The Pipeline

APRIL 16, 2019

We live in stressful times , no matter what we do, stress will be a factor, especially in sales. While there are distinct sources of stress for a sales rep, their manager, customers and the ever-present quota. There is a reason why successful salespeople seem less wound up: they do not have the quota stress. Prospecting.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 22, 2024

Consistently Exceed Sales Quotas You are the head of sales of a medium company experiencing high growth. However, you find it challenging to consistently exceed sales quotas. The frontline sales managers are the linchpin of your sales organization.

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Quota Company Face-to-face Sales Leadership 156

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, as a sales organization, we know time is fleeting. One of the most effective ways to ensure your team’s success is investing in training and development. In fact, Qwilr notes the following sales training statistics : Today, 70% of sellers lack formal training. The average ROI of sales training is 353%.

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Training Webinar Metrics ROI Objections 62

Allego

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Sales training can deliver a staggering 353% return on investment, according to a study by Southern New Hampshire University. How does this ROI translate into measurable improvements like higher sales, shorter deal cycles, or larger contracts? Proving the impact of sales training is no small feat. Be specific.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Author: Brian Trautschold As a new hire, structured training and onboarding programs are expected. Today, it is rare to see a company that doesn’t have a strict training program in place from the moment a new hire walks through the door. That’s where sales coaching comes in. In a week, that average increases to 90 percent.

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Sales Coaching Top of Funnel Coaching Hiring 317

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sales coaching is an essential responsibility of frontline sales managers. With such potential benefits, it is no wonder that many sales organizations recommend that their front-line sales managers spend 25% - 40% of their time on sales coaching. But what about senior management ?

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

I have said it before and I will say it again – SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING! Only 10-20% of Sales Managers are Crushing It! The rest are struggling to make their sales numbers. They find themselves overwhelmed, overstressed and lacking the tools and training to be the best they can be. You are a sales leader.

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Sales Management Exercises Quota Coaching 291

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. If you want your sales team to perform and perform well, you need to give them the gift of focus.

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Compensation Quota Lead Rank Lead Scoring 386

Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Mastering sales fundamentals has become more crucial than ever for sales professionals. Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Here are the essential sales skills that sales training programs provide.

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Training Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 63

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

Steven Rosen

APRIL 15, 2021

Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. The Head office should prepare any sales report or dashboard. Quarterly Business Reviews . Keep the Process Simple.

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Territories Quota Coaching Sales 336

Allego

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

B2B sales isnt what it used to be. They conduct extensive research, engage with sales reps late in the process, andperhaps most challenging of allrarely make decisions alone. To succeed in today’s B2B landscape, sales teams need personalize coaching, real-time feedback, AI-driven insights, and adaptive learning strategies.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. Sound familiar?

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sales leaders must take the rap. We used to hire account based sales reps, indoctrinate them with product knowledge and a smattering of business culture, and give them a few lead generation tools. Clients tell me not much has changed, except that companies now give account based sales reps a desk, a computer, and a password.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. Before that happens, though, the AI has to be trained?—? Additional data sources.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By using HubSpot’s AI chatbot builder, we enabled our prospects to get answers to their questions 24/7/365, regardless of sales rep availability. Why Use AI Sales Closing Techniques With AI backing up our sales department, missed opportunities became a thing of the past — which is critical considering that sales is a numbers game.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

Today John Holland, Chief Content Officer of CustomerCentric Selling, helps us cover the other side of the coin—artificial intelligence within the sales process. The Problem with B2B Artificial Intelligence and Sales. Only a mere 13% of the modern sales force consists of ‘A Players’ – or reps who consistently exceed quota.

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Forecasting B2B CRM Quota 272

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

OK, maybe keep it a secret between us for now, but when you kill your sales quota and everyone starts calling you a Rockstar, you may want to let on (in the right circumstances). Train Your team. Your team does need training. You need to train them. I can’t go spending money like this.”. Build Your team.

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Account Social Media Scale Small Business 385

Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rapid adoption of GPT-based AI tools isnt simply a technological evolution in sales; its a fundamental restructuring of how teams work. And theyre moving the needle: According to McKinsey , sales orgs that use AI see revenue uplifts of up to 15% and sales ROI uplifts of up to 20%. Its about building GPT-native sales teams.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Your top rep just completed a high-impact sales training session. This rapid decline in knowledge retention leads to inconsistent sales execution, wasted training investments, and a constant struggle to keep teams aligned on best practices. Highly effective sales teams are 4.8 Sound familiar? Theyre also 2.2

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. You’re not alone.

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Sales Enablement Scale Hiring Sales Operations 111

Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

Key Takeaways Traditional sales role play often feels forced and anxiety-inducing, limiting a reps ability to build genuine sales confidence. That’s what traditional sales role-playing feels like: forced, vague, and anxiety-inducing. They are all waiting for you to screw up your script so they can tell you about it.

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Training Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 52

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The best sales organizations align their interests with those of their sales reps and in the manner in which customers want to buy – may sounds simple, but few organizations “run through the tape” to fully align and address.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 5, 2018

I hope you have enjoyed our video series so far in terms of strategies to Crush your Sales Numbers. Strategy #4 is have your sales reps develop their own territory business plans. If your sales reps are not taking the time to build their business plans then where are they going to go, what are they going to do?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you’re a sales leader, it’s crucial to master the elements of outbound for your team. Making the cold outreach process less intimidating often depends on sales quotas. You want to set attainable quotas that achieve real success without compromising the seller’s sanity or the prospect’s journey. No problem, right?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I'll preface these tips by mentioning that many sales teams struggle to hit quota during the holiday season — and those issues come from a lot of different angles, including: It's a shorter quarter with weeks-long holidays for prospects. The last thing a company wants to do is break their systems during the biggest sale of the year.

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Quota How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 142

Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Free Sales Management Training Webinar. All sales managers find coaching difficult salespeople challenging. For Sales Management Case Studies: Coaching Difficult Salespeople. For Sales Management Case Studies: Coaching Difficult Salespeople. Sales managers are the key drivers of performance in sales organizations.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. ” ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

Bernadette McClelland

MAY 26, 2018

The 6 Hidden Sales Weaknesses that Limit Sales Results. Join me at 4:00pm on June 14th for a terrific live presentation on the hidden sales weaknesses that limit sales results from Objective Management Group Founder and CEO Dave Kurlan. The 6 Hidden Sales Weaknesses that Limit Sales Results. Register today!

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Webinar Metrics Quota Groups Objections 143

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

Author: Rich Lanchantin, CEO, Qstream With unemployment rates at a 10-year low, it simply isn’t practical to buy your way to sales performance by cherry-picking top reps from the market. Instead, the most resilient and successful sales organizations are building programs that draw maximum value from more of their existing reps.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276