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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. One major telecommunications provider in Scandinavia, for example, has migrated B2B sales to virtual channels, using marketing automation to create leads and installing an online self-service portal.

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“My Obsession To Provide Customer Value,” Christian Mauer

Partners in Excellence

In today’s terms, developing the contents for and giving these trainings was a Sales Enablement task. Our company was up to then only used to sell telecommunications equipment hardware). Facilitating a taskforce with representatives from Software Development, Purchasing, Legal and Sales lead to the requested framework.

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5 Strategies to Drive Sales Productivity

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

Your sales reps must be trained on the selling space, buyer personas, and products and be updated as this information changes over time. As such, sales coaching should be a proactive, ongoing strategy. Sales coaching can increase sales productivity by 88%, yet 73% of sales managers spend less than 5% of their time coaching.

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8 Reasons Your Sales Reps are Losing Deals

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

Buyers have taken control of the sales cycle, and successful salespeople today know they need to act like trusted advisors with prospects to simplify their decision-making process, understand their needs and behavior, and deliver immediate value, otherwise they will lose the deal. As such, sales reps must know who they are talking to (i.e.

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PODCAST 01: Walking the Road from Individual Contributor to Management

Sales Hacker

The sales team is set up in two teams, we’ve got a team that’s responsible for selling into the buy side and sell side, and a team responsible for selling into big corporations. Each of those teams has a VP of Sales. In addition, we have sales ops and sales enablement. 1) Sales operations.

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8 Highspot Competitors: An In-Depth Analysis

Bigtincan

Sales teams use Highspot primarily for three reasons: sales enablement, sales coaching , and content management. Highspot has been around for nine years and has many loyal customers, but there are also many Highspot competitors in the sales enablement space. This article was written for them.