SBI Growth

OCTOBER 15, 2013

This post answers the most persistent question facing HR leaders who support Sales organizations. “ How can HR help Sales Make the Number? ”. It’s a convenient tool to assess HR’s support for sales. How Sales Support Becomes Agile. Partnering with Sales presents unique challenges.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. What if he could help his sales team leave effective voicemails that got more callbacks? Voicemails are new again in sales!

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. A few recent examples: Selling to the C Suite. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. How can you help your sales managers execute? Why Sales Managers Fail.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 19, 2013

Sales “ problems ” make it on to your agenda in many ways. As CEO, sometimes the board feels there is a sales problem that needs attention. The competition is a source of sales problems. It is not uncommon for customers to be a source of sales problems. You could spend all of your time reacting to your sales team.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It took some effort and focus to get sales people to adopt this style of interaction, especially after years of pitching and doing things the traditional (old) way. Many sales people had difficulty being comfortable and effective in the vast openness provided by this style of questions. There are very few if any absolutes in sales.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2013

This post is for small business CEOs struggling to hire top sales talent. A simple scoring tool to assess the candidate. I’m conducting a workshop on SBI’s Topgrading for Sales methodology. The goal is to help CEOs find better sales people. Topgrading for Sales takes the guesswork out of hiring.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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SalesProInsider

MAY 20, 2020

It’s estimated that 90% of sales conversations are happening virtually these days and that though skepticism remains, many people, more than 50% believe that this mode of selling is as effective as our old practices. A New Mindset for a Proven Sales Mode. How Is Your Mindset Affecting Your Virtual Sales? Free Training Workshop.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I was asked my opinion on the rapid proliferation of Sales 2.0 tools by a couple of colleagues. ” I hesitate using the Remora as an analogy for the rapid proliferation of Sales 2.0 It’s both exciting and concerning to see the huge and rapid proliferation of Sales 2.0 It’s hugely exciting.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps constantly look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. Opening A Cold Email Template Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? For example: Japan. Example 1: Selling B2B Software Hi (First Name), I noticed you’re using (competing software tool).

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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. The right tools are essential. But how do you do that ethically?

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Julie Hanson

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Surely you can find the occasional reason to smile in a sales conversation! For example, are you: Solving a problem? For free tips, tricks, and tools, sign up for our newsletter here. For workshops, keynotes, and events, get in touch with us here. appeared first on Julie Hansen | Performance Sales and Training.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. Then they must craft an effective approach that will quickly convey value and lead to conversion.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many sales reps feel this way, constantly racing to adapt to the unpredictable. Fortunately, if you’re aiming for peak sales performance in an uncertain world, you’re in the right place. Our guide provides critical strategies and sales readiness tools to ensure your sellers have the core knowledge and skills to thrive.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams. Create a plan.

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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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Highspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Not only do you need a unified sales enablement platform to equip, train, and coach your sales reps on making effective use of this content—you also need to consciously structure your site to be intuitive and aligned with your business objectives. Surface key sales processes, methodologies, and channels Where is our market opportunity?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sales + the pandemic = video. This means skills for impactful communication over video are an essential part of our updated sales competency toolkit. Bonus: Learn when to use video in the sales process (with video examples!). Bonus: Learn when to use video in the sales process (with video examples!).

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 11, 2020

With more virtual sales conversations occurring these days than ever, what can you do to make sure that you maximize the productivity and the efficiency of your efforts in that conversation, in that sales opportunity? So, we’re going to break the preparation into two levels for these virtual sales. What Can You Control? .

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While it’s great to see a motivated sales team working hard day in and day out, it’s important for them to take a step back and regroup every once in a while. Sales professionals thrive when given the opportunity to learn, develop new skills, and interact with one another. How to Create a Great Sales Kickoff.

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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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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. A collection of three top sales books, including my award winning book on Trigger Events. EDGE Sales Process.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge. Sales Knowledge Management to the rescue! Efficiency.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2022

A sales people and leaders, we are fortunate to have more data than we have ever had access to in the past–and some of it is actually useful and informative. It’s months out of date, it’s been extracted from their CRM systems or something provided by Sales Ops. For example, orders/revenue are trailing indicators.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2020

As a sales leader, you've probably wondered what impacts your prospects and potential customers. By creating and equipping your sales team with sales collateral content and materials. Not only does this enrich your prospect’s experience with your company, but it makes your sales reps’ jobs easier. But that’s not all.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. For example, a CEO’s concerns will be different than that of an HR manager. Sales processes they go through. Field requirements for collateral. Common buyer objections.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . Another aspect is how to make sales enablement the engine of your digital transformation efforts. .

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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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. But why is this shared responsibility crucial, and how can sales teams lead this collaborative effort? Yet, only 54 percent say it generally feels like sales, service, and marketing don’t share information.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Additionally, you can produce webinars, workshops, seminars as well as facilitate virtual meetups and discussion groups that specifically serve your target audience. A lead magnet can be anything from gated content like ebooks, whitepapers, e-newsletters or consultations, to free product trials, free tools, demos, or samples.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The 2013 Number came back from the Board for the VP of Sales. Regional Sales Leaders? VP of Sales Operations? If you answered anything other than #4 , revisit the value your Sales Operations Leader is providing. If you have a world class Sales Ops Leader, you’ll know that this is your first and best resource.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

The sales industry is advancing more quickly than ever before. . These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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Pipeliner

JULY 2, 2022

Today’s sales scenario is, to say the least, baffling. We have more books on sales than ever, along with unheard-of numbers of sales seminars and an amazing amount of sales training. Yet sales closing rates remain stagnant—80 percent of salespeople fail, and salespeople only last 18 months on a given job.

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Showpad

JANUARY 15, 2021

As Forbes notes, there’s no “if” or “when” to B2B sales transformation anymore. After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. Above all, a sales enablement platform is key here.

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Julie Hanson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Here is a common example of customer body language that is widely (mis)read on video: Resting Business Face. For more information on how to improve customer interaction on virtual sales calls, click here. For workshops, keynotes, and events, get in touch with us here. * Resting Business Face” (noun) – informal.

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