Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sales enablement is the process of providing content, guidance, and training for sales teams to effectively onboard, interact with buyers, shorten the sales cycle, and ultimately win more deals. Sales engineering, customer success, and support teams all require content and training. What is Sales Enablement?

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SMEI

JANUARY 16, 2024

A GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence model designed for understanding and generating human-like text. GPT models, like ChatGPT, are trained on a wide range of internet text. The post GPT Tools for Sales & Marketing appeared first on SMEI.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Every day, we discover something new that we can do with these tools. We are learning how to deal with and minimize hallucinations, making these tools much more accurate. After researching with a few of my buddies, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Co-Pilot, there are no organizations that operate without or without serving people.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. Just as you coach a team member to improve, AI systems need consistent training to provide better insights.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. Just as you coach a team member to improve, AI systems need consistent training to provide better insights.

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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. Even ZoomInfo customers report saving 10 hours a week on research and manual tasks using our AI solution, ZoomInfo Copilot. They must think of AI as a colleague, not a tool.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They conduct extensive research, engage with sales reps late in the process, andperhaps most challenging of allrarely make decisions alone. The stakes are high, and traditional sales training methods simply arent enough. What Is B2B Sales Training? B2C training, in contrast, often focuses on shorter, transactional interactions.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The same research indicates just 2% of cold calls result in a booked meeting, and other literature suggests that dismal figure might actually be on the optimistic side. Marc Wayshak , founder of cold calling training firm Sales Insights Lab , agrees: “Building resilience to handle discomfort is vital when mastering cold calling.

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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. times more likely to provide ongoing reinforcement training compared to less effective teams.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

What do you remember from your last training? I’ve heard for years that people forget 70 percent of what they learn in a professional training class within 24 hours of the event. Their research is fascinating and upends how we thought we learned. The way we’ve been learning is all wrong. Remember cramming for tests?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This feature leverages our GTM AI and first-party CRM data to uncover the trending topics researched by accounts that have converted in the past. GTM AI Advancements for Better Conversion Rates: Smarter Tools for Smarter Selling Artificial intelligence continues to transform the sales process. Guided Intent solves for that.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

New research from Dave Kurlan and The Objective Management Group (OMG) backs up my claims. OMG’s research shows that an average sales force possesses 54 percent of the sales competencies needed to reach decision makers, but only 13 percent of salespeople are particularly good at it. Either way, it’s never been enough.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

” – Rob Ulsh Key Takeaways: AI is not a threat to sales professionals but a powerful tool that can enhance their effectiveness. AI can significantly simplify pre-call planning by providing prompt research and insights about potential clients. Change management is essential when introducing AI into sales organizations.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Matt emphasizes the importance of specialized training for sales leaders, distinguishing it from the more common practice of training salespeople without addressing the unique needs of leadership. AI should be seen as a tool to augment human capabilities, not replace them.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

And with the popularity of this term, there are endless tools that claim to provide coaching. There is no aspect of what we do as sellers in which there is some tool that claims to coach. Let’s start with what coaching is not: Training isn’t coaching. We have very rich conversational intelligence tools.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

“They’re also adding more enablement, training, and AI resources,” sales coach Collin Cadmus says. Luckily, sellers of every stripe now have access to AI-powered tools that can help them excel in a challenging market. ZoomInfo Copilot Chat can help frontline sales teams get up to speed rapidly in a variety of scenarios.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 9, 2025

Sales training programs fail due to not understanding the pitfalls in selling to todays connected buyer and the solutions they expect, which go way beyond the product. Read on to why many sales training programs fail and why. One of the reasons sales training programs fail is the lack of relevant (and updated) content.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. Integration: Tools that integrate smoothly with existing Salesforce workflows, minimizing disruption.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

They find themselves overwhelmed, overstressed and lacking the tools and training to be the best they can be. The research shows that if you do the following: Improve your coaching effectiveness. I have said it before and I will say it again – SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING! Only 10-20% of Sales Managers are Crushing It!

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Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

These include being systematic, knowing what top performers in your organization look like, having strong assessment tools to make scientific decisions and that the process is rigorously followed. Many validated profiling tools in the marketplace will measure key source traits associated with success in sales and predict performance.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2025

My friend, Charlie Green, and I exchange ideas on new AI tools. This weekend, he shared a tool that summarizes all the newsletters he subscribes to. Tools like the one Charlie referenced help us deal with that overwhelm. Research, prep, outreach, presentations, call plans, scripts, you name it.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Instead, winning automotive brands invest in sales enablement strategies, programs, and tools to ensure their sellers have what it takes to deliver engaging buyer experiences and close more deals. Ongoing automotive sales training In the world of automotive sales, change is constant.

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Mindtickle

MAY 8, 2025

The value of corporate training is undeniable. With a strong corporate training program, you can not only onboard sellers faster, but also ensure each rep is always equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to achieve their long-term goals. In fact, studies show that ongoing training can lead to a 50% boost in net sales per rep.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 1, 2025

A report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers ( NACE ) shows that using hiring assessment tools is a growing trend. Types of Hiring Assessment Tools Being Used If youre planning to hire a new college grad, you want to be sure they can handle the work. Around 64% of employers use assessment tools.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These intelligent tools are not just about automating tasks; they revolutionize how sales teams operate by offering personalized insights and recommendations. In the realm of sales, AI sales assistant software, often referred to as an AI assistant , is emerging as a potent tool to automate and enhance myriad sales functions.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Medical device innovations are integral to modern medicine, from life-saving technologies to diagnostic tools to surgical instruments. Organizations must build a strong medical device sales rep training program so sellers are always ready to overcome these challenges. Proper medical device sales rep training is essential.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2025

Yet, traditional training methods often fall short when it comes to preparing automotive sales reps to face (and overcome) these complex selling scenarios. By integrating AI role-plays into your automotive sales training strategy, your sellers can build the skills and confidence they need to to succeed. But knowledge alone isnt enough.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 20, 2019

Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. In fact, Research from Gartner-owned CEB found that median time to fill posts increased by 30 business days, or six weeks, between 2010 and 2017. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies. According to the U.S.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Research shows that 85% of job success hinges on soft skills, while only 15% is tied to technical skills. 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?

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

This strategic discipline ensures that salespeople have the necessary tools, content, processes, and technology to engage buyers effectively and close deals more efficiently. According to recent research, businesses leveraging sales enablement achieve an 8% increase in quarterly revenue and report a 49% win rate on forecasted deals.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 20, 2024

Instead, do your due diligence, do your research, and then make a choice and trust that you made the best decision you could with the information you had. Talk to your network to narrow it down further, and then do another round of research on those. Provide a comparison tool. Train your sales reps. Then train them again.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In Philippine inbound sales call centres, AI-driven tools help manage the influx of customer inquiries, enabling quicker response times and improving the overall customer experience. In AI-enhanced inbound sales, agents use AI tools to gain deeper insights into customer needs and preferences.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 7, 2025

They were curious about leveraging some AI based tools as part of the transformation. More as part of their learning process, they arranged meetings with a few leading companies to see if these types of tools might support what they were trying to achieve. The seller seemed to be pretty well prepared, he had done some research.

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Allego

DECEMBER 5, 2024

That’s challenging enough, but it’s even more difficult when sales teams rely on outdated and ineffective training programs. In fact, a hefty 67% of organizations admit their sales training programs are only moderately effective—or worse, new research reveals. The good news is there’s a solution: continuous learning for sales.

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