Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-11-30. Teaser: When it comes to reinforcing what employees have learned through training, many organizations fall down on the job. When it comes to reinforcing what employees have learned through training, many organizations fall down on the job. Author: Shapiro Negotiations Institute. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 16, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-08-17. Teaser: While the demands on sales reps have grown dramatically in recent years, training approaches have remained stagnant. While the demands on sales reps have grown dramatically in recent years, training approaches have remained stagnant. Author: John Knoble, Director, Commercial Learning, Ethicon.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Take Control of Your 2015. By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Will marketing finally get their act together and start sending you decent leads? Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 10, 2016

Issue Date: 2015-01-11. Teaser: If training alone was enough to solve the sales challenge, we would see more collective success from sales teams. Training is often thought of as a type of coaching, but they are two very different processes with very different results. Author: Rob Jeppsen, SVP and GM of HireVue Coach.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-12-18. Teaser: To stay competitive, sales organizations must reinvent their approach to sales team training by adjusting to meet the needs of the millennial and Z generations. Author: Brian Cleary, Chief Strategy Officer, bigtincan. read more

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The One Must Do Action Step to Ensure a Great 2015. What is your plan to get a jump start on 2015? He was recently ranked for the third year in a row by Top Sales World magazine as one of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2014. Sales Motivation Sales Training' It’s simple, but many times overlooked.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. Inbound Marketing. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015? Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

We are about to go into 2015 and smart marketers and sellers are positioning for predominantly mobile viewing of their site, offers, and ways to connect. It is an evolution, and now is clearly the time to be thinking about this and planning for Q4 into 2015. The time is NOW to build for the future with your website.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. What is the impact of that on the use of freed resources, training, managing, and more? Shouldn’t the freed-up time, resources, training, and more – resulted in increases in output? Smaller Treadmills.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. Recruiting takes time and training new salespeople takes time, get a jump on your headcount. Salesperson Business Plans should include more than simple forecasts; they need to include goal setting, training needs, marketing activities and business objectives.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 21, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-05-22. Teaser: With the use of custom content on the rise, many have predicted that in 2015, brands will begin to truly think like publishers. With the use of custom content on the rise, many have predicted that in 2015, brands will begin to truly think like publishers. Author: David Palmer. read more

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

As soon as Monday, you (yes, you and your mid-market or SMB company) can sign up for the Beta offering of IBM ® Watson™ Analytics. This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere. There is a premium version for bigger capabilities.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. Some are even looking for you socially.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. One theme was clear: AI is touching every part of go-to-market. Equip your team with the right tools (and training!). Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Much of this is due to the technology that is beginning to drive the sales process much the way it has driven marketing for the past several years. In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. The range of sales tools is becoming as diverse as those on the marketing side.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Postal Service must reduce its operating costs by $20 billion by 2015 in order to return to profitability,” said David Williams, vice president of network operations at the US Postal Service, in a prepared statement. Lori Richardson writes, speaks, trains, and mentors sales people and sales teams to greater revenues. Consulting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My Over the next few months, Johnson helped implement and train the newly formed inbound sales team to focus on rapid response.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 20, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-04-20. Yet, 95 percent of organizations don't have a written referral-selling strategy, written weekly referral goals, referral-selling skills training or a disciplined system to track and measure results. Author: Joanne Black. Teaser: The business case for referrals is clear. read more'

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 2, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-03-02. Teaser: The odds of a sales reps using the sales training he receives is very low despite the quality of the content or will of the participants. It seems like the answer to have sales training that sticks is practice. It seems like the answer to have sales training that sticks is practice.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Recently Ian Altman published a Forbes article entitled – Top 10 Business Trends that will Drive Success in 2015. In 2015 and beyond your sales team will need to be able to sell consultatively at a very high level of competency in order meet customer expectations and to differentiate you from the other guys who have gotten the message.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 16, 2015

In most B2B markets the buying process has changed dramatically. Only 35% said their marketing and sales organizations have strong operational alignment. So what are some things a company can do right now to do a better job getting ready for 2015? ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. Selection. New product launches.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-08-10. Teaser: As a sales manager, I learned a long time ago that train wrecks happen a month at a time. As a sales manager, I learned a long time ago that train wrecks happen a month at a time. Author: Frank Visgatis, President and COO, CustomerCentric Selling.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 23, 2014

McKinsey’s Yugo Sarrazin and Lareina Yee shared 4 megatrends sales organizations in the McKinsey on Marketing & Sales newsletter. Megatrends for Sales Organizations – Sarrazin and Yee, McKinsey on Marketing. Companies will need to develop go-to-market models that meet both sets of needs. Your thoughts? _.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Video and visuals are going to become even more important in sales and marketing in the months ahead. The first one is Big Data, Analytics and the future of Marketing and Sales , currently free on Amazon as of this writing. I wish you the very best this holiday season and throughout 2015. Let me know in the comments area below.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. If a company is going to among the winners in today’s disruptive market, they will not only need a sales team that is better at doing what they are doing, but one capable of doing something different. First, focus on how customers are buying in today’s market. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of those strategies is summed up by this very ‘relevant to 20th century sales leadership behaviour’ statement : “If officers are unaccustomed to rigorous drilling they will be worried and hesitant in battle; if generals are not thoroughly trained they will be inwardly quail when they face the enemy.”.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Hiring salespeople before you have a product that’s ready to go-to-market might be a high-leverage way to test your product-market fit, pricing and packaging, and product’s readiness. This isn’t to discredit surveys or market research; both deliver critical insights about your customer sentiments and journey. Here’s why.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Sales training is moving to a mobility mode. This is a new trend that will evolve quickly in 2015-16. Enjoy and may 2015 be your best year ever.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Prior to Alinean, Tom founded Interpose, a provider of total cost of ownership (TCO) measurement and analysis software tools and training. Our Panelists.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2018

If you're an IT reseller, value-added reseller (VAR), or channel partner advising clients on any part of the front office (marketing, sales, or customer success) -- especially for businesses under 1,000 employees -- there are a few trends you should be aware of. And it’s not just happening across sales and marketing.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and contributor to many B2B marketing publications. marketers are ahead of salespeople.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 8, 2015

If you do nothing else, make your meeting focused around what is in it for THEM (your audience – sales reps, front line sales leaders, account teams, marketing, etc). Instead of full focus on new products and training for new products / services, be sure to make time for sales skills development.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 6, 2017

Sales & Marketing: By Golly We Aligned Them. We further drove this success by implementing a weekly pre-funnel dashboard and tracking all of the pre-sales metrics – from qualified leads passed over from marketing, to demos set, demos completed, opps created, and sales pipeline. That’s acceleration with some serious g-force!

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