Allego

APRIL 25, 2024

In sales, for example, surpassing targets largely depends on the quality of training provided. In fact, companies that have dynamic and adaptable sales training strategies see an average of 10% more salespeople meet their quotas compared to those with rigid approaches, according to CSO Insights.

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Handbook Analytics Retention Motivation 62

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 12, 2018

Author: Jim Ninivaggi Many companies have their annual sales kickoff (SKO) meetings approaching. A well-constructed theme should serve as the SKO’s center of gravity, and should support the overarching objective of the meeting (e.g., The goal is to ensure the field force is ready to execute the sales strategy for the upcoming year.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

Outsourcing Services 62

Outsourcing Services Training Hiring Workbooks 62

LinkedFusion

AUGUST 23, 2023

There’s where the best B2B lead generation tool and services come onto the scene, armed with strategies that can transform your lead game into a lead-winning touchdown. Sales rep traveled a long distance to meet their prospect. Following are the new trends that will get you more b2b leads into your sales pipeline.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Lead Rank 52

Allego

APRIL 11, 2023

You launched your new sales training program ! You have personalized training, peer-to-peer learning , training reinforcement, and a sales content library filled with just-in-time learning that sellers can access when they need an immediate answer. Now, you need to make sure the sales training program is working.

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Data Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Pipeliner

JUNE 4, 2023

This article concludes our series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Let’s take up the final mega-threat to the sales industry—missing processes and wrong technology.

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Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

This underscores the influence of sales collateral, ranging from traditional brochures to dynamic digital content like blogs and videos, in steering potential customers through their buying journey. This guide shares the importance of sales collateral, who is responsible, and how to use it to seal the deal. What Is a Sales Collateral?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Sadly, so much of the direction we seem to be going, in sales, marketing, leadership, seems to be taking us away from being adaptively fluent. While we have tools and AI to help us refine the scripting, better targeting our scripts to the groups we seek to engage, this scripting reduces our capability to adapt in the real conversation.

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Construction Objections Conversion Groups 101

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As sales and marketing tech stacks grow more complex and data proliferates within them, the infrastructure is beginning to show some digital cracks. The good news is that new tools can shore up these cracks and prevent hidden problems from gaining a foothold in the tech stack. These failure points might seem innocuous.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Defining Sales Enablement: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How To Do It Properly. A good sales enablement strategy will provide your reps with the right tools and content to help them succeed. Sales enablement is focused on what customers need, not just a paycheck. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2021

Motivation is a key factor of sales success. Besides simply being motivated to do their job, sales professionals also need to be motivated to push past rejections, deals that fall through, and pipelines that are hard to manage. What is sales gamification? Here’s an example of a gamification tool leaderboard from Heptaward.

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Sales Qualified Lead How To Motivation Lead Rank 132

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

For sales leaders, this raises the challenge of managing reps in their homes in a way where reps attain peak productivity and their careers advance. Managers can also use assessments and scorecards to ensure new reps are achieving and maintaining mastery as they progress to full sales readiness and productivity.

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Construction Policies Travel Coaching 156

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) represents the standard for categorizing business operations by grouping them according to the processes used to produce goods or services.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. Then they must craft an effective approach that will quickly convey value and lead to conversion.

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Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Networking 98

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A recent article in Columbus Business First discussed background checks and use of personality tests. Notice that they didn''t say that personality is the best insight into whether a person will succeed in sales. You also need a best-practices, sales recruiting process. Never will be.

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Hiring Construction Exact Groups 228

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the owner or operator of a wholesale distribution business, you’re always looking for new and innovative ways to increase sales and grow your business. By tailoring your marketing message specifically to these groups of people, you can more effectively reach your target audience and increase sales.

Marketing 52

Marketing Distribution Automotive Segment 52

SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2013

B2B Sales Reps compete with their peers for sales support resources. Good Sales Reps consistently secure these resources and create their own virtual teams. Online networks such as LinkedIn provide tools that facilitate social gifting. Online networks such as LinkedIn provide tools that facilitate social gifting.

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B2B Incentives Incentive Commission 293

Score More Sales

JANUARY 25, 2013

At a recent round-table with inside sales leaders, our topic was about effectively leading Gen Y / Millennials. We all agreed that generally speaking this group of employees match up to the tasks of what solid, successful inside sales professionals do – with one caveat. There is a larger need for feedback.

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Inside Sales Construction Lead Gen Lead Rank 235

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! The article also instructs readers to evaluate using a predictive tool. With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force?

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Hiring Decision Maker Construction Incentives 236

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having talented sales reps is often a result of investing in effective sales coaching. According to research conducted by ValueSelling Associates , over half of high-performing businesses that have had sales coaching programs in place for three years or more experience high growth. A stellar sales coach must be results-oriented.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Construction How To 130

BuzzBoard

MARCH 13, 2024

This tool is indispensable for salespeople at digital marketing agencies focusing on local and small businesses looking to streamline their operations. Segmentation, which involves dividing your email list into smaller, targeted groups for delivering appropriate and personalized content, is another crucial tactic.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business Email Marketing Strategy 52

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the hustle and bustle of sales, it is easy to get caught up in targets, quotas, and deadlines. We often find ourselves chasing the next opportunity, deal, and sales milestone. Gratitude, often overlooked in traditional sales training, holds significant potential for enhancing our success.

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Face-to-face Chemicals Journal Quota 77

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 11, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I spoke at the Sales 2.0 Apparently, back in the 1920''s, the Salem Chamber of Commerce recruited dozens of business leaders to raise $500,000 in one week for the construction of the hotel. It was terrific to share our common beliefs and alignment on sales process.

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Conference Sales Process Hiring Hotels 249

Mindtickle

MAY 5, 2022

Our fifth episode of Ready, Set, Sell recently aired featuring Christine Rogers, President & COO of Aspireship , a reskilling and job placement platform that helps people pivot their careers into SaaS sales. The role of sales enablement. How sales leaders can evolve their own skillset. Building a winning sales culture.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Tools Call-back 52

Score More Sales

JUNE 28, 2012

Here are some resources for sales professionals who are on the front lines, generating conversations, listening to prospects and customers online, and engaging with them by email, phone, video, and in person. This post was a combined effort from the whole team at Score More Sales after a team meeting where we shared resource ideas.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

Sales enablement, the ongoing process of providing reps with the training, content, and tools they need to sell effectively, is often thought to be a function exclusively owned and operated by sales teams. Marketing and sales teams need to align for sales enablement to be successful and mobilize better-prepared sellers.

Sales Enablement 62

Sales Enablement Marketing How To Construction 62

Vengreso

JULY 5, 2023

As the world of sales continues to evolve, Digital Sales Referrals have emerged as a powerful tool for driving business growth. In this comprehensive guide, you will gain insights into the transition from traditional to modern selling techniques and understand the impact COVID-19 has had on sales strategies.

Referrals 89

Referrals Maximizer Ideal Customer Profile Social Media 89

Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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Negotiation Closing Case Study Buyer Persona 52

MEDDIC

APRIL 28, 2024

MEDDIC Academy pioneered online courses and other digital learning experiences in Enterprise B2B sales, since 2017. These modern learning strategies are now widely used in most professional development fields, including sales training. Sales Enablement Platform: Docs, Audio, and Videos designed to support sales activities.

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Course Face-to-face Training Video 52

Act!

APRIL 29, 2024

Conduct group team meetings or one-on-one sessions at regular intervals to track progress. The key is to create open channels of communication and collaboration with the right tools, regardless of whether your team meets in the office every day or works remotely. Sign up for a free trial to see how Act!

Handbook 52

Handbook Small Business Small Business Face-to-face 52

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sales Coaching Starts with Feedback. We’ve all had those moments when a colleague or manager approached us with what they called “constructive feedback” – then unloaded on us with a list of grievances didn’t seem at all to be constructive. Observant Sales Management. Direct Feedback. What are your thoughts?

Sales Coaching 52

Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Construction 52

SBI Growth

AUGUST 19, 2013

As a Sales Operations leader, your success depends on getting change initiatives to stick. Within sales, an Expert Panel (EP) is comprised of your best front-line performers. This group shouldn’t include managers or supervisors. This keeps the group small enough to manage but large enough to allow for diversity.

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Ideal Customer Profile Construction Follow-up Sales Operations 257

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A bit further on, as part of your ABM strategy , you’ll fully recreate the journey for these companies – and identify key points where the marketing and sales processes made progress. Practitioner – the individual or group that is actually enacting day-to-day tasks (often, products will serve to make their daily life easier).

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Account Based Marketing Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account 218

Braveheart Sales

JUNE 29, 2021

If so, you might be tempted to construct a compensation plan that heavily favors pay for performance. It really comes down to having quality sales management/leadership which can’t be left up to chance. Here’s the big caveat: Most sales managers have never been taught or trained on how to be an effective sales manager.

Quota 52

Quota Compensation Salary Motivation 52

Braveheart Sales

JUNE 29, 2021

If so, you might be tempted to construct a compensation plan that heavily favors pay for performance. It really comes down to having quality sales management/leadership which can’t be left up to chance. Here’s the big caveat: Most sales managers have never been taught or trained on how to be an effective sales manager.

Quota 52

Quota Compensation Salary Motivation 52

Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There will always be customers who demand a tailored approach to seal the deal… And instead of trying to fit them into your standard sales process, create a new one and have multiple sales CRM pipelines. This blog will give you insights into the benefits of multiple sales pipelines. When Do You Need Multiple Sales Pipelines?

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Real Estate Government Top of Funnel 52

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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SAP Oracle Compensation Territories 124