Mindtickle

APRIL 30, 2020

With the sales function constantly evolving, it’s critical for sales teams to have up-to-date support and the tools they need to sell. This is where sales enablement comes in. Sales enablement is the strategy you use to ensure sales reps have the information, content, technology, and tools they need to sell effectively.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Brexit Has Impacted UK Sales Teams Since going into effect, Brexit has raised three areas of concern for UK sales teams: New Regulations to Navigate: With the UK stepping outside the EU’s regulatory framework, sales teams had to quickly adjust to new trade laws and customs, turning each sale into a journey through complex bureaucracy.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 11, 2018

More Profit, Less Time: Sales Enablement Strategy is Your Ticket to Successful Sales. It’s an intense time to be in sales these days. But now, sales professionals are funneling that time into merely keeping up with it. This requires sales reps to arm themselves with new tools and workflows to engage buyers.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Imagine having the power to predict which leads will likely convert, or tailor your sales pitch based on an individual customer’s behaviors. These aren’t just daydreams – they’re tangible opportunities readily available with AI tools for sales. Upgrade to AI-powered sales tools today.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In addition to basic HR items, members of the sales team need to be trained on company products and services, sales processes, as well as marketing and sales tools to name a few. In addition to initial training, ongoing weekly coaching and mentoring is critical to ensuring long-term sales success.

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SBI

MARCH 4, 2015

You’re proud of your Sales Enablement capability and programs but you’re smart enough to know it’s not a trophy to place on your shelf and admire; right? Because of its very nature, Sales Enablement should not be seen as static, nor should it be considered merely a set of KPIs. by Rebecca Bell Ellis. Here’s how!

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In sales, thought leadership is a crucial component of success. It’s part of an organization’s sales enablement strategy that primes reps to believe in and sell their products and services to the best of their ability. As there is no one-size-fits-all-approach to selling, there is also no definitive best comp plan.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Who is promoting sales enablement? The fact is, sales enablement is not located exclusively within one group or managed under one silo. We looked at several metrics related to sales enablement and margin in our piece last week. This week, I want to talk about the other side of that issue. The Metrics.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Bad News: Although buyer’s admit their own internal processes are more complex than ever, they attribute a hefty 36% of the decision delays to the vendor’s sales process – the inability for solution providers to deliver the right resources and content at the right time to help facilitate the buyer’s decision-making process.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 26, 2023

A sales process is crucial to any commercial organization looking to secure revenue and grow. However, since sales activities have been notoriously hard to measure in terms of performance, many business owners have adopted various commission structures to keep their sales reps motivated.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales Leadership Stats. Sales Performance. 65% of sales leaders that outperformed against revenue targets have a dedicated sales enablement person or team. 61% of over-performing leaders use their CRM to automate parts of their sales process , vs. 46% of underperforming leaders. Sales Performance.

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SBI

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We help them make their WAY OF SELLING into visual, educational, and actionable sales processes. This gives organizations a shared language, and reliable KPIs, and moves the needle on all sales effectiveness drivers: win rates, deal sizes, and sales cycles.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 31, 2013

Here are just a few: Direction - Sales reps may be focused on the wrong activities. For example: selling low margin products because they maximize the compensation payout. A sales process that is not aligned to buying process. A new product launch without proper sales enablement.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2022

Selling by offering a solution rather than pitching a product/service is key to sales pros. The number of interactions with prospects during the sales process is growing. For more on the specific trends we saw in this particular survey, as well as sales themes that experts in the industry are pointing out, check out this post.

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SBI

JUNE 21, 2018

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. He had a mandate to decrease costs to improve profitability by increasing margins. What did he do?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

See the solution provided marginal benefit to the users, but it provided a massive value to a department supported by the user. They had some sales enablement tools that provided them the “data/numbers” on performance, as well as narratives on customer priorities. “Understand, Don’t memorize.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to one recent industry survey that evaluated more than 850,000 salespeople at 10,000 companies, 91% of salespeople reported they don’t have or don’t follow a formal, customized sales process. Alabama went 13-0, won the SEC and the National Championship with an average margin of victory of 30 points.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

To avoid becoming even more marginalized, sellers must take proactive steps to break the apathy loop. In this, the second blog in a series exploring market trends that are disrupting sales, we take a closer look at how perspective helps sellers capture buyers’ interest and build stronger customer relationships. How to Get Perspective.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Gather stakeholders of your organization and come to a consensus on where your sales force stands today, and where they need to be in the future. Our MISE approach can help you develop the sales enablement strategy that will get you where you need to go. Greater ROI on Sales Enablement and Training.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When you adopt an aspirational approach to selling, here’s what you’re communicating to buyers throughout the sales process. Aspirational selling is about understanding what’s driving your buyers from the top down and using that knowledge to position the value of your products in a more strategic context.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2018

Below are six steps that can help you build a data-driven team and sales process. In larger organizations, it might make sense to appoint a member of each team to be in charge of the data from the marketing, sales, support, product and other teams. 2) Streamline Your Sales Process. But you can break the cycle.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Because outside sales reps typically deal with larger and more expensive accounts and products than inside sales reps do, they’re often seen as their company’s superstars. Armed with today’s sales enablement tools, Skype, and Zoom, a large portion of the job can be done from the office. Sales Cycle.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. Today, we’ll see: ?

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Crunchbase

MAY 13, 2021

Seek ongoing feedback to evolve and improve your onboarding process. Sales enablement has two customers: the rep and the manager. With any fast-growing company, it’s essential to constantly evaluate the new hire onboarding process, a key piece of enablement. What red flags did you miss during the interview process?

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 24, 2017

For starters, you do not implicitly assume your marketing communications or sales enablement materials are relevant and valuable to clients. Hey there, sales peeps, these valuable sales engineering professionals are part of the sales process from the start! You both understand each other.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 21, 2019

What is Sales automation? So what exactly does Sales automation mean in the modern day? In short, with Sales automation tools, your reps will spend more time closing deals and generating revenue than they do prospecting or talking to leads with no real purchasing intent. . What are the benefits of Sales automation?

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Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progress, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. margin-driven), your salespeople will feel frustrated from an unachievable reward.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

The sales methodology is like a set of rules for how you sell your products or services to customers. You need to define your methodology before anything else, including the sales process. Otherwise, your sales process will be applied differently by each rep on the team. What is a Sales Methodology?

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Another very expensive problem for a growing business — which can result from the combination of weak frontline management and poor coaching practices — is margin erosion, according to Drury. When it occurs, some questions sales leaders should ask so they can get to the root of the problem include: “Is discounting going on?

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Lessonly

JUNE 2, 2020

Is your sales team operating at its optimum level? Good leads and effective conversion strategies are critical to the sales process. Vetting and converting prospects into warm leads is also the most challenging aspect of sales. Sales-Force Automation. Are your leads converting to your satisfaction?

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

The SaaS industry has different selling techniques , key metrics , and sales process activities compared to the ones you’d encouter while selling a tangible physical product or a more traditional service like a marketing consultation package. What’s the Length of a SaaS Sales Cycle? The Unique Challenges of SaaS Sales.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We’ve seen sales teams leveraging tools with great impact and amazing results. Too many of the tools provide marginal or no performance improvement. Rather than building the capabilities of sales people helping them become better, they become crutches. All of the vendors can provide case studies reinforcing this.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Dave Kurlan is a renowned expert in sales force assessments, training and strategic growth strategies. For more than 30 years, David’s firm has helped companies of all sizes achieve growth, improve margins, recruit stronger salespeople, and develop high-performing sales professionals. Go check out the SBI Insider Video Podcast!

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 10, 2016

Raw data can be deceiving when looking at an organization’s sales processes. You never know if you have “all of the data” or if the data you have is truly representative of the optimization of a sales strategy at a given point in time. Especially True in the World of Sales Management within the Sales Process.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

According to IDC’s annual 2012 Buyer Experience Study published in November it was not Product Information, Peer/Customer References, Industry Trends, Competitive Comparisons and Case Studies, but by a large margin, Financial Justification / ROI. Why has Financial Justification / ROI now become the most valued content? And, h ere's the best.

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Artesian Solutions

MARCH 11, 2019

Over the years technology companies have realised selling with a product focus, i.e. showing and talking about their product or service, its features, advantages and benefits is no longer sustainable, particularly for those selling hardware, where margins are small and competition is high. How to make a success out of customer needs selling.

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Sales Hacker Training

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

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