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3 Keys That Determine the Length of Your Sales Cycle

Understanding the Sales Force

Which brings me to sales cycles. Do you know what actually determines the length of your sales cycle? A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. Short Foliage Cycle. Both scenarios are fake news.

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How I Learned I Was a Sales Consulting Imposter

Understanding the Sales Force

I scheduled a five-minute pre-screening call with a candidate who was recommended and scored quite high on the OMG sales candidate assessment. I scheduled a five-minute pre-screening call with a candidate who was recommended and scored quite high on the OMG sales candidate assessment. I’m in imposter. Back to Phil.

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Shania Twain’s Lesson for Sales Leaders Who Want to Hire Stronger Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Sales Leaders who want to hire stronger salespeople could learn a lot from Shania Twain. Most Sales Leader seek out sales candidates with experience in their industry and a dressed-up resume to highlight that experience. Whats more important than industry experience? Sales excellence.

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Top 10 Sales Skills for Finding & Building Relationships

Anthony Cole Training

These are not elusive skills; they are identified by our partner and industry-leading sales evaluation company, Objective Management Group (OMG). Now, the buyer is in the drivers seat, and the only way to differentiate in a commoditized world is to master effective selling skills.

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Relevance, Reach, Return: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? Save your seat today!

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Checklist for an Effective Sales Pitch

Anthony Cole Training

An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling. An effective sales pitch should begin with identifying areas of connection, often achieved by doing research on the industry and client prior to the meeting. Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step.

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Charting the High Seas of Sales: Challenges in the Cruise Line Industry

Pipeliner

As a sales leader for a cruise line, you’re no stranger to the thrill of mapping uncharted waters. In this comprehensive blog post, we’ll delve into the particular challenges facing sales leaders at cruise lines and provide actionable advice and insights for fueling sales growth and revenue.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? Download this eBook to find out!

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead. Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

CRM software is a powerful tool when used correctly, yet another obstacle to a sales team’s efficiency when it’s not.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

When used effectively, a CRM can be the lifeblood of your sales team – keeping everyone organized, efficient, and at peak productivity. However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. The result? Combatting low adoption rates and data quality.

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Streamlining Complex Sales Processes: The Ultimate Guide for Industrial Companies

Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams. This piece provides key insights to reduce overhead and help your sales team close faster. This article will help.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. Meanwhile, the purchase somehow takes place, and Sales claims all the glory. and win (or keep!)

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What Awesome Sales Managers are Doing to Crush It!

Speaker: Steven Rosen, MBA, Author, Executive Coach, Speaker, and Top 50 Sales Influencer

The sales industry is filled to the brim with hard working, knowledgeable, and capable managers like you. The problem is that, in spite of all of their hard work, very few sales managers have figured out how to consistently and methodically crush their sales numbers. How successful sales managers are growing their sales.