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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Building a Customer-Focused Sales Strategy with Erik Frank (S1:E14)

Alice Heiman

The companies that are succeeding today are the ones that are looking at themselves from their customers’ perspective. Highlights of this Episode: [3:10] Bringing sales experience into the role of CEO. [8:35] 11:25] Why train your customer service team in sales. [15:18] 17:31] The importance of sales leadership. [21:00]

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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Last week I led our annual Sales Leadership intensive and hosted the best group of sales leaders to ever attend the event. Chad Burmeister , who is well known throughout the inside sales community, was one of the attendees. That''s code for how old the OMG partner is!

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The Human Side Of Automation

The Pipeline

While we may not always think of the sales departments or salespeople as an asset, they are, no different than other assets used to move the company’s objectives forward. Sure, it may be argued that Sales is a unique asset, perhaps more important than some other assets, but an asset nonetheless.

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11 Podcasts to Help Your Sales Leaders Elevate Sales

Alice Heiman

center around one objective: what’s next for companies and individuals as they look to innovate and grow. #5. Sales Game Changers Podcast hosted by Fred Diamond. In the Sales Game Changers podcast, Fred Diamond and his guests discuss how some of the top sales leaders around the globe grew their careers from the beginning. #6.

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Stop Asking About Past Quota Attainment in Sales Interviews

Sales Hacker Training

RELATED: Hiring the Perfect Enterprise SDR for You and Your Company. In today’s market, if a candidate missed quota in their most recent sales role, it likely doesn’t have much, if any, bearing on whether they can hit quota in the role they’re applying for. How transactional is your sales process? That’s right. I don’t care.

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The Best Sales Podcasts You Must Listen to in 2021

Vengreso

When I set it out to curate a list of the best sales podcasts for this year, I had two motivating forces in mind: Continuous Learning and Growth is not an Option for Sales Professionals. In sales leadership, we always talk about growing and doing. Growing in the craft is critical to our sales success. Tiffani Bova.

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