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Give Your Sales Territory Mapping the Direction It Needs

Gong.io

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important?

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). What do you think?

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Do You Really Have the Best Sales Team Possible?

SBI Growth

Are they in the right territories? At this point ‘A’ Players should be very involved in Social Selling. Examples include: Selling skills, selling knowledge, intelligence, and people skills. 5) Reallocate the C player territory to your A players. Put them into the absolute best territory.

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Is Sales Ops Enabling the Buyer Process?

SBI Growth

Provide the right processes, tools, structure and guidance to best deliver revenue. Buyers don’t care about how your organization wants to sell. Consider everything from strategy to territory design and all your work in-between. Do they focus on skills that align with having a deep knowledge of the buyer?

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Are You Learning Yesterday’s Skills For Tomorrow’s Buyers?

Partners in Excellence

Every time I meet sales enablement and sales executives, I ask, “What are the critical skills you are focusing on training and developing your people on? These skills are important, in fact they are table stakes for all professional sales people. Look beyond these and start learning the skills critical to your success.

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3 Priorities to Enable Digital-First Sales Teams from Experts at TOPO and SecureAuth

Mindtickle

A virtual buying environment, changes in pipeline initiatives and target markets, and shifts in territory coverage have all put pressure on enablement to rethink the competencies, skills and technology needed to create effective sellers. Shift in-person onboarding and re-boarding learning to a self-paced and milestone-driven model.

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3 Ways to Optimize Sales Performance and Be Ready for the Coming Boom

Sell Integrity

Here’s what he said: Be Ready for Virtual Sales Performance: As Bruce explains, this is a territory coverage play. Because of the explosion of virtual selling and the level of comfort both sellers and buyers now have, one sales rep can have many more meetings in a day than they used to have.

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