SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Every year, a Sales Enablement leader is faced with the same problem. Ramping new sales reps. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Different ways to think about your training program: Training Modality: Sales training should be on multiple platforms and modalities.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Highspot

AUGUST 31, 2021

If sales strategy was a puzzle, then your sales model would be a corner piece: it helps frame your approach to businesses and determines how the other pieces of your strategy will fit together. The keystone nature of sales models makes choosing the right one all the more important. Why do you need a sales model?

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The Pipeline

JULY 9, 2015

The other day I go a resume that had a familiar phrase in it, “John Smith – A Data Driven Sales Professional. Sales is impacted by this as much as any part of business, but there some unique opportunities for sales and sales departments, both good and not so good opportunities. Or maybe it was just me).

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. It’s your job to lead your team through the trenches and give them direction so they’ll know which markets or territories to target and how best to attack. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. Image Source ).

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere. Probably not.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Canvassing can also happen in sales. You probably wouldn’t think of it this way, but when Girl Scouts knock on your door and ask you to buy their cookies, they’re using canvassing as a sales strategy. Although Girl Scouts is a niche example, canvassing is a common practice in sales. Benefits of Sales Canvassing.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You've established the various stages of your sales process. You know how the typical prospect goes from an email address in your CRM to a paying customer. The concept that underlies all those points is known as sales effectiveness. Some other ways to measure sales effectiveness include: Individual quota attainment.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan is a roadmap that outlines your business’s strategy for selling its products or services. Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals. What is a sales plan?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

So how do you maximize the investment you’re making in sales new hires? But the payoff is salespeople who understand your business, your customer, and your sales methodology -- a wicked combination that leads to bigger returns, faster. Onboarding Checklist for Sales New Hires. Train them on how to use your CRM.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s been reported by the Sales Management Association that the average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, only becoming productive after 11.2 Onboarding new sales talent is a huge investment for most organizations, and getting it right can be a make or break for your business. Put people before processes.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2020

As technology continues to evolve, buyers have access to more information than ever before. This means more emphasis on independent research, and a diminished need to engage with a sales rep during the discovery stage of the buyer’s journey. From my experience, this is where most sales organizations struggle.

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Nutshell

MAY 29, 2018

Building a sales process gives your future sales efforts a much greater chance of success, but your work isn’t done until it’s part of your organization’s DNA. Missed the last installment of our sales process series? Click here to read How to Build a Sales Process. PART 1: How to automate a sales process in your CRM.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A sales process is to selling as a recipe is to a cake. This is the same reason why having a B2B sales process is so important. What is a Sales Process? For example, if you have more than one target buyer persona, you will need to tweak the process for each one. The Value of a B2B Sales Process.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. There are an unlimited number of angles from which you can attack a sales strategy. What is a sales strategy?

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

Who’s likelier to make a mistake: The rookie sales rep who’s never sold a day in their life, or the veteran rep who’s been on the front lines for nine years? This helps them hone in on the most lucrative buyer personas and disqualify poor fits. Challenge yourself to add at least one new contact to your CRM every quarter.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

HubSpot CRM. However, while sales reps can’t avoid prospecting, they can certainly make it easier for themselves. Here are some Twitter lists you might want to create: Prospects within your territory that you want to keep tabs on. This is perfect if you know your ideal customer persona. HubSpot CRM. CrunchBase.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

Writing a sales job description is the first step in your hiring process. 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).

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Chorus.ai

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Let’s say you’ve built a great sales team , built up a solid method for tracking your data , and nailed your sales strategy. You have no idea how to scale your sales organization structure in order to replicate that same success at the next level. Scaling your sales team is a test of the way you design processes at your company.

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Groove.co

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Growing your team is exciting but, as many Sales and BDR managers know, it takes time for reps to onboard and get fully up to speed. No matter how quickly they dive in, any professional rep spends significant time learning about new sales processes, enablement materials, markets, and buyer personas. Review their profiles.

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Groove.co

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Growing your team is exciting but, as many Sales and BDR managers know, it takes time for reps to onboard and get fully up to speed. No matter how quickly they dive in, any professional rep spends significant time learning about new sales processes, enablement materials, markets, and buyer personas. Review their profiles.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s been reported by the Sales Management Association that the average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, only becoming productive after 11.2 Onboarding new sales talent is a huge investment for most organizations, and getting it right can be a make or break for your business. Put people before processes.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 14, 2019

Who's likelier to make a mistake: The rookie sales rep who's never sold a day in their life, or the veteran rep who's been on the front lines for nine years? This helps them hone in on the most lucrative buyer personas and disqualify poor fits. Challenge yourself to add at least one new contact to your CRM every quarter.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 5, 2022

According to The Bridge Group , the average ramp-up time for sales development reps (SDRs) is 3.1 Companies need to understand ramp-up time, what affects it, and how to calculate it to support new sales hires and help them reach full productivity sooner. What is sales ramp-up time? How to calculate ramp-up time for sales reps.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Let’s get started… Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? With the evolution of technology, buyers have access to more information than ever before. Go through a variety of filters to zero in on the leads you want to reach.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. The buyer has more choices than ever before, and that includes choosing to talk to your salesperson.

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Salesmate

MARCH 17, 2020

You also have a reliable team of sales professionals. You are gearing up to launch your product’s sales process. Or maybe you are planning to expand your startup and are gearing up to explore the unknown territory. You realize that your sales process and other operations can improve tenfold. What is a Sales Process?

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A sales pipeline software is a digital tool for structuring your selling process so you can close deals quicker and expand your firm faster. In short, pipelines are a method of visualizing all of the options available to you at a specific moment in your sales cycle. How to pick a good sales pipeline software. Let’s get started!

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2022

A critical piece of any data-driven go-to-market strategy , data orchestration is used by marketing and sales operations teams (also known as revenue operations ), data engineers, and data analysts to prepare large swaths of actionable data deliver results for their business. It’s part science and part art.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Team processes.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Want to improve productivity across your sales team, standardize best practices, reduce ramp-up time, and make your salespeople more autonomous? Create a sales playbook. One study found best-performing companies are nearly twice as likely to have sales playbooks than “laggards.”. What is a sales playbook?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Sales has traditionally been an intuition-driven profession. In recent years, however, sales data and technology has changed the way that sales teams think and feel — no longer does intuition sit in the driver’s seat. Sales data has taken the wheel, and for good reason. Sales Data. How to Approach Sales Data.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Listen up Chief Sales Officer. It’s time that Sales Operations gets your undivided attention. Download the Leaders Guide to Sales Ops Enablement by clicking here. There are multiple reasons why Sales Ops needs your attention now. Sales, marketing, IT, strategy, operations and customer service. Opportunity is ripe.

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