SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2013

You’ve trained the entire sales organization. The sales process is finally out in the field. Rolling out a new sales process is tough work. For Sales Operations, it’s one of the most important projects you’re responsible for. Download the Sales Process Evaluation Guide here. You’ve invested in the technology.

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SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Believe it or not, most people still believe that sales success boils down to getting a lot of people to agree to watch a demo. Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction' I''m sure I''ve missed a few but you get the gist.

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Sales Methodology Inbound Decision Maker Consultative Selling 217

SBI

JUNE 26, 2012

Tweet In this month’s issue of Top Sales Associates Magazine , I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Linda Richardson. You may recognize her name as the Founder and Chairwoman of Richardson , the global sales performance company. The first sales tool I used (other than a rolodex) was the GRiD Systems laptop.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In 2012 our consultants attended 438 live sales calls. Two weeks ago, we participated in the worst sales call of the year. The story begins with the EVP of Sales of a large technology company. The purpose of the engagement was to understand why The Challenger Sale was not working. I hope to help you avoid some mistakes.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The reason I’m using this absurdly outdated example is to make a point about the drivers behind the evolution of tools and the importance of investing in new tools. Tools (technology and processes) evolve over time primarily from an onward and inevitably pressing need for operational effectiveness and gaining efficiencies.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

So you have a sales productivity problem and you’re asking yourself: How long will it take to fix? You decide to evaluate doing it yourself verse hiring a sales consulting firm to help. If you’re like most VP of Sales, you have no time and your team will say the same thing. Can I fix it with my existing team? Can I get funding?

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Allego

JANUARY 7, 2025

The difference between hitting your sales goals and falling short often comes down to one crucial factor: having the right sales methodology. A sales methodology isn’t just a set of steps or a simple sales process. But heres the catch: Not all approaches work for every sales team. Lets dive in.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2012

." - Jack Welch Are you questioning the ability of your sales leader to take your revenue performance to the next level? If replacing your sales leader is on top of the list, question #2 will be: How do you know the new one will be better? of years in sales management. The best sales leaders start with the customer first.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

There is a better way to differentiate your sales force from the competition. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Learn why a customized sales process is the ultimate competitive advantage. Not Just a Regular Sales Process.

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Top of Funnel Competition Buyer Sales Methodology 276

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I subscribe to several newsletters written by medical doctors who practice natural medicine. I read most of the other sales blogs too. Some of them are from companies within the Inside Sales community which, in an attempt to sell their services, are also publishing misinformation.

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Consultative Selling Inside Sales Lead Nurturing Face-to-face 275

SBI

APRIL 23, 2013

At Smart Selling Tools , our goal is to make it easy to find tools that will improve sales productivity. Plain and simple – except we know that for most sales leaders and business owners it’s in fact, very complex. Ease any inferiority complex you may be feeling about sales tools and cut through the hype.

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Lead Generation Course Influencer Solutions Selling 138

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All too often, sales reps accidentally adopt a “one size fits all” approach to selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. What is solution selling? The result?

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Solutions Selling Ideal Customer Profile Sales Methodology Consultative Selling 59

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

According to research firm Gartner , 75% of B2B sales organizations will augment their traditional sales methods with guided selling solutions by 2025 to better connect with customers and drive conversion. But what exactly is guided selling, and how does it benefit your business? How Does Guided Selling Work?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

Are you dependent on the top 20% of your sales force to ensure that you hit quota? 78% of the Sales VPs we speak with are worried about the disparity of their team’s talent. At SBI, we often see Sales Talent disparaged as the result of an ineffective Sales Training program. Sales Skills Overview/Best Practices.

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Ideal Customer Profile Training Buyer Follow-up 244

Highspot

JULY 29, 2024

A trusted sales advisor isn’t just knowledgeable—they genuinely care about their clients. B2B buyers and sellers agree that sales teams must move beyond hitting numbers and create personalized, strategic connections. What Is Solution Selling? When Should You Use Solution Selling?

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. What is Solution Selling?

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Solutions Selling Ideal Customer Profile Outsourcing Services Sales Methodology 62

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. They'll have you believing that salespeople are no longer needed, selling is dead, and a consultative approach is dead too. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." But the key word here is tools. Don't get me wrong.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 24, 2019

? ?. Read on to learn how the prospect theory can help you move from product and solution selling to value selling. RELATED: Creating Value for Customers – 5 Strategies for Value Selling. In this article: How the Shift from Product and Solution Selling to Value Selling Began.

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Solutions Selling Up-Sell Conversion Strategy 58

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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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) Time management : Managing your time in sales is the critical foundation for everything else.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 195

Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three. Identify the problem.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2018

These days, almost every new hire in sales is told to read " The Challenger Sale.". It's a great book based off one of the largest studies ever done in sales. Problem is, when you're learning how to sell on the job with a giant quota hovering over your head. Download more free summaries of top sales books here.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Fashion Study 145

SBI

JUNE 25, 2013

The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. Inside Sales” Brooks , and Mark Organ. SPIFs (Sales Performance Incentive Funds) are commonly used to incentivize salespeople to sell more of a particular product in a given period of time.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2013

Colleen is the SVP of Sales and Service for OneSource. Her blog was entitled, “ Are you selling or searching.”. It has to be done because they can’t be effective in their sales conversations unless they’ve done the research. First off, if you have a sales team, your revenue is derived from the prospects they interact with.

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SBI

JANUARY 22, 2013

Sales Energy Audits: How to Increase Revenue by Shifting Your Sales-Energy Use. In this case, I’m referring to its use of Sales Energy. Each salesperson has a limited amount of sales energy (or sales capacity) to use throughout the year. Preparing post sales-call follow-up. Scheduling sales calls.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Imagine having a sales team that hits or exceeds their targets without fail. 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.

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Sales Enablement Training Top of Funnel How To 52

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Navigating the complexities of B2B sales, especially with high-value enterprise deals and multiple stakeholders, can be challenging. The Miller Heiman Sales Process is designed to tackle these difficulties and guide you through the sales process. Table of Contents What is the Miller Heiman sales process?

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SBI

JULY 16, 2013

We rely on quotas as a method for measuring sales rep performance. The real magic to driving radical revenue growth resides in understanding sales productivity and how our reps spend their limited sales capacity. These are sales productivity issues. Salespeople have 215 selling days or 1720 hours a year to sell.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2013

In February, I posted the first of a 2-part Sales Leaders’ pledge. It’s not sales goals or quotas I’m referring to (although a CSO study revealed that 37% of reps did not hit their plan last year — so we are falling short on those as well.) Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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Revenue Forecasting Lead Generation CRM 131

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

What's the difference between sales and marketing? Sales, on the other hand, works directly with prospects to reinforce the value of the company's solution to convert prospects into customers. Let's demystify the difference between sales and marketing, and learn how to align the two. Sales and Marketing.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Sales Qualified Lead 111

SBI

MAY 26, 2020

Q: SHOULD SELLING BE VIEWED AS A BUYING EXPERIENCE AND WHY. Not long ago, buying experience was only about consumer-facing sales, while B2B was all about solution selling. It is a massive shift from selling solutions to selling experiences. Sergey : What customers are buying is changing.

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SBI

APRIL 30, 2013

Here are 3 tricks and tips for improving efficiency when it comes to creating opportunities: Use tools: Tools like Social Selling and Marketing Automation (to name just two) can increase the likelihood of contacting the right people at the right time—when they have the highest propensity to buy. It’s both all at once.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You can network across a growing array of social and business platforms and talk to your fellow sales leaders. It is all too clear that there are specific, fundamental elements of sales leadership that seem forever unresolved, no matter which ‘linkage’ attracts the greatest number of ‘followers’. . Marketing is Selling.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2013

That post, along with the one you’re reading now, is aimed at complex sales. The characteristics of a complex sale are typically wider and deeper business challenges that require longer sales-cycles and result in larger average deal sizes. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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Analysis Energy Buyer Lead Generation 137

SBI

AUGUST 21, 2012

One enticing benefit of the sales profession is the freedom and independence it offers. I can’t tell you how many times in my sales career I heard, “just keep hitting your numbers and no one will bug you.” Companies seek sales reps that can think and act on their own, epitomizing self-motivation and self-reliance.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Often, I get into conversations about the sales approach a company deploys. There are questions of, “should we be transactional, product, solutions, consultative focused?” We don’t choose how we sell, rather we must choose how we effectively and efficiently respond to the way our customers buy.

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