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Activating Your Virtual Sales Force: Inspire, Educate and Connect Your Sellers Remotely

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales leaders looking for a rapid start in 2021 should design and deliver virtual events that inspire, inform and connect their sellers, and set the stage for effective virtual support throughout the year. Show prerecorded videos during virtual sales meetings highlighting top performers and organizational successes. Virtually Inspire.

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What Hollywood is Teaching Us About Selling

Janek Performance Group

As a result, films exploring the art of selling continue to draw audiences and offer entertainment and thought-provoking narratives. In this article, we analyze three sales-themed movies, exploring the lessons and implications they provide for the art of selling. It is concerning that such unethical behavior could exist in sales today.

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Best Practices for Driving Technology Adoption by Financial Advisors

Allego

As much as financial advisor tools have transformed the asset and wealth management industry, people remain the ultimate decision-makers. Sales Manager, Manage Thyself. Just as their teams need technology to support them in the field, managers need technical support in training their teams to do that. Learn More.

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3 Tips to Improve Your 1-on-1s by Leveraging Your Sales Enablement Tools

Lessonly

However, too often, these meetings end up focused on the sales cycle (pipeline management or individual deals) which help in the short term but don’t promote long term growth. Sales managers need to focus on activities that develop their sales force and ultimately lead to higher performance.

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How to Accelerate Sales in the midst of Uncertainty

Showpad

In the context of sales acceleration, a SWOT analysis should generate new sales goals, be it more realistic quotas, prospecting in new regions or enhanced lead qualification systems, for example. Your sales agents should have achievable benchmarks, purposeful workflows and appropriate incentives to improve their own performance.

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Leveraging the Pygmalion Effect to Transform Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

Elements are evident in the films, A Star is Born, Mannequin , Weird Science , and Pretty Woma n. It can enable sales managers and leaders to empower their reps’ goal setting. This makes it essential that sales managers and leaders not only update goals. It’s since become a favorite trope of Hollywood.

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The 8 Skills Salespeople Will Need to Be Successful in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Your job title hasn’t changed -- you’re still a salesperson, sales manager, sales director, etc. -- but of course, everything else has. Sales tools are different; they’re basically the phone book and your business card. Find the best lighting, props, and filming area. Framing skills. Challenger selling.

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