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Active Listening Is a Sales Tool… and Technology Can Help!

SalesLoft

Fortunately, new sales technologies can provide reps with tools to improve their ability to actively listen – and therefore their success. Three sales technologies, in particular, are helping sales teams dramatically enhance their listening skills: Recording and Transcription. Reporting and Analytics.

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A Look Back at the Top 15 Sales Stories from 2019

Miller Heiman Group

How to Get the Most Out of Your Existing Tech Stack On average, companies invest in as many as 25 sales technology systems, with plans to add more in the next year. Five Reasons Why Consultative Selling Outperforms the Challenger Sale The Challenger Sale dared to suggest consultative selling is dead.

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Three Key Skills to Distinguish Sellers from Sales Managers

Miller Heiman Group

You may have been trained in this type of consultative selling approach. In addition, you need to model these skills to show your reps how to apply these techniques to different points in the sales process. As buyers become more savvy at buying, they engage salespeople later in their path, after a buyer clarifies their needs.

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What Does ZoomInfo’s Acquisition of Datanyze Signal to the Sales Industry?

Sales Hacker

Beyond the obvious though, this is an important acquisition which signals and reinforces other trends for the sales industry: RELATED: Artificial Intelligence: The Sales Renaissance is Here. The sales tech stack arms race continues, but in a different way. We already had sales-channel saturation.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? That has all been upended now.

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How to Build an Effective Sales Training Program

Highspot

Sales managers also need to be closely attuned to what’s happening in the market to understand any headwinds their sales reps are facing. A problem many businesses face today is that the approach to sales training is stuck in the past.

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How to Build an Effective Sales Training Program

Highspot

Sales managers also need to be closely attuned to what’s happening in the market to understand any headwinds their sales reps are facing. A problem many businesses face today is that the approach to sales training is stuck in the past.