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8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018

Sales and Marketing Management

As sales organizations look to succeed in 2018 and beyond, they need to stay abreast of important trends that will impact how – and how successfully – their reps sell. Sales teams better adapt to millennial "movers". In 2018, we’ll see technology fill in some gaps, to guide and augment what sales managers do.

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B2B Sales Trends for 2018

Pipeliner

If you want to perform at your highest level in 2018, you can’t ignore the following trends. If you want to succeed in 2018, the odds are you need to know how to collaborate, manage and be managed by millennials,” says Mikko Honkanen of Vainu. Deeper Integrations Between Sales and Marketing. Account-Based Selling.

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15 Job Interview Questions to Ask a Sales Manager Candidate in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. Not to mention those chosen to lead the sales team actually take a pay cut -- often earning less than their direct reports. Tell me about yourself.

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Sales Reps Are Ideally Suited to Work From Home

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales managers who are nervous about their team working outside of the office can take heart in a recent study that ranks sales representative as the No. In fact, the study from MagnifyMoney shows that 13% of sales representatives already worked from a home office prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Author: SMM staff.

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5 Outcomes to Expect When You Implement Effective Sales Coaching [New Research]

Hubspot Sales

High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. It requires a process, a consistent sales methodology, and time. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Sales Processes Research 2020 – Something Old, Something New

Sales Hacker

This was what CRM vendors Really Simple Systems set to find out in their 2020 Sales Professionals research project. This resulted in 168 people completing the survey, with over half of them having more than five years’ sales experience. It seems that sales prospects will invariably check them once they are contacted.

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The 8 Skills Salespeople Will Need to Be Successful in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills 2018. Your job title hasn’t changed -- you’re still a salesperson, sales manager, sales director, etc. -- but of course, everything else has. 2017 was a huge year: It brought us AI sales tools, machine learning, account-based selling, increasing sales automation, and hyper-targeting.

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