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The Evolution of CRM: What’s Next?

Miller Heiman Group

While we’ve been a leader in the sales training realm for decades, the concept of CRM has been around even longer. From where I’m sitting, the history of CRM falls into four clear evolutions: CRM 1.0. The pre-digital era of CRM kicked off in 1956, with the invention of the Rolodex.

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal sales training. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. This has changed the sales process fundamentally in many environments.

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Call Recording Software: Why Your Sales Team Needs It and 9 of the Best Options

Hubspot Sales

Call recording software records phone calls in a digital format via voice over internet protocol (VoIP) — which allows you to make calls over internet connection — or traditional phone. Then, all of your phone calls are automatically saved in your CRM for centralized record-keeping and accessibility in the future. Fireflies.ai.

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Telephone skills for lawyers and accountants – Confidentiality, client experience, accents and gatekeepers

Red Star Kim

There have been many requests recently for inhouse training on telephone skills to support client service and selling both for fee-earners and support staff. Earlier in April I ran a public MBL “Pick up the phone – Client service and sales opportunities for professionals in the digital age” online training workshop.

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3 sales enablement myths debunked for senior executives

Showpad

One of the reasons why sales enablement exists in the first place is that silos no longer work in our fast-paced digital age of ever-changing buyer preferences. As training is often closely related to the content (no content without training!) Owning your CRM system is also a major part of establishing this foundation. .

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Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver

SBI

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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Everything is Connected with Everything, or Why Integration in Sales Enablement Matters More Than Ever

Showpad

To be precise, according to the CSO Insights Fifth Annual Sales Enablement Study , only 27.5% of organizations with sales enablement were able to meet their stakeholders’ expectations and achieved two-digit improvements. 1: Sales enablement has to be integrated in the digital transformation strategy.