No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2020

What about your account executives? He said in an excited voice: “We need to train them how to do that!”. His so-called referral program couldn’t be measured and didn’t hold sales reps accountable for results. He explained that whenever clients moved to a new company, they always brought his team in. Terrific,” I said.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

These systems analyze CRM data, client engagement histories, and external signals to recommend the optimal next steps for every account in the pipeline. For example, if an account suddenly decreases email open rates or cancels a meeting, GPT can alert the rep and suggest corrective actions. Focus on actionable outcomes.

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Hiring Lead Rank Intent Data Territories 130

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Social Selling is a proven method of securing the first appointment with buyers inside of target accounts. Social Selling training budgets increased 48% in 2013. TURN REPS INTO MARKETING CHANNELS. Once optimized, each rep’s LinkedIn page becomes a marketing channel. There’s a lot written these days on Social Selling.

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Social Selling Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing 321

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

3) Target customers across multiple channels. Multiple channels means the customer needs to be approached in a variety of ways. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat. Managing Director.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2025

Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. ” The same advice applies in other channels as well. Just as you coach a team member to improve, AI systems need consistent training to provide better insights.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Conversion Prospecting 130

Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs.

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Training Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 67

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

From refining your teams techniques to reinforcing best practices, coaching tools are essential to how modern teams train, grow, and win. Vendor Support : Is onboarding, training, and customer service included? The platform provides tools for content management, training, and buyer engagement.

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Sales Coaching Software Software Coaching 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Laser focused on key accounts- World-class sales teams know where to spend their time. They create their own opportunities by using unclogged channels such as LinkedIn. They maximize opportunities by getting warm introductions with key decision makers, inside target accounts. They learn to speak the buyer’s language.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 21, 2021

But where can channel partnerships fit in? Sales Hacker has published ample content about channel partnerships. You may have even read some of them at one point and wondered if channel partnerships really help you increase sales in your business. Channel partnerships can make things easier on your sales teams.

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Channels Hiring Webinar Metrics Revenue 120

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Along the way, he built multiple $100M ARR companies and trained over 1,500 sales reps, seeing first-hand what systems truly move the needle for revenue leaders. Whether it’s a live demo or a training session, people need to see best practices in action. This creates accountability and clarity for both the rep and the leader.

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Sales Leadership Lead Rank Scale Marketing Qualified Lead 119

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. Introduction to Sales Training Blogs Sales training blogs are an essential resource for sales professionals looking to improve their skills, stay up-to-date with industry trends, and learn from experienced sales leaders.

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Training Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile SalesForce 74

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is in spite of the fact that most of it is created for sales and channel enablement purposes. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. Training, training, training. As much as 80% of marketing content goes unused by salespeople.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Intelligent Insights for Smarter Selling ZoomInfo blends proprietary first-party data, insights into account and prospect activity, and real-time buying signals to deliver highly actionable, personalized recommendations. It harnesses member-driven insights to surface relevant account information, relationship context, and buying intent.

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Sales Tools Tools B2B Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

MAY 29, 2013

This client, Hi Leva of Clear Channel, has a good eye so I paid attention. Commercial negotiation- think sales training. For example, earn more points for opening a new account than selling to an existing account. These are known as “hunter points” and let’s everyone know you are a new account expert.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Airlines B2B 310

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive. If budgets are tight, have your superstars conduct mini trainings. Account Segmentation – For a good primer on Account Segmentation, click here.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. What is a channel partner? Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. But by far, the option that could potentially bring you in the most sales is resellers and sales channel partners.

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Channels Scale How To Commission 120

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2025

My social channels are dominated by experts suggesting the GTM strategies. We define outreach programs, looking at content, channel, volume, velocity. What training do we need to give? The “customer” is reduced to a number–net new logos, retention/renewal, number of strategic accounts, major accounts, SMB.

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Customer Analysis Retention Social Media 97

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Product-Channel Fit: Finding the Right Growth Strategy for Your Product We often hear product- market fit, but not often enough is the importance of product- channel fit emphasized. Product-channel fit explained Product-Channel Fit measures how well a product aligns with its distribution channels to effectively reach its target market.

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Channels Scale Strategy Distribution 102

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). When you're creating a new-hire training plan, remember a few things : Keep your training plan personalized, because no two reps are the same. Pre-week training. Product Training.

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Hiring Training Hubspot Inbound 145

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Build Awareness Through Pre-Event Campaigns: Start marketing early through multiple channels. Prepare Sales with Account Briefs for Onsite Meetings It used to take my team weeks to prepare account briefs. Copilot allows my team to generate accurate, neatly organized account briefs at the click of a button.

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B2B Marketing Strategy Lead Scoring 130

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We wrote this article to help you gain a better understanding of why training your reps in social selling is so important and how to go about doing so. Social Media Training for Sales Reps. Why is it so important to train your sales reps in social selling? And what benefits will you get out of training reps in social selling?

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Social Selling Training Social Media How To 137

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams. The more women in account based sales understand the technology they sell, the more credibility they bring into client engagements. Comments were prolific.

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Cold Calling Loyalty Account Intent 266

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. It’s also exceptionally difficult for salespeople to earn.

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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

Sales Hacker

JUNE 4, 2024

How to train your sales team to sell to highly technical buyers and decision-makers. 39:56) Balancing product training and sales process training. (44:39) 49:02) The benefits of full-stack account executives in early-stage startups. (53:27) Applying the concept of neural networks to enterprise sales processes.

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Enterprise Enterprise Networking Sales Process 118

Steven Rosen

MAY 11, 2024

Title: “ Leadership Accountability in Sales Burnout ” Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction In this article, sales leadership experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen discuss sales leaders’ role in helping their teams avoid burnout, drop out, and manage stress.

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Account Face-to-face Sales Leadership Quota 120

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

It’s not rocket science, it’s basic logic: overtime, sales staff gain unique experience, including intricate knowledge related to both overlooked and recurring problems that stall deals, navigating specific personas and accounts, industries, business relationships, and the overall market at-large. Inadequate training or onboarding processes.

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B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 200

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

However, the true power of CPQ lies in proper training. A well-trained sales team can navigate the system effortlessly, configure products accurately, and apply pricing rules without errors. Without the right training, inefficiencies and mistakes can slow down the sales cycle, leading to lost opportunities.

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Training Closing Discount Lead Rank 48

The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

I have trained some large transport companies, have a good feel for the business, opportunities and challenges. How does their workload, stress load and accountabilities shift throughout the day, month??? This forces us to not just be multi-channel in our approach, but also multi-lingual. When in What Environment.

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Prospecting Transportation Retail Exact 260

Pipeliner

MARCH 16, 2025

Other tools, for example, Account Health and Automatizer in Pipeliner CRM, aid in keeping the customers relationships strong. Train for real-world impact In-person, hands-on training (such as the ones conducted by Dr. Riggio and Henrik Wene) produce better salespeople than online courses. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The train is in the station. So while I say train… it’s not a one-off, it has many trips. Forrester states that “the most popular priority of B2B marketing leaders for the next 12 months is an increased focus on achieving B2B revenue and growth via the partner ecosystem/channel.” The tracks are laid. All aboard!

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Training Marketing Campaigns Report 122

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From assessing which channels perform the best, to evaluating existing tracking capabilities or implementing new attribution solutions, establishing key milestones ensures you are continuously providing value for your business. PRO TIP: A quick-win might be to create consistently across all lead-gen channels. This will 1.)

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen ROI 230

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Be sure to master the four Ps of marketingproduct, price, promotion, and placementthrough GTM training. Go-to-market training equips you with the marketing, product, and sales skills to avoid launching a product no one needs. Why Go-to-Market Training Matters Markets are constantly changing, and buyer behavior evolves quickly.

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Course Training Strategy Marketing 52

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2024

Competition-Based Pricing This strategy focuses on the going market rate for a company’s products and services without accounting for product costs or consumer demand. Be sure to train the algorithm on real customer buying behaviors and competitive intelligence. Adjust your tool’s settings if you spot any anomalies or inconsistencies.

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Strategy Margin How To Lead Rank 103

MTD Sales Training

JULY 23, 2019

If you have a LinkedIn account, Google yourself now. Put your name and company into Google and see where your LinkedIn account is placed. Think of your LinkedIn account as your personal, professional website. Connect Other Sites & Channels. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Google How To 161

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). Content shared by employees receive 8x more engagement than the same content shared by company/brand channels ( source ). Let’s get started.

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Social Selling Social Media Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 184

Vengreso

JULY 29, 2024

Have you heard about how important channel sales partners are? In this article we cover different kinds of channel sales partners, why they’re good, and how to work well with them. Plus, working with channel sales partners has other benefits like growing your market. Each one has a special job in selling products.

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Outsourcing Services Channels Webinar Metrics Strategy 67