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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Scenario - the candidate is provided with an instruction package that includes the background information on fictional sales opportunity. The task is to create and deliver a winning sales presentation. Questions - after studying the package, the candidate is allowed to ask 5 clarifying questions about the sales opportunity.

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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.” No opportunities to get promoted.

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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.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Researching and identifying needs: This stage of sales development is about understanding the potential client’s specific needs and pain points. Initial meeting / Pitch: This is the opportunity to make a solid first impression with a well-prepared pitch that addresses the prospect’s unique requirements.

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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% So, how can you improve your sales skills?

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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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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For example, we recently analyzed how hundreds of sales managers at SaaS organizations coach their teams. What we discovered is that top managers spend 12 hours a month on call reviews. That’s 30% more than the average sales manager! . Self-Coaching – Reps review their own calls or study peers’ calls.

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Pointclear

APRIL 23, 2013

And you’re not the only party doing the qualifying—your prospect is going through a similar exercise throughout their buying decision process. Effectively, you need to requalify opportunities at every stage in the pipeline using well-defined and increasingly stringent criteria. The Role of Management. Parallel Thoughts.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Instead, your sales platform should allow you to easily create short, one to ten-minute pieces of training content using different forms like videos, text, quizzes or exercises. Most training is set up to have reps passively consume content in a sequential order and complete certain exercises (i.e.

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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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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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2020

On a monthly basis, aim to track how many new opportunities have been added to your pipeline, and the percentage of leads that you have been able to follow-up with during that time period. It’s no secret that many sales reps are burdened with administrative tasks that prevent them from being able to actually sell.

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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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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Sales people can find a plethora of tips and tricks on closing sales, and sales managers can easily locate information on how to find good sales people to work with. Yet, there is not a lot of information for the sales person on how to find a good company to work with. Study the numbers. Sean McPheat.

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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

Some of the top challenges financial services enablement teams face include: No insight into field activities Traditional sales managers find it difficult to gain visibility into the daily activities of their account managers and sales representatives in the field.

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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. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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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. Difficulty.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this is the message I’m hearing from senior leadership to their front line sales managers, as companies fearfully scramble to reinvent themselves. While you may not remember nor have known about this storm, you may remember what you were taught in elementary school when studying science.

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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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Keith Rosen

APRIL 8, 2020

In fact, Owl Labs reported that 58% of remote workers and 67% of remote managers received no training on how to work remotely. found in a recent study that 41% of remote workers struggled with work-life balance. Exercise, meditation, taking a walk, getting out of your house/workspace each day? What’s your self-care regimen?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ). This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2016

In order for this “training” to be truly effective, it is extremely important for the company’s product or service to be projected to the new hire from the eyes of the customer – in the context of the customer’s business, industry, challenges, needs, opportunities and pain points. Competitive Analysis: Understand Your Worth.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2016

In order for this “training” to be truly effective, it is extremely important for the company’s product or service to be projected to the new hire from the eyes of the customer – in the context of the customer’s business, industry, challenges, needs, opportunities and pain points. Competitive Analysis: Understand Your Worth.

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Buyer Persona Case Study Study Exercises 52

Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. Is Online Sales Training Effective? For years, sales training presentations have been crammed into one- or two-day events.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

Upon their first 90 days, the best VPs of Sales will even bring over an army of sales reps, sales managers, and business development professionals who would follow them to the ends of the earth from previous experience as either peers or reports of this individual.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 1, 2016

Competitors change strategy, industry dynamics change, you introduce new product features or you have published new referenceable case studies. It’s not only important to help your newbies maintain their level of knowledge by reinforcing their training, but also to sustain their overall sales readiness so they can continue to level-up.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 31, 2016

Competitors change strategy, industry dynamics change, you introduce new product features or you have published new referenceable case studies. It’s not only important to help your newbies maintain their level of knowledge by reinforcing their training, but also to sustain their overall sales readiness so they can continue to level-up.

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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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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. That’s why it’s so important you get sales onboarding right.

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The Brooks Group

MAY 17, 2016

We’ve already dug into One-to-One Sales Meetings and Sales Team Meetings , so check them out in case you missed them. Today we’re discussing Joint Sales Calls —an opportunity for a sales manager to observe a rep during a live selling scenario. The larger the opportunity, the more detail that is required. .

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2018

As John Doerr writes , reps who don’t listen miss the opportunity to build rapport, uncover buyer needs, and let the prospect know you understand their world. If the prospect says “no” you now have an opportunity to clarify your understanding by asking “Could you clarify for me what I might have missed or got wrong?”.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 14, 2013

We simulate different scenarios (individual interviews, group interviews, simulation exercises, writing exercises, shadowing or joint field rides with other current employees or salespeople, etc.) so they feel confident and prepared for every question, exercise, challenge and request that’s thrown at them.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The sales professional must widen the customer’s purview, revealing the full scope of risks and opportunities. The sales professional must assert their perspective. Instead, sales professionals should make their perspective known by expressing it in clear terms free of jargon. Doing so means using three key strategies.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Everyone needs to bring the mind-set that the sales training is being conducted so the company can achieve its strategic goals. It’s not just a training exercise. To achieve that goal the leadership message needs to be clear and compelling and must be repeated and reinforced by all front-line sales managers.

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