Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Therefore, the cost of sales reps with average sales skills is a number most companies cannot afford. The post-pandemic sales boost has faded, and now companies are scrutinizing how they allocate their more limited resources. Organizations across all industries are exercising greater caution given the macroeconomic uncertainty.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

When it comes to sales, your ideal customer isn’t always the next one—it’s your current one. Studies have shown that, in today’s competitive landscape, it can cost five times as much for a company to attract a new customer as it does to preserve an existing one. As a result, a shotgun approach tends to be ineffective.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The best types of sales enablement content include: Buyer personas. Case studies. Related: 8 Sales Role Play Exercises to Prepare Your Team for the Win. Role-playing is a valuable tool to show salespeople the most effective ways to meet customers, handle them, and make sales. Talk tracks. One-pagers.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

However, that inherent talent isn’t the norm since most skilled sales agents started as novices and honed their talents over time. Sales is extremely dependent on collaboration with complementary teams. But as a sales manager, you know there’s only so many hours in the day, and you can’t spend all of them on training.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. As a bonus, you can click here to receive an exercise developed especially for an SBI client. Ignoring Content Marketing. Content” means blogs, whitepapers, webinars, slide shares, tweets, reviews, eBooks, podcasts, case studies, etc. Bad decision.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 13, 2019

While many organizations reported increased adoption of a sales enablement function in recent years, several still struggle to use it effectively to achieve their goals. According to CSO Insights’ 4th Annual Sales Enablement Study , 61 percent of organizations have a sales enablement function. Of those, only 34.4

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Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And yes, these are processes (plural), because you have to cover the entire process chain from marketing to sales to customer success/customer service. . The focus for this exercise should be the desired customer experience you want to create. . Why is this trend ready for its breakthrough? inprovement in win rates and 11.8%

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. Recently, we published The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” Bad Leadership.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I have often stated that I don’t see enough role playing during sales training meetings, role playing must be a cornerstone during your monthly training programs. One of the best ways to teach: skill building, strategy development and presentation skills is the use of a Case Study. for New Sales Managers was published this summer.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These approaches are enhanced with sales training technology to provide on-demand access to engaging microlearning content, such as video-based presentations and interactive quizzes. Below, we’ll take a closer look at 10 sales training ideas and activities to revamp your strategy for 2024 – and ensure your reps stay prepared.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% Review your sales calls.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 15, 2019

In our last post , we started our deep dive into the best practices correlated with selling success in leading sales organizations, as identified in the “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study.” Our sales managers effectively coach salespeople to higher levels of performance.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. Read on for a list of essentials for lead sourcing, nurturing, and actionable tips to outperform in a competitive market. What Is a Sales Development Playbook? Furthermore, the playbook aligns sales activities with broader business goals.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 8, 2015

Promoting fitness and making exercise fun is definitely a good thing. Android and iPhone users age 18 and over spend 30 hours and 15 minutes using apps each month—a full half-day more than in 2011—according to a 2014 Nielsen study. Technology provides valuable tools for advertising, marketing, and sales research.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2019

Individually, we know how difficult it is to change our own personal habits–exercise, eat healthy, lose weight, stop smoking, work-life balance, …… I do think some of the solutions can be found in the science of habit formation. For those of you interested, I suggest you start studying this, I know I am.

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Pointclear

APRIL 23, 2013

As CEO of UK-based Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners , Bob works with the leadership teams of technology-based B2B-focused companies, enabling them to make the critical connections between their marketing messages, their sales conversations, their true differentiators, and their customer''s priorities. The Role of Management.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sales readiness checklist helps you and your reps understand whether they have all the information, skills, and competencies they need to have conversations with potential customers. Share this 10-step checklist with your reps, or send it to your sales managers to use in their 1:1 meetings with each rep.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 15, 2022

Clearly, most organizations are opting toward an internal resource for their sales training. Most companies require their sales managers to provide sales training. In a previous blog post , we outlined the issues sales managers face when trying to develop a sales training program. Conclusion.

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Troops

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

We interviewed Tim Sanders , CEO of Deeper Media and author of several sales and business books, including Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Will Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges to ask him more about closing big, complex deals. Big sales are just problem-solving exercises,” Tim told us. Team selling.

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Mindtickle

MAY 10, 2022

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New research from Gartner has revealed a startling truth– almost 90% of B2B sales reps are experiencing burnout ( source ). Although it’s no secret that sales is a high-stress job, uncertain market conditions have only amplified the pressure to perform. This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 12, 2017

” Have you noticed that the complaints that sales and marketing teams have about each other sound just like two partners in a dysfunctional marriage (or at least a pretty strained one)? When Sales and Marketing Argue, the Customer Loses. This contentious relationship between sales and marketing is not a new thing.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Whether you want to ask better questions, prospect more effectively, lead your sales team, or become an all-around better salesperson, there's a pick here for you. The Best Sales Books for Salespeople and Sales Managers. The Challenger Sale. The Sales Acceleration Formula. Secrets of Closing the Sale.

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Allego

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For our new sales representatives, our sales enablement team assigned video exercises to help our sellers learn and practice their responses to buyer questions. This helped them manage new workflows as they adjusted to fully remote work initially. Conversation intelligence (CI) was also a key tool we used.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 25, 2015

As the study goes on to note: “Such low figures might be understandable in the context of general-purpose training without any business objectives. But let’s imagine a bank that knows its sales performance could improve if call-center employees were better at identifying unmet customer needs. It’s not just a sales training exercise.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2016

These pillars support the articulation of the Value Proposition and stand on a firm foundation of case studies and success stories. While this is not as easy and straightforward to experience for services and solution companies, observing and studying customer stories can be almost as effective.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2016

These pillars support the articulation of the Value Proposition and stand on a firm foundation of case studies and success stories. While this is not as easy and straightforward to experience for services and solution companies, observing and studying customer stories can be almost as effective.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 17, 2016

On top of that each sales manager has developed their own way to train and keep their staff up to speed with the changes. But there’s no standard way to determine whether the sales reps have absorbed all of this information, identify what knowledge gaps they have, and if in fact they’re actually really sales ready.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 17, 2016

On top of that each sales manager has developed their own way to train and keep their staff up to speed with the changes. But there’s no standard way to determine whether the sales reps have absorbed all of this information, identify what knowledge gaps they have, and if in fact they’re actually really sales ready.

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Sales Training Advice

MAY 29, 2017

In other cases the problem is overconfidence in himself or lack of confidence in you, the sales manager. Whatever the reason, sales managers are only as successful as their ability to train reps to be successful. Many years ago I managed a B2B telemarketing staff and ran into serious training issues.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Sales Pipeline Radio Join host, Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing on this fast-paced, power-packed program. Sales Pipeline Radio features the brightest minds in B2B sales and marketing, sharing secrets to driving greater volume, velocity, and conversion of sales pipelines in any industry.

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Allego

JUNE 12, 2018

All too often, frontline sales managers are – by default – the ones responsible for this training. At many companies, the sales learning team conducts programs for a week or a month. From there, skills and knowledge are passed to the sales managers, who pass it on to reps. Message Training is Time-Consuming.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So it’s no surprise that they have a role to play in the arena of Sales enablement. . Some of the most notable Sales enablement trends are things that directly pertain to the Sales cycle, while others will more broadly apply to Marketing, accounts, finance, and other areas of operations.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rev up your sales process with the best sales books. Need a reason to pick up a new sales book? In fact, a five-year study of self-made millionaires from author Tom Corley found that 88% of respondents read for at least 30 minutes a day. Based on that concept, we can all hone our sales skills to become more successful.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The post-COVID-19 market puts even the most successful businesses, and the sales professionals they employ, in an unenviable position. The negative impact on your sales pipeline health can seriously affect revenue retention and put a business’ ability to survive in jeopardy. Risks Plaguing Your Deals?

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