Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Time management.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2020

As a sales leader, your team’s sales pipeline is everything. Without a robust pipeline your team cannot make their quota and your job is ultimately at risk. Pipeline drives key decisions including how you assess and coach your reps to success. What Is a Sales Pipeline? How did the lead become an SQL?

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If the sales process is WHAT to do, a sales methodology is HOW to do it. And in today’s modern sales organization, this investment is no longer nice to have, rather it is table stakes. And yet, if you assume that training is enough, you are doing what everyone else is doing. How will you get more sellers to goal?

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction' I''m sure I''ve missed a few but you get the gist.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 13, 2019

Sales Management is without doubt the most important link in the revenue chain. It’s also the toughest role in a company because it’s where the person is squeezed between the relentless expectations of executive management and sellers who struggle to differentiate in ferociously competitive markets.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. It was a rough start, but within three years I'd been promoted to a sales manager.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 8, 2023

” When sales professionals characterize deals as stalled, they are vague and shallow. On the other hand, science-based sales methodologies rely on facts, evidence, and rigorous investigation rather than metaphorical statements. Early in my sales career, I vividly remember a defining moment with my first sales manager.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Pipeline cleanup/pipeline integrity: We waste so much time and productivity with sloppy/bad pipelines. Virtually every organization I get involved with, when I look at their pipelines, I can eliminate at least 40% of the pipeline. If your people have been trained in a methodology, make sure they are using it.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Clinging onto formerly reliable but crude spreadsheets, notes apps, or even whiteboards to facilitate pipeline accuracy, deal forecasting, and activity metrics slowly poisons performance. Such relatively primitive tracking methodology fails to account for the flood of crucial data pouring through the funnel.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. A strategic sales plan helps make everything much more straightforward. How to create a killer strategic sales plan. Choose a relevant sales methodology.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Benefits of a Well-Defined Sales Process Essential Steps of the Sales Process How to Create a Sales Process How to Map the Sales Process to the Buyer Journey Sales Process vs. Sales Methodology Sales Process Examples Sales Process Mistakes to Avoid Mastering Your Sales Process With Highspot What is a Sales Process?

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

People in all industries use generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to create content, analyze data, write software, create sales strategies, develop employee training, manage teams, and more. Say Hello to Custom GPTs for Sales Gen AI creators aren’t resting on their laurels. Tell me about the Sandler sales method.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Examples of sales actions to include in your strategy Tips for choosing sales activities How to create a next action-based selling process Tips for implementing a next action selling strategy What is next action-based selling? It helps sales reps identify and prioritize the next most effective step they can take to win a given deal.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Metrics are the bedrock of any sales function (in fact, one could argue that no enterprise function is tracked, measured and analyzed more than sales!). Sales leaders have been well trained over the past decade to believe that when it comes to data, more is better. Here are 3 key sales metrics you may be missing: 1.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It can be easily done by building a simple and repeatable sales cycle. A well-defined sales cycle is the bread and butter of a consistent sales team. It helps them close deals faster and project sales pipelines more accurately. . Why is a sales cycle important? Use automation to reduce non-sales activities.

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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news: the principles behind managing a team are the same whether they’re in the same room… or remote in their living room. 1 Make Pipeline Reviews Strategic. Getting information to flow in your team will allow you to start the week strong with *actual* pipeline reviews. Training can get some of the mojo back.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some of the most creative selling was done to convince the manager that numbers would be made. As a sales manager I noticed something curious…. Sellers that made their numbers had fewer , more highly qualified opportunities in their pipelines. Of course, the problem was that most of the opportunities weren’t qualified.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

As a global sales enablement professional and leader, one of the chief lessons I try to teach is moving sales enablement from the perception it’s purely a training function or just a new word for training. What Should the Scope of Sales Enablement Responsibility Be? Listen: Find the Magic in Sales Transformation.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 2, 2019

The organizations that drive the strongest sales performance take a dynamic approach to methodology, allowing their approach to be flexible and taking into account each customer’s point of view. Methodology requires training and familiarity first. The seller experience informs an effective sales methodology.

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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. What’s So Important About Sales Onboarding? Retaining trained reps.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was meeting with a very thoughtful sales executive. He was about to make some pretty big investments in training and in technology tools. I asked him why he was making those investments, he replied, “We really need to raise the skills and productivity of the sales people. Pipeline integrity was very poor.

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Keith Rosen

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Sure, I have a bunch of opportunities in the pipeline but there’s nothing I can do to move them along.” Hey, it’s easy to blame the company, the economy, the marketplace and your customers for all the reasons why you can’t reach your goals and achieve your sales targets. Avoid the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. This is how your pipeline gets built. You are hiring a new breed of rep and implementing a new sales methodology in response. You know this.

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Gong.io

JULY 25, 2022

One answer to this question is the Sandler pain funnel, a method of establishing need and urgency with prospects that feels more like a consultative interview than it does a sales pitch. In this guide, we’ll explain how the Sandler pain funnel works and illustrate the sales methodology in practice with an in-depth example.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

That means adoption is critical for all enablement services your organization provides for salespeople and managers. Think about sales methodology and process training, the content your enablement team provides — customer-facing and internal enablement content — and the technologies and tools you want your teams to use.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? However, most sales methodologies and most sales teams do not subscribe to a sales method that covers prospecting. What is a Sales Methodology? SPIN Selling.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

Even worse, the content they get from marketing doesn’t match the messaging used in assets from the product team or the information drilled into them during training, so they confuse your buyers and end up creating their own content, wasting several hours per week. First, sales enablement is about a lot more than technology.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You've established the various stages of your sales process. You've trained your salespeople on the key actions required to move prospects from stage to stage. If your opportunity to close rate is extremely low, your salespeople might require more training. Invest considerable time, energy, and resources into training.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Those are the exact same issues we have identified in the 10,000 companies whose sales forces we have evaluated - the companies where 91% did not have sales processes! In 2005 I wrote the book Baseline Selling and it contains both the Baseline Selling sales process and the Baseline Selling sales methodology.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sales Management Sales ops can use their in-depth management experience to interpret sales data and provide advice. Sales management will then have the key metrics and data to inform processes and sales activities, including pipeline management and sales forecasting.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? Sellers less than YTD against quota want their managers to believe they’ll catch up in the coming months. What percentage of opportunities (including stale proposals) in a seller’s pipeline will ultimately close? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Gong’s sales analytics software takes unparalleled data capture and analytical capabilities and applies them to your customer interactions. What exactly is the MEDDIC sales methodology? So what does the abbreviation in “MEDDIC sales methodology” actually stand for? What sets the MEDDIC sales methodology apart?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The sales development playbook combines proven strategies, tips, and best practices to help new and experienced sales development reps (SDRs) increase sales and grow pipeline. Furthermore, the playbook aligns sales activities with broader business goals. How Do You Create a Winning Sales Development Playbook?

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This means that more than 75% of sales organizations didn’t meet them at all. Talk about a sales managers worst nightmare coming true! And yikes, the defined sales process that everyone worked so hard at to create success bombs at the end of each year and year-over-year. How to approach every sales stage.

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