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You Have to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations

Steven Rosen

Difficult conversations are as inevitable as they are necessary. However, a surprising number of sales managers avoid these critical conversations, a trend that undermines team potential and poses a significant threat to organizational success. Additionally, a lack of training or preparation plays a crucial role.

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The Best 10 Conversational AI for Sales

Hubspot Sales

Conversational AI for sales teams can eliminate a lot of repetitive tasks such as follow-up emails and customer queries and even generate sales collateral. Operationally, conversational AI speeds up processes within tools like your CRM or CMS, makes reporting easier, decision-making more effective, and so much more.

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Virtual Training Can Outperform the Classroom

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer When it comes to creating lasting behavior change in salespeople, the assumption is that virtual sales skills training is a pale imitation of in-person classroom training. But what if an online training alternative could be proven as effective?—?or than classroom training? Live classroom training.

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Creating Deal-Closing Content: The Pivotal Role of Conversation Intelligence

Allego

According to Content Marketing Institute’s “Creating Content for Sales Enablement” survey , 57% of respondents, including marketing leaders and content creators, said marketing and sales rarely or never collaborate on how to assess content effectiveness. Enter conversation intelligence. Fuel and improve content development.

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The Meeting Efficiency Survey

John Barrows

For this reason, I created the Meeting Efficiency Survey. The Meeting Efficiency Survey is a brief online survey I send to clients before our meeting that is filled with drop-down, checkbox type information the client can easily fill out. The post The Meeting Efficiency Survey appeared first on JBarrows. The Solution.

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4 Ways the Pandemic Changed B2B Communication (From A Nationally-Representative Survey)

Sales Hacker

To get a better sense of workplace communications, Vyond partnered with TRUE Global Intelligence to conduct a nationally-representative survey in February 2020 of 1,000 adults in the United States. We conducted a follow-up survey in July 2020 and again in February 2021. In contrast, 53% of millennials favor email over conversations.

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Lateral Thinking Can Increase the Value of Customer Conversations

Sales and Marketing Management

In a recent survey of directors of training, they were asked the following question: “What is the percentage of sales calls that are conducted by your representatives that achieve a level of critical thinking?” Charles Brennan is the president of Brennan Sales Institute , a provider of advanced and strategic sales training.