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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel. The portal sharply raised the productivity of Cisco’s specialists and reduced their travel expenses. Qualia, a real estate company, uses software that allows sales managers to listen in and “whisper” feedback. .

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How Top Sales Teams in the Travel Industry Win Again and Again Thanks to Better Training Methods for Employees

Lessonly

People are traveling once again and our world is slowly but surely opening up- yippy! The best way to overcome the knowledge burden involved in a new hire travel specialist role is to have one place where they can access everything essential they need to reference and answer live questions in a pinch. . Source: (SHRM) .

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Making the Most of Regional Pricing Meetings

Distribution Pricing Journal

” Gaining a Better Understanding of Local Markets When you travel to a branch location, you gain a new understanding of the various local market dynamics and how they change in different regions. You need to demonstrate the power of your software to your branch employees directly, live and be able to answer questions in real time.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Now you have to get commitment from people to participate in the overall process; get commitment from a core group to attend workshop sessions; and get commitment to participate on separate calls or online. Don’t leave the discussion on segments, workflows, and personas to the first workshop. Produce workshop pre-read.

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Why Collaboration Skills are more than Nice to Have Skills

Babette Ten Haken

Machinery, software interfaces, processes and people are involved. And, in my experience serving clients, the software and machinery often collaborate far more effectively than do their human counterparts. The equipment and software are programmed for collaborative processes, error detection and customized productivity.

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7 Ways to Level Up Your Support with Customer Service Training Software

Lessonly

With customer service training software. The idea of learning customer service through training software isn’t novel, but the way it’s presented is rapidly evolving. For instance, I’ve completed book work, taken in-person and online classes from the ATF, and even attended a self-defense workshop when I worked at a local sports bar.

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Managing for peak performance in a remote worker world

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan On the first Friday in March this year, Jeb Ory led an employee appreciation celebration at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of Phone2Action, a provider of advocacy software that enables organizations to create grassroots marketing campaigns. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training.