Allego

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today’s sales reps face a challenging reality: buyers are more informed, independent, and selective than ever. This shift has made sales skills training more essential than ever before. Reps need more than just product knowledge to succeed—they need a combination of hard and soft skills to build trust, engage effectively, and close deals. With up to 65% of B2B buyers researching independently (Forrester) and up to 11 decision-makers involved in each sale ( Gartner ), reps are under immense press

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Accurate sales forecasting is essential for business success. But it can be difficult to get it right due to certain missteps. Here are three of the most common errors that lead to incorrect forecasting and how to avoid them.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The title of today’s article might be confusing, but it’s true. Phil told me so. But before I share what he said, I have some anecdotal evidence that supports the claim that I’m an imposter. Here are ten reasons why I could be an imposter: I stand tall but I’m actually just 5′ 6″ I’m a white collar professional yet I never wear a jacket or tie I have helped B2B sales teams for nearly 40 years but prior to that I sold only B2C I invented and perfected

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are few responsibilities in life more important than being a coach, whether for a sports team, teaching mastery of a musical instrument, or serving as a sales coach. Consider the impact a coach has on their students: helping them uncover problems, discover opportunities, enhance their approach, improve their skills, and achieve success. This also makes coaching one of the toughest roles, as those responsible for it often juggle numerous other tasks daily, including operational, administrat

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October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As businesses prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 2025, the role of enablement teams is coming under increased scrutiny. In a research collaboration between SBI Growth and The Revenue Enablement Society, it was revealed that enablement functions are essential for organizations aiming to optimize their sales and revenue operations. This study highlights the revenue enablement methods of top performing organizations and offers a roadmap for organizations to elevate their enablement str

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our natural abilities have a significant influence on our career choice. Unquestionably, genes play a role in shaping our interests, personality traits and aptitudes. And to excel at a standard sales job requires a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental factors. These sales-success factors may be education, practice or experience. And the genetic tendencies may be basic cognitive abilities or more specific personality traits.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Sales teams today can’t afford to waste time on outdated tools. Yet, many still rely on learning management system (LMS) software designed for basic, classroom-style training. These platforms are fine for formal courses, but they miss the mark for fast-paced, real-world sales needs. Reps need something better—a system that helps them learn, practice, and access content in real-time.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Even the best sales teams can’t close a deal if they don’t have a clear picture of their markets, their top accounts, and their most influential buyers. That’s why B2B data companies have invested huge efforts into building sales intelligence tools that can help sellers unlock growth and supercharge success. So what are the best sales intelligence tools out there?

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With the arrival of the new year comes a fresh wave of energy for organizations across the board, and for many, this includes an annual Sales Kickoff. This highly anticipated event provides an opportunity to rally the team, create a sense of renewed purpose, and introduce new strategies, insights, and training as the company gears up for another year.

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AI has been instrumental in changing the way companies manage images. As with all technological transformations, the full implications of AI on commercial photography are still being understood. The post How AI Changed Photography: For Better or Worse appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

More than a dozen years ago, when I was coaching Little League, I had two kids on my 9-year old team that never made contact with the ball. I spent some extra time with them and realized they were both swinging with their eyes closed. If I could get them to swing with their eyes at least partly open, they might get their hands and bat close enough to the ball so that maybe the ball might hit their bats.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Charlie Green and I had a fascinating conversation about a person he’s coaching. This individual is truly one of the world’s top performers in his area of expertise. He has years of experience, more data than ChatGPT would know how to deal with and more experience in solving these very difficult problems than 90% of the business world. Yet he’s struggling to get the attention he deserves to get.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Getting ghosted is an unfortunate fact of sales life nowadays. Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause.

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This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Revenue Operations (RevOps) is a relatively new specialty within B2B go-to-market operations, but it’s quickly becoming mission-critical as companies seek to streamline processes and align their sales, marketing and customer success teams. But the fast growth of RevOps and its unique mandate to improve efficiency across siloed teams can lead to confusion among leaders.

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Force Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

When deals stall it’s a sign that something has to change! All of us have experienced stalled deals. It’s frustrating, we’re anxious for the customer to move forward in their buying process. We’re anxious to close the deal! Deals can stall for all sorts of reasons. Customers may lose their sense of urgency. Their attention may have been diverted to other priorities.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business world, sales and marketing teams need to align to drive revenue. To improve customer satisfaction, and build a competitive edge. However, these two interdependent departments often operate in silos, which leads to misunderstandings, inefficiency, and missed opportunities. This article examines the importance of aligning sales and marketing , the challenges that hinder this alignment, and strategies to foster a more collaborative, effective partnership.

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

this is a test Marketers often employ brand storytelling in campaigns containing creative narratives, showcasing a brand or its product in more relatable, human contexts. This helps the audience see the company as more than just a faceless corporate entity building complex products–instead, a collection of real people solving real-world problems.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the world’s most iconic luxury brands is currently trying to keep itself afloat. Gucci sales this year have been dropping beyond expectations and the brand’s new strategies have not been working as well as they would have liked… What will it take for the brand to regain the status it’s quickly losing? What’s […] The post Gucci Sales Keep Sinking Lower… What Now?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Brandon Fluharty made a brilliant observation: Activities Don’t Drive Strategy! While no leader sets out to have activities drive strategy (at least I hope they don’t), too often we get distracted and activities take center stage. Stated differently, we stop seeing the forest and focus on the trees. Activities are the things we do to execute our strategies.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When we launched ZoomInfo Marketing in 2022, our goal was to bring ZoomInfo’s unparalleled B2B data and insights to demand generation and marketing teams. Two short years later, we’re thrilled to share that ZoomInfo has climbed from a newcomer in the ABM field to being recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Platforms.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Social media has been inundated with fast-moving trends, called microtrends, that are in one second and out the next. While fashion is known to be cyclical… Microtrends convince people to make impulsive financial decisions they might regret later… Here’s why you should think twice before giving in to the latest hot trend… The Problem With […] The post How Microtrends Are Ruining Your Closet And Your Wallet appeared first on GCTV.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

None of us like to lose! As sellers, we expect tough competition and challenges, but we are driven to win. There’s a sense of well deserved pride to see a customer select us as the best of all the alternatives. While a nuanced idea, sometimes, we may be less focused on winning, more focused on not losing. It seems our aversion to losing is, often, higher than our desire to win.

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SocialSellinator

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Discover the essentials of google paid search, its benefits, setup, and strategies for boosting your digital marketing success.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In this lively episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount welcomes Patrick "Pops" Garrett, Founder & Chief Drinking Officer of DrinkCurious, to explore the unique intersection between bourbon tasting and sales engagement. Key Takeaways: – Virtual Tastings as Sales Hooks: Virtual bourbon tastings became an effective "hook" to attract attendees to sales demos, webinars, and client meetings, increasing engagement and helping to break through typical sales communication noise. – Engagement and W

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RAIN Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Effective sales training is widely acknowledged as a critical success factor for sales organizations. But how many companies are truly excelling in this area? And what distinguishes those with highly effective sales training and development from the rest? The answers may surprise you.

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KLA Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

You’re probably more than used to seeing the end-of-year car and truck commercials, each offering a giant bow and a hefty discount. But, is discounting the answer for your business?

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