The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Unsustainable Workloads.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mary specializes in leveraging modern learning techniques and tools to enable and train global software sales teams to achieve revenue objectives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. She’s a sales enablement leader with over twenty years of experience in the software industry, who began her career in sales at AT&T.

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Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

You need cold hard data, and your sales CRM must capture all necessary information on the deals closed by your reps. To improve your sales effectiveness and make informed data-backed decisions, you need to conduct sales analysis regularly. Predictive sales analytics. Sales pipeline analysis.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ?

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. They can’t.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Let’s look at three of the most common buckets for sales training courses and discuss who they’re right for. Sales Management Training Programs. Training your sales managers and leadership is very different from training junior- and senior-level sales reps. The 15 Best Sales Training Programs.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your sales pipeline is clogged, and your golden opportunities are wasted. This is where the right quoting software steps in to strengthen your CRM, fusing customer relationship management and advanced quoting processes under one roof. What is CRM with quoting software? The possible consequences? Read on to learn how!

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a concept of your target audience — otherwise known as your buyer personas — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. Average cold call conversion rate: How many prospects are your reps qualifying per call?

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Showpad

AUGUST 8, 2018

While each rep did their initial stand and deliver early on, after running through onboarding materials their pitch should be much more polished and backed up with the knowledge they have learned. However, before diving in, there are various ways to simulate the sales conversation and get your new team members comfortable for the real thing.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 21, 2022

There’s nothing sales leaders would love more than cloning their best performers, and the Challenger Sales model is a (laboratory-free) step in that direction. (PS: Check out Gong’s sales training software. That’s a hallmark of both the “Challenger” personality profile and the Challenger Sales model. Your top reps.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s called, ‘I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up.’ You were sitting in a region with like five or six other sales reps and a manager and your job was to just blanket the entire region. Find all the job sites, all the construction workers, and demo tools all day long to get them to buy.

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

Why is it important in sales management? CRM Functions to Speed Up the Sales Process 5. Footnotes In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective sales management involves more than just charm and persuasion. Why is it important in sales management? What is a CRM? Functionalities of CRM 4.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. Then take those learnings back to it. We gain the weight back and lose our shirts if we don't walk out of the casino.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you’ve got to check out Loopio. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high-performing organizations across North America. I call it gap debt. I read his book called, Am I Being Too Subtle? This episode is brought to you by Loopio.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Gone are the days when B2B sales were about making a hundred cold calls a day or visiting clients in person. Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. We’re going to help you also understand the B2B sales processes, strategies, and more.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every potential client is unique and no rep, manager, or sales leader can predict every outcome for every deal. By developing and implementing an effective sales coaching program , sales managers and leaders can pass on their expertise to reps in a more meaningful way. This often includes data-backed insights. .

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Mindtickle

MAY 31, 2023

This helps sales reps better understand what a potential buyer needs and when. Let’s say the sales pipeline really is like a road. That would mean you need two perspectives: Construction What processes are required to build the road? Other approaches, such as cold calls and events, may require sales team input.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 10, 2022

As conversation intelligence platforms become a cornerstone of the sales tech stack, sales leaders and their teams are exploring how sales managers can use them to boost results and create a team of top performers. Call scoring and analytics. And that’s where conversation intelligence software comes in.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing an arch to bear weight. [1] The question which begs to be answered is, “What is the Keystone in the sales and marketing process?”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? Heck, stand at the head of it. Christin Myers.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sales experience matters, but there are other qualities we look for in a sales candidate: Coachability: You’re the seasoned sales veteran ready to lead your troops to victory. Hire sales reps open to constructive criticism and able to adjust and improve-then deliver it to them! Great sales reps build relationships.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2022

I have been in software sales for seven years now. My first foray into sales was with a Series C company called Vidyard. I started as a commercial regional sales manager (RSM), an AE role, and today I’ve gone through a few different roles at Splunk because they are managing a strategic Canadian business.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

A CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool is software used by sales and marketing teams to track the interactions you’ve made with your contacts and customers, and manage follow-ups. The CRM software market is expected to grow to a $36.5 It is easy to buy software for your business. Do you need a CRM?

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

What is a CRM for sales and why use it? A sales CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool is software used by sales and marketing teams to track the interactions you’ve made with your contacts and customers, and manage follow-ups. The sales CRM software market is expected to grow to a $36.5

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DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

Phone calls, letters, and faxes are being replaced by online chat, video conferencing, email, and text messages. . For example, companies can now use marketing automation software to schedule and manage marketing tasks from a single hub. The end-goal of digitalization is efficiency, with processes requiring less manual input.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The complete question and comment was as follows: How does pricing support the sales function? How is data from sales fed back to pricing? Are the value models and value messages, the pricing guidance and pricing policies, a help or hindrance to sales? 3) Sales Pipeline Conversion Rates (How effective is deal closing).

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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