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Should Your Company Hire a Fractional Sales Manager?

Anthony Cole Training

Many companies are struggling with finding talent in today’s environment, and it is particularly difficult to find top-notch sales management talent. Unfortunately, most sales managers have no formal training in leadership, management and coaching skills, so how do you find the right person?

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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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Why Companies Struggle with Hiring Salespeople Who Will Sell

Anthony Cole Training

Putting the best people in the right seats is the biggest problem identified by most business execs, especially as it applies to critical sales roles. In today’s high tech, fast-moving economy, finding the right people who can and will sell for your company is a keystone for success.

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3 Ways a Positive Company Culture Can Drive Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Company culture and the culture of your sales organization, or your team’s perception of it, influences how much you sell, your productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, your revenue. The post 3 Ways a Positive Company Culture Can Drive Sales Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Top 5 Keys to Hire Ideal Sales Candidates at Your Company

Understanding the Sales Force

Rotting and lower yields can be used to describe the strange pool of sales candidates from which you are trying to recruit as well. There’s no time like the present to hire salespeople as long your sales recruiting strategy includes considerations for the ever changing ebb and flow of the candidate pool.

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How To Empower Your Company With Superhero Leadership

Sales and Marketing Management

The post How To Empower Your Company With Superhero Leadership appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Ben Lytle knows superhero leadership.

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The Blueprint for Better Sales Onboarding

Onboarding – every company does it, but shockingly few do it really well. This exclusive eBook provides 6 steps to better sales onboarding. So the question is – how do you break the cycle and onboard salespeople in a way that actually works? Download the eBook today!

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

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The Business Case and Playbook for Data-Driven Sales Coaching

The state of the market and the state of sales coaching make SCL a wise investment, but you have to do it right. This eBook will serve as a springboard for your business, a playbook, and implementation plan to guide you as you consider an investment of time and money to improve data-driven sales coaching at your company.

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers. You will learn: What sales engagement is. How to measure your sales engagement efforts. Effective communication techniques. How to build an effective cadence.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. In today’s B2B business environment sales and marketing can no longer operate in silos.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.".

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Staying Relevant in Sales as AI and Technology Continue to Take Over

Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training

Technology and Artificial Intelligence are evolving faster than ever and disrupting every industry and role, specifically Sales. As companies and reps continue to look for technical solutions to create efficiencies throughout the sales process the human element of sales is being lost.

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Found - The Best Sales Learning Methodologies

Speaker: Joe DiDonato, Chief of Staff, Baker Communcations, Inc

In this webinar, corporate learning expert, Joe DiDonato, shares how his teams solved these problems, as well as how new educational technology (EdTech) is changing the sales landscape for all of us. Finding the right learning approach for each topic you have to deliver to your learners can seem like a “problem of endless choices.”