Close.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

No joke, we’ve spoken to CEOs who want to make money on outbound prospecting in 90 days, but when asked how long their sales cycle is, they answer “four to six months.” Move into new segment (Up or down market, launch self-service or sales assisted, multichannel). Massive sales team growth. Going international. Reduce churn.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Are you in sales and looking to get promoted into management? Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. What traits or skills do they look for in new managers?

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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.

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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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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

In the highly competitive financial services industry, effective sales training is a game-changer. Sales reps are crucial in promoting and selling financial products and services to a diverse customer base. Let’s consider some stats.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Six Best Practices in Sales Pipeline Management to Boost Revenue. The most important thing in sales is a strong pipeline. Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In the competitive world of sales, everyone is seeking the magic bullet that will accelerate revenue. But there’s a simpler way to increase market share: Make your sales organization more optimistic. Martin Seligman’s work with insurance company Metropolitan Life is one of the more famous case studies.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only that, but for B2B sales, the desire for virtual communications extends to buyers. And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Coaching distributed sales teams and providing feedback. You aren’t alone.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management. They also hire more diversely.

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

Hiring and onboarding new members of your sales team can be complicated. Research from Clearslide and CSO Insights found that, on average, it takes new reps between six and nine months to get fully ramped up to the performance levels of established sales agents. Case studies will be perfect for this purpose.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your 2012 Sales Plan. It’s a little late to begin planning your 2012 Sales Plan, but in a conversation last week with a reader of this blog, I realized there maybe others who have not formalized their 2012 plan. Sales Goals. 3.1.7 Sales Organization. 4.1.2 Territory definition. Sales Strategy.

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Close.io

AUGUST 19, 2019

It’s an internal passion for competition that inspired many executives to start their careers in sales. Salespeople were so territorial that they wouldn’t make introductions on behalf of their colleagues even when they had a connection to a prospect’s company. Want to build and run a highly motivated sales team?

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. 9 sales enablement best practices.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 24, 2018

Embracing Sales Mastery with Insight, Value, and Technology. For any sales person to prosper in their career they need to move beyond being good at building relationships to also embrace the holy trinity of sales mastery: Lead with insight as a domain expert. Create tangible business value for clients.

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The Brooks Group

JULY 7, 2017

No one knows how true this is more than sales professionals. Success in sales involves juggling many different tasks—some are tedious and time consuming, but simply cannot be avoided. Share with your team these 7 time management tips for salespeople and they’ll be getting more done, in less time , before you know it! Conclusion.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

A Case Study-. This firm in 6 years had a 20% growth rate in an industry that was growing 3% annually, they quadrupled sales and profits margins were double the industry norms. But before I detail their actions, the three things they did not do were: Add more VAR’s into territories creating too much competition.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Productivity , Questions , Sales 2.0 , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Selling to Executives , execution.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey. Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 13, 2019

Before you shut yourself in a room and whiteboard out a new sales process, read this. We’re sharing exercises and templates to help you build your sales process from scratch. Use this blog to refine your existing sales process with data-backed best practices. What Makes a Good Sales Overall? Already have one?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

” My knee jerk reaction was to provide one of my two standard responses, “It depends… ” or “It takes what it takes, man up (or woman up as the case may be).” It’s one that I know concerns sales people and managers, but most don’t have the courage to ask.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 5, 2019

At the time, it was one of the largest single sales in Salesforce history. Word in sales circles was, the relationship between Salesforce and State Farm had languished under the watch of a sales rep who, for years, couldn’t find a way in. “As And this is exactly what the new Salesforce sales rep did. How did he do it?

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The Sales Association

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. I know, I know, management provides you with these snazzy Web leads and purchased lists and calls it "warm calling"—whatever that means. "But After all, they got into sales because they like working with people.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM system, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. And that’s thanks for the most part, to good data management.” ” There are two main reasons CRM adoption fails for sales teams trying to increase their performance.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

“I remember the first time I got my own CRM for sales, nearly 10 years ago” recounts author and sales coach Adam Metz. And that’s thanks for the most part, to good data management.” ” There are two main reasons sales CRM adoption fails for sales teams trying to increase their performance.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Segment 39

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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales is the somewhat dark art of convincing people to buy stuff. But the problem is that many people, including a lot of salespeople, do see sales that way. And today we want to show you how you and your colleagues can use it to break that old idea of sales and bring new life into our old profession.

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Jeff Shore

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In sales, you get into solutions and the solutions may be great, but what people are buying is the future outcome. BuyersMind #Sales Tweet This. 4:50] Displacing lazy competitors in the sales space. [6:30] More about our guest Anthony Iannarino: Anthony is a speaker, author, and sales leader. 15:10] Spam or nurture? [22:57]

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Bigtincan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Sales teams use Highspot primarily for three reasons: sales enablement, sales coaching , and content management. Highspot has been around for nine years and has many loyal customers, but there are also many Highspot competitors in the sales enablement space. This article was written for them. Mindtickle.

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