SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Whatever the Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) improvement, it will require funds to get it implemented. If it is sales process improvement, Sales pays.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Plus, you’ll find advice on compatibility with other sales effectiveness drivers. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. How do we drive change?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2013

This post helps CEO’s determine where to spend money on sales to make the number. Common questions we hear from CEOs regarding sales investments include: Do we have enough feet on the street? Start by defining the current state of your sales organization. Maybe you’ve tried hiring more sales heads in the past.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales operations (sales ops) and sales enablement are terms used often within an organization. But how do they contribute to sales productivity and overall business performance? Sales Enablement versus Sales Operations. So, what roles do operations and enablement play in the process?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 9, 2025

Sales contests are a powerful tool to boost motivation, improve performance, and increase revenue. However, designing a sales contest or sales game that delivers tangible results requires careful planning and execution from your sales enablement team. But what exactly is the endgame?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Author: Lauren Boutwell As the field of sales enablement has evolved and matured, so, too, have its supporting technologies. Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Sales reps are often most receptive to learning from each other.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Sales enablement is the process of making sales teams able to efficiently move customers through the sales process to the point where the customer can make a buying decision. This is, fundamentally, a technology and software question: What software is being used to share content with the sales team?

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Sales reps’ lives were built around the office — the environment, the energy, and the excitement of end-of-quarter blitzes. Then everyone went remote, and over the last year sales leaders and enablement teams had to come up with new ways to incentivize their reps. 4 Ideas to Incentivize Your Sales Team.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 21, 2013

Generating New Sales Leads – Move leads through early stages of buyer’s journey, nurturing them until sales-ready. The purpose of your campaign is to incent the buyer to act. STEP 12 – ENABLE THE SALES TEAM. The last step in campaign planning is Sales Enablement. Think single-purpose.

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Highspot

MARCH 24, 2025

Key Takeaways GTM operational excellence improves efficiency, aligns sales and marketing operations, and enables your teams to close complex deals faster. Companies with strong GTM enablement see 49% higher win rates on forecasted deals. Operational excellence in GTM aims to optimize processes and enhance overall performance.

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eGrabber

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In todays fast-paced world, boosting sales performance and closing deals quickly are more important than ever. Sales leaders, sales managers, and sales professionals must work smart and act fast. In 2025, the key is to use smart tools like sales automation and track real sales data.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2021

Sales reps’ lives were built around the office — the environment, the energy, and the excitement of end-of-quarter blitzes. Then everyone went remote, and over the last year sales leaders and enablement teams had to come up with new ways to incentivize their reps. Enter the sales spiff. Check out these ideas: 1.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 25, 2018

The obvious answer is, “Duuugggh Dave, it’s Sales Enablement……” But if you think about it, sales enablement is about helping our sales people achieve the highest levels of performance/productivity in executing our business strategies in the face of the customer.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2025

Were calling this the rise of the GTM AI OS a coordinated, AI-driven backbone that connects marketing, sales, CS, and product into a single motion. In this newsletter: The GTM AI Operating System (GTM AI OS): A new architecture emerging across sales, marketing, CS, and product. Not through more software, but through system design.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

First off, let’s make one thing very clear: sales enablement isn’t just another fun trend that’s here today and gone tomorrow. Just five years ago, CSO Insights ran a study about sales enablement and only 25% of the companies they surveyed had developed sales enablement for their teams. Today, we’ll see: ?

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Guru

APRIL 7, 2020

Sales operations and sales enablement are both functions that aim to improve your sales performance. Sales operations ensures that your sales infrastructure — like the CRM system, compensation and incentive plans, KPI reporting, and proposal and contract management — run seamlessly.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In your sales organization, this starts with your sales environment. A sales environment is a vague, intangible concept. Think of it this way: How do you want your sales reps to feel when they step on your sales floor (or log into work from their home office)? Types of Sales Environments. I sure did.

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Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world is causing a massive shift in the medical device sales industry. The days of relying solely on face-to-face sales meetings are over. Digital selling is the game, and you must have a strategy that ensures your team succeeds in medical device digital sales. Not to worry, though.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The average Sales rep relies on support from the account management, customer service, and Marketing teams. As such, it’s counterproductive for there to ever be a “ Sales enablement vs. Marketing ” dynamic, even though the departments are often full of competitive personalities. Not exactly.

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Tenbound

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Recently, Nicolas De Kouchkovsky released his Sales Tech Market Map with the following categories. Sales Dialers Five9: A cloud-based contact center platform offering advanced dialing solutions to enhance sales productivity. Each example company is followed by it’s Tenbound Review page for further research.

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Allego

JUNE 26, 2024

Have you ever rolled out new sales enablement software to your team only to have them not use it? How to Create a Comprehensive Change Management Plan To ensure sellers use your new sales enablement platform, you need a comprehensive change management plan. It’s a situation many of us have found ourselves in.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 18, 2025

The real incentive to use the PTO benefit is to see the boss taking time off. SalesFuel - Sales Intelligence | Marketing Research | Sales Hiring | Credibility | Sales Enablement Too often, employees feel the pressure to keep working if the boss, or nobody else on the team, takes days off.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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Xactly

APRIL 18, 2018

Sales operations and sales enablement are two sides of the same coin allowing your sales team to hone in on the actual selling motions rather than focusing on the back-end processes, tracking down training material, and optimizing the sales teams’ CRM. What is Sales Operations?

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Vengreso

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tired of feeling like you’re constantly juggling between customer success and finding new sales opportunities? Want to revolutionize your sales team’s approach and achieve exceptional customer engagement? Let’s dive in and uncover the secrets to transforming your sales productivity and customer-centric strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. Here’s what it takes to create a holistic sales and marketing organization — and why now is actually the perfect time to enact such a sweeping change.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Brainshark Unveils READY20 – the Only Sales Enablement Event Dedicated to Furthering Sales Readiness: Multi-Day Conference Will Be Held in Boston in August –. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Enablement success…or not? According to research from CSO Insights, “organizations with successful sales enablement programs see 67% quota attainment, compared to only 42% for companies that admit their enablement programs fall short of expectations”. A new playbook for enablement. The results were startling.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

My sales career has largely centered around helping SaaS organizations navigate the sometimes rocky transition from founder-led sales to a more structured and scalable approach. Table of Contents What Is B2B Sales Enablement? Improve the Customer Experience Sales enablement isn’t just about making more sales, faster.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Imagine your sales team performing 19% better month after month. Research from the Sales Executive Council (SEC) examined thousands of salespeople and found receiving quality coaching helped them improve long-term performance by upwards of 19%. In other words, no other productivity investment is nearly as impactful as sales coaching.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That could crush your sales organization. Let’s face it, being a sales executive has become increasingly more difficult. Chances are next year’s sales objective is going up and your budget is being reduced. I have spoken to a number of sales executives trying to understand their most perplexing challenges.

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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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