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Flipping the Script on the 80/20 Rule in Sales

Hubspot Sales

Sales managers and business leaders try to move the ratio with training, but up to 87% of training content is forgotten within a few weeks. A dynamic, AI-driven playbook in action might work like this: Picture a sports equipment sales team trying to sell a basic line of elliptical machines to a hotel chain.

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Reducing SaaS Customer Churn: 10 Multi-Team Tactics to Drive Loyalty

Sales Hacker

Because retention is a team sport — and customer churn is the opponent. If yours is a complex platform best learned via real-time interaction and in a hands-on environment, consider employing a virtual instructor-led training (VILT) solution. If your software requires training, “show and tell” presentations could prove invaluable.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

YoY Increase in CAC leading to increased reliance on channel partnerships. The role of text messaging and other unconventional communication channels in sales prospecting and customer success. Outbound Gets Tougher With GDPR Regulations: SaaS Goes Channel Sales For The Win! – John Barrows , Owner, JBarrows Sales Training.

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23 Ideas for Improving Employee Morale in the Workplace

Xactly

Invest in Training. A Slack channel for the marketing team specifically, another channel for fun and random messaging, etc. By interacting with coworkers you might only see in passing or when a deadline is near, you open the channels of communication when everyone returns to the office. Rip Off the Band-Aid.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. Early in my AE career, the company I worked for was acquired and we were all told we had to go to another state for an entire month of training.

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How to make sales calls [The Ultimate Guide]

OnePageCRM

Scale this across whatever channels your customers use – Linkedin, Facebook groups, Industry forums, Angellist. I haven’t owned a TV since 2011 and I don’t follow any team sports so the usual chit-chat openers fall flat. We have a deal going on right now and _ is heavily discounted to $$$. What is your current _?

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

Sam Jacobs : When you say you went at it hard from a technical perspective, does that mean that you trained yourself how to be an engineer? They were enamored with our sales channel and our sales distribution. He owns either the pistons or some sports team. And that was how we got our start into TrendKite. It was at $12.75