Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan First the links. The Huffington Post and the Hubspot Blog both published an article, by Dan Lyons about OMG and Kurlan and what it takes to succeed in sales. We recently evaluated a sales force where the salespeople had, on average, only 18% of the attributes of a consultative seller.

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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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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Winning the Sales Battle: Overcoming the “Failure to Impact” Syndrome. FREE Resources.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 22, 2011

This year was tough; next year’s sales prospects look even tougher. Your boss comes to you and says how can you sustain the sales force? You develop a plan to do one or more of the following: Develop a new selling skills program. Hire only top sales reps. Create a better incentive plan. What can you do?

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. That means you can prepare your client-facing teams with the knowledge and skills to perform at the highest level and the score cards to know what’s working and how to improve. Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools. Skills Development. Skills Development.

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SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

Tweet AA-ISP Inside Sales Summit. Four hundred Inside Sales leaders attended the 2-day American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Summit last week in Dallas. The Summit is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Inside Sales Leadership. Buy Jill Konrath’ s book “SNAP Selling.”.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

The sales person was reviewing the deals expected to close by the end of the quarter. Fewer than 10% of the deals won required a discount (outside of normal volume discounts or quarter end incentive programs). I went back to the sales person, “I’m confused, why do all your deals need discounts? ” I asked.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? A QBR is an executive business review of the previous quarter’s sales and a strategic planning session to build playbooks and forecasts for the upcoming quarter. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. isn’t ad-hoc.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In all honestly, managing sales reps can be a challenge. Sales reps may share one common goal—closing deals—but managers need to understand different personalities, adapt to unique learning styles, and provide the tools each rep needs to hit (and ideally, exceed) their quotas. The best sales teams are led by the best sales managers.

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The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. big databases, low cost researchers, in-house manual scraping) and tools that make sales activities more efficient than ever. There are more vendors in sales acceleration every day and ever expanding budgets fueled by venture capital and other forces.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. Selling Is a Competitive Sport. I agree with them.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 5, 2014

Sales Training Article: Trouble Closing or Selling? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Pakorn at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Unlike other B2B selling skills, closing gets a disproportionate amount of attention.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 6, 2013

We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. So why aren’t more sales managers effective at coaching salespeople? Modeling – They did not report to a sales manager who was effective at coaching. the leading developer of sales assessment tools.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 19, 2018

Any form of change is challenging for organizations to manage, but sales teams are particularly sensitive to change. This can make introducing new sales readiness tools particularly difficult. They were growing rapidly, hiring 15 new sales hires a quarter in a team to a base team of only 68.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 19, 2018

Any form of change is challenging for organizations to manage, but sales teams are particularly sensitive to change. This can make introducing new sales readiness tools particularly difficult. They were growing rapidly, hiring 15 new sales hires a quarter in a team to a base team of only 68.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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LeadFuze

JUNE 4, 2019

Most of the sales training we see today focus on fast-track training. With more emphasis placed on social selling and our ever-changing buying climate – it’s inevitable that salespeople look for new ways to understand buying behaviour. Emotional intelligence training and sales go hand in hand. Management style. Self-awareness.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building. The strategy ensures reps are well-prepared to meet and exceed sales targets.

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The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 16, 2024

Sales training course materials whether video, PowerPoint slides or sales playbooks, are used to support the learning journey of salespeople. Every sales training course, whether online or delivered in classroom, is designed to improve the sales skills and knowledge of salespeople.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Welcome to the Executive Sales Leader Briefing, a new blog series I am doing every Friday. If you want to receive the Executive Sales Leader Briefing in text form in an email early Friday morning before it is published on the website, go to this page to sign up. Recently, I’ve found myself in […].

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Your organization needs an effective sales hiring strategy to survive. The average annual turnover for sales teams is around 27% , meaning that if you have 10 reps, you could lose three of them within the year. The only way to maintain — and, ideally, to increase — sales performance is to hire often and well.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 28, 2014

When I am asked to diagnose why an individual – or even an entire sales team - are not performing at optimum levels, I usually ask just four very straightforward questions: Are they visiting/talking to enough clients/prospects? This really means how strong are their selling skills? Are they saying/doing the right things?

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Regardless of the industry you serve or the products and services you supply, how to motivate sales people can be the difference between thriving and surviving. Whilst money via compensation or commission plans is the obvious way to motivate sales people, does this really work? . Imagine a sales person as a knife.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Has your sales department ever calculated the cost of sales reps with average sales skills? However, upon deeper reflection, it’s unequivocal that top sales reps are exponentially more productive than average reps. This article explores the pitfalls of average sales skills and the path to high performance.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Although all professions require a certain balance of skill and motivation, sales in particular relies more heavily on motivation than others. The reason for this is simple, sales is a numbers game. When a sales rep doesn’t have the necessary selling skills, leaders have options. Let’s jump into it.

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The Brooks Group

AUGUST 12, 2014

In the face of a rapidly shifting marketplace, companies - and sales teams - are having to change focus.fast. When considering how to get salespeople to sell into a new market, managers need to stress the potential value of the markets they want to expand into and provide incentives for territory development. . Planning is key.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 14, 2012

When I am asked to diagnose why an individual – or even an entire sales team - are not performing at optimum levels, I usually ask just four very straightforward questions: • Are they visiting/talking to enough clients/prospects? This really means – how strong are their selling skills?

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2014

At any rate, while not that frightening, this short story can provide good food for thought as you think through the structure of your sales compensation plan. The Scary Tale of a Broken Sales Compensation Plan. The organization’s sales had flattened, profits dissipated and layoffs were imminent. And that’s what they did.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

A guide to closing sales with ABC, or “Always Be Closing,” is a learning journey for salespeople looking to improve their sales performance, or “Return on Sales Effort (ROSE). Closing sales is about consistently moving customers towards a desired action or outcome. Points to consider to close more sales.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sales success isn’t so much about selling skills, techniques and approaches. While all these things are important and necessary to our success as sales professionals and leaders, fundamentally, success in sales is about caring. Sales and sales leadership are very difficult.

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Showpad

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? While you may offer some sort of management training for sales leaders, training them to coach is entirely different.

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Accent Technologies

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Many sales reps are apprehensive about learning and using a CRM, and some organizations are therefore reluctant to invest in a platform that their reps “won’t use.”. Here are 20 CRM myths that hinder businesses and salespeople from achieving their highest sales potential. Myth 2: Entering CRM data takes time away from sales activity.

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Vengreso

JULY 30, 2024

Seeking to elevate your leadership capabilities and propel your sales team toward outstanding achievements? Sales management courses are equipped with the necessary strategies and tools for this purpose. Moreover, the benefits of investing in sales management training extend beyond individual growth.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It turns out that we aren’t done fixing sales processes. Sales process work was all the rage 10 years ago. But sales processes usually are, driven by a need to be a forecasting framework rather than selling guidance. Check out Sales Enablement PRO for the recordings from the annual Sales Enablement Soiree.

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Groove.co

JANUARY 14, 2021

The motivating properties of these organic materials have been debated for centuries, but unless your new sales hire is a dog, she is more likely to be interested in an attractive incentive plan. And that’s where it gets tricky - what’s the best way to compensate a new sales hire while they’re still getting up to speed?

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