Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

This is the fifth in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Scott is the Founder of Sales Success Media and hosts the Sales Success Stories and Daily Sales Tips podcasts.

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Showpad

MARCH 5, 2021

Sales enablement is in the spotlight. More companies are embracing sales enablement strategies as a way to modernize, drive business or sales transformation and keep current with the customers and markets they serve. Sales enablement can be rocket fuel for revenue creation and skills development.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Managing a dispersed sales team is a unique challenge. The secret is modern sales enablement. Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed. To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Showpad

JANUARY 25, 2021

Your sales enablement program has stakeholders across several teams including marketing, product, sales and customer success. With so many teams involved, a clear charter outlining the scope and responsibilities of the sales enablement program is crucial. . What is a sales enablement charter? .

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If the impact of your sales enablement initiative seems disappointing or misunderstood, it could be because of your organization’s (all too common) mistake of confusing sales training with sales enablement. What sales enablement isn’t. Event-based sales training falls short for all constituents.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Enablement success…or not? According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. A new playbook for enablement. The results were startling.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Author: Lauren Boutwell As the field of sales enablement has evolved and matured, so, too, have its supporting technologies. Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Sales reps are often most receptive to learning from each other.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Andrei Lintz, an account executive of six years for Bonneville Seattle , has been using AdMall since the company subscribed to it a couple years ago, and since then, has used it’s vast array of research tools to assist him with closing sales. They are local, and have been in the roofing and construction business for most of their lives.

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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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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Enablement success…or not? According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. A new playbook for enablement. The results were startling.

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Costello

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Cory Bray , coauthor of The Sales Enablement Playbook , Sales Development , and the recently released Triangle Selling. With a background in sales, finance, and operations, he’s crafted his experiences into a career in sales enablement. What is The Sales Enablement Playbook about and why did you write it?

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SBI Growth

JULY 3, 2013

World class B2B marketing organizations actively engage in Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings. For many marketing leaders the sales team’s QBR is an afterthought. Tenured B2B Marketing CMO''s look forward to the mid-year QBR like one desires a root canal. This is because marketing is ‘pulled’ into QBRs.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Having the right people at the helm and in every support position on your sales team leads to great wins. Once your smoothing selling crew is aboard, then you need to do everything you can to enable them to be their best and sell. System Three: Sales/Buying Process. System Three: Sales/Buying Process.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

Whether you’re sales or marketing, putting out content is a never-ending task, a mountain with no peak. It teaches you exactly how to thread a story through your brand and how both sales and marketing can be part of that process. That is, to fill in the pipeline and get leads through the sales funnel.

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Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Distributed workforces, fluctuating market dynamics, and office politics can make working in lockstep difficult. Regardless of the root cause, overcoming sales and marketing misalignment is necessary to securing long-term success. What does marketing do for sales? What does sales do for marketing?

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Highspot

MARCH 21, 2024

Despite this, many sales emails find their resting place in the trash, unopened and unread. We’ll explore how to craft good sales emails that get opened and inspire action, all while introducing four metrics to measure sales email success. What are the Different Types of Sales Emails? Send a promo email.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building. The strategy ensures reps are well-prepared to meet and exceed sales targets.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Well, that’s how he refers to his path into sales, anyway. When they finally acquired a significantly sized business in his specialty they told him they were moving him into sales. He said he wasn’t “sales” and their reply was, “You're the only one who knows how to talk about this stuff. He’s also the “dog that caught the car.”

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably heard of the Challenger Sales methodology. Before you decide that, though, you need to ask yourself a few questions — such as “What is challenger sales?” Here’s our in-depth look at Challenger Sales methodology and how to leverage it. What is the Challenger Sales model?

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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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. Are you digital-ready?

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Showpad

MAY 8, 2018

The world of sales and marketing technology is an exciting space to be in. The market has grown rapidly and over the past seven years we’ve helped our customers realize incredible benefits from aligning their sales and marketing efforts. Why the sales and marketing space matters.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2021

Allego , the leading sales learning and enablement platform provider, today announced its enhanced Conversation Intelligence product. Needham, MA - May 11, 2021 - Enhanced Conversation Intelligence. Support global teams conducting calls in a variety of languages and accents using transcriptions in multiple languages.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

Sales leaders often label high-performing sales reps as having the “it factor.” But believe it or not, the “it factor” in sellers is a myth and one that’s been embraced for far too long by sales leaders. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7%

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team. That’s where AI comes in.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Aligning sales and marketing teams is a struggle for many companies. The sales department grows frustrated because they don’t have the necessary material (i.e., blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce.

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree!

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Recently, I had the privilege to have lunch with two close friends–and great thinkers on Sales Enablement, Sheevaun Thatcher and Kelly Griffith (Kelly and I actually had a few chuckles around how I pronounce things so incorrectly, but she’s Australian… ). But this is not just a sales enablement issue.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Nearly 30,000 new products are released into the market every year. It starts with strategic actions, teamwork, and market understanding. Dive into the art of coordinated strategies, discover how hits like the iPhone and Netflix mastered market needs and brand appeal, and use key metrics to elevate your launch.

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Lessonly

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Role playing is a powerful sales readiness method built into most b2b sales training programs. It allows reps to practice applying new concepts that they’ve learned to lifelike sales situations. Choose the learning environment that fits your team and specific set of sales training topics. Build a story.

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Apptivo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What is Outbound Sales? What is an Outbound Sales tool? Why use Outbound Sales CRM? Advantages of Outbound Sales 5. How to find the best CRM for Outbound Sales? So, why not take a technologically smart approach to their sales outreach, thereby decreasing their sales cycles? What is Outbound Sales?

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