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2017 in Review – Birthdays, Gong Ringing, and the Future of Sales Training

The Brooks Group

2017 was a big year for The Brooks Group. Since then, we’ve delivered training to over one million sales professionals, in over 350 industries, in 22 countries around the world. The Brooks Group took home awards in the categories of Sales Training Practice of the Year and Sales Consulting Practice of the Year.

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Study: Yes, leadership training works and people like it

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Does leadership training work? The data we’re talking about comes from an exhaustive meta-analysis of 335 studies of leadership training effectiveness. The analysis found that leadership training scored 0.82 These are strong measures of effect, demonstrating that leadership training is in fact quite worthwhile.

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. Scott McCartney, who covers air travel for The Wall Street Journal, worked with three airline industry analysts to determine the long-term impact of COVID-19 on business travel.

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Sales Training is a “Process” not an Event

ROI4Sales

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. Hire new rep – train – fail – repeat cycle.

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Jumpstart Your New Year

Grant Cardone

2 Journal Your Future. I personally use this 10X Planner to journal. #3 I’m doing an exclusive live training to help train you to WIN big in 2019. Reserve your spot to this training, and if I can help Jump Start Your New Year, let me also put your life on full throttle by reserving your seat at 10XGrowth Con 3.

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Getting Culture Right: Five Lessons for Merger Success in the Sales Department

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: David Sill In August 2017, the DiscoverOrg sales team was working at top speed, well aware that Q4 was right around the corner, when our CEO announced the acquisition of a formidable competitor, RainKing. A sort of panic set in: this meant merging two sales teams that had been accustomed to going head to head.

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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall. Software is eating the world,” stated Marc Andreessen in a 2011 Wall Street Journal article. For a pharmaceutical client, it can help determine what doctors are most responsive to training.