Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building. The strategy ensures reps are well-prepared to meet and exceed sales targets.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 20, 2012

I was traveling south on Montgomery Road today and NOT thinking about sales, sales management or coaching sales. I believe that this also has significant implication about selling and coaching sales people. So now after about 4 minutes I am thinking about selling, sales management and coaching people.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 15, 2015

Sales Leaders. Although Ibaraan was writing about business in general, we thought her message held particular insight for the world of sales. If buyers change how they buy, sellers need to change how they sell and sales leaders need to bring the insight to make that happen. So let’s translate this message to sales management.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 22, 2011

Tweet Share At the corporate sales meetings where I give presentations, I am often asked to participate in giving out sales awards. They are sales achievement awards. There is an incentive for that person to maintain or improve his or her performance to stay at the top. Gitomer | May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2013

elements to build and grow a stellar sales team: 1. People get into sales because it’s got the potential for great financial rewards. Sales wars (battles between sales and production, administration and credit) end up killing the customer. Reward sales with money. Nothing happens until a sale is made.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 11, 2018

Information hits sales managers from all sides on the subject of creating high-performance sales teams. Provide constant feedback, hire the right people, incentive programs, create compensation plans that drive behavior…the list goes on and on. Yard sales’ occur every day in the sales profession.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Of course, no organization can completely do away with meetings, so you’ve got to find a happy medium—one that supports the company’s goals while also providing value to your salespeople. Read on for our top five tips on how to hold a sales team meeting that’s actually worth everyone’s time. Download it today!

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

I’ve often used the analogy that B2B enterprise sales professionals are the Olympic athletes of the corporate world. That said, try putting them in a front line B2B sales role focused on the complex sale at the enterprise level and see how that works out for you. Oh, sure, we throw money at the sales department.

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Zendesk Sell

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Motivating a company sales team is an inherently difficult task. You can’t depend on what motivated you as a sales rep to also motivate your team. Start by being genuinely positive and authentic on the sales floor. What made them want to work in sales in the first place? What are you saying to yourself in your head?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. Conclusion.

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ExecVision

MAY 29, 2018

When sales are slow or appointments are down, many inside sales leaders instantly start saying things like, “We have a rich comp plan in place and a differentiated service to sell, so why isn’t my team killing it?” Companies routinely fall down in one critical area: sales culture. At least half the team makes the trip. ?

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Behind every successful sales team, is a sales leader who’s dedicated to ongoing training and sales force development. This year, be the leader who leads your salespeople to excellence by following these 6 secrets to outstanding sales success. Projected Sales Pipeline. Length of Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. Tags: Attitude , Coaching , execution , Guest Post , Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training. December 2007.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s never too early to start planning for the new year — especially when it comes to your sales kickoff. Sales kickoffs, or SKOs, live at the intersection of education and celebration: the goal of any SKO is to prepare and reenergize sales reps as they enter the new year. What Is a Sales Kickoff? Let’s dive in.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Sales productivity can be a pretty nebulous term. At its core though, sales productivity is all about increasing your number of sales for the amount of time you spend actively selling. Want all of our best sales productivity tools, content, advice and templates? Get access to The Sales Library now.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 6, 2013

This week I thought I would use this forum to let my readers know of Two Sales Leadership training programs in May that you should plan to attend. The first is Friday May 10 th , Building Predictable Revenue: Sales Management Systems. The second is May 28 th , 1pm EST: Creating Sales Compensation Plans for High Performance.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In the classic play and movie, Glengarry Glen Ross , Blake, the somewhat strident troubleshooter from downtown, informs us that “ Sales is a tough racket. ”. Selling is not only tough on the sales rep, it is also tough on the company. As a VP or director of sales, you’re ultimately responsible for the actions of your sales team.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

Do all the research you want… Implement all the bright-shiny strategies you can think of to get sales reps excited about their roles and success…. Clearly, new strategies alone aren’t enough to motivate a sales team. Sure, these are all key motivators for your sales reps. So what’s the missing link? Is it money?

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Sales Training Advice

OCTOBER 19, 2010

When times are tough and prospects seem to be holding on to every dollar, your job as a sales manager is more important than ever before. Now is the time to roll out a sales contest to generate additional sales and build morale. Offering a contest to your sales team is a smart business decision on many levels.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I’ve been working with sales professionals (and unprofessionals) for more years than I’d like to think about. I talk to and work with thousands of sales people and hundreds of managers every year, traveling a couple hundred thousand miles doing it. So it’s easy to get jaded when you sit in sales meetings.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

No matter the department, every single person in your company should understand sales because, at the end of the day, it’s everyone’s job to sell the brand. Marketing and customer support are specific departments that benefit the most from understanding the sales process. Call it “ sales rep for a day.”.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a lot to succeed in sales. And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

This guest post is written by Derek Singleton of Software Advice , an online resource that report on technologies, topics and trends in B2B sales and marketing. Marketing and Sales have long been at odds over whether it’s better to generate a large volume of leads or if it’s better to generate fewer, higher quality leads.

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LeadFuze

MAY 18, 2021

Why is Sales Motivation Important to Your Business. Sales motivation can be the holy grail for a business. Learning how to motivate your sales team can feel like an impossible task. We’ve tried to round up all the best sales motivation strategies, insights , and ideas on how to motivate your sales team.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

a sales training industry analyst and research organization - to conduct a study to help us identify best practices for building the most effective sales coaching program possible. The resulting report is called "The Essential Elements of a World Class Sales Coaching Program" and it outlines some pretty eye-opening stats.

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Pipeliner

JULY 26, 2018

If I had a dollar each time I heard someone opine the chasm between their revenue results and sales forecast , I’d be spending twelve weeks every summer relaxing in a tony Montana lodge, fly fishing by day, and gazing at constellations at night. Trying to get sales forecasts to hit actual revenue bang-on is a fool’s errand. My invoice?

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Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Another year is in the books—so it’s time to ready your sales game-plan for 2020. In this post, we look back at the sales posts and topics that sparked the most engagement in 2019. As you devise your own sales approach for the next year, incorporate the outreach , negotiation , and sales development tactics shared below.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Sales data can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, data can help you make smart decisions, uncover new opportunities, and crush sales targets. So how do you separate the signal from the noise, and only deal with the sales data that matters most? The answer: with a sales dashboard. The answer: with a sales dashboard.

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LeveragePoint

JUNE 29, 2018

Sales professionals are paid based on results. Internal promotion then spreads the word among sales professionals and sales management. A results-driven sales culture and incentives will take over from there. They don’t force sales users to go too deep, too fast in customer conversations.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 29, 2015

Having a CRM system in place can be incredibly beneficial to staying organized and knowing where in the sales process a particular client is at any given time—but only if your sales reps are actually using it. Because quite frankly it feels like more work and has traditionally only benefitted senior management, not the front line rep.

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The Sales Association

MARCH 9, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Is the only reason you are there because you want to support your local sales rep or because you fear your ‘noticed absence’ will hurt your reputation? Subscribe To The Sales Association. The Sales Association Website.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amad said, “Yeah, they give us quotas, but the sales managers don’t have the same numbers, and the systems engineers aren’t on the same system; so no one gets punished but us.”. Quotas can be by dollar, by product, and by sales activity; often by all three. Is the sales incentive bar set too high? James Obermayer.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

You can use a single question to determine how experienced a sales manager is: “What has a bigger impact on your team’s success, sales skills or motivation?”. Newer managers tend to say the former, while more experienced ones pick the latter. A well-designed sales contest is one of the best tools in your arsenal.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Sales culture is a fuzzy concept. You can’t measure your team’s culture like you’d measure their monthly revenue; email, call, and meeting activity; average tenure, etc. What is sales culture? The definition of sales culture is the attitudes, values, and habits that characterize your team. Sales culture best practices.

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