Mike Kunkle

MAY 15, 2019

[This article was originally published as part of the Sales Education Foundation 2018 Annual Magazine , co-authored with Robert M. Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Sales, Northern Illinois University Professional Sales Program ]. Peterson, Ph.D., The man will be there to feed the dog.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 29, 2019

The best sales teams are always talking with each other, constantly communicating on what is working well or flopping and regularly making plans and strategies for the future. Sales managers should develop a tight-knit feedback system around sales training, the accessibility of sales content and all-around best practices for sales reps.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

The top 20% of salespeople typically account for more than 50% of an organization’s revenue, according to the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study. But intuition and the lagging indicator of quota attainment are largely what sales leaders focus on when evaluating individual sales performance. Get Your Data Strategy Right.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 26, 2018

Most sales enablement platforms today don’t answer the critical question on the minds of salespeople everywhere: What are the actions I should take right now to win this deal? Sales enablement technology feels like a burden to sales reps. The tool becomes an administrative burden with little value to the salesperson.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 25, 2019

To dig into the reasons underlying low seller performance numbers and take steps to improve them, sales leaders need to assess their current sales culture. Ask yourself these questions: How strong is the adoption of your sales technology stack or other sales operations tools?

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 8, 2019

The CSO Insights 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study showed that companies actively invest in 25 different types of sales technologies, and the average sales organization uses 10 tools and plans to add four more in 2019. Take the Sales Performance Meter. Your sales team hasn’t fully adopted your CRM.

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5600 Blue

JANUARY 31, 2018

My friend and colleague, Jim Dickie ( [link] ) recently reported sales leaders stated their top barrier to achieving their 2018 revenue objectives is: LACK OF COACHING. Furthermore CSO Insights 2017 Sales Enablement Optimization Report highlights that those organizations who deliver “dynamic” coaching enjoy a: 27.6%

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 29, 2019

A sales forecast is only as good as the processes and data that support it. In its 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study , CSO Insights found that companies with a formal, structured forecasting review process increased their win rates of forecast deals by 25%, compared to organizations that did not.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2018

When we ask sales leaders this question, answers often range from “not very” to “not at all.” In our 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study conducted by CSO Insights, only 47 percent of respondents reported adoption rates of greater than 90 percent. 1: A formal sales process drives CRM adoption.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This, coupled with powerful team-level analytics and opportunity heatmapping gives sales managers unprecedented opportunities for improvement. “Sales teams aren’t the same, and software shouldn’t be one size fits all. ” This week at Gartner’s CSO & Sales Leader Conference, Invisible.io

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SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

ringDNA Expands its Suite of Sales Engagement Solutions with the Addition of AI-Powered Sales Coaching. Groundbreaking conversation intelligence solution, now released to general availability on desktop and mobile, transforms sales management through AI-powered performance insight. Buying Technology. Pat will walk.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sales Enablement. Membrain, the Sales Enablement CRM company, and Refract.ai, the UK-based Sales Conversations Intelligence company, have partnered up to help sales managers improve sales coaching. Sales Enablement. Sales Coaching. Sales Coaching. Buying Technology. Industry News.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Neil Rackham Reflects on 50 Years of Bringing Science to Sales What a thrill it was for us to host the Professor of Professional Selling on the Move the Deal Sales Podcast last October. His reflections on the evolution of sales strategy connected with literally thousands of listeners to be our most popular podcast episode as well.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 25, 2018

At the Elevate 2018 conference, industry disruption took center stage. From changing buyer preferences to declining sales performance to emerging sales technology, it quickly became clear that the world of sales and service will never be the same. Only then will sales technology reduce seller tedium.

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