The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I was on the phone with a client the other day who was really struggling with many open seats across his sales teams. He mentioned that his company had tried many different things to entice potential employees, but nothing seemed to be working. I asked how full the talent bank was and he said, "running on empty."

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 11, 2023

Building and Leading a Successful Sales Team On this episode of the podcast, Allison Walsh, Vice President of Business Development and Branding for Advanced Recovery Systems, a national behavioral healthcare company, discusses her experience in building and leading a successful sales team.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 25, 2024

Are you tired of the high turnover rate in your sales team? How do you identify and retain top sales talent? If you're ready to revolutionize your sales team and boost your own sales career, you won't want to miss this episode!

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 5, 2015

We know that domino companies that move from small to big don’t all share the same characteristics 100%, but the similarities that they do share are striking, so when Tony Cole pointed out that there were at least two things he’s seen breakthrough companies succeed in—we were quick to have him elaborate.

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MJ Hoffman

JANUARY 23, 2019

They’re not looking because they are valued by their current company and performing well. Utilize your own best reps to find your next stellar sales hire. . Step 2: Use a Similar Approach with Your Top Executives in Your Company. Speak to executives at your own company who are in non-sales roles. Happy Selling!

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Additionally, the servant who had buried the talent was basically blaming others—he was saying that others reap what they do not sow, and he was not going to take such a chance. It’s the company, the marketing department, or not enough brand awareness. A salesperson can be very upset when prospects don’t respond.

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Xactly

JULY 30, 2018

If you want your company’s revenue to grow, you need to hire sales reps. For any company that markets products and/or services, the right reps can help you reach a much larger customer base, take orders, find opportunities, help to answer inquiries, and put a face to your company. They create a focused environment.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

You see, I’ve never met anyone who was born with the knowledge of how to automate consumer lending processes or how many times one needs to nurture a prospect and how. Every company needs to, and should, spend the time teaching their SDR’s about their domain. They took the time to learn the domain of the company they worked for.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Roberts is a senior-level sales and marketing leader with over 35 years’ experience driving profitable sales growth in market-leading organizations. He has done so at companies like Timken, Vantage Mobility, Gardner Denver, Mobility Works, and Frito-Lay. DON’T FORGET TO ENTER THE BIG (sort of) CONTEST.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2022

Scenario The sales team at your company needs to grow quickly, including hiring multiple sales development representatives (SDRs). The intake call with a sales hiring manager has been completed. You have a job description and are ready to start finding and engaging sales talent.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

Matthew is a 20-year veteran of the technology industry, first at Thomson Reuters, where he ended up running their enterprise sales team, then at Veeva, where he ran the EU sales organization and helped that company grow to over 700 million in revenue. And so Matthew and his team help companies enter Europe.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Say you believe that your prospect is willing to pay $15,000 to $20,000, a range you’re willing to accept, so you make an offer that's “at your floor” of $20,000 – you've bluffed, and your prospect now has the chance to call. How to Master the Art of Bluffing in Sales. You can use the same technique in your sales cycle.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. New employees must be educated on how the company sells. That’s because they overlook the way the B2B sales world has changed. What The B2B Sales Training Program Should Include The average organization spends $1,200 a year on professional development per employee.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2018

Author: Cristina Gomez The war for top-performing sales talent has begun. By 2026, the number of open sales positions is projected to grow by more than 3 percent , putting the pressure on sales leaders and HR teams to attract top talent. national sales meetings, town halls, etc.).

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

Traditional sales onboarding metrics fall short in accounting for a new employee’s competency level. That’s why analysts are citing time to competency as the new essential metric in sales onboarding for not only accelerating onboarding but retaining sales talent.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 1, 2018

Regular readers of the HubSpot Sales Blog know they should "Always Be Helping." When a prospect has a challenge or goal you can help with, you know what to do -- you take them through your sales process. How do you nurture these prospects so that they’ll come back to you? Lack of marketing and sales focus.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 5, 2019

When you're scaling an organization, it's important that you're able to measure the quality of your leads, pipeline, and sales talent. It important for business owners as well as sales reps, because simply adding people to the organization won't necessarily result in more sales. Lead quality Leads are not created equal.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When companies do a sales review of their current sales team, they typically look at one number—revenue. What a sales rep’s revenue tells you is important, but what it doesn’t tell you can be critical. What a sales rep’s revenue tells you is important, but what it doesn’t tell you can be critical.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Say what you do. After the Call.

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Showpad

APRIL 10, 2023

The uncertainty surrounding inflation, recession, and supply chains have caused ripple effects in businesses across industries: 81% of sellers say deals have been lost or stalled in the past year due to a key stakeholder’s departure from a client or prospect company. So how can sales leaders drive growth in today’s landscape?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 5, 2023

However, great companies like Dropbox, Zoom, and Slack launched during those turbulent times. This article explores the sales levers available to CEOs to help navigate an economic downturn. Every decision a CEO makes during a downturn will have a magnified impact on the company. We call them trusted advisors.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

If I’m fortunate enough to get some time with a prospect during a sales cycle, I need to be sure I can add real value and that they will remember this interaction. Prospects will value that. Most companies are now moving to a hybrid workplace. I’m talking about sales engagement , sales enablement, data tools, and AI. .

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This is the lengthy process of developing raw sales talent into top performers within their respective organizations. Recently, Janek Performance Group partnered with Selling Power for a comprehensive white paper on hiring, onboarding, and retaining sales talent post COVID. Company Research. Company Culture.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2013

Let’s look at a new rep joining a company, being social critters they want to fit in, be part of the team (part of the crowd, easy to hide in a crowd), they look around the office and take in the atmosphere. Part of the ritual, is talking to their colleagues, getting the lay of the land, “how are things done around here?”. Tibor Shanto.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. Hiring the right people can directly impact your company’s overall success and revenue. To succeed in B2B sales, a rep needs to be a quick thinker. Persistent.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. Hiring the right people can directly impact your company’s overall success and revenue. Quick To succeed in B2B sales, a rep needs to be a quick thinker.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How well can you explain (or defend) the way your company compensates sales employees? In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When choosing a location to recruit from, it’s important to have a clear understanding of the needs of your specific company and team. When choosing a location to recruit from, it’s important to have a clear understanding of the needs of your specific company and team. If they are in Europe, focus on talent from Europe and Africa.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

According to McKinsey’s 2021 Mind the [skills] gap , 87 percent of companies have or will have a skills gap. Onboarding needs to be sales specific and geared to a rep’s sales duties. For more, see our white paper Finding, Onboarding, and Retaining Top Sales Talent. However, over time, the way we prospect changes.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2011

open ended sales questions (11). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Sale Process (2). Sales (34). sales accountability (10). sales activities (25). Sales Activity (1). sales assessments (8). sales attitude (21).

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. Hiring the right people can directly impact your company’s overall success and revenue. To succeed in B2B sales, a rep needs to be a quick thinker. Persistent.

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Openview

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The buying journey is all about the buyer’s need to predict what their experience is going to be like using your company’s products and services. As such, we’ve seen an explosion of sales enablers, sales enablement departments , and now the considerable growth of sales associations, communities, societies and networking groups.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 28, 2020

The mindset for sales and marketing seems to be, increasingly, oriented to the things we do to our customers. Our language and processes betray this thinking: We “target” them with our messaging/prospecting. Everything they do involves working with others in their function, organization, or company.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

My own company, helps our clients in many of these areas, whether it’s new processes, methodologies, restructuring, better articulating value. The people we put them in place for, never had the chance to master them–at least in our own companies. The Elephant In The Room, Sales Talent Management When "A Players" Fail.

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

He is the creator of the Top 1% Academy, where he trains on how to sell to buyers, whether they be CEOs, business owners, or entrepreneurs, and how to be in the top 1% of sales earners doing so. Lastly, we’ll examine lessons gleaned from record-breaking achievements in sales to provide valuable insights on persistence and collaboration.

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