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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. It seems that every week we are being told that sales training is not working in a very high percentage of cases – 85-90% was one statistic I read just yesterday. JF Corporation.

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Money Monday – Are You a Sales CLOSER?

Score More Sales

These might include downloading a white paper, clicking to an offer from your blog, or getting research and e-books from your site. Skill is the training piece – how you prospect, message, engage, follow-up, track and help clients buy. Reporting and results are the measuring portion of the inside sales team.

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Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?

Anthony Cole Training

It remains a question despite the millions of dollars spent on CRM, sales force automation, training and hype. I read the white paper, and it clearly identified common problems with CRM tools such as SalesForce.com, ACT and other pipeline management tools. is a question. A couple of things. So, I decided to take a closer look.

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October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Sure, they provide “training,” but training without reinforcement, coaching, accountability, and practice is a waste of time and money. We want it now.

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization. In a world so focused on incentive compensation, Xactly Insights gives us a lot to think about. Are we creating competitive enough comp plans to attract and retain the right reps?

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Four Reasons for Quota Failures

Pointclear

When the revenue isn’t hitting forecast, there is more to it than training the reps (few need it), competitive offers (there are always competitors), or product failures (seldom valid). Is the sales incentive bar set too high? These are four of 56 reasons sales could be failing as outlined in a white paper written by James Obermayer.

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Sales Revenue Growth for 2014? More of the Same Won’t Deliver Results

The ROI Guy

To hit these targets you will have to do more, with most organizations investing in three key areas to try and drive results: More Sales Reps More Training More Traditional Content But is “more” really more, or will “more “result in the same, or worse, less? However, when we look at training effectiveness, the numbers are startling.

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