Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2025

ZoomInfos State of AI in Sales and Marketing survey, which gathered insights from more than 1,000 GTM professionals, reveals just how quickly AI is transforming sales teams and the roadblocks for further AI innovation. Power users on sales teams are saving time, closing deals faster, and seeing real, measurable business results.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As the co-founder and CEO of Intellimize (acquired by Webflow), Guy brings a unique perspective from his journey through iconic companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, as well as his background in aerospace engineering. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rapid adoption of GPT-based AI tools isnt simply a technological evolution in sales; its a fundamental restructuring of how teams work. And theyre moving the needle: According to McKinsey , sales orgs that use AI see revenue uplifts of up to 15% and sales ROI uplifts of up to 20%. Its about building GPT-native sales teams.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Invest in partner success programs?—?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. Without the right knowledge and messaging, your sales team wont just struggletheyll lose deals before they even begin. Thats whereGenAI for sales trainingcomes in. The Role of GenAI in Sales Training Sales training must be fast, flexible, and relevant.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 2, 2023

He said something to the effect, “I just saw something new, people are hiring “prompt engineers” to help refine how they are using these AI tools. That’s been a thing for at least 3 months, probably longer… ” Prompt engineering is something we are learning about. But it’s done one on one.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Sales Leadership Framework Behind Multiple $100MM ARR Orgs Whether on the podcast, a one-to-one conversation, in GTMfund’s Slack, in a digital live event… the same pattern surfaces: the best leaders develop and leverage systems. Whether it’s a live demo or a training session, people need to see best practices in action.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals. Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Speed, accuracy, and the ability to meet customer demands efficiently are the pillars of success for the sales team. Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) software plays a vital role in automating product configuration, pricing, and quote generation helping sales teams to easily handle complex pricing scenarios.

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Gong.io

APRIL 19, 2022

Sometimes a flashy sales presentation will not get the job done. Depending on your product/service or who you are speaking with, you may need to get more technical in your sales approach. This is where a sales engineer becomes a huge asset to your team. Do I really need a sales engineer? Well, it depends.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 8, 2023

Yesterday, Andy Miller and I delivered onboarding training to a group of new partners at Objective Management Group (OMG). With yesterday for context, I will answer the following important question: Which is better – live training, self-directed training, or blended training? With self-directed training That.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

We then invest time (hopefully) training those reps before releasing them into the wild, only to ask them to do several different roles. Want to Build a Sales Engine? Does this problem sound familiar? We spend an enormous amount of time searching for and then hiring what we think to be “A” players.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #22 – Guest Jeff Goldstein. Jeff is an engineer by training, he has spent his entire career grinding out a sales number as VP and GM of the Canadian subsidiaries of Data General/EMC, NetApp and Veeam Software. Take the Hippo Video & Renbor Sales Solutions, Prospecting Survey.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

In order for your car to run efficiently, you need every part of your engine firing on all cylinders. Everyone on your team must meet their specific goals in order for your engine to operate efficiently. Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable.

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Engineering Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 117

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly turning to innovative strategies to enhance sales and build deeper relationships with their audience. One such strategy is leveraging AI in podcasting , creating a powerful synergy that transforms sales teams’ approaches.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 3, 2020

In this blog post, we compare an IH 1210 pickup truck to driving revenue growth within your sales organization. Like an engine that needs three things to run, your sales organization also needs three things to run.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), It’s important to have a system or “engine” for rapid content creation?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 9, 2019

Varner I noticed organizations continually invest time and money to improve sales team effectiveness, but which one? There are hundreds of sales training companies offering thousands of programs in all aspects of selling: call planning, presenting, negotiating, managing key accounts, questioning and more. Author: David L.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

Successful sales organizations accumulate a lot of data. In many ways, by streamlining sales processes and workflows, the CRM was the Industrial Revolution of sales. Look beyond the rejection and understand why the sales rep feels this way. Find opportunities to align your CRM with your sales processes.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”. That’s frustrating. The availability of data is truly democratizing growth. It’s about being growthbound.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2018

They want minimal downtime, support they can rely on and access to as much training as possible, so they can be in turn, as successful as possible with their deployment. Ensure new customers are armed with the training they need to be successful. Most people would much rather watch a series of short training videos versus reading text.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 23, 2025

It is used both during the sale and after the sale. Division Sales Manager for another large sign company, I elected to spend my final years as a commission only salesperson. Division Sales Manager for another large sign company, I elected to spend my final years as a commission only salesperson.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 2, 2019

How can this be applied to us as individuals in the sales world? 2) What drives your economic engines? MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. The post How To Set Big, Hairy A * Sales Goals appeared first on MTD Sales Training. That lever can change the world!

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 16, 2025

Ross from Houston faces a common challenge in channel sales: how do you create brand preference for your product when youre selling through distributors who carry multiple competing lines and competitors who undercut your price? Why Pull-Through in Channel Sales Matters When you sell through distribution, you lose a lot of direct control.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When resistance appears, it does not matter if the sales process, methodology, tactics and strategies are good or even great, unless salespeople are equally great at first lowering the resistance.” What might the whipped cream equivalent be for the resistance you might encounter later in the sales cycle?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. They learned to use the software better.

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Allego

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Sales success isn’t just about closing deals—it’s about staying ahead in a game that’s constantly changing. That’s challenging enough, but it’s even more difficult when sales teams rely on outdated and ineffective training programs. The good news is there’s a solution: continuous learning for sales. The result?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. Nearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. Getting them trained and on-script takes time.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. 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. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

Introduction In todays hypercompetitive market, having a fantastic product is no longer enough to guarantee sales success. The difference between a sales team that hits targets and one that consistently exceeds them often lies in the support structure around itsales enablement. What is Sales Enablement?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

We see Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, Health/Wellness Coaching, Agile/Team Coaching, Sales Coaching, Spiritual Coaching, Dietary Coaching, and on an on and on. Let’s start with what coaching is not: Training isn’t coaching. So what is coaching?

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