Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. One interesting finding that I read was that “53% of respondents believe collaborative and team-based incentives is another trend.”

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Data Hiring Compensation Quota 220

Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs.

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Training Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 63

Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. Introduction to Sales Training Blogs Sales training blogs are an essential resource for sales professionals looking to improve their skills, stay up-to-date with industry trends, and learn from experienced sales leaders.

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Training Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile SalesForce 75

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the past 25 years, sales enablement trends have evolved significantly. Sales enablement practitioners must be ready, willing, and able to observe sales enablement market trends and adapt their strategies and programs accordingly. Let’s explore 11 key sales enablement trends shaping the industry in 2025 and beyond. #1:

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Sales Enablement Trends Scale B2B 52

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While it is true that the only reason for a prospecting call is to set up the first formal interaction, there is so much more that can be accomplished. One thing that many fail to do in prospecting calls is set the momentum for the Discovery and beyond. Most are focused on and working on getting that primary directive right.

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Prospecting Harvest Call-back SME 210

Allego

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Sales training can deliver a staggering 353% return on investment, according to a study by Southern New Hampshire University. This gap leaves sales managers asking an essential question: How do you demonstrate the ROI of sales training in a credible, reliable way? Proving the impact of sales training is no small feat.

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ROI Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers. What Is Outbound Sales Prospecting?

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Outbound Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sellers across every industry are under intense pressure to deliver ambitious results in tightly competitive markets, and it’s much more than a passing trend. They’re also adding more enablement, training, and AI resources,” sales coach Collin Cadmus says. Which website pages are receiving the most traffic from this account?

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Churn Face-to-face How To Buyer Intent 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Next-gen vocational schools like SV Academy are pulling untapped talent into tech by offering sales and business development training that lead directly into SDR roles.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 156

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2024

David Knight is the Co-founder and CEO of Avarra, an AI-powered platform that simulates human-to-human interactions to accelerate sales onboarding and training. The future of AI in sales training and enablement. 07:44) Creating a fun, engaging environment for sales training. (13:26) Why HG Insights?

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Scale Top of Funnel Funnel Report 115

Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. This groundbreaking technology is transforming how enablement teams create, update, and personalize sales training content atunprecedented speed. Generative AI is enhancing sales enablements agility in delivering training for critical commercial initiatives.

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Training Scale Hiring Lead Rank 62

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

From refining your teams techniques to reinforcing best practices, coaching tools are essential to how modern teams train, grow, and win. Analytics & Reporting : How deep are the insights into performance trends and behaviors? Vendor Support : Is onboarding, training, and customer service included?

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Sales Coaching Software Software Coaching 130

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as athletes study game footage, sales leaders should encourage their teams to evaluate performance trends, pinpoint mistakes, and strategize better approaches moving forward. Leaders must instill a growth mindset in their teams, encouraging training and practice to refine techniques, build confidence, and maintain a competitive edge. -

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Coaching Sports Pivotal Energy 98

The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

For example, many want me to layer on or retrofit my curriculum on something they trained three years ago. I ask reps to step back think of their number one prospect, and ask how things have changed with that constituency? Your front-line managers are crucial to retrain managers whenever you introduce new training.

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Face-to-face Pipeline ROI Energy 362

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AI can analyze trending topics, audience sentiment, and common pain points to suggest themes for upcoming episodes. Furthermore, by addressing niche sales challenges, podcasts become a resource for training new sales reps. AI tools can help refine content, personalize listener experiences, and analyze data to maximize engagement.

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Top of Funnel Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 105

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It might sound like a lofty goal, but there’s a proven way to get there with sales enablement training. 54% of enablement teams that manage sales training programs report a six-percentage-point increase in customer retention. What is Sales Enablement Training? What Does Sales Enablement Training Include?

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Sales Enablement Training Top of Funnel How To 52

Allego

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

During their presentation, Shea and Magnacca shared the findings of that survey and discussed four sales technology trends that emerged from the results. 4 Sales Technology Trends for 2023 1. Prospecting and Deal Management Will Be Top Sales Tools Sales teams use a variety of tools, the Outreach survey found.

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Sales Technology Trends Hiring Webinar Metrics 123

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Soft skills training programs help bridge this gap by providing reps with interactive techniques for excelling, driving consistent results, and building stronger client relationships. What is Soft Skills Training? Soft skills training helps sales teams learn to work well with colleagues and customers. Did you know?

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Training Negotiation Exercises Proposal 52

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. This week we’re unpacked these trends and actionable strategies for navigating the changes – let’s get into it. This is due to the fact that enablement spans a vast spectrum — from content and training to strategic adoption of tools like AI.

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Sales Enablement Scale Hiring Sales Operations 111

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

A top trend in B2B marketing is the adoption of the Marketing Operations role. Only 20% of marketers will receive formal training on analytics and customer data management. Success of content should be measured by how well it pulls prospects through the buying process. On Dec 17 th , IDC released its top 10 predictions for CMOs.

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B2B Enterprise Enterprise Analytics 325

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

They are always looking at how they can find out more about their competitors or their prospects. Most of your learning will take place on the job and outside of a training classroom, so look for chances to build your knowledge and keep an eye out for improving your learning every day. You identify industry trends that you can pass on.

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Influencer Knowledge Base Research Trends 267

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Imagine a digital assistant that not only handles mundane tasks like data entry and follow-ups but also provides predictive analytics to forecast sales trends and optimize strategies. Predictive Analytics: Algorithms analyze historical data patterns to forecast future sales trends, making sales forecasting software an invaluable asset.

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Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 115

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. And you will align all systems in your organization—recruiting, training, and compensation—to support the referral selling process.

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Salesforce research brief, Trends in Customer Trust, says fostering trust is the new business imperative. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. That’s the multiplier effect of trust. Trust should.

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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

Other sources confirm this trend in lengthening buy cycles. On the field, that is with a prospect in Discovery, sellers need to be counter-intuitive. They see it as and feel it as, the sale getting away from them, when it is not, it is just unfolding in a different than expected (badly trained/enabled).

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Buying Cycle Commission Education Buyer 244

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. The newly-released “ 2014 10th annual Lead Management & Social Engagement ” report uncovered an emerging trend in B2B sales this year: social engagement. How to Get Prospects to Call You Back. I see you.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296

Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

With technological advancements and the growing demand for remote work solutions, virtual sales programs offer numerous benefits that can transform how companies engage with prospects and clients. The Rise of Virtual Sales Programs As we enter 2025, the landscape of sales training programs is undergoing a revolutionary transformation.

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Webinar Metrics Selling Skills Sales Cycle Coaching 98

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

Companies spend inordinate amounts of time and money on training sellers on products. But mid- to low-level buyers have the tools to evaluate offerings on their own in fact, 96% of prospects do their own research before talking to a human sales rep. Spot negative trends early and address issues. Misaligned sales activities.

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Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

There are essentially two things you should reflect on after you’ve met with a prospective buyer…the how and the what. You recognise you haven’t been reading the blogs, writing articles and identifying the trends in business lately. MTD Sales Training. In other words, how did the dynamics of the sales conversation go?

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Sales Meeting Meeting Decision Maker Buyer 277

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Be sure to master the four Ps of marketingproduct, price, promotion, and placementthrough GTM training. Go-to-market training equips you with the marketing, product, and sales skills to avoid launching a product no one needs. Why Go-to-Market Training Matters Markets are constantly changing, and buyer behavior evolves quickly.

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Course Training Strategy Marketing 52

Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Strategy for Business Growth Image by RoadLight Savvy retailers will monitor emerging trends that indicate new ways to engage with customers. Learn more to train teams and join the advocacy program. Our guest blog offers ideas to add gamification to your strategy for business growth. One specific innovative concept is gamification.

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Strategy Retail Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Are your sales reps relying on headquarter phone numbers every time they reach out to a prospect? A sales rep using a direct dial is 46% likelier to reach a prospect at the director level than a rep who is not using a direct dial. Studies show that sales reps forget 84% of all sales training content after 90 days ( source ).

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Sales Qualified Lead Penetration B2B Face-to-face 207

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 13, 2019

What are those needs that, if exceeded, will prove you to be indispensable to prospects and clients alike? By working on these needs, you create a good foundation to build on that will provide you and prospects reasons to be working together for a long time into the future. 4) Be proactive. 5) Make us look good to our customers.

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Buyer Loyalty Follow-up Trends 192