ExecVision

MAY 23, 2018

This series will help you identify what coaching culture looks like and how to start, build, and maintain one that drives ROI for your organization. All sales leaders know they should be coaching their reps, but when your day consists of running from meeting to meeting and call to call it’s easy to put coaching on the backburner.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Knowing how to speak up on behalf of what your customer needs is one of the most important things you can do as a seller. You also need to learn how to do this on your own behalf. Newer sales reps get more leverage to speak up after they have consistently engaged prospective clients, booked meetings and closed business.

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Groove.co

MAY 31, 2018

Wondering how to create sales processes that grow with your company? We’re co-hosting an exciting webinar where we’ll take a deep dive into how some of the most successful companies are defining sales processes that foster rapid growth and empower their teams. It’s on Wednesday, June 6 at 11 am PT — come join us!

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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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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LevelEleven

AUGUST 7, 2018

You have been promoted to sales manager. Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? The traits that make all-star salespeople usually don’t directly translate to the skills needed to be an effective sales manager. Congratulations! Steve – Be curious.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2020

Meanwhile, decide how to quantify the longer-term impact of improvements that will appeal to customers and build loyalty. Your organization can kick-start this process by constructing a journey map to highlight gaps that, if resolved, would enable you to deliver more positive defining moments and exceed customer expectations.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 16, 2016

Top Characteristic Part Six is difficult for many sales people to develop and practice, yet it’s one of the most important of skills to cultivate. And it is: Top Characteristic Part Six: Learn to build rapport before, during and after a sale. Years ago, my first sales manager (my older brother, Peter), taught me an important lesson.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. Persona insights and intelligence. and capture them.

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

There are three great closing questions that salespeople often ask because everyone in the sales arena wants to make sure that we’re closing effectively. Albert Alexander has been a partner in a construction equipment sales company that makes parts for excavators and bulldozers for 11 years now. There are challenges in closing.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2015

That’s Not Selling ) was greeted with many constructive comments and a surprising number of positive reactions on the part of sales folks. Many of these folks correctly guessed or figured out that I have been involved in sales myself. As indicated in the previous piece, the role of Sales is changing. Engaging Prospects.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2020

From the field to inside sales, from enablement to management, sales has seen its share of change, and savvy pros are always ready to roll with it. A recent study found that only 15% of remote managers have received training on how to optimize a remote workforce. No matter what you decide, just be consistent.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 7, 2020

Cohesive teams with good chemistry and constructive communication do not just come together organically — it is the team leader’s job to set them up for success. RELATED: How to Lead from Home. RELATED: 7 Ways to Increase Visibility for a Sales Organization. Up Next: 7 Steps to Gain Respect from Your Sales Team.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 16, 2016

How about if you also skipped lunch that day? How would you be feeling around, say, 3:30pm? Or that meeting with your sales manager or boss? How would you be around your wife and kids? (Or They are constantly listening to audio books, or reading (or re-reading) books on how to get better and do better.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2016

More Books: I completed or reread some great books by friends and colleagues I think they belong on every sales professionals bookshelves: Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sales , Paul Smith: We know how critical stories are in connecting and engaging our customers.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They once simply executed pricing inside of an ERP pricing matrix, but now they are responsible for analyzing marketing trends, conducting competitive research and sifting through customer buying patterns to determine optimal pricing that drives profitability. And sales reps might like dropping in on important deals.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Gone are the days when B2B sales were about making a hundred cold calls a day or visiting clients in person. Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. We’re going to help you also understand the B2B sales processes, strategies, and more.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Inside sales. Low-touch sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. Questioning what we can achieve and how far we can stretch is a tactic to evaluate our choices. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2013

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. When sales are falling, take a look at your sales strategy.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Over the past 12 months, I’ve talked with hundreds of sales reps, sales leaders, and ops people about sales process, and a few patterns emerged. In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about mutual action plans, from what they are to how you can use them in your sales process to save time and create more wins.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? Though there are influential salespeople who are at different points in their careers, they all have a love for sales and a deep sense of industry knowledge.

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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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Sales 2.0

MAY 26, 2014

Sales people have had automation for a long time but the traditional form of automation aligned with the traditional view of the sales job. But now email has become an incredibly popular sales tool (maybe too popular but that’s a discussion for a different post.) Your Sales VP needs a report immediately for your CEO.

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SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move? Where do many go wrong?

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What do complex sales and the radioactive decay rate of atoms have in common? I wanted to share some of my unique thoughts about this concept as it relates to the natural world and how I see the ramifications of decay rates and how they're impacting enterprise deals and influencing sales cycle stagnation, or acceleration.

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DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

This article defines what digital transformation is, why your business must embrace it, and how to prepare your company accordingly. From this example, we can see how harnessing data and technology, and pushing for digital transformation can enable the specialization necessary to survive in this new knowledge economy. .

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

JULY 1, 2012

Carrying any mistakes, assumptions or a bad attitude from one call to another is a sure way to miss out on opportunities for qualified sales leads. In teleprospecting, you must always be open to constructive criticism. The great rule in sales is to ask open-ended questions.

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