SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Introduction to Matt McDarby Matt McDarby, the president of United Sales Resources, brings over 15 years of experience in developing sales managers and leaders. His expertise lies in equipping sales leaders with the skills necessary to drive change and foster team development.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Frontline sales managers coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis.

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Sales Management Scale Compensation Study 168

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Do sales reps demonstrate product features, or do they discuss the benefits for buyers? What is their sales plan for following up? Don’t even think about training your sales team on closing the deal. They’re not closing sales because your prospecting system is broken. Save your money. And that’s referral leads.

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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 Scoring 63

Highspot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The integration gives go-to-market teams the ability to scale best practices across their sales teams and drive more revenue. With Highspot, our customers turn initiatives into the actions that sales teams must execute and enable sales leaders to measure what is and is not working with deep and actionable insights.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13]. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13]. How did Compass achieve scale?

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Allego

JULY 9, 2020

Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. Today, a key factor for success is sales enablement technology that allows teams to train, coach, and collaborate virtually. Here are eight essential elements of a virtual training program that will help your organization succeed.

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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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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. Managing At (Impossible) Scale.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

To succeed in today’s B2B landscape, sales teams need personalize coaching, real-time feedback, AI-driven insights, and adaptive learning strategies. The stakes are high, and traditional sales training methods simply arent enough. What Is B2B Sales Training? Get your copy now.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Download our Sales Rep Promotability Scale. Training, piloting or even taking on extra responsibility (i.e. You must attend multiple sales meetings. If you just listen to your sales manager, the critical interactions will be missed. When it does, the sales rep that endears themselves to the boss is promoted.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2021

She decided special training was needed for girls who wanted to become saleswomen, and perhaps one day, women sales leaders. And as a member of the executive committee of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, she had the means to provide that training.

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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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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There has been no shortage of new sales related books during COVID, the usual mixed bag, with scale. But one stands out, The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement , by Mike Kunkle. Not only because of the author, Mr. Kunkle and the subject, sales enablement, but because way Mike approaches the subject. A Managed Process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

Given the COVID-19 pandemic and precarious global health situation that’s resulted, many informal and smaller scale teleworking arrangements are rapidly becoming widespread and institutionalized. These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.”

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community. Vishal Sunak: We are on the scale to eight digits right now, not that far away.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 19, 2013

This in turn means the way you need to sell, the “right things’ you need to do and execute to win sales, will also change. While this change or evolution is desirable and good, it does impact the other side of the scale, the “doing things better” side. Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Incorporate different perspectives into training teams. This sounds pretty basic but in many sales kickoffs, aside from large general sessions, teams for training workshops are broken out by segment (geography, size, industry, function, etc.) This process built further trust between sales leaders and our enablement team.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways AI-powered sales training helps reps build trust by personalizing conversations and addressing buyer needs. Unified tools streamline workflows, enhancing collaboration and driving better sales outcomes. And without trust, deals stall, sales cycles drag on, and your competitors swoop in.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

But here is the thing: even the best CPQ tool cant reach its full potential if your team is not trained to use it effectively. This is where comprehensive step-by-step CPQ training becomes essential. Before getting into the steps of CPQ training and implementation, let’s look at why a business should invest in CPQ.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Sequencing is defined here as applying order to sales improvement initiatives. Examples of poor sequencing are things like: Sales Training initiatives kicked off prior to sales skills assessments being conducted. Trying to solve a Sales Process problem through data vs. requiring more from your Sales Managers.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2015

Slammed: For the First Time Sales Manager. For first time sales managers ” by my friend and sales management guru Ken Thoreson. This is his 4 fourth in a series of books written under the banner “Your Sales Management Guru’s Guide To:”. Sales is a corporate priority. Chapter 24.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What do you like and dislike about the sales process? What training method is most effective for new reps? Sales Manager Interview Questions.

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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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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Replacing himself as a salesperson took 3 years, but replacing himself as head of sales took Doug Frazier much longer. It wasn’t until he discovered a genius channel strategy that he made the transition out of sales management. Click to tweet. LinkedIn: [link]. Website: [link]. LinkedIn: [link].

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Organizations must build a strong medical device sales rep training program so sellers are always ready to overcome these challenges. In this post, well examine medical sales rep training and its critical role in success. This has created a new burden on sales reps, who must learn to sell an entirely new product category.

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Training How To Buyer Analytics 52

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

These plays will then be scaled to strengthen your entire go-to-market engine and drive your team’s success. Research by Gartner shows that Conversation Intelligence is the sales tech solution category with the highest impact and highest satisfaction rates. Coaching and Training Superpowers. In today’s world, that can’t cut it.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I’m always asked for my ideas on what sales coaching techniques to use in different situations. If you’re a Sales Manager or a Sales Coach then I’ve got a couple of golden nugget coaching techniques for you to use with your sales teams. Sales Coaching Technique # 1. Managing Director.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 20, 2017

According to SiriusDecisions, more than one in three (36%) high-performing reps cite a lack of role-based training as an impetus for leaving their company. Accordingly, sales teams will better commit to providing continuous training and coaching, and clear, learning-driven career paths. It made for a results-driven sales force.

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Sales Enablement Face-to-face Hiring Scale 228

Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That leaves 97% scaling from ‘thinking about it’ to ‘not interested’ Only 3% will be interested in the details of buttoning down the deal, and in most cases (over 50%), will tell you what they want. And to get there it’s about being able to spread our ideas on how we can help them.

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Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That leaves 97% scaling from ‘thinking about it’ to ‘not interested’ Only 3% will be interested in the details of buttoning down the deal, and in most cases (over 50%), will tell you what they want. And to get there it’s about being able to spread our ideas on how we can help them.

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Webinar Metrics Real Estate Airlines SME 246

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. It can be guided by example.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 20, 2025

New capabilities automate even more tasks for sellers while also supporting their complex deal cycles and building the skills needed to close deals strategically, including: AI-guided selling : Sellers can build the right deal strategy with dynamic playbooks, including recommended content and training based on their deals’ specifics.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

They think all they need to do is tell their sales teams to ask for referrals. Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. Yes, occasionally a well-served client will mention your company to another buyer and you’ll magically get a sale. No other sales or marketing strategy delivers such powerful, predictable results.

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