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Drawn-Out Sales Cycles: What to Do When Selling Stalls

Zoominfo

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Your internal structure should enable this type of instant outreach. Westley’s right.

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The Meeting Efficiency Survey

John Barrows

For this reason, I created the Meeting Efficiency Survey. The Meeting Efficiency Survey is a brief online survey I send to clients before our meeting that is filled with drop-down, checkbox type information the client can easily fill out. The post The Meeting Efficiency Survey appeared first on JBarrows. The Solution.

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A Guide to Sales Training Design and Development

Janek Performance Group

Yes, your first responsibility is to increase the skill of the sales reps on the team. But just as important, your training also impacts your customers, the company’s revenue, and possibly your shareholders’ investment in your company. What is Sales Training and Development?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Respondents reported that half of sales interactions already took place virtually, not in person, even before the pandemic.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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How to Maximize Your Customer Training Investment

Sales Hacker

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. How to maximize customer training investment. Intelligent, strategic investment in customer training is crucial to remaining competitive in the upcoming year.

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How to build a sales training program

Showpad

Sales training programs offer your reps the opportunity to develop their sales skills and connect with customers more meaningfully — when set up and executed properly. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you need formal sales training and how to guarantee its success. . Benefits of sales training.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.