Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. We know they’re having fun, but how are they learning and preparing for a successful new selling year?

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

These indicators reveal that sales have grown because of the booming economy, not because organizations have improved their sales methodology and processes. With the prospect of a recession looming on the horizon, are your sales numbers poised for a fall? An Ineffective Sales Process. Organizational Misalignment.

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SBI

JUNE 11, 2019

What is Sales Enablement? Sales enablement isn’t the latest tech cure for inefficient sales operations and marketing management. focus on the customer, sales enablement encompasses much more than useful “buyer-first” sales methodologies like Customer Centric Selling. CMO Council.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

The sales operations professional is like the coxswain for salespeople. Patrick Kelly, who led Xerox’s first Sales Operations group, describes the role as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do but need to do to make a great sales force.”. Download Our Free Sales Conversion Rate Calculator and Guide.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

22, 2021 — Highspot , the industry’s only unified, natively-built sales enablement platform, today announced it has closed $200 million in Series E funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from new investor Bain & Company. “Sales enablement is about more than sales. SEATTLE, Feb.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 25, 2019

Seller performance is down, yet revenue attainment is up, according to the latest research from CSO Insights in “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study.” Ask yourself these questions: How strong is the adoption of your sales technology stack or other sales operations tools?

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales organizations always look to gain a competitive advantage. But it’s become harder to find that advantage amid a sea of change: customers engage sellers later in their buying journey and technology, sellers struggle to adopt new selling methodologies and organizations constantly deploy myriad transformation initiatives.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This installment: The enablement domain, which is any activity meant to improve the performance of the sales function. Loops close when coaching drives changed training when sales insights are captured for improved content and product innovation. Part 3 dealt with the second domain: your organization’s selling capability.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For sales enablement practitioners, this requires proactive evaluation of how you manage customer-facing talent, content, and communications to deliver exceptional buyer experiences. Create Clarity Around Your Sales Talent Lifecycle. Empower Your Sales Managers. Adaptability is key to survival in our ever-changing world.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 8, 2020

Have you critiqued your sales process lately? According to Craig Rosenberg, co-founder and chief analyst at TOPO, “of best-in-class sales organizations, two-thirds had well-defined sales processes.”. Consider that almost half the organizations surveyed in that study were not doing the sales process well.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You already know that an optimized workflow can make or break your sales team. If not, we’ve got you — OurSales Engineering Manager Chris Turner and RVP of North American Commercial Sales Keith Cordeiro recently held a webinar on this very topic. They stress how necessary it is to adapt strategies in response to shifting market trends.

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Mindtickle

JULY 13, 2020

Evaluation of Sales Readiness and Enablement Technology Highlights Completeness of Strategy and Performance. SAN FRANCISCO — July 13, 2020 — MindTickle , the leader in Sales Readiness technology, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Aragon Research Globe™for Sales Coaching and Learning, 2020.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 24, 2020

Sales organizations always look to gain a competitive advantage. But it’s become harder to find that advantage amid a sea of change: customers engage sellers later in their buying journey and technology, sellers struggle to adopt new selling methodologies and organizations constantly deploy myriad transformation initiatives.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Go from chaos to control in your sales process with Salesloft’s Sales Engineering Manager Chris Turner and RVP of North American Commercial Sales Keith Cordeiro. You already know that an optimized workflow can make or break your sales team. That’s why the technology your sales team uses is so critical.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Looking for a rich list of sales techniques and tips you can use to close more deals? We’ve pulled together a list of 55 sales techniques, tips, and best practices. Prospecting Sales Tips & Techniques. This is an essential part of sales. It’s PACKED with useful sales tips that will help you book more meetings: 1.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Many sales leaders think they’ve put a simple sales process in place, but they get frustrated when their reps don’t follow it. That’s because the sales processes leaders come up with are often not as clear, actionable, or repeatable as they’d hoped. These 3 Sales Process Tips Will Make You Unstoppable. Sound familiar?

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

On the surface, the sales machine seems to be moving along for many organizations. For the third year in a row, sales organizations hit their revenue goals, according to the 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study from CSO Insights. In this post we tackle the first: declining sales performance.

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Highspot

APRIL 23, 2019

As power shifts increasingly to the buyer, sales organizations must transform — or get outmaneuvered by competitors. The 2019 State of Sales Enablement report found that more than half of the respondents noticed today’s buyers conducting more research prior to engaging sales than ever before.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rainmaker 2019 is coming up fast! This year, the sales engagement conference is going to be bigger and better than ever. This opportunity to learn and exchange ideas is like drinking from a sales firehose – there is a lot to take in. Maybe you’re not a sales pro, a sales ops star, or a sales leader.

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Doing sales process mapping can be fast and easy with these seven sales process steps. RELATED: 7 Most Common Mistakes In Sales Process Mapping And How To Avoid Them. In this article: A Business Needs to Have a Sales Process Map. What Is a Sales Process? Sales Process vs Sales Methodology.

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Mindtickle

JULY 13, 2020

Evaluation of Sales Readiness and Enablement Technology Highlights Completeness of Strategy and Performance. SAN FRANCISCO — July 13, 2020 — Mindtickle , the leader in Sales Readiness technology, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Aragon Research Globe for Sales Coaching and Learning, 2020.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Halloween is here and there are spooky things all around us, but your sales pipeline should not be one of them. While others might be thinking of candy and costumes on October 31st, those of us who are part of the go-to-market engine are hoping we receive treats from our prospects and not tricks. Still concerned about spooky pipelines?

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A B2B sales strategy used to be simple: discover the buyer’s needs, then offer your solution. In this, the second blog in a series exploring market trends that are disrupting sales, we take a closer look at how perspective helps sellers capture buyers’ interest and build stronger customer relationships. Register for the Webinar.

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SalesforLife

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Maybe I’m getting older, or becoming more aware, or turning cynical – but the disruption in the Force that I’m seeing is that year by year, more and more sales professionals – whether they’re account executives, customer success leaders, or business development reps – seem to be losing the skill and art of prospecting. Let’s unpack this.

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SBI

AUGUST 1, 2019

This alliance allows the Atlanta-based technology companies to continue to expand market opportunities and increase the value delivered to their clients. ATLANTA, August 1, 2019 – ????Revegy Mark Kopcha, CEO for Revegy. Mark Kopcha, CEO for Revegy. Today, users and organizations expect integration. About Revegy.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Partners to showcase solution for Sales Readiness at 12th Annual Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training and Development event. As the healthcare market shifts, it puts pressure on sales organizations to adapt in order to be competitive,” Matt Switzer, co-founder and sales consultant at Healthcare Sales Performance.

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SBI

AUGUST 2, 2019

This alliance allows the Atlanta-based technology companies to continue to expand market opportunities and increase the value delivered to their clients. Sales personnel spend significant time in their CRM systems, so having both companies’ technologies integrated on one platform will make their jobs easier and help them reach their targets.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Partners to showcase solution for Sales Readiness at 12th Annual Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training and Development event. As the healthcare market shifts, it puts pressure on sales organizations to adapt in order to be competitive,” Matt Switzer, co-founder and sales consultant at Healthcare Sales Performance.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

That is how I think of sales and marketing alignment in the modern business environment. Traditionally known as the cats and dogs of the business world, sales and marketing are no longer two separate entities. Sales Has Always Been Hard. How Digital Selling Has Changed Sales. Create Market Segments.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For some sellers, that’s meant moving away from solution selling to a more aggressive approach, like the Challenger Sale model popularized after the 2011 book of the same name. Here are five reasons that a consultative approach beats the Challenger Sale for enterprise selling. Relationships Last Beyond the Sale.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

That is, unless their organization adopts a sales methodology designed to improve sellers’ conversational skills into its enterprise sales strategy. And that’s why we’ve developed our newest diagnostic, the Sales Conversation Metric. Take The Sales Conversation Metric. Sales managers effectively coach salespeople.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Last month, Miller Heiman Group CEO Byron Matthews kicked off our webinar series, The Future of Sales Is Now , by sharing marketplace trends that challenge sales teams across all industries: Sales performance is faltering. Talent gaps are derailing sales organizations. Investing in Sales Effectiveness.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

But today, buyers put less trust in us than they ever have, market competition is fiercer than ever, and these traits no longer separate the best salespeople from merely good ones. These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. I didn't always want to go into sales. That generalization included me.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2019

T ransformations in the market have put the locus of power squarely in the hands of buyers: the world revolves around buyers and their needs. To forge these lasting customer relationships, sellers must create a world-class sales system that consists of three components: customer engagement, performance support and sales enablement.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Challenger Sale—popularized in 2011 by the book of the same name—posits that consultative selling is dead. That evolution is what will strengthen relationships between buyers and sellers and bring success to sales organizations as we face an increasingly challenging global economy. It’s evolved.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Probably the most popular approach to complex B2B sales, solution selling has been around for decades. It is still being taught to many sales reps around the world, and there are compelling reasons to do so. Personalization has a strong effect on sales effectiveness. Ready to fortify your sales pipeline? Simplification.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 25, 2019

We’re already a month into 2019! If you’re in sales and sales engagement is important to you, this is THE conference for you. Here are four ways to convince them that Rainmaker 2019 isn’t just worth your time and theirs, it’s a necessity to move your business forward. The sales profession is always changing.

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