Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2021

Shawn Channell of Just Launch Training and Consulting says the pandemic revealed to sales managers and their reps that they need to fine tune their skills in communicating with prospects other than face-to-face.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales Training Programs Online. Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. Online sales training has both advantages, disadvantages, and parity with the more traditional approach to upskilling salespeople.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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Strategy Hiring Top of Funnel Face-to-face 52

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. There’s a lot to consider, including bias, data management, permissions, and more. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly. But how do you do that ethically?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. Josiane heads up TeleSmart Communications , and is leading practice and thought leader in the area of inside sales and management. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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Sales Management Hiring Inside Sales Cold Calling 257

The Brooks Group

MARCH 18, 2019

When executed effectively, channel sales can allow your company to grow and expand rapidly. In order to be successful, you must strategically build your distribution channel network and follow the right steps to develop a strong, ongoing relationship with each channel partner. What is a Channel Sales Program?

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Outsourcing Services Channels Sales Process Margin 70

The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 5, 2020

Due to a shift towards remote selling and more salespeople working from home, sales leaders are asking “does online sales training work?”. We know that best in class companies (and indeed the most successful salespeople) are constantly seeking ways to improve sales performance. Online sales training courses.

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Training Retention Face-to-face Coaching 64

Allego

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Once upon a time, “personalized training” meant printing the names of workshop participants on their handout folders. Today, this key component of modern learning means exactly what it says – sales training that is genuinely personalized , genuinely “just for me.”. What are the advantages of personalized sales training?

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Training Hiring Face-to-face Distribution 59

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

Face-to-face sales interactions are typically viewed as the most valuable activity by Sales Leaders. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls.

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Buyer Prospecting Face-to-face How To 317

Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Channel sales present a challenge for several industries, but it’s a particular concern for manufacturers. Additionally, some organizations struggle to clearly define the difference between channel customers and the end-user. Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels.

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Nutshell

MARCH 18, 2024

So, how do sales managers and their teams overcome this challenge? Today’s online-centric sales landscape requires sales reps to adapt quickly to technological advancements in the software necessary to connect with customers and prospects. It all depends on the CRM system. Attend a live guided tour!

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Remote work is the new normal for many professionals, and salespeople are being tasked with meeting and exceeding their sales quotas while making a swift transition to working from home. Stellar sales work is possible outside of a traditional company office. Remote Sales Management Challenges.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The seismic shifts caused by Brexit have left UK sales professionals facing a labyrinth of new challenges, especially those targeting markets outside the UK. Constant Market Changes: The uncertainty and evolving market mean sales strategies must be more flexible and attentive to what customers want and need, exactly when they need it.

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Strategy Face-to-face Margin Revenue 62

Highspot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

New integration enables sales teams to close more deals, faster. The integration gives go-to-market teams the ability to scale best practices across their sales teams and drive more revenue. The integration gives go-to-market teams the ability to scale best practices across their sales teams and drive more revenue. SEATTLE, Nov.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The return to normal continues along its hybrid evolution — meaning revenue leaders face challenges managing scattered teams and establishing processes in this new landscape. 64% of companies will provide additional training on how to manage a virtual workforce. How to create equality in a hybrid sales team.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Several of our subscribers reached out to us to comment that although remote work provides the advantage of flexibility and location independence, certain elements of pricing management could be enhanced through face-to-face interactions. Spending time directly with reps face-to-face builds trust and collaboration.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Constantly invent new sales or partner incentive programs.

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What are the benefits of undertaking a social selling training course and what can a salesperson expect to learn? The impact of social selling on the sales process is something salespeople and especially sales management can struggle with. As we enter the Sales 3.0 Social selling plan.

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Social Selling Course Training Social Media 59

Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? What is sales productivity?

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How To Sales Qualified Lead CRM Face-to-face 71

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. To that end, leading suppliers train their sales reps to engage customers with a specific kind of information? Information overload.

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Buyer Scale Face-to-face Report 194

LeadFuze

JANUARY 6, 2020

As you may be familiar with the term “direct sales”, especially since the name itself is very straight forward, but what is channel sales and how your business can benefit from it? What is Channel Sales? A business can be sold through multiple “channels”, which is why it’s called channel sales.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. I think of a star salesperson.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2021

Not only are the techniques that sellers deploy different today, but remote training requires a unique set of best practices as well. Not only are the techniques that sellers deploy different today, but remote training requires a unique set of best practices as well. The goal isn’t to recreate in-person training environments online.

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Training Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Highspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Of the 33 evaluation criteria, Highspot received the highest possible scores in 23 criteria including: customer care model, buyer engagement, overall integration breadth and depth, sales manager dashboards, product vision, partner ecosystem, solution architecture and innovation roadmap.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Report Research 95

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Discussions about training, tools, technology, processes, programs and other things that drive performance and higher levels of customer engagement. Of course, in the same channels we see some horrible, manipulative practices. They talk about investing in developing people and maximizing their performance. Do we simply not care?

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Face-to-face Promotion Channels Coaching 72

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Or possibly our problems are that too many sales people just don’t want to prospect? They want to be handed qualified leads–ideally qualified to the point that all the sales person need to is ask for a PO. But is it really tougher than anything else in selling or are we just making it much tougher than it need be?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline 164

Allego

JANUARY 8, 2021

In episode 17, sales management authority Frank Cespedes explores how the pandemic has impacted sales training, what sales managers need to know about the new selling environment, and the biggest trends in sales learning. B2B sales—and sales training—have been upended by the pandemic.

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Lead Rank Comparison Top of Funnel Funnel 77

Allego

AUGUST 4, 2019

When the sales training team at one medical device maker was facing budget cuts, they decided to move forward instead of scaling back. By adopting sales learning and enablement technology , they were able to dramatically improve the company’s sales enablement program with fewer resources. New Product Launches.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to be successful– but sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Sales reps face a number of obstacles that can keep them from their goals and it’s your job as their manager to help them overcome these challenges. Five ways to support your sales team and increase productivity.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A recent Ignites newsletter article ‘ Wholesale Change: Skilled People ‘Are Going to Have to Reinvent Themselves ’ summarized how funds’ data-driven sales processes, growing product/platform complexity, increasingly time-pressed advisors, and the internet’s erosion of wholesalers’ information advantage make a hard job even harder.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 48

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

many are just trying to survive — after all, we are experiencing one of the biggest macroeconomic shocks most businesses have ever faced. Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model. Sales leaders, let’s dive in.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Lead Scoring 126

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Chances are, the interactions you had with the sales rep had a significant impact on your purchase decision. But taking a random, ad hoc approach to sales engagement isn’t effective. Instead, the most successful sales organizations understand the importance of a solid sales engagement plan. What is sales engagement?

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Sales Enablement Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Social Media 52