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The Insider’s Guide to a Sales Talent Audit

Janek Performance Group

As basketball is an apt metaphor for sales, it’s a great time to discuss a sales talent audit. After all, when the sales environment shifts, teams need to reshuffle and improve to keep up. Yesterday’s sales team might not stack up against tomorrow’s challenges. A sales talent audit is no different.

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37 Sales Leadership Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot Sales

Only 9% of sales leaders have conducted business as usual without adjusting their sales strategy since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, 68% of sales leaders plan to implement a hybrid or fully remote sales model. 63% of sales leaders believe virtual meetings are as effective as in-person meetings.

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Are your Customers Outpacing your Sales Team?

SBI Growth

Talent – industry experience and tenure are not as valuable. Agile Sales Talent – reps possess the competencies of the new A player. These competencies show that a sales rep has acquired new capabilities. On the other hand, organizations are using voice recognition software. Agile Sales – mobile enabled CRM.

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Balancing AI and Trust in Sales for Optimal Results

Janek Performance Group

But for complex sales requiring a trusted advisor, AI has the potential to be an obstacle to an optimized sales interaction. Because after all the mundane sales tasks are removed, sales reps are still required to develop a trusted advisor relationship with the client.

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Sales Habits, Sales Managers and Changing Habits

Anthony Cole Training

Ike is a media relations specialist at SoftwareAdvice a company that helps businesses find sales software. I asked Ike to tell me more about Software Advice. Our team of software advisors provides free telephone consultations to help buyers build a shortlist of systems that will meet their specific needs.”.

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9 Secrets to Getting a Response From the CEO in 2018

Hubspot Sales

If you’re selling billing software in the mid-market medical space, look at the speaking roster or recent blog publications from CEOs at hospitals or medical businesses. But having this interaction gives you leverage when you speak to the lower-level decision maker. Selling marketing software? Ask for their data.

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The New (Breakout) Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales

Sales Hacker

The tipping point: In B2B, you used to need a massive budget or a committed business intelligence team to get great predictive insights for sales and marketing. Today, the sophistication and mass availability of data intelligence software means just about any company can have a sophisticated system to do predictive sales analytics. .