be purchased by users who already leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator — another program in the Sales Solution portfolio, dedicated to helping users find prospects via LinkedIn business and engagement data. What can you do with LinkedIn Sales Insights?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, as the CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , I have seen firsthand that a growing number of world-class companies are seeking to hire top-performing B2B salespeople, especially in the last five years. They will have questions and concerns, will require customized solutions, and will want assurances and undoubtedly try to negotiate.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

And, our suggestion is “push the more button”– that is help sales reps be able to spend more time selling versus doing something else. Here let’s restrict the definition of selling to planning, doing and reviewing actual interactions with customers. Help front-line sales managers be a filter not a funnel. Substantial.

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Sales Excellence

MAY 25, 2016

Denver, CO, USA –May 25, 2016 – Sales Excellence, Inc., a premier global sales training and consulting organization, today announced that it has been awarded a spot on Selling Power’s 2016 list of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies that excel in helping organizations improve sales performance. 713/874-0898.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software. It tracks and manages all interactions and communication your reps have with prospects and customers. Segment your customers. The best part?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With that economic domino effect affecting us all as 2016 begins to wind down, ending the year on a high note will be more challenging than ever. You sell what is especially in demand by your customers right now – solutions that can increase efficiency , cut costs and enhance customer relationships. Middle East issues.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

By asking for referrals from friends, colleagues, and (best of all) current customers. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0 They don’t have the skills or tools for success in a Sales 3.0 So, how do you get that first call?

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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. Take a fire brigade as your role model.

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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. Tito explains when it makes sense to prioritize customer acquisition vs. retention and vice versa. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

There is no excuse for anyone in sales to not be fully trained, informed and up-to-date on the most current thinking in the sales profession. Free training programs and summits are available to anyone that sincerely wants to get better and be more productive serving their customers. This is one of those opportunities!

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

He is the Co-Founder and COO of Cirrus Insight, one of the Inc 500's fastest-growing companies in 2016. Cirrus Insight developed a powerful self-titled sales productivity plugin that integrates Gmail and Outlook with Salesforce. And, he also answers questions about: * His journey in sales and business development. *

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 13, 2016

Sales Strategy. When you listen in on strategic account review sessions between Sales Managers and sales reps all too often the conversations is primarily about what has gone wrong – “Why did we lose that big sale?” This is where great Sales Managers come into their own. Customer questioning skills.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Developing a sales culture. Traditionally when talking 
about sales best practices, most of the emphasis has been placed on individual sales rep and
 sales management skill sets. So the sales leadership needs to create a culture where taking a well-planned risk is rewarded. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC.

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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2018

at Topo Summit in 2016 and immediately thought it was great,” Jeff says. “It He adds, “Our team’s philosophy is that we’d rather invest in a small, productive team than a massive sales org that is all over the place. is that it helps CodeScience focus on their customers. I came across Gong.io CodeScience uses Gong.io

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, it has evolved into the go-to-platform for sales professionals. Salespeople can connect with prospects, research customers, and get notified of job changes and company updates. The goal is to have your sales team’s time be invested wisely.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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.”. ©2016 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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Groove.co

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Deloitte awarded Groove with this honor based on our record revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. There are several key factors driving our record growth, but here are the top three: The sales engagement platform category has grown exponentially, attracting $250 million in investment over the past three years alone.

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

Successful salespeople pay attention to their customers’ commonalities. Unfortunately, many start to believe there’s only one “recipe” for a good customer. As salespeople become comfortable in their role and territory, they begin to develop strong relationships with certain customers. 1) They Over-Qualify. Who’s joined?

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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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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It’s our mission at The Brooks Group to transform sales organizations so that it’s easier for our customers’ customers to buy. One way we do that is by delivering sales effectiveness thought leadership via the IMPACT Sales Training Blog. 5 Things High Performing Sales Managers Should Be Doing.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Probably the most common and damaging driver of salespeople being perceived and treated simply as vendors is being late to a sales opportunity. Sales leaders allow their teams to spend way too much time operating in reactive mode. Reactive sellers are often slow arriving to a new sales opportunity. Ineffective Sales Calling.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 6, 2016

Sales Strategy – Stop, Pause, Reassess. A sales manager recently finished sales strategy reviews for the top 20 accounts in her geography. She told me, “Let’s not talk about the quality of the sales strategies – some were great and some not so much. This means a sales strategy is always a work in progress.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 21, 2016

Additionally, when working as individuals, it’s important for sales managers to show Millennials how their work ties back to the sales team’s overall performance and the company as a whole. Increasingly Sales is being impacted by the digital revolution. ©2016 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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