Mindtickle

APRIL 3, 2023

First, let’s start with a definition of revenue productivity: Revenue productivity is a set of processes, strategies, and technologies used to enhance sales performance by utilizing seller data, revenue analytics, sales enablement, and front-line sales coaching. The first area is sales forecasts.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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SBI

MAY 14, 2021

Allego , the leading sales learning and enablement platform provider, today announced its enhanced Conversation Intelligence product. Drive efficiencies for managers with automated review flagging , including notifying a manager when a call warrants coaching and flagging best-practice examples to promote to other reps.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But what happens when your sales performance has stagnated? A number of factors can affect whether or not your sales team can close deals. Using the tested tips below, you can assess your approach to sales — and ensure your team is set up for success. We’ll be covering: What factors affect sales performance.

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Allego

MAY 9, 2019

If every new hire were a prodigy— a natural-born top seller —sales trainers, enablement professionals, and instructional designers would be out of a job. And a great example by sales enablement leader, Mike Kunkle, is the 5 Stages of Sales Mastery and Behavior Change. The remedy? Knowledge Sustainment.

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Highspot

MARCH 30, 2021

But what happens when your sales performance has stagnated? A number of factors can affect whether or not your sales team can close deals. Using the tested tips below, you can assess your approach to sales – and ensure your team is set up for success. We’ll be covering: What factors affect sales performance.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You need a strong personality to succeed in sales - a combination of grittiness under pressure and true smarts makes for the perfect sales rep. In order to manage a whole team of those personalities, a sales team manager has to have a pretty strong personality themselves. Here’s what they told us. Use Your Data.

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Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence. Why is sales coaching important? How do you coach and develop a sales team? Top sales coaching techniques. What makes a sales coach great? What Is Sales Coaching?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. ” ( source ) In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. Keep reading!

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s no different for sales reps. They need proactive sales coaching to help build and improve their sales skills for long-term benefit. The benefits of sales coaching are well established, but coaching is often misunderstood. That’s why managers and sales enablement teams need to find the right balance between the two.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

It’s no different for sales reps. They need proactive sales coaching to help build and improve their sales skills for long-term benefit. The benefits of sales coaching are well established, but coaching is often misunderstood. That’s why managers and sales enablement teams need to find the right balance between the two.

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MEDDIC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Well, you’re in for a treat because it turns out the old Greek philosopher’s ideas are not just for debating the meaning of life—they’re also pretty handy for nailing your sales targets. In sales, metrics could range from customer gains to return on investment (ROI) or time saved using a product or service.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2017

While every sales manager has their own unique coaching style, the end goal is the same; develop and improve how their sales reps sell and meet quotas. By enabling reps and managers with a structured coaching framework you can have a marked impact on coaching effectiveness and its results. What is the problem?

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2017

While every sales manager has their own unique coaching style, the end goal is the same; develop and improve how their sales reps sell and meet quotas. By enabling reps and managers with a structured coaching framework you can have a marked impact on coaching effectiveness and its results. What is the problem?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 16, 2017

Applying the same lens to sales teams, how do you know if your sales team are ready to have customer conversations? If you don’t know whether your reps are sales ready, you’re really just hoping they know what to say and how to address your customer’s pain points. So how do you know if your business is sales ready?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 15, 2017

Applying the same lens to sales teams, how do you know if your sales team are ready to have customer conversations? If you don’t know whether your reps are sales ready, you’re really just hoping they know what to say and how to address your customer’s pain points. So how do you know if your business is sales ready?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 5, 2017

You know that sales enablement can help your sales reps be more effective at their role, but how do you know which sales enablement platform is best for you? Generally, sales enablement platforms fall into two categories; sales readiness and sales asset management.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 5, 2017

You know that sales enablement can help your sales reps be more effective at their role, but how do you know which sales enablement platform is best for you? Generally, sales enablement platforms fall into two categories; sales readiness and sales asset management.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

So, today, we explore five ways to double down on Seller Experience to save money, bring in more revenue, and ultimately create an environment where sales professionals can thrive– even in the face of hardship. When sales reps are happy, engaged, and supported they’re able to provide prospects and customers with a better experience.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

At first glance, project managers and sales professionals don’t seem to have much in common. Budget-conscious, time-crazed and snoopier-than-normal, the stereotypical project manager seems, at most, a very distant cousin of the freewheeling, outgoing and glib sales practitioner. Earning repeat business/referrals.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 18, 2021

Data has become more valuable to sales teams since the COVID-19 outbreak caused such a change in economic conditions. That’s why making full use of sales data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market. What Are Sales Analytics?

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some companies talk about sales readiness and sales enablement interchangeably. But it’s not sales readiness versus sales enablement, because sales enablement is part of sales readiness. Sales enablement is one element of your overall sales readiness framework.

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Keith Rosen

MARCH 17, 2020

How consistent are you with observation (joint sales calls, phone calls, field visits, peer interaction and collaboration, written communication, etc.)? Then, managers wonder why their solid B and A players never want to be coached! Have someone neutral (sales enablement, a Director, someone in learning and development, HR, etc.)

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Allego

MARCH 16, 2023

There’s no doubt about it, 2023 is a turbulent time for the world of sales. That includes your onboarding, training, and marketing teams—in addition to your sales team. To help you, we asked some of the brightest minds in the sales world to offer their advice. 8 Sales Strategies for Profitability 1.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Big changes are coming for bulk email senders that will impact how commercial email is sent and received—forever altering the global sales and marketing email landscape. It’s great news for end users, but it creates challenges for sales and marketing teams. On top of that, response rates to sales emails are at all-time lows.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

If you own a business, lead a sales team, or are otherwise interested in how best to create a solid sales ecosystem within your organization that is conducive to growth, this article on sales operations (sales ops) is for you. Team management made easy. What is sales operations?

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

MAY 11, 2009

Reading a contribution by Paul McCord to an interesting discussion on sales force ineffectiveness started by Dave Brock over at The Customer Collective, lead me to this question. When a sales person finally can establish contact with the prospect, this prospect is already very advanced in the decision process.

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Organizations with a dedicated sales enablement program increase average quota attainment between 45% to over 52%. Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole.

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Organizations with a dedicated sales enablement program increase average quota attainment between 45% to over 52%. Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Allego

AUGUST 3, 2021

If you’re managing a sales team, you want to reach your quota, right? In B2B sales, hitting that number is what matters most. Conversation Intelligence helps solve enablement challenges and lets you scale your efforts quickly and easily. Today’s sales managers face tremendous pressure to achieve ambitious targets.

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Allego

APRIL 12, 2022

Artificial intelligence has entered the sales arena. The shift to remote and now hybrid workforces dramatically affected how sales managers train and coach their reps. Already facing time constraints, managers have reduced visibility into seller activity and struggle to personalize coaching. Improve Sales Coaching.

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Showpad

JANUARY 5, 2021

The employment life cycle of every sales rep always starts in the same place — with a set of strong training and onboarding processes that establish a blueprint for these rookies to find success in their time with the company. In this post, we’ll look at key features of an ideal sales coaching solution.

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Zoominfo

MAY 23, 2022

Take a challenging entry-level position in the sales industry with high expectations and an unrelenting daily schedule. But for too long, that’s been the de facto experience for a sales development representative. But at the same time, it’s not clear how you get there,” says Matt Rohr, a sales enablement manager at ZoomInfo.

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