SBI Growth

MAY 20, 2014

Sales Enablement is a role new to many organizations. In all likelihood these have just been a series of activities to ‘check the box’ A Sales Enablement program should not be just a ‘check the box’ activity. Ask yourself: How do I build a Sales Enablement program in my organization?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Many sales managers are in the wrong job, and for the wrong reasons, the intentions may have right, even noble, but outcome serves neither in individuals in question, the companies and customers. Worse, often they are not prepared or trained for sales management. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Leadership 285

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A critical issue you face as CEO is how to increase sales productivity. As you head into 2014, you have identified or hired your key sales players. The unknown factor is the crop of new sales reps. Then off to training back at corporate. Sales Methodology Overview. This team is going to help you make the number.

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Hiring How To Travel Face-to-face 301

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 31, 2020

We’ve had over 82 sales training programmes postponed! Some have moved over to virtual channels like webinars and online training but a lot are just waiting it out. I’m being bombarded with sales pitches at the moment. Make sure you have a routine, take time for exercise. Selling is tough at the moment isn’t it?

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Skype Webinar Metrics Call-back Exercises 246

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

Use the following questions to help open your prospect up and to get them to reveal where they really stand, and what you need to do to move closer to the sale: #1 “I can tell that’s important to you; why does it mean so much?”. #2 If you’re a manager, this is a great exercise for a sales meeting. Happy Selling!

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Closing Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 334

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If virtual sales training was ever needed, this was the time. The importance of eye contact in sales (even virtual sales) can’t be overstated. Early on in the pandemic, there was a learning curve as we all adjusted to virtual sales meetings. Virtual sales is not going away, so I’d better up my game.

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Video Cold Calling Exercises Conference 289

Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

He was my sales colleague. It can take weeks or months for some in sales to truly qualify a sales opportunity. This exercise will help you determine if a sales opportunity is probable or not – it can save you hours or months of effort, and it can help you close business sooner. Get More Answers. Get those answers.

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Sales Qualified Lead Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring 309

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Fourth quarter always poses a dilemma for Sales VP’s. You will see how sales leaders accomplished the following: What initiatives should you focus on? An Iconic Sales Leader. Jim has been in sales for 25 years. 16 of these years in sales leadership. Change in the sales plan is a constant. How Jim Does It.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Scale Trade Show 314

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. As a bonus, you can click here to receive an exercise developed especially for an SBI client. Again and again, we encounter sales leaders who are certain they know their customers. Too Much Love for the Legacy Sales Organization. Call it inertia.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or training to add emerging practices to your sellers’ skill sets. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Through an informal or formal assessment, you’ve found sales improvement needs.

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Hiring Incentive Incentives Benefit 288

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Get certified.

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Hiring Training Exercises Hubspot 144

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Sales reps want solid materials to support them in sales campaigns. Having the right content enables the sales rep to have the best chance to make a sale. In this post, I’ll discuss 5 critical actions that need to take place to enable your sales force. The purpose of the exercise is to identify existing content.

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Outsourcing Services Buyer Persona Infusion Exercises 317

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2021

In-person training is hard enough, but now that we’re doing everything virtually, we have to deal with team members working on their second screen or giggling while messaging their team members through slack. Luckily, your sales training doesn’t have to put your team to sleep. ” and all you hear is crickets?

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Training How To Exercises Call-back 131

The Pipeline

JUNE 1, 2015

People often confuse training for a bunch of things that may or may not need to be present to achieve what they really want to achieve which is usually, change, and more specifically a change for the better, improvement. Training is an easy check mark on the KPI card, but improvement requires, planning, effort, and patience.

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Training Education Exercises Lead Rank 120

Force Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This post is an extension of the Ten Reasons Why Our Sales Training Is Different. The impacts of the pandemic have left many sales leaders to shift priorities and find new ways to equip their sales teams to succeed. Like many companies, we’ve had to refine our sales engagement and delivery process. Read it here.

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Training Face-to-face Coaching Exercises 147

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. Part of that is mixing it up so it’s not staid and the exercises are not too easy. into similar “birds of a feather” groups.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In sales, where every conversation counts and every opportunity demands precision, your team needs more than just the ordinary training programs. Without sales training software, it would be very difficult to ensure reps are applying best practices, staying up-to-date with the products and services they’re selling, and closing deals.

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Software Software Training Hiring 109

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. Citizens Bank has cut its training time in half.

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SAP Face-to-face Hiring Exercises 177

criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. Let's Talk Sales! The same goes for remote sales.

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Consultative Selling Exercises Selling Skills Face-to-face 96

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 7, 2024

If you would like to instantly improve your selling skills—and so your open and close rate—you can do so by taking just a few minutes to complete the following exercise (don’t worry, it’s easy and fun!). Closing the sale: Closed ended: “Do you have any questions?” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Selling Skills Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 224

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This exercise, completed in advance, allows you to cope more effectively in real time under pressure. This exercise prepares you for those tension-filled moments, and it allows you to consider your own limitations. A ticking clock can be a challenge as well as a thrill in the world of sales. What is your ideal outcome?

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Negotiation Exercises Discount Proposal 270

Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this episode, ResMed’s Senior Learning Strategist Emily Mason discusses the beauty of being a disruptor, the value of “throwing weird things out in the marketplace,” and how to make sales training hyper-personalized. Emily Mason is a senior learning strategist specializing in sales training at ResMed.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Because ‘doers’ are willing to roll up their sleeves and work with sales to hit the number. Rather than focus on working with sales to drive revenue, they got caught up chasing shiny objects. They focused on things like branding exercises and awareness campaigns with PR firms. The ‘doer’ is concerned about sales results.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Leads 331

Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. Create Engaging Content: Your sales training content must be engaging, relevant, and effective. It should also be practical and directly applicable to their daily sales activities. It’s a lot.

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Training Hiring Exercises Webinar Metrics 105

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Whether you’re welcoming a new person to your sales team or helping develop skills among your current staff, sales training is a very important part of fostering a successful sales program. Below, they share their advice on how to improve inclusivity in your sales training. What is inclusive sales training?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When setting sales goals for your retail employees — or for any employee, really — there are usually two things to keep in mind: Those goals need to be realistic and clearly defined. I’ve been leading sales teams since 2014, and believe me when I say I’ve seen a few things. Improve sales numbers” is not specific.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer. She WAS our first woman in the sales department. I think really listening and asking those open-ended questions is a very important trait to have in sales.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Some sales candidates look great during the hiring process. HR has worked hard to find capable talent, and Sales has committed time and money to ramp the new hire. If you’re a Sales or HR leader, this may be happening all too often. Sales can learn a lesson here. Here''s a 7-step overview of a tryout for a sales rep. (To

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Hiring Proposal Exercises Lead Rank 300

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As today’s buyers are more educated and sophisticated, sales management must realise that today’s sales people have evolved as well. When communicating with sales people it is very easy to belittle or disrespect them inadvertently. In addition, the answer to this problem is on page six of your training manual!

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

This is a flawed way to measure winning and losing as a sales leader. This post will discuss a new way sales leaders should measure performance. As a VP of Sales, you own capability building. When you view sales improvement projects, you ask yourself “Is this really that hard?” Sales leadership is hard.

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Scale Compensation Exercises Follow-up 282

Allego

APRIL 11, 2023

You launched your new sales training program ! You have personalized training, peer-to-peer learning , training reinforcement, and a sales content library filled with just-in-time learning that sellers can access when they need an immediate answer. Now, you need to make sure the sales training program is working.

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Data Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! Most people set New Year’s resolutions around this time of the year which, in general terms, is nothing more than an exercise in goal setting. Happy New Year everyone! Not by any stretch.

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Distribution Exercises Call-back Course 177

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Today, we’re sharing the ultimate list of sales podcasts. If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts. Listen here.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Earlier this week I posted about the how your sales stack stacks up, (couldn’t resist) How Productive Is Your Sales Stack? Exploring how many companies and sales leaders are actually contributing to their team’s’ lack of success by overloading them with “sales tools”, the “Stack”.

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Fashion Case Study Exercises Buyer 291

Allego

MAY 4, 2021

We’re proud to announce that our sales learning and enablement platform has been selected by Corporate Visions , the leading provider of science-backed training and consulting services and one of Training Industry’s Top 20 Sales Training Companies. And it’s surprisingly easy to use.

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Training Scale Webinar Metrics Lead Rank 117

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 9, 2019

Why is it so important to display this skill, especially in a sales setting? Well, it embodies the whole professionalism of a sales consultant, in that it shows how important you consider the views, ideas and concepts of the prospect or customer. What active listening exercises can we carry out? Reflecting back. Happy Selling!

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Over these remaining weeks, conversations with SVP-Sales have focused on 3 areas: What can I still do to Make the Number in 2013 ? Sales Kick-Off is right around the corner – what am I going to do? They aren’t increasing sales skills, tactics, or strategy. 4) Death by PowerPoint – Sales guys are generally a specific breed.

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Hiring Buyer Persona ROI Follow-up 296