Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. Over the next few weeks I will be discussing the components that all companies must begin to work on during the 2016 budgetary and business/sales planning process. Will there be special bonuses for reaching certain objectives such as add X number of Net New Customers.

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

JULY 26, 2019

I also mentioned that formulating Learning Goals at sophistication levels three (apply) and higher is necessary but not sufficient for Sales Training Initiatives having a sustainable impact on sellers’ performance. For sales tool training, level 3 is sufficient. However not all tasks need the full proficiency level.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 18, 2023

Julian quickly realized that knowing how to sell did not equip him to run a company and successfully scale sales at the same time, so he needed an easy way to get his first customers and he used his network, did an outstanding job and built his sales on referrals.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sales training. You are a new, first time Sales Training Director. You replaced a sales manager who did no sales training for a long time. The VP of Sales now feels that sales training is definitely needed and it needs to be done in short order. Sales training is not inexpensive. Lots of options.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The key to building an all-star team in 2016 is having the right people in the right positions, doing the work they were naturally wired for. As your team plans for growth in 2016, you’ll want to make sure you’re putting the right people in leadership positions. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier.

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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. Want to pump the pipeline for success in 2016? I don’t know about you, but I’m inundated with people that want to speak with me to try and sell me something.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2017

Additionally, sales and employee programs tend to outpace channel and customer programs in their use of individual travel regardless of company size. Net Optimism Score for incentive travel in the fall of 2016 was 26 percent, meaning the industry is still moderately positive about the outlook for incentive travel.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Next Wave: Customer-Facing Solutions With the new year, we are all looking towards the next wave in customer-facing solutions available for us. He’s been working for tech companies, working at Chilli Piper since 2016. Next wave in customer-facing solutions The sales industry tends to move in waves.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

We are sharing secrets in a rapid-fire series of online presentations on Wednesday, March 9th, 2016. Confirmed speakers for 2016 include: Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor at CEB. Grant Cardone , CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Jim Steele , InsideSales.com President of Worldwide Sales and Chief Customer Officer.

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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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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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% In fact, while a certain mindset is necessary to be a good coach, there are also specific skills that must be trained, and cannot be assumed. in 2015), but only 5.2%

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Maybe you’re 100% perfect at your job. Maybe your pipeline is always overflowing with hot leads, you never have to place a cold call or send a cold email, your sales cycle is complete in a matter of days, and … Read More »

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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? Then learn to apply and execute those best practices in a classroom using role-plays customized to portray a typical customer.

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HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2015

How customers and salespeople use and interpret language during the decision making process. Martin, founder of the Heavy Hitter Sales Training Program and foremost expert on sales linguistics. In this webinar you will learn: How to win over a complete stranger who has little interest in hearing from you. Featuring Steve W.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

80% of customer data will be wasted due to immature enterprise data "value chains". Only 20% of marketers will receive formal training on analytics and customer data management. Fragmented marketing IT point products and low adoption rate will inhibit companies'' ability to win customers.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. Because of this belief, CEOs invest more money in beer Fridays and office supplies than training their salespeople, sales managers, or any other department that interfaces with the customer. . Development Philosophy: You subscribe to “one and done” training. environments.

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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. I want to be able to sell into the largest swath of [our] 20,000 customers as I can,” Schuck said. “I

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 19, 2016

Medical sales training. If your customers are making changes, then the case is made that it’s no longer business-as-usual for your sales team. The question can and should be explored from a number of perspectives, here let’s just drill down and examine what it means for designing sales training.

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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.

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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. Because it is transformation, the design work involves more than just some word changes to the title page of your sales training documents. Understand the difference.

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LeadFuze

JULY 16, 2019

In the last few years, considerable attention has been paid to improving customer experience (CX) in the B2C world, however, research by Accenture Strategy makes it clear that CX is equally, if not more, important for B2B buyers as well. . Talking about expectations, B2B buyers seem to be much more demanding than B2C customers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

At the beginning of 2016, Anthony had a heart-to-heart talk with his supervisor and was inspired during the company’s annual January Sales Kick-off. In August of 2016, DiscoverOrg’s leadership decided to split the sales in into dedicated inbound and outbound teams. “It Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My

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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. Since over the years we have published a lot about sales coaching and designed some very successful sales coaching training for clients, we thought we might be able to help. They also took a subsequent step.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 6, 2018

According to the 2017 CSO Insights Sales Enablement Optimization Report , almost 60 percent of sales organizations currently have a person, program or function dedicated to sales enablement – almost double the number from 2016 (33 percent). Consider the customer journey. Evaluate existing content and training services.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

They didn’t have a true target prospect list, or ideal customer profiles — and no, “everyone” is not your ideal customer. ABE impacts three critical revenue objectives: new customer acquisition, pipeline velocity, and account expansion. As the field of sales has changed, so did it’s customers.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

Though no planning or training could have prepared any organization fully, those that could quickly adjust to their salespeople working remotely work had an advantage. Yet building sales capability involves more than just implementing training programs. 54% actively designed training programs. Invest in Technology.

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Allego

JULY 29, 2020

One thing employees at Voya Investment Management immediately understood was this: without up-to-date news and information to keep them connected with teammates and customers, they may as well be working from the moon. We uploaded the video to Allego, and got it compliance-approved for external audiences and also for internal training.

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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. Salespeople should be educated and trained how to use LinkedIn to their advantage.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 15, 2017

There are all kinds of critical levers that can be pulled to drive these results – better hiring and training, better technology, great data to make smarter decisions, new markets to explore, new products to launch, and investment in M&A, to name a few. Our mission at DiscoverOrg is to power our customers’ growth.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2017

But unless you’re directly working on AI, your ideas of AI likely come from watching IBM Watson beat the Jeopardy world champions in 2011 – or when, in 2016, Google’s AlphaGo defeated a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Responses included: “AI will manage customer relationships through predictive marketing.”

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2021

This limits the salesperson’s ability to customize the experience for those buyers. These types of questions are vital because they prompt prospective customers to think through a thought, fact, behavior, or situation. Many second-layer questions simply ask customers to either assess or explain a first-level response.

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Mindtickle

MAY 1, 2023

It’s your way to measure whether a new hire is ready for actual sales — how much knowledge they retained, where the gaps are, and what they’ll be able to utilize when face-to-face with a customer. Sales certification or sales training programs include knowledge-based assessments and simulations to answer all those questions and more.

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Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

When UberEats first launched in EMEA in 2016, my team and I found ourselves immediately confronted with the challenge of scale. In fact, effective territory ownership leads to increased sales, reduced costs, and helps improve the overall customer experience. This strategy gave our sales team much needed flexibility during peak periods.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Department of Labor projects employment of sales managers will increase by 8 percent through 2022, and a 2016 CareerBuilder study predicts sales hiring will increase by 27 percent this year. Involving well-trained salespeople will improve these numbers. There’s growing need for customized solutions. . Moreover, the U.S.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2019

One of the most crucial steps in any marketing or sales decision is knowing who your customers are. Who are your top performing customers? Now that you’ve defined your customers, you need to define the scope of the services you offer. Are most of your customers in one specific industry? Biggest deals? ZoomInfo can help!

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Lessonly

JULY 30, 2019

There are a lot of ways a great customer experience platform provides a better, more encompassing onboarding experience for agents. A 2016 study by Mercer looked into agent turnover over time, and here’s what they found… 6.2% Enter customer experience management tools and training software, like Lessonly.

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