Alice Heiman

APRIL 11, 2023

Is your sales team struggling to have conversations with the right buyers? Better prospecting is the most direct path to increase sales conversations. Her four steps are: The right list Great skills Strong process The right software What can your team add to improve their prospecting?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Let’s start with an analogy: You wouldn’t expect a rookie with no training to pick up a bat in a major league baseball game and knock it out of the park on his first try. Today, let’s review the best pipeline coaching strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Reps and their managers can see what their buyers will see, and learn from it – making course corrections before those high-stakes conversations. Validate training and certify reps.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today’s sellers are dealing with the high expectations of savvy B2B buyers, decision-by-committee, disruptive technology, M&A, product innovations… and more. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? What about sales training programs?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Author: SMM Sales managers rely on meticulous onboarding programs, continuous coaching and extensive product instruction to instill confidence in their sales reps. Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. buyer enablement”?—?while

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. Reps must understand buyers’ needs and challenges and how to convey the value of what they’re selling. Virtual Training Fatigue. What should they do?

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Awarathon

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Getting the most out of every coaching and training session is key to increasing sales velocity and conversion rate. Sales readiness, in simple terms, is all about – “Preparing your sales team to face the buyer with proper industry knowledge, product insights & to solve a business problem.” Let’s take an example.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. This client is positioning itself to cater to the New Buyer. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. These solutions record, transcribe and score customer calls, serving them back to sales managers to use as fuel for more effective coaching conversations.

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SBI

JANUARY 24, 2021

Bigtincan Acquires VoiceVibes AI-Powered Coaching Platform. The deal extends Bigtincan’s lead in AI-driven sales enablement to help sellers most effectively engage with buyers in the digital world. Waltham, MA – January 15, 2021. VoiceVibes is one of the most advanced voice analytics engines in the market, ?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Training can take place in a classroom setting, via LMS, mobile applications, etc.

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SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Now more than ever it is important to have some sales training ideas to engage the remote or home based salesperson. Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The Importance of Sales Training. Sales Training Ideas to Try.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. Some of the top include: Lead Generation and Qualification Prospect identification Lead qualification Effective BDRs excel at identifying potential leads within target markets or industries.

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Allego

MARCH 17, 2022

There’s more coaching, increased focus on methodology, and more use of conversational intelligence,” Lundy said. Amand agreed, saying Conversation Intelligence has had a profound impact on sales coaching and training during the pandemic and will have long-lasting needs as we continue with hybrid workforces and virtual selling.

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Allego

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post originally appeared on the Training Industry website. Poorly trained sales reps hurt an organization’s bottom line with inefficient processes, difficulties connecting with prospects and challenges in closing deals. Mastering skills requires practice, reinforcement, coaching and collaboration.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Engaging buyers in an effective way requires sales professionals having access to the right content and messaging for their targeted buyer roles and their business challenges. Additionally, it’s crucial that they can tailor their approach and their messages in each buyer interaction in a valuable, relevant and differentiating way.

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BrainShark

JULY 4, 2023

Coaching sales reps is vital, and if you aren’t currently doing it, good news – getting started can make a world of difference for your bottom line. All of these issues can be improved with effective sales coaching, but sometimes, getting started can feel overwhelming. What is sales coaching?

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. Seeking and enlisting sales training partners.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. This equips them with vital skills to engage with prospects on their preferred social media platforms, building meaningful relationships that lead to increased revenue. Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. For the first time ever, buyers and sellers are completely aligned. Buyer behavior and selling motion are in sync. But before we start, let’s define what sales prospecting is.

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Highspot

MAY 6, 2021

And yet, many sellers are wasting their opportunities to connect with potential buyers and lead them into the sales process. It’s even harder to win back the interest of a buyer once you’ve lost it than it is to attract it in the first place. So, how do you get the attention of a buyer and create conversations with them?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2024

This article originally appeared in Training Industry. In addition, McKinsey analysts say, “AI can boost sales effectiveness and performance by offloading and automating many mundane sales activities, freeing up capacity to spend more time with customers and prospective customers (while reducing cost to serve).”

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For many organizations, sales training and coaching are as linked as peanut butter and jelly. The two follow each other seamlessly: reps attend periodic training, and managers reinforce that training over a longer timeframe. This is great when your organization has a training scheduled. Of course, this makes sense.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. To do this, you need to have a high-impact and effective sales training program to help your salespeople excel.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. To do this, you need to have a high-impact and effective sales training program to help your salespeople excel.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One of the most rewarding activities as a sales leader is coaching your reps and seeing them excel. Unfortunately, most sales managers receive little training in how to effectively coach their sales reps or guide them towards success. What is (and isn’t) sales coaching? Sales coaching framework for better coaching 1:1s.

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Allego

MARCH 15, 2022

If sellers want to connect with today’s buyers, their interactions with them must be hyper-personalized. She also helps the market understand the increasingly important role new technology plays in enabling better experiences for both buyers and sellers. How to Have Hyper-Personalized Conversations with Buyers.

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Mindtickle

MAY 10, 2022

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers.

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 24, 2019

Lack of Coaching. . Not enough training in the industry/space. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. But as important to eradicating the “bro culture” in sales it’s equally important that we elevate our coaching game. Unfortunately, the lack of coaching is sales today is atrocious.

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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. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. That generalization included me.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some think great sellers are born , but more often than not, they’re made through virtual sales training, teaching, practice, and support. Below we outline 10 skills your sales team can develop with help from a virtual sales training platform. Time management. Technology use. Relationship building. Effective communication. Negotiation.

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