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5 Ways to Supercharge Your Sales Enablement Efforts

DiscoverOrg Sales

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. This is where sales enablement technology comes in. Training, training, training.

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Sales managers and the empty-bucket strategy

Sales Training Connection

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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Is Failure an Option for Your Account Based Selling Teams?

No More Cold Calling

CSO Insights’ 2017 Best Practices Study revealed that quota attainment—averaged across all geographies, industries, and company sizes—dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. And I’m not pointing at the account based sales development reps. Collapse the sales process. Why Does Any of This Matter?

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Master the Art of Knowing Who to Call and How to Ask with Tito Bohrt

Sales Hacker

But sometimes we call heads of sales, and sometimes we call heads of marketing. We never call SDRs because we believe that the decision maker, the budget approver, the person who will vouch and say, ‘I’m gonna put this in my line item’ or ‘I am going to fight for this tool to stay in the company’ is your SDR director.

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Women are WAY better than men at this high-value sales skill

Gong.io

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. . It was the last day of Q1 2016, and they were going into battle on a closing call. . Women have a sales superpower. Sam, how did you close him?

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

You could call on a business manager whose role was fairly simple and straightforward – it was finance and function focused. The business manager was a decision maker in his or her own right and their sign-off was for a fairly healthy dollar figure. Roles weren’t as sophisticated as they are today.

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Excuses Don’t Count: December Referral Selling Insights

Pipeliner

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Based on what I’ve heard from sales leaders, 2017 wasn’t much better. There are many possible reasons that account based sales reps miss quota. Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads.