Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2020

Wherever they are, your sales force is a dynamic team that's unique to you. There's a few common scenarios that occur in partially onsite outside sales teams: Benching: Situated side-by-side in wide-open rows, benching is an efficient way to provide a home base for employees on the go. Rethink Sales Collateral.

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BuzzBoard

JUNE 24, 2024

What Are the Basic Data Requirements for Creating Hyper-Personalized Sales Content in a Digital Marketing Agency? As sales representatives at a digital marketing agency, you should understand the fundamental data needs to create hyper-personalized sales content , which could optimize your sales process.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A sales pipeline software is a digital tool for structuring your selling process so you can close deals quicker and expand your firm faster. In short, pipelines are a method of visualizing all of the options available to you at a specific moment in your sales cycle. How to pick a good sales pipeline software.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

No Person is an Island It is rare in B2B sales for a single buyer to make a noteworthy purchase in a vacuum, and according to the Harvard Business Review software purchases greater than $100k involve on average eight stakeholders. Going beyond the ICP Knowing your ICP definition is only half the battle in the sales process.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As you prepare for your next sales kickoff, it’s important to make every step count. Sales Training—Is your team’s training still relevant? Skill-Building Sessions : Sales are always changing—and so do customers, becoming more sophisticated as they seek solutions. Sales Enablement and Content Review—Call out those wins!

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DocSend

MAY 17, 2022

What is sales enablement? At a high-level, a sales enablement tool can do two things: help teach your sales team how to sell and enable their ability to sell by providing training, documents, and guidance. A lot of what a sales enablement tool does is teach reps how to sell or store information they need to sell.

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Organizations with a dedicated sales enablement program increase average quota attainment between 45% to over 52%. Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole.

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Allego

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the exact number ranges between 27% and 36%, depending on the survey, the message is clear: Sales reps spend the bulk of their day on activities that don’t directly generate revenue for your company. 4 Strategies to Increase Sales Rep Productivity 1. Allego research found sales teams have 5-13 tools in their technology stack.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 18, 2020

Sales content is serious business. This same report found 95% of sales reps want access to content and collateral that can help them sell more. In other words, buyers want the right information exactly when they need it, and sales reps want to provide it to them. So what’s the problem? Uploading a Document to HubSpot.

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Allego

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why don’t sales reps use all the marketing content your organization creates? Sales teams are often unaware that certain content exists, so they spend time making their own, leading to inaccurate product information or messaging. Marketing toiled over this content, so how can you motivate your sales team to use it?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

The software company’s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? The Sales team hadn’t vastly improved. Sales used to know when they’d been eliminated.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Selling has never been easy, particularly for sales representatives starting their careers or learning new products and territories. It’s imperative sales teams have the tools and processes it takes to win in this selling environment. Modern presentation software. Sales presentation templates.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Cespedes, Yuchun Lee and Mark Magnacca A lot of sales training misunderstands how salespeople learn. Most learning in sales is through peer learning in specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. Further, the benefits go beyond sales. Author: Frank V.

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Allego

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of sales enablement , staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. The emergence of generative AI and the proliferation of GPTs has opened a new horizon for sales enablement managers, as it has for sales teams, promising greater efficiency, innovation, and revenue growth.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

With hundreds of AI sales tools in the market, picking the right ones for your tech stack can be confusing and daunting. To help you out, we’ve handpicked the top 10 AI tools for sales teams. We’ve also listed the top use cases of AI sales tools, along with a few best practices to help you get the most out of them.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2023

Revenue enablement is the next iteration or V2 of sales enablement. It’s the idea that all revenue-generating teams at an organization — not just sales — are empowered with the same tools and data. Revenue enablement vs. sales enablement: How are they different? Revenue enablement vs. sales enablement: How are they different?

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Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Organizations with a dedicated sales enablement program increase average quota attainment between 45% to over 52%. Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2022

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The value of sales and marketing automation rests on your resources' ability to provide mutually beneficial intel between departments.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

For that time, learning management system (LMS) software was ideal for enterprise learning and development, including sales training. And LMS software simply can’t provide that. Today’s Sales Teams Need a Learning Ecosystem. 6 Ways a Modern Learning Platform Gives Sales a Competitive Edge. Just-in-Time Learning.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 22, 2024

Businesses worldwide seek to overcome the limitations of on-premise software and plan to transfer over 60% of their workflows to the cloud by 2025. Are you looking to enhance enterprise SaaS sales, scale up a medium-sized business, or boost your startup growth? What does SaaS sales stand for? Where does your SaaS business fit?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Author: Matt Suggs More than ever before, buyers can scan hundreds of reviews and articles about a product online, forming opinions before they even interact with a sales representative for the first time. Modern sellers must evolve their sales approach, reinventing their pitch to include information that can’t be found on the internet.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Looked at another way, those companies offer a customer experience that connects with buyers, whether that is web conferencing software, TV streaming services, or home cleaning products. If they are happy, ask them for quotes and case studies and use these as early collateral for your sales team.”. Are they sticking around?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2024

In medical device sales, staying ahead requires more than constant product innovation—it requires a flexible and adaptive approach to enabling your reps to sell your rapidly evolving product line. Before Mindtickle, their sales enablement efforts were manual and analog. Let’s dive in.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Sales enablement is a framework specific to each company — one size does not fit all. . If your organization is aiming to improve sales effectiveness, leverage marketing collateral and win deals faster than ever before, a sales enablement program is a productive place to start. What is sales enablement?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg In a perfect world, your sales team and your marketing team work side by side to find and close customers. In the real world, however, less than half of companies believe their sales and marketing teams are in any sort of alignment at all. This, in turn, will help smooth the sales process.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2023

‍The success of any business largely depends on the ability of sales and marketing teams to work together effectively. This connection must be deeper than the marketing department providing sales reps with brochures and PDF attachments. Marketing can help sales reps understand their target market and ideal customer profile.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 12, 2020

Create an efficient and productive sales team with the right sales cadence tool. In this article: Give Your Sales Team the Right Tools What Is a Sales Cadence and Why Do You Need it? Sales Cadence Tools | Use Predictive Analytics to Increase Preciseness, Efficiency, and Productivity. It has five elements.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Here’s my interview with Filip Witkowski of Crescendo a sales enablement solution that delivers easy content management.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of sales, an SDR is a foundational role that offers a kind of sanity check for aspiring salespeople to see if they have what it takes to make it in a high-stakes sales environment. Less obvious career outcomes for sales professionals. Less obvious career outcomes for sales professionals.

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Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Sales organizations can realize almost immediate benefit from a CPQ adoption project. Sales reps are somewhat skeptical by nature; they are not inclined to believe something just because the person saying it wants them to. CPQ delivers great value to Sales and to the organization in general. The case for CPQ. What’s not to like?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 29, 2022

In the same way that founders could never reach their goals without sales, marketing, customer support, R&D, and HR teams, one company standing alone won’t get half as far as one that invests deeply in connecting with other companies in its space. About: Reveal lets marketing and sales teams multiply their win rate up to 3X.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I asked my question because I believe being really interested in selling is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to be successful in SALES. One can be interested in selling but for the wrong reasons, which then becomes a hindrance for sales success. To answer even your first question:” Are you interested in Sales?”

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

This article highlights how a deal desk functions and its ability to transform the way companies tackle their sales strategy. Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to optimize the deal creation and execution process.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Looked at another way, those companies offer a customer experience that connects with buyers, whether that is web conferencing software, TV streaming services, or home cleaning products. If they are happy, ask them for quotes and case studies and use these as early collateral for your sales team.” Are they sticking around?

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