Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. You can mine the Web for contact info (like Zoominfo) and intent signals.

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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. Tibor Shanto'

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I wonder what would happen if more companies challenged themselves to set the intention to THINK different, SELL different and BE different leveraging 20/20 vision and insight to make that happen. Intentions versus goals. We’ve been trained to believe that the only way to reach our goals is to set deadlines. I set the intention.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2014

You often hear sales managers and director speak of how they are doing against their KPI’s. In the wrong hands, with wrong intents, the best concepts can come back to bite you; in sales it is usually the disconnect between what’s being measured and the desired results. What do you want me to cut?” “No Tibor Shanto .

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Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

To advance a business conversation today, a salesperson must be able to have enough business acumen to discover even more about the customers business at a more abstract level aimed at a higher intention. Bernadette McClelland is an expert in B2B sales conversations that drive value and deliver million dollar results.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Ready to enhance your sales skills? Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. These blogs provide insights and strategies tailored specifically for sales managers , focusing on leadership, productivity , team motivation, and effective sales strategies.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Many sales processes are devoid of an adoption and reinforcement plan. You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. Team meetings are run by sales managers. You and your team left the training event to find 500 e-mails waiting. Everyone has the best of intentions, and months slip by.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Online Training. Determining what the probable purchaser deems as the factors that will influence their motivation to listen and understand with the intent to purchase. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Elements To Think About When Presenting. Importance. Confidence.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 8, 2013

If you’re like Jeanne, this probably happens with your sales managers. Dealing with ineffective sales support is intolerable. It’s not enough to have good intentions. Training: The ability to conduct crucial conversations is a skill that must be learned. HR and sales leaders must hold each other accountable.

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The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Dictionary.com , defines a paraprofessional as “a person trained to assist a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or other professional, but not licensed to practice in the profession.” A regular lament I get from managers is that the best presentation a rep had was the one they did for the job. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

In just the last 12 months, we launched ZoomInfo Engage to automate sales outreach. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent. We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. Coaching and Training Superpowers. Applications Married with Intelligence.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Perhaps how I stumbled into finding great mentors in the B2B sales world might inspire you to find mentors and inspiration yourself. Here’s what I know about finding a sales mentor: 1. Lori Richardson speaks, writes, and trains on sales strategies for B2B mid-market technology front-line sales teams.

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Awarathon

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sales training in Philippines is a crucial investment for businesses looking to build high-performing sales teams. With an increasingly competitive market, companies must ensure their sales professionals are equipped with the right skills to drive revenue and customer engagement.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 30, 2017

Creating and maintaining a high level of engagement across the entire sales organization takes a concerted effort. It starts with the sales leader and extends to the front-line sales managers. Coaching takes longer to impact sales but is much more sustainable in delivering consistently high performance.

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Awarathon

JANUARY 24, 2025

AI-based sales training platforms in the Philippines are transforming L&D with personalized, data-driven training experiences. Sales teams can enhance their skills using AI-powered roleplay scenarios, while LMS platforms offer structured learning paths. However, these solutions can be expensive.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2012

” The more important question a sales manager should ask his salespeople is, “what have I done to help you lately?” The same may be said for sales managers. ”In addition to collaborative plans, the questions we ask as managers communicate what is important and that is what drives behavior.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Here, we'll review some common sales coaching challenges, go over how to approach them, and identify the key qualities of reps that are flat-out uncoachable. One of the most common, contentious issues sales managers run into with sales reps is lack of motivation. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 6, 2013

Anyway, those 3 data points (not following best practices, no business, nothing useful there) would be quite useful to a sales manager that wanted to coach him up or hold him accountable for change. Without a doubt, the highlight of any Sales Management or Sales Leadership program is always the 6 hours we spend on coaching.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 29, 2016

Sales Manager Development. The Key to Building a World-Class Sales Organization. I recently had a meeting with a dynamic VP of Sales. Lisa shared her vision of building a world-class sales organization and asked me where she should start. Lisa was intent on developing her sales management team.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 12, 2014

He challenges sales professionals to ditch the rote responses, get real, and face buyer objections as soon as possible. While preparing for a recent client training session, I listened in on some of the sales team’s calls. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' Beat them to the punch.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

For others, the Status Quo has come to represent a segment of the market that is not ready to buy, and therefore can/should be overlooked in favour of those potential buyers who have declared their intent. This has become much more the case since the introduction of the marketing term Sales 2.0. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Tool.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 26, 2012

Listening skills… Every sales manager and director tells you how important they are but do they actually tell you how to improve them! As sales people elevate their sales skills in other areas, often the area of listening begins to suffer, and usually it is the more experienced pros who are the biggest culprits.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2019

The Manager’s Viewpoint. I start with great intentions. ” While this manager has good intentions, when patience is lost, so is coaching and trust. So, when my boss tells me, “You learned all of this during your onboarding and initial training,” it makes me feel like an idiot. “I Without her con?dence

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Let’s start with what coaching is not: Training isn’t coaching. Training focuses on helping us learn new things, but training is focused purely on this skill development through various instructional methods/experiences. Training may have elements of coaching embedded in the programs, but it is not coaching.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’ve summarized interviews with three successful women in tech sales, and share why and how they outsell their peers. The first is Sue, a successful field sales manager in a tech company. Before any meeting or presentation, she conducts extensive research and structures her train of thought so she can speak with confidence.

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Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have lied… “I have no intention of telling you the truth. Advisor Beliefs Leadership Questions Sales Thought Leadership awareness Belief-ability Increase Sales Modern Day Salesperson Sales Managers Sales Training Trusted Advisor' Instead I’m going to tell you a story.

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Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have lied… “I have no intention of telling you the truth. Advisor Beliefs Leadership Questions Sales Thought Leadership awareness Belief-ability Increase Sales Modern Day Salesperson Sales Managers Sales Training Trusted Advisor' Instead I’m going to tell you a story.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Ever wonder if your sales people are really listening to you? As a sales manager or sales executive, you have many roles to fill in order to get the most out of your sales team. I would say today your job/role as a sales manager is very much the same. Need for approval from sales people.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting. It means using every sales strategy, every tool and every channel to engage and connect with prospects. That’s why our virtual sales training programs focus on developing these skills.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2014

Bad sales meetings. Micro–managing. Doubting their intentions. Additional Resources: How do I motivate my sales people ? - Why is sales management so damn hard? You cannot MAKE people motivated but you can help them STAY motivated by – get this – by NOT doing things that de-motivate them. Unrealistic goals.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2018

While many of the leading companies do indeed offer training, with many having annual reboots and refreshers, but these serve a purpose that is not always the same as intended by governing bodies. The deficit is, not the supply.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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