Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. Plus, insights from sales experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about using AI in sales ethically. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic. Start with "why.".

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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. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The concept of customer service has evolved from a post-sale afterthought to a key driver of business success. Today, it’s not just about solving customer problems but creating an experience that resonates with them at every touchpoint. This brings us to the core concept of holistic customer service.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Leaders from AWS, Siemens, Slack and more attend Highspot’s annual global customer conference to drive sales productivity with sales enablement. 6, 2022 — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, today announced its third annual global customer conference, Highspot Spark 2022.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 23, 2018

Do you have a customer retention scorecard? Any of the plethora of scoring systems which measure customer satisfaction and loyalty. And your own performance is measured and compared with the ratings customers provide on a quarterly basis. Once they consummate the sale, and the contract is signed, they hunt up their next deal.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since his company was already selling an eLearning platform, he simply went to his existing customers to validate the idea. His founder-led sales approach paid off as he uncovered more and better ways to address the market need. Rather than hire a sales force, Matt has employed two sales strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 6, 2018

. – when bestselling author Mitch Albom takes the stage to close out our fourth installment of what has become the world’s leading conference for sales professionals. Sales Leadership & Strategy. Sales Operations & Systems. Building Courage and Confidence to Succeed in Sales. Salesloft, Now & Beyond.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Mindtickle is thrilled to participate in this year’s Sales Enablement Society’s Annual Conference ! For those who aren’t familiar with the event, the conference features the industry’s best and brightest professional sales enablement leaders and practitioners. For a detailed session description of this can’t-miss workshop, see below!

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The Sales Heretic

AUGUST 14, 2019

I had just checked in at the Sheraton hotel in Tampa, Florida, where I was conducting a sales training seminar the next day. I was hungry. Now, normally when I’m traveling, I like to get out of the hotel and find a good, local restaurant to eat at. But this evening, it was late and [.].

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Every year, billions are spent in sales training. As a result, what really is happening is that every year we are throwing away billions on sales training. The billions spent represents spending in buying, developing, and delivering training. But it’s worse than that. What do we do about it?

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MEDDIC

APRIL 28, 2024

MEDDIC Academy pioneered online courses and other digital learning experiences in Enterprise B2B sales, since 2017. These modern learning strategies are now widely used in most professional development fields, including sales training. Sales Enablement Platform: Docs, Audio, and Videos designed to support sales activities.

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SMEI

JANUARY 16, 2024

What is a GPT and how can it enhance my sales and marketing productivity? A GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence model designed for understanding and generating human-like text. GPT models, like ChatGPT, are trained on a wide range of internet text.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 10, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Keith Daw , VP of GSD and Trainer at McDonell Consulting Group , where he ‘Gets Stuff Done’ and teaches the Sandler Training methodology. Know why you’re training your team before you start. Create a personal, customized learning path. powered by Sounder.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MindTickle is thrilled to participate in this year’s Sales Enablement Society’s Annual Conference ! For those who aren’t familiar with the event, the conference features the industry’s best and brightest professional sales enablement leaders and practitioners. For a detailed session description of this can’t-miss workshop, see below!

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Highspot

APRIL 18, 2023

New training solution helps customers build platform expertise, learn best practices, and run enablement programs with rigor SEATTLE, Apr. Highspot University enables customers to unlock the power of Highspot, offering courses, certifications, and workshops to sharpen skills and drive more enablement impact within their organizations.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

How are your best value added customer experience efforts sabotaged, both pre- and post-sale? What you do, when you are not actively selling, engineering, coding and serving, adds value to each customer’s experience of how it is to work with you. Instead, value added customer experience becomes your responsibility. .

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Sell Integrity

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Do they have some special sales skills that others don’t? If your sales force is somewhat normal, just 20% are high performers. Imagine what a difference it would make if you could increase the entire team’s ability to sell more and develop stronger customer relationships. Why Sales Skills Aren’t the Whole Story.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can we have a forthright conversation that the business world has changed and specifically the most pressing sales training dilemma? These unknown sales leads “lurk” in the shadows reading what is posted and over time begin to feel like “I know that person” and “I trust that person.”

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Smooth Sale

MAY 3, 2023

Our collaborative blog explores creative methods to get free advertising plus free marketing via specialty T-shirts. __ Know How to Get Free Advertising T-Shirt Marketing One of the most effective ways to generate free advertising is by turning your customers, employees, and supporters into walking billboards through t-shirt marketing.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to inside side sales training, you’re going to spend less time reading and more time interacting with people. Investing in an effective inside sales training system within your company can pay amazing dividends. What is inside sales? So, what is inside sales training?

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some of the more forward thinking business leaders continually seek small business sales training to improve their business results. The reason so many small businesses have failed to increase sales is because of poor marketing. One of my favorite ones is developing rapport as a sales skill. People buy from people.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 8, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Ensure a Smooth Running Customer Service Department ? Our collaborative Blog provides insights on ‘How to ensure a smooth running customer service department.’. Doing so can minimize any problems or glitches occurring and maximize customer satisfaction. Photo by Geralt via Pixabay.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Why I Love Sales Sales was never a career option I aspired to. I learned how to get prospective customers to ask me how soon they could get my product/service. I soon as I figured anything out, I’d put together a small workshop on the topic. Yet, if I wanted to start my own company it was necessary to learn how to sell.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Today, Rob’s keynotes and workshops attract many diverse audiences, from Global 100 companies to growing entrepreneurial enterprises. Listen to our Sales Expert Insights interview as John and Rob cover the following points: What is the exact meaning of the customer decision cycle? What are Rob’s views regarding the same?

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Shari Levitin

MAY 12, 2022

A few months back, I read a post on LinkedIn from Ashlynn White and couldn’t resist changing the context to a sales conversation to show an example of how to overcome price objections. Customer : How much will it cost to do virtual training for our team in for our sales kick-off meeting? Customer: WHOOOOAHHHH!!!!!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success.

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Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

You might be wondering, can you use AI for sales? Sales is a field that relies heavily on human interaction, but technology has always played a significant role in enhancing its efficiency and effectiveness. AI is one of the latest technologies that’s making a big impact on the world of sales. How can sales teams use AI?

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 27, 2018

Innovative customer experiences stand out from what customers are used to experiencing. Also, after the customer service rep, sales rep, engineer, field sales service rep, Quality professional departs, the customer asks themselves: “What just happened?”. Customers cannot get you out of their minds.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. We’ve got to be customer focused.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s fair to say sales is an art as well as a science. However, that inherent talent isn’t the norm since most skilled sales agents started as novices and honed their talents over time. Contrarily, a subpar platform can actively detract from the operational efficiency and performance of the sales department.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Or, the biz card or professional profile on LinkedIn is full of marketing and sales spiel and lingo which appears light-hearted and almost self-deprecating, with pseudo-titles created for what they do. However, the label itself can set up performance and customer experience expectations which may be unjustified. Image source: iStock.

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