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2017’s Top 4 Sales Trends

Sales and Marketing Management

Surely you heard some variation of that directive during 2017 sales kickoff season. Through constant innovation, companies test, shift and change their approaches to sales, with the ongoing mission of accomplishing those twin goals. 3: Automation to increase productivity in sales teams. 4: High ROI sales training.

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2017 New Sales Behaviors Replace Create with Connect

Increase Sales

The last couple of years in the word of sales training there has been a focus on sales behaviors specific to how salespeople create value. What I suggest to my sales coaching clients is to replace “create” with this more emotionally intelligent word of connect. Now I must admit to my own negative bias.

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Can Your Email Get Through The Cluttered Mailbox?

Increase Sales

By 2017 this daily deluge of emails may be reduced to just 74.5 Sales Coaching Tip: Do a Google search of your name in quotes to see how many hits exist. These terms can be critical keywords within your email message as well as you give some insight as to the current challenges being faced by your prospects.

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Why, How, and When to Upskill Your Sales Team

Janek Performance Group

With that in mind, here is why, how, and when to upskill your sales team: Why You Should Upskill In 2017, McKinsey Global Institute released Jobs lost, jobs gained: What the future of work will look like for jobs, skills, and wages. This stat alone shows the value of sales coaching. However, be proactive.

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Top 10 sales management books every sales manager must read

Salesmate

The second half offers a simple model for sales leadership as well as some effective and practical advice on sales management that you can start implementing immediately. Get this sales management book on Amazon. The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness. Published- March 2017. The Coaching Habit.

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15 best cold calling books to take your sales team to new levels

Close.io

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Who should read this : For inside sales professionals that do a lot outbound prospecting.

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Slack Bots, Artificial Intelligence

Pipeliner

So will you lose your job in 2017? Not if you master the following whiz-bang platforms: Man the photon torpedos and tune your dilithium crystals because sales 3.0 AI is steadily creeping into sales assistants that loop into Slack Bots to sync to Salesforce like Troops.ai. The Age of Artificial Intelligence is upon us!