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JUNE 6, 2022

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Sales Readiness Group

JULY 31, 2021

The success of a sales training initiative is based on multiple considerations as noted in my prior blog posts: How to Choose the Best Sales Training Company. 4 Key Factors to Create a Sales Training Program That Delivers Results.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Every interaction a salesperson has in the interest of selling something constitutes what’s known as a “sales engagement.” Here’s a high-level overview of what sales engagements are, what resources are available to help facilitate them, and how what you can do to make the most of them. What Is Sales Engagement?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals. Let's dive in.

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Strategic Account Management Association

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Strategic account management is a team sport, and the sponsor needs to help to facilitate this team mindset. A colleague from the SAMA Board of Directors, Noel Capon, recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review “When CEOs Make Sales Calls” in which he describes the impact of top management’s involvement in the customer relationship.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2021

Sales multithreading is the process of connecting with multiple stakeholders at the companies you hope to sell products and/or services to. This is the opposite of single-threaded sales, which is defined as a one-on-one relationship between a buyer and a seller. This is where sales multithreading comes into play.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2020

When companies place too much emphasis on closing sales without ensuring their teams have the operational support they need, it may hinder their ability to grow in the long run. That’s why having a solid sales operations plan in place is so important for teams looking to bring in more revenue without putting too much pressure on their reps.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

People and Problem-Solving Skills Facilitating, coaching, mentoring and consulting all require great people skills. Counselling, coaching, mentoring, facilitating, training and consulting are at different stages of the helping continuum. Coaches and consultants use facilitation skills. You use facilitation skills when coaching.

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Upland

JULY 3, 2023

By leveraging the power of ChatGPT alongside established sales platforms like Altify, however, organizations can unlock new opportunities to drive revenue growth and build stronger customer relationships. In fact, Altify Max is available today as an Augmented Intelligence Platform for sales. What is ChatGPT?

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Sales training is essential to your company’s success. It’s a powerful tool for developing the full potential of every sales professional on your team. The Brooks Group’s training programs are led by expert sales trainers (aka facilitators) with real sales experience.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

The best sales org can only take a business so far if its marketing, customer service, or customer success is lackluster — and vice versa. Isolation between departments can be easy to fall into and have big-time implications on sales. How Company Silos Hurt Sales. Customer Service. Customer Success.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Every sales manager has some degree of legitimate dedication to both their company and professional development. Those qualities are almost a given in sales management, but the very best managers don't stop there — they exhibit some other key traits and behaviors that take their management skills from good to great.

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Corporate Visions

MARCH 7, 2023

By keeping sellers on message when pivoting to time-sensitive opportunities or capturing niche market share, AI-powered sales enablement facilitates the next wave of sales efficiency, productivity, and results.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Sales is a critical function – without it, your company wouldn’t bring in revenue. While every member of your staff carries out an essential function, none of them would have jobs if your sales team isn’t closing deals. The leads for potential customers start out great, yet they aren’t making it through the sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2020

Let’s take a moment to zero in on that last term — what does it really mean to be proactive when working in sales? To know how to take a proactive approach to selling, it is important to also understand what a reactive approach to sales looks like. Proactive Sales Techniques. Ready to be a more proactive seller? Not necessarily.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Elements of Successfully Implementing Consistent Sales Messaging.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's a beautiful story — Aaron Ross transformed the Salesforce.com sales team without any traditional cold calling and scaled the business into a $100 million sales machine. But the truth is that most sales reps still don't have time to sit and read the best practices he developed in his award-winning book, Predictable Revenue.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s say you’ve launched an apparel company and have enjoyed a successful first year, but want to increase sales volume and scale. Crucial to increasing revenue and scaling is leveling up the sales game through sales enablement. In this blog post, we cover the following topics: What is sales enablement?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. But in the modern sales landscape, more and more salespeople have started reforming their behavior. Identify In this stage, salespeople do research to start the sales process with prospects who seem like good fits.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic. Start with "why.".

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Just as Mario shrinks back down to his normal size, your sales team's motivation can shrink, too (especially if your people are money-motivated ). It's your job as the sales leader to motivate your sales reps in good times and in bad. Today you'll learn how to take a behavioral approach to motivate your sales team.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the Sales Enablement profession has reached a pivotal crossroads. To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability.

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Force Management

MAY 16, 2024

In our recent webinar with Force Management Managing Director and Facilitator Brian Walsh, an audience member posed a question that we hear often in our work with B2B sales organizations:

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The practice — leveraging digital mediums like email, video, and social media to facilitate customer acquisition — has multiple facets, including elements related to sales. Here, we'll cover some of the fundamental tenets you need to address when preparing yourself for a sales career in digital marketing. Image Source: HubSpot.

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Brooks Group

MAY 17, 2022

Any one of these events would be difficult to manage on its own, but since they’re all happening simultaneously, sales leaders are feeling like they were two years ago: isolated, unsure of what to do and how to direct their teams. Michelle and Russ created a “sentiment survey” that was distributed weekly to sales leaders.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 1, 2022

Sales training that sticks, however, results in behavior change because it’s reinforced. That requires involvement and buy-in from both sales leaders and salespeople. For example, if sales don’t improve by next quarter, a company may be considering layoffs. . Sales are down, people are stressed, and struggling to meet goals.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When done right, B2B sales have the potential to be both extremely lucrative and deeply rewarding. As a B2B sales professional, it is important to develop a sales process that works for your business, prospects, and overall goals. Here are key steps you may want to include in your B2B sales process. Qualify leads.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Transitioning to a career in sales can happen in a variety of ways, however, few roles can set you up for a successful career in sales like a sales associate role can. Here are the key skills every sales associate needs to crush it at their job. Sales Associate Skills. Good communication skills.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2022

It also has major economic benefits from a cost of sales perspective — for instance, rather than paying for each sales rep to travel to meet in-person with buyers, plenty of selling can now be done virtually. Companies can now hire from a wider talent pool without letting geography become a deterrent for hiring the best sales reps.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2020

As a sales leader, you've probably wondered what impacts your prospects and potential customers. By creating and equipping your sales team with sales collateral content and materials. Not only does this enrich your prospect’s experience with your company, but it makes your sales reps’ jobs easier. But that’s not all.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Knowledge is power — especially in the world of sales. Salespeople need to be armed with the information they need to make a sale. With consumers knowing more than ever, sales reps need to know their product inside and out. The most important information? Product knowledge. However, basic product knowledge training isn’t enough.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

This is a toxic combination for sales reps and their managers. Sales leaders that fall back on run-of-the-mill motivation techniques struggle to drive their reps toward aggressive growth targets. Invest in sales management coaching. Plan a sales contest. Sales contests are another engaging way to propel reps forward.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Finding effective leadership in sales is every bit as difficult as it is vital. You need someone with the authority and experience to set and maintain an effective course for your sales efforts. The term that best captures the nature of a sales executive's responsibilities is guidance.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 14, 2022

Sales orgs stand to gain a lot from incorporating project management principles into their operations. While sales project management is loosely defined and often overlooked, sales leadership should at least consider folding the core tenets behind it into their broader objectives and sales reps' day-to-days.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Sales organizations that consider their CRM as the anchor (as opposed to point solutions) have 6.8% On average, organizations use 10 different sales tech tools , yet all that technology isn’t necessarily producing better sales outcomes. One way to do this is through sales technology powered by predictive analytics or AI.

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Sales Gravy

JULY 14, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Sales Mastermind Group "Awesome" asks Jeb Blount sales questions. They can foster a sense of community and connection, help members overcome challenges, and facilitate significant progress towards their goals. It's free flowing, insightful, and informative.

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