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The Importance Of “Cross Training” For Sales

Partners in Excellence

The next 6-8 weeks represent one of those “died and gone to heaven” periods for sports enthusiasts. Their discipline, their focus, their training and constant practice (10,000 hours to mastery is a drop in the bucket for many), the coaching–and the respect they have for coaching. All have set goals and metrics.

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Baseball to Pizza to Sales Enablement Training Software: What I’ve Learned In My Career (So Far) About Selling With Excellence

Lessonly

So much so that the husband offered me a job doing outside sales for his company. From that point years ago, I’ve been on one heck of a sales journey. . How do you measure sales enablement? From sports to sales. The idea of a baseball team as a whole can even be tied into sales.

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Inside Sales Event Supports Art and Science of Selling

Score More Sales

You cannot attend a full day event like this and not come away excited about the profession of inside sales, or as Forbes author and industry leader Ken Krogue calls, “Remote Professional Selling” . Trish Bertuzzi moderated as we debated sales onboarding / training, lead qualification, and about closing deals.

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Is Coaching Salespeople Different than Managing Them?

Janek Performance Group

Communicating the organization’s vision to the sales team. Seeking and enlisting sales training partners. Hence, sales managers should be data-centric, with the ability to analyze key metrics. They must understand how these metrics translate to their sales team. Attending, mastering, and reinforcing sales training.

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How to Build a B2B Sales Team Structure

Zoominfo

Inadequate training or onboarding processes. Your typical sales onboarding process includes learning team guidelines, utilizing tech stacks, and familiarizing accounts. But one of the most important parts of training sales professionals is teaching the same sales methodology. Sales is no longer an individual sport.

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6 Tips for an SKO Agenda that Won’t Bore Your Reps

Showpad

Training before, during and after the initial kickoff helps to teach, assess and reinforce knowledge. Research shows that within 90 days, over 80 percent of knowledge gained with training is lost without ongoing reinforcement. Who you choose is up to you; another department head or outside sales trainer are always good options.

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9 Principles of Effortlessly Effective Networking

Keith Rosen

To do so, she found an outside sales position selling a line of self-care products. When I asked her what some of the typical topics of conversation were, she said, “Family, work, kids, school, travel, weather, leisure, current events, hobbies, sports, shopping, weekend events or sometimes recent movies we’ve seen.”