SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Who should be trained?

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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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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

So how do you maximize the investment you’re making in sales new hires? Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). Onboarding Checklist for Sales New Hires. Pre-week training. Product Training. Product or service training.

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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. But our conversations are a disaster if we are reading from different scripts, or if all parties don’t have the same script or objectives. It is never their ability to read from a script.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For football, basketball, and sales teams, superstars will always be in high demand. For sales leaders, the challenge is twofold: finding top sales talent and coaching high performers to expand their capabilities. The Definition of a Sales Superstar By definition, superstars are rare. This is the wrong question.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Informed buyer’s are entering the sales process with companies later than ever before. They should immediately pass it to the Sales Rep”. Prospects don’t want to engage with a Sales Rep before they are ready. Unfortunately, most Sales Organizations fail to grasp the growing importance of Lead Development. Guess what?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Do you have a new class of sales development reps starting soon? If so, you're probably thinking about how to train them and conduct effective coaching. While it might seem like a hassle to spend a lot of time on training, it's crucial to prioritize. That's why training is so important for your sales team.

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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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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Handling objections. Initially the logic of not handling an objection immediately may sound counterintuitive – but when it comes to dealing with objections not only what you say but also when you say it is key to success. In fact, it’s a core sales skill. After all, what really is driving the customer’s objection?

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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.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 20, 2021

Soft skills sales training is becoming just as important as the hard skills training, we are most familiar with in the world of training. We know we live in unprecedented times but most of all, when it comes to the sales profession, these are times of profound change. Soft Skills Sales Training Checklist.

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Increase Sales

APRIL 5, 2013

Is it just me or are there a plethora of individual or business leadership training programs that now have an adjective or some other description in front of the word leadership? Is the real issue someone wanting to sell another self improvement book or business leadership training program? Transformational leadership.

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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. How would you respond to these common objections?” “How million words.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

As a Sales VP, putting the best people in the correct positions is critical. Making your number next year means promoting, keeping and terminating certain sales reps. Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. It will allow you to: Objectively evaluate your team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 19, 2024

It includes identifying key competencies and knowledge areas and creating targeted training modules and resources. To cater to individual needs, provide a variety of learning modalities, such as hands-on training, online modules, or one-on-one coaching sessions. Aligning individual goals with organizational objectives.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here are 33 tips and techniques that I believe will help every salesperson to improve their overall sales figures and create more motivation and drive. If you get a sale, learn what went right so you can repeat it and improve it. If you lose a sale, learn what you can do differently, so you can improve it.

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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., Here are six secrets to make your meetings a hit and not a miss. launching a new product).

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Intelligence and automation will not only help you turn marketing-qualified leads into sales opportunities — but do so at scale. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Sales and marketing alignment should be a constant goal in your tech stack. Do I have ‘shiny object syndrome?’

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2020

As sales leaders make any necessary adjustments to their team’s daily routines with health and safety in mind, it’s also a good idea to consider how coronavirus will influence sales conversations with customers. Here are some tips for handling sales conversations in this kind of environment. Teach salespeople to be proactive.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2022

He didn’t want the client thinking that he was both the CEO and the frontline sales rep. Avail​​able wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple | Spotify | Website SAM BALTER Before ZoomInfo, what was your first experience in sales? What was your first real sales job? What was your first real sales job? It existed then.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. Sales goals are often specific.

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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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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. Sales enablement also is not only about supporting sales training events.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

So much of our training and our engagement strategies involve our talking. Even when we ask questions, they are carefully constructed to elicit the answers we want. While we are trained what to say, how to talk, how to handle objections, how to close. We’re taught how to pitch our solutions. The answer is simple.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2013

A recent blog post on behavioral assessments, Learn How to Increase Sales with These 5 Assessments, sparked a somewhat curious response by one person who suggested these performance (including sales) diagnostic tools were a pseudo science. 85 coefficients because they are constructed from an inductive and subjective perspective.

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Allego

MAY 11, 2021

We’re excited to announce the release of integrated Conversation Intelligence , further expanding our suite of sales enablement capabilities. Automate and Scale Sales Coaching. The new release of Allego Conversation Intelligence adds capabilities to allow teams to scale critical sales functions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 1, 2019

Author: Chris Mason So many of us begin our sales careers as representatives of a company, product, service or all the above. Others opt for the management route, taking on leadership roles and overseeing teams of sales reps. How will a leadership role differ from being a sales rep? But what does it take to make that jump?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company.

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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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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? The Psychology Behind Sales Gamification. Image Source.

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Allego

AUGUST 30, 2018

And they provide a powerful means to teach skills… including sales skills. That’s helpful because certain skills — like overcoming sales objections — are hard to teach. That way, you can immediately give a shout out to those key sales reps who create some of your company’s best demonstration videos.

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SBI Growth

JULY 3, 2013

For many marketing leaders the sales team’s QBR is an afterthought. Marketing typically provides updates to the sales team with a rear-view mirror approach. World Class CMO’s pursue involvement in sales QBRs. In some cases the sales team uses the QBR as an open forum to ambush marketing. The event is often reactive.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Sales is the engine that powers your company. But what’s powering your sales? By now it’s universally known that sales and sales team practices have undergone a tectonic shift in recent years. And, even more alarmingly, buyer needs and behaviors seem to be moving way ahead of the sales learning curve.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. A short quiz for sales leaders – How much has the buying process changed in your market in the last five years? Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Expert Video Messaging.

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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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