Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . They change compensation systems and territorial designs. This idea was recently reinforced in an article from McKinsey. Adding Channels.

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HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the  Why Sales Organizations Fail.           What prevents a sales organization from achieving success? This may result in moving business from outside sales to inside sales or less expensive partner and distributor channels.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. In This Article: What is a Sales Manager? How Sales Manager Succeed. Why Some Sales Managers Fail. Benefits of a Successful Sales Manager. The Failures and Successes of Sales Management. What is a Sales Manager?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, you’ll learn how to structure your sales development (SDR) team for maximum efficiency and scalability. Sales leaders, read on! The SEAL program can bolt on to traditional models like pods, round robin or regional inside sales structures and give those structures superpowers. Navy SEALs.

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Sales Hacker Training

JUNE 17, 2020

RELATED: Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You? It’s important to remember that if there isn’t a fit for some or all of these factors, it doesn’t make this sales professional a bad hire. Details on territories. If your process is primarily phone-based, that’s potentially an issue. An org chart.

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Openview

MARCH 16, 2018

Editor’s Note: The following article is based on Liz Cain’s presentation at SalesLoft’s Rainmaker Conference. Salesforce was one of the first out of the gate with an inside model. Salesforce was one of the first out of the gate with an inside model. And with that, modern inside sales was born. The year is 1999.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

With advanced stealth B2B technologies I'm aware of right now, essentially one person can do the work of an entire traditional inside sales team of 50 and the CEO can just fly in and seal the deal. Inside sales doesn't have to be a career path to outside sales. Different skill sets, different professional paths."

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

I read all sorts of articles about coaching from some very thoughtful, smart, and successful people. Many of those articles have provocative titles or themes like, Who Benefits Most From Coaching? In many ways, the articles make huge amounts of sense. But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

In this article, we’ll start by going over job description basics and then look at descriptions for two common sales positions: Sales development rep (entry-level sales role). Account executive (more tenured sales role). This article is part 1 in our series of “Hiring a sales rep.”

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ExecVision

AUGUST 31, 2018

Did you know the average win rate for an Inside Sales Team is only 22% ? Yet elite, best-in-class sales teams win 50% of their deals. Sales leaders that achieve this see: Increased sales without hiring additional reps. I had to manage a CRM build, distribute leads, assign territories and more.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Lars Nilsson, CEO of SalesSource has participated in this first hand while leading inside sales teams at HP, ArcSight and others. ” In my own experience in a day to day sales role, I paid for and used three key tools that gave me significant advantages over my competition. All Rights Reserved.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 18, 2020

A successful sales leader is well versed in all forms of leadership, from business to sports, politics to military, to education and training. I’m writing this article in the COVID era, so events feel like a thing of the past. Kevin Dorsey – VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop. Platform #3 – Events .

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2015

Many of these folks correctly guessed or figured out that I have been involved in sales myself. Indeed, I have carried a briefcase around a territory, lived on draws and commissions and also more recently actually looked after a group of inside sales agents. You post the newsletter and do some basic promotion.

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Trinity Perspectives

MARCH 22, 2018

I’m either exactly the right person, or completely the wrong person, to write an article about how to overcome stress in sales, given my experiences over the past 20 years in the B2B sales industry … I’ll let you be the judge. Stressor: The need to compromise your ethics or ideals to succeed in sales.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Productmarket-fit evaluation is essential to your go-to market strategy in any new territory you want to enter. Building a repeatable sales model. There is an ever-growing demand for content marketing specialists who can write articles and blogs that will be shared on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

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Don on Selling

OCTOBER 26, 2018

If you conduct searches on Google and look at popular sales blogs, you will find plenty of articles about what it takes to locate the perfect sales representatives. You will also find information about how to write the best job description for a sales position and how to boost customer retention.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 16, 2019

Show them how they are supposed to generate leads and prepare them for AEs according to different sales and marketing strategies. If you’re an inside sales team then you probably have named accounts. If field-based, then each salesperson might be responsible for different geographic territories. Who owns which accounts?

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

Did you know that the latest inside sales report by The Bridge Group revealed that five months (and growing) was the average ramp-up time for new hires in SaaS companies? % Mark Roberge, their VP Sales, talks about it in this For entrepreneur article. of companies with ramp time > 5 months.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

Did you know that the latest inside sales report by The Bridge Group revealed that five months (and growing) was the average ramp-up time for new hires in SaaS companies? % Mark Roberge, their VP Sales, talks about it in this For entrepreneur article. of companies with ramp time > 5 months.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

And today we’re going to be talking about moving a field sales team to remote, and moving an inside sales team to remote, given everything that’s happening in the COVID crisis, and what the challenges are. Why don’t you run sales operations?” We’re deploying it across our entire sales team.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s a great addition to your sales skills , pave the way for closing more business, and become a top-performing sales rep. In this article, I’ll show you a step-by-step process to execute your first cold canvassing campaign. What is cold canvassing in sales? Let’s begin with the basics. And take such costs into account.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Sales Source. The Sales Leader. The Center for Sales Strategy Blog. Must-read post: How to Build the Right Sales Playbook for Your Team. Inside Sales Experts Blog.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article will cover inside vs. outside sales CRMs; the biggest challenges for outside sales reps, their leaders, and managers; time management; quota attainment; and outside sales technology. Keep reading to find outside sales statistics and details on what our survey revealed. Outside sales reps.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Want to ramp up sales but feel like it’s always an uphill battle to reach your targets? Sales productivity is the #1 challenge for almost 65% of B2B organizations, according to research from The Bridge Group. Only 33% of inside sales rep’s time is actively spent selling, according to CSO Insights. Sales productivity.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

Reinvigorated by this article? I do this every day and train groups and CXOs to look at their book of business and territory mapping in this novel way. Is it possible to close deals without an inside sales team, field sales team and solely as a CEO founder leveraging marketing automation and LinkedIn alone?

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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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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Some sales cycles are quick, but many have a large number of opportunities that are months -- and maybe years -- old. If salespeople change roles, territories, or move on from a company, sales pursuit records are often lost due in part to poor CRM documentation. Too busy to coach your salespeople?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2018

Amit Bendov (CEO @ Gong.io) has found calls that involve multiple sales reps are 258% more likely to close. This approach was also used by Jennifer Brandenburg (VP of Inside Sales @ ServiceMax) and Chris Donato (VP of Sales @ DXC Technology) both of whom believe in the importance of a pod structure in closing high-tier accounts.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Leslie would explain the goal of the article. Over time we collaborated on dozens of articles. Be prepared for haters and people looking to antagonize — it comes with the territory. Together, we had a great cadence for creating content. Start with the goal of the content, and build from there.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Why did you choose sales? .

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Resources All White Paper Awards & Recognition Blog Article Brief Case Studies eBook ebooks & Guides Funding & Acquisitions Guide Industry News Infographic Interview Podcasts Report Resources Video Video Reviews Webinars. Blog Article. Sales Enablement. Blog Article. Sales Efficiency. Field Sales.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. You need empathy, grit, and drive.

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