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In the Age of AI, Training Is More Critical Than Ever

Sales and Marketing Management

Compare that to 2016, when CRM penetration surged to 74 percent but goal attainment dropped to 55.8 percent, and it’s clear that data by itself is not the key to sales success. This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team? including the B- and C-players?—?to

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Thank You

No More Cold Calling

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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Is Your Sales Enablement Enabling the Right Things?

SBI

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% Yet, as an industry, we’re failing badly at it.

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Why CEOs Are Failing Account Based Sales Reps

No More Cold Calling

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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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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12 Key Benefits CRM Systems Provide to a Business

Hubspot Sales

These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. 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.

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Groove Ranks 191 on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500 List of Fastest-Growing Company in North America

Groove.co

Deloitte awarded Groove with this honor based on our record revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. 2020 - The Forrester Wave™: Sales Engagement, Q3 2020 - Strong Performer Sept. 2020 - G2 Fall 2020 Sales Engagement Software Grid Report - Highest-Rated Platform Sept. 2020 - AA-ISP 2020 Service Provider of the Year Award Sept.