Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

The fully realized benefits of sales enablement require collaboration with other departments in an organization, especially marketing. This process, however, is often complicated by misalignment between marketing and sales departments—one of the top pain points sales enablement teams face, according to new research from Allego.

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CommercialTribe

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To be critical can be perceived as negative — but to fully realize the value in sales coaching, sales leaders must help their managers view this concept in a constructive light. A new sales manager might feel unease or a sense of imposter syndrome when critiquing a more tenured rep. The Right Sales Tech.

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LevelEleven

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

This sheds light on what is important to individual reps, allowing managers to personalize their coaching sessions to complement each rep’s goals, abilities, and current challenges. Invest in effective sales technology. Request a free, personalized demo of LevelEleven today! Request a demo!

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Encourage sales reps to participate in live sales calls or meetings with their sales managers, followed by a debriefing session to discuss what worked and what could be improved. Role-Playing Exercises: Conduct role-playing sessions to allow sales representatives to practice delivering the sales pitch.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ethical Sales Practices Training Integrity and ethical behavior are essential for all sales reps. Sales Manager Training Management training is for those steering the sales ship, focusing on leadership, process development, and team management. Request a Highspot demo today.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Prospect: Actually, this isn't a great time … Rep: Are you interested in a product demo of how we are in the magic quadrant? Then, I follow up with, "My sales rep asked me to start a conversation with you." Does that sound like you?"

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In this article, we’ll go over six sales onboarding tools, starting with our own, Bigtincan Learning (formerly Brainshark), which we’ll carefully explain in the context of those 4 factors above. You can read about it in detail below or schedule a demo if you want to see exactly how it could help your sales organization.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. AI is no longer a construct of the future. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Sales reps also say that automating manual tasks helps them reach their sales goals.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Additionally, negotiation serves as a catalyst for salespeople to cultivate enduring relationships with their customers, providing a platform for constructive communication. Role-playing Exercises: Work with sales managers and leaders to conduct realistic role-playing scenarios that simulate actual negotiation situations.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

(Think of it as your internal sales enablement “user’s manual.”). With those definitions under our belt, let’s work on getting your new sales enablement plan off the ground. Here are six steps to constructing (and maintaining) an effective sales enablement plan. . Step #2 Talk to Sales Management about Their Needs.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 16, 2016

Unfortunately, most sales reps are in a tremendous hurry to get their pitch out and so they treat many prospects as an obstacle to go through to get a sale. Years ago, my first sales manager (my older brother, Peter), taught me an important lesson. The more engaged they are, the better your chances of advancing the sale.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a concept of your target audience — otherwise known as your buyer personas — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. To do this, buff up your data bank by taking note of the search, content, sales, and behavioral data of your customers.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sales leadership is a personal game. You need to get to know who you're managing — being too distant might undermine your ability to properly direct them. Diarmuid Walsh, HubSpot Principal Sales Manager, said, "You need to get to know the team you manage, and make sure you start to build trust with them early on.".

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps.

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Showpad

AUGUST 8, 2018

Within reps’ first week, you should also execute a stand and deliver, where each person runs a demo or pitches a product to an actual client or prospect, allowing you to gauge where they are at in their pitch. Giving each other constructive feedback and sharing ideas will empower sellers and encourage camaraderie amongst the team.

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Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

You can work on the gaps found in a sales performance analysis to put your business back on track to “where you need to be.”. Why sales teams should measure this: Sales performance analytics shows how you are currently faring vs. the expected performance. Predictive sales analytics. Sales effectiveness analytics.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

Here are two presentations for constructing a new city. There’s one other tactic underlying it all: The best product demos start with topics the buyers highlighted on the discovery call. Your product demo should mirror those important topics back to the buyer. For best results, practice this during your first sales presentation.

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LevelEleven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

What to look for: Unable to tolerate or listen to constructive criticism Short or limited patience for tackling challenging tasks Getting stuck on minute details. Request a Demo. However, if your employees begin acting increasingly sensitive in conversation and it’s out of character, it might be a sign that they’re burned out.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. Pick Up The Damn Phone!

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The construct of social proof is that you need to highlight the contrast.” How Telling Stories Wins the Deal Jim then welcomed one of Chorus’s top performers and Sales Manager, Devin Liu to share his experience leveraging stories to win deals. It’s a big piece of my sales process. So I shared customer stories.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Which sales touch points receive the most objections? Marketing should be open to receiving feedback, and sales should be constructive with suggestions. Marketing can then create nurturing content that acts as an accelerator for sales and their interactions with potential customers. It’s a joint content effort.

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Costello

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Demo management. What’s the difference between a sales process and a sales methodology? Sales process and methodology are commonly coupled, though they are not the same thing. The main weakness in a lot of sales methodologies is that they were constructed before the advent of the internet.

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This enables sales representatives and sales managers to forecast more accurately the number and value of deals that will close in a given time period. Great news: you probably already have the steps of your pipeline described if your team already has a clearly defined sales process. Otherwise, don’t worry.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ). This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Let’s look at three of the most common buckets for sales training courses and discuss who they’re right for. Sales Management Training Programs. Training your sales managers and leadership is very different from training junior- and senior-level sales reps. Corporate Visions.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A few product launch and sales metrics to keep an eye on include: Sales volume: The number of units sold post-launch directly measures market acceptance. Customer feedback and reviews: Positive feedback and high ratings can validate the product’s value proposition, while constructive criticism can guide improvements.

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Salesmate

JUNE 24, 2021

These essential elements need to be thoughtfully constructed around your goal, which is to capture and retain the attention of your prospects as they move through each stage of the sales process. So, let’s begin by understanding what these key components are and how they can be put together to design a perfect sales email.

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

We found that if we don’t provide sales managers and sales leaders with a process and a program combined with some tools to help augment the coaching effort, it typically doesn’t happen. When all of these factors are in place sales coaching will be most effective. Doing the right number of demos?”

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

We found that if we don’t provide sales managers and sales leaders with a process and a program combined with some tools to help augment the coaching effort, it typically doesn’t happen. When all of these factors are in place sales coaching will be most effective. Doing the right number of demos?”

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2019

Either way, you need to separate sales performance from forecasting performance and deliver constructive feedback on each skill individually. At Chorus our clients use Conversation Intelligence to track sales conversation themes that influence win rates. For example, we found that demo duration is an important factor.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2023

Providing feedback has been a challenge for busy sales managers for decades. It helps that a majority of sales meetings are happening over video and being recorded. For example: You are on a demo call and you notice your seller is talking animatedly while looking off to the side.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

You were sitting in a region with like five or six other sales reps and a manager and your job was to just blanket the entire region. Find all the job sites, all the construction workers, and demo tools all day long to get them to buy. It was sales, but it really wasn’t hardcore sales because there was no quota.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Companies operating in less-digitized industries (construction, healthcare, real estate, etc.). Here are seven real-life examples of SaaS companies taking advantage of field sales at different revenue stages. Rifiniti used field sales to turn an old Lenovo consulting relationship into their first SaaS customer. ACV and $17M ARR.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2018

At the heart of every high-growth predictable revenue machine is a strong sales process. It enables accurate forecasting and lets sales and marketing work together constructively. And it facilitates fast root-cause analysis when quarterly sales go sideways. How New Sales Managers Can Build a Sales Process.

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Mindtickle

MAY 31, 2023

This helps sales reps better understand what a potential buyer needs and when. Let’s say the sales pipeline really is like a road. That would mean you need two perspectives: Construction What processes are required to build the road? Sharpening time management skills. Where does it begin and end?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sales huddles are relatively short but incredibly useful. They give managers the chance to relay important information and advice for sales teams on a consistent basis and provide a regular forum for healthy, constructive team conversations. As a sales manager, that’s what you should aspire to be.

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