The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 11, 2023

As a sales manager, you understand the benefits of sales coaching. Not only does it help your sales reps close more deals, but it also improves communication, builds confidence, and enhances teamwork. Here's what effective sales coaching looks like today and how to implement it in your sales organization.

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RAIN Group

APRIL 19, 2023

How is the current state of the sales environment impacting sales organizations? Which sales and enablement issues are most challenging for leaders to tackle? What are the top sales priorities for the next 12 months? How should they be addressed to ensure they're achieved?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sales job interview questions. To build a strong sales organization, it’s imperative to find people who can hit quota, handle rejection, and be persistent without turning aggressive. To build a strong sales organization, it’s imperative to find people who can hit quota, handle rejection, and be persistent without turning aggressive.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2021

It’s one of the most important components of sustained sales success over time. As a sales manager or director, you can only influence your team’s sales performance in two dimensions: Their skill set (what they can do) and their motivation (how repeatedly or passionately they do it). But motivation is far harder.

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Mike Kunkle

MARCH 31, 2023

Sales process, sales methodology, and sales competencies are all important and related aspects of sales effectiveness. Sales Process A sales process is a series of stages that an opportunity moves through. But they are not the same thing. It’s been proven in multiple studies and is worth the effort.

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Sales Interpersonal Skills Account Management Sales Training 130

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2018

It’s in most motivational speeches, it’s all over LinkedIn via “sales gurus,” and it’s used in almost every book about sales, sales leadership, or sales management. Check out my book on how to run a more human-centric sales process to win more customers. Prep for, research, and personalize every sales call.

Sales Management 145

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 24, 2019

In the sales world, this annihilates results. How many sales coaching sessions are totally forgotten? Though not the sales rep’s fault (humans are human, after all), it costs organizations billions in lost revenue, as sales mistakes continuously occur despite ongoing sales coaching. Cons: It can be awkward.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 18, 2013

If so, consider your core competencies as a sales leader. Read on to learn what it takes to shift from individual contributor to sales leader. In the coming months interview activity will increase for executive sales leaders. Do you aspire to make the leap from sales rep to sales leader? Measuring process output 2.

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Zendesk

JANUARY 24, 2022

But before they can even get to that point, they need to make their biggest sale ever: themselves. When you’re applying for a sales job, you’re essentially selling your value to a hiring manager. The hiring process is almost like a “sales funnel” if you think about the application stage through the onboarding stage.

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Nutshell

JUNE 20, 2019

Anyone can learn the skills they need to be successful in sales, provided you start with the right foundation. There are commission-based and salary-based positions, inside sales and outside sales jobs , and innumerable B2B and B2C industries to specialize in. Which environment will teach you what you need to know—and fast?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Take a hard look at the best sales teams -- the ones that really blow their quota out of the water. Look past the high fives, the ring of the sales bell, or even the energy on the floor at any given moment. You’ll see the best sales teams are getting better every single day. 4 Tips for a Winning Sales Culture.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You’re looking for a sales position and scouring the job postings. Before disqualifying yourself from a sales career , you should know that your experience doesn’t have to come from an actual sales job—you just need to understand how to transfer your current skill set to the position you’re applying for. Retail sales associate.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 22, 2018

When sales managers have opportunities to develop their sales team, it’s something they should throw their whole time and attention at, as they seldom have the chance to get out of the fire-fighting mode and spend time working on. So what are some ways to ensure success in this important part of the sales manager role?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2023

This is a significant drop from just a year before when sales success reached around 26%. They need to achieve more with less, making sales enablement more important than ever. Companies have access to AI tools to support their sales efforts. In this post, you'll learn how AI can power your sales enablement strategy.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 29, 2013

Sales leaders will not Make the Number if they fail to rapidly onboard new talent. The sales environment is uniquely suited to take advantage of an innovation called “ gamification.” This post is for HR and Sales leaders who ask, "How can we accelerate the productivity of our new hires?". Gamification can be the answer.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s no secret that there are many benefits to gamifying your sales process. Even if you don’t have a tool in place, it’s likely as a sales leader you’re already using it in some form. Ever organize a sales contest? Not only is gamification popular, it’s a proven and effective sales performance booster.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Sales leaders and businesses are paying a hefty price for not developing the selling skills of their people. There are so few in sales who are truly professional sellers. Probably the most common and damaging driver of salespeople being perceived and treated simply as vendors is being late to a sales opportunity.

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SalesPop

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. Following the dot-com bubble burst, people learned that sales mattered just as much as the product.

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Account Management Management B2B Advertising 98

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Without a doubt, a strong drive for great numbers is at the heart of any high-performing sales team. Between prospecting, sales calls, data entry, quote preparation, and follow-ups, it’s very easy for teams to mismanage data and trip over themselves on the way to the finish line. Salespeople are busy. Let’s jump right in!

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 9, 2018

I was recently working with a group of sales managers on helping their sales teams develop more high-potential accounts. One sales manager looked at me inquisitively and questioned, "The rats out their head?" One sales manager looked at me inquisitively and questioned, "The rats out their head?"

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 29, 2019

In today’s unpredictable, fast-paced sales environment, midsize organizations need a formal sales enablement initiative to ensure that sales reps are having quality conversations with prospects that lead to more wins. Sales enablement affects the bottom line in a real way. percent win rate. percent win rate.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

I swear, every day I see some salesperson on LinkedIn say, “ What you missed is that in my 500 years of sales experience, people always buy from people. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in the past year is “ If you want to know where B2B sales is going, look at B2C sales first. ” That will never change. ”.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So why do so many sellers insist on using old school sales tactics that no longer work? Keep reading to learn seven old school sales tactics to avoid in 2020 and beyond. Seeking the Sale at All Costs. You’ll probably have a lower close rate and many of the sales you do make will likely get returned by unhappy customers.

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Sales Decision-making Sales Environment Publishing 71

Sales Readiness Group

MAY 8, 2018

I’ve often been asked as the CEO and co-founder of Sales Readiness Group, what does “sales readiness” really mean. In today’s hyper competitive sales environment, companies are looking for their sales organization to consistently deliver great results.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 2, 2019

The recipe for an organization’s sales success used to look a lot like your grandma’s favorite cookie recipe: add a pinch of this and a dash of that, stir to combine and throw it in the oven to bake. To stay competitive in business sales, organizations now need a method —a systematic, established procedure for accomplishing their goals.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Accelerating sales is not only possible, but it’s a challenge the entire organization should accept, creating the sales equivalent of the “rally around the flag” effect. Let’s examine how to accelerate sales even when prospects aren’t biting. unexpectedly poor sales performance is debilitating. It demoralizes employees.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the competitive world of B2B sales, harnessing the power of an effective account mapping strategy is key to sales optimization and revenue growth. Prepare to unlock the intricacies of account mapping and embark on a path to unmatched sales proficiency. Why does account mapping matter so much for sales teams?

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SBI

JANUARY 21, 2014

A long-lived tenet of sales is that people make a decision to take action based on reason and then proceed to justify the decision with emotion. This is, I suppose, very much in line with the Challenger Sale. This is not something we in sales want to hear for it’s the doing-phase that represents a decision.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in!

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Brooks Group

JUNE 27, 2024

As a sales leader, there’s a lot riding on your hiring decisions. No doubt you’ve learned the hard way that, when you lose a sales professional, it can cost you as much as 150% of their annual salary and benefits, plus lost sales and missed opportunities.

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SBI

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Transforming Sales: How to Make Your Way of Selling Into Your Competitive Advantage. In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. And have you made that strategy easy for your salespeople to learn, and for sales managers to coach?

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Chally

MARCH 4, 2021

The past year has presented sales leaders with unprecedented challenges. Since the beginning of the pandemic, B2B sales opportunities have decreased 73%[2]; and closing sales opportunities has grown increasingly tough. A tough market climate is not the only challenge sales leaders are facing.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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QYMATIX

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Introducing new technologies for B2B sales is not always easy. Joachim Meyn has many years of experience in B2B sales and has managed many projects in the area of CRM implementation. This article is closely linked to my article on the acceptance of new technologies in sales.

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SalesGlobe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the Rethink Sales Podcast I’m Mark Donnolo. So as we get into this, as we get into this discussion around the performance review, I want to end up tying it back to the sales organization, and what we see out there as well. So what’s my cost of sales? So what’s my cost of sales? Mark Donnolo.

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