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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? The list of responsibilities is long.

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Why Companies Struggle with Hiring Salespeople Who Will Sell

Anthony Cole Training

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. After working with hundreds of companies over the last 30 years, here is what we have learned are the 5 most common problems companies struggle with when hiring quality salespeople.

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How Companies Choose Sales Training Companies is Backwards

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door?

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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. CEOs trust Sales Leaders to set and follow the strategy to achieve the company’s growth goals and CEOs get frustrated when Sales Leaders fail to meet forecasts. Companies don’t know what they don’t know.

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[Live Webinar] Creating Delightful Customer Education Programs that Drive Business Outcomes

Speaker: Daniel Quick, Head of Customer Education, Asana

Every day, customers are faced with a multitude of different, often competing, priorities and your training program is no exception. Therefore, it’s critical that both your content and your learning experience are highly engaging, especially when training is voluntary, as it often is for customers. Register now to reserve your spot!

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How to Choose the Best Sales Training Company For Your Business

The Sales Readiness Blog

Choosing the best sales training company for your business is more than just a decision. But what makes sales training such a crucial component of this process? Let's explore the benefits of sales training and key considerations for finding the best sales training company.

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Power of a Salesperson’s Training, Knowledge, Spirit of Service

SMEI

Their training, knowledge, and spirit of service are what set one company apart from another. And it’s not just manufacturers who need to be competitive – their sales teams need to be just as sharp. Training, knowledge, and spirit of service determine whether the customer buys from Company A or Company B.

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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. Sales engagement takes a broad view, leveraging process, tools, training, and a host of other capabilities to ensure that your efforts align with each prospect along their buyer journey.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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Maximizing Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training. Still, many sales leaders report low ROIs from their sales training initiatives. So how can you ensure that your investment in sales training is producing excellent results. Reinforce training to turn new skills into lasting habits.

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Supercharge Your Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO, Sales Readiness Group, and David Jacoby, President, Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training, but many sales leaders report a low ROI from their sales training initiatives. The value of corporate training is notoriously hard to measure, and if you don't have a clear ROI, you won't be able to continue investing in upskilling your sales team.

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Leveraging Training to Go Beyond with Sales Enablement

Speaker: Matthew Hawk, VP of Instructional Design and Training Delivery, Synchrony

As many companies begin to consider or implement sales enablement technologies, one question keeps popping up: what should your training content strategy look like? Core principles and guidelines to follow when creating your sales training. Some simple tips and tools that any size company can use to craft eLearning.

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Reconstructing Your Product Sales Training for Success in 2022

Customer meetings will be harder to schedule, sales rep turnover will be higher, and traditional Product Sales Training (Lunch ‘N Learns, Demo Days, Sales Meetings) will be tougher to execute. Success stories of leading companies. Understanding the options. Assessing the need. Criteria for selecting a platform/vendor. Content creation.

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How to Transform Training with Conversation Intelligence Technology

Speaker: Jonathan Carlson, Senior Director of Marketing, Allego & Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Imagine if you could go back and review every phone or video conversation at your company: training sessions, conferences, sales calls - anything and everything - and have a teachable analysis ready almost instantly. You could identify topic trends, coachable moments, and examples of what good (or bad) looks like.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

In this webinar you'll learn: Best practices for virtually onboarding and training sales reps. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.