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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Partners in Excellence

JULY 13, 2021

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. And hopefully, we repeat the performance the following quarter, then hit our numbers for the year. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2020

We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash! ” It was a rant about the social psycho-babble around failure.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

From a sales person’s perspective, they get no value from it, but managers need it to make sure the business in control. At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It was a group of very bright thinkers/practitioners in sales and marketing. We were discussing the future of sales and marketing–things we saw happening, things we believed needed to change. Year after year, the percent of sales people making plan continues to decline. People/companies will need help!

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now. If you remember, Jerry had this revelation in the movie.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2015

We’ve each seen Heroic Sales Efforts. They’re something to behold and, for a few moments, to revel in. You and your colleagues, often, revel in stories about the “one that didn’t get away,” for some time. The problem is, heroic sales efforts aren’t scalable! No related posts.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I revel in a crisis, I’m challenged and excited about tough problems. I have to confess, I’m a bit of an Adrenalin junkie. Talking to me about a critical deal where we must do something now, energizes me. Show me a bad pipeline that we have to “fix” quickly, I roll up my sleeves and dive in.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We spent the next hour listening to Mark clarify his thinking and identify the challenges his people were facing — in the market, in the company, and in themselves. That was extraordinary — a revelation for him and a confirmation for us. He is an expert in attitude and its role in human performance and sales management.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This book is particularly well-designed for sales leaders, managers, and even founder/CEOs — really anyone who owns the responsibility of building a sales organization. It’s more of a sales management book (and one of the best ones out there, in my opinion). Conversations That Win the Complex Sale.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 17, 2022

In fact, we should revel when our people are into their overattainment accelerators–because it means they are blowing past their quotas and over achieving. Assuming we’ve designed the comp plan correctly, having each of our people achieve full OTE payout means they have achieved their goals–and that’s our goal.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I was reveling in the success a client was having, but she knows it’s at moments like this that I get overconfident. Some are CEOs, others are VPs of Sales or Marketing. For those of you that have Sales Manager Survival Guide, my favorite chapter is the last chapter. ” Today, it’s the same.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 16, 2020

For a very long time, salespeople have been taught to start sales presentations with their company’s story as a way to gain credibility with their prospective clients. It’s terrific that you are stable, that you have weathered all the economic storms and market disruptions over time. You need to make sales.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2021

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. And hopefully, we repeat the performance the following quarter, then hit our numbers for the year. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2015

All sales professionals revel in doing deals. But as managers, as great as that feeling is, if we are spending the majority of our time doing deals, then we aren’t doing our jobs. There’s an adrenaline rush working on a complex deal and making it happen. Related Posts: Whose Job Are You Doing?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2015

CEO’s, sales executives, sales managers should demand the highest levels of performance–but must set that example themselves. Then there’s that commission thing… Brian, and many like him are opposed to commission, but still revel in bonus programs.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. Sales Professionals getting involved in Customer Service , Operations, Finance  in fact they get involved with everything except closing deals. Lastly, sales people who refuse to follow any sales process. This applies to Sales People, Sales Managers, VPs of Sales and Business Owners.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

There are other “seller burdens,” we often, unwittingly impose on sales people–often in the spirit of being helpful, but which have the unintended consequences of “loving our sales people to death.” Sales people are the obvious choice to help do this. ” These can become huge time drains.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. 4 out of 10 Sales people struggle to sell value versus price. The most startling revelation however comes from the statistic that just under 2 out of 3 sales Compensation/Commission plans did not motivate people not to discount. Given all the information above it would be naive to think this would not be the case.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

“I need a report… ” is a phrase universally eliciting groans from every sales person—at least the good sales people. Bad sales people revel in these requests, because it means they get a momentary respite from prospecting, meeting with customers, moving deals forward, figuring out how to hit their goals.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

Get your sales manager on a call. Or your product manager. Or your product marketer. It gave us one of the most shocking revelations yet: Successful and unsuccessful closing calls look the same. Someone to make your deal a team sport rather than a solo game. It’s when you wield the most influence. How do we know?

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best Sales books for 2019. But with so many on the market, where do you start and how do you choose? Which are the Sales books that will help you create more conversations and close more sales in 2019?

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OnePageCRM

MAY 15, 2019

I found that sales managers are the most positive people in the world. They are the buzzing centre of businesses and, as one customer put it, “ You’ll love a sales person until the day you fire them. ”. This trip was a revelation. One Sales Manager said to me, “ You’ve no idea how much your CRM makes for us! ”

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OnePageCRM

MAY 15, 2019

I found that sales managers are the most positive people in the world. They are the buzzing centre of businesses and, as one customer put it, “ You’ll love a sales person until the day you fire them. ”. This trip was a revelation. One Sales Manager said to me, “ You’ve no idea how much your CRM makes for us! ”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Sam Jacobs: Put that in your business plan, page two marketing, free T-shirt. Sam Jacobs: You’ve been building and running and leading teams, sales teams, and like many of us, including me, I was doing the same thing. At first I was like, Oh, just do this for a little while, but we’re keeping the T-shirts.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

Get your sales manager on a call. Or your product manager. Or your product marketer. It gave us one of the most shocking revelations yet: Successful and unsuccessful closing calls look the same. Someone to make your deal a team sport rather than a solo game. It’s when you wield the most influence. How do we know?

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Sales Process Cold Calling Call-back Cancellation 48

Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. But with so many on the market, where do you start and how do you choose? Have no fear my sales friends, I’m hitting the easy button and compiling a collection for you.

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