SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Most companies dont go through the process of hiring a sales training partner very often. When they do, theyre often looking to be educated about the selection process or, in a worst-case scenario, influenced toward an ineffective solution by an unscrupulous vendor.

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Hiring Training Vendor Education 156

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.

Training 75

Training Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile SalesForce 75

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There is a lot discussed about how sales and selling has changed over the years, be it the tech around sales, social attitudes changing what is acceptable and what no longer works due to many factors. Continuing professional education is not a foreign concept to most trades/professions, but it is in sales. By Tibor Shanto.

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Licensing B2B Real Estate Lead Rank 269

Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. Without the right knowledge and messaging, your sales team wont just struggletheyll lose deals before they even begin. Thats whereGenAI for sales trainingcomes in. The Role of GenAI in Sales Training Sales training must be fast, flexible, and relevant.

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Training Scale Hiring Lead Rank 62

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. As long as companies fill their sales people’s heads with more “Product Knowledge” than business skills, the challenge will persist. Vendors overemphasize selection criteria that aren’t important to buyers.

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Vendor Discount Insurance Insurance 255

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 15, 2017

I have been in B2B sales so long that I’ve probably forgotten more deals than I remember. It was 20 years ago, when I was working as an account-based sales rep , and I lost the biggest deal of my career. We were one of 12 vendors under active consideration. Spent time in Europe where the existing vendor was headquartered.

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Account Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 257

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 7, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I don''t write about Inside Sales as often as I should. After all, everyone else is writing about it, some bloggers are devoted to it, and if you read what the inside sales bloggers are writing you would think that inside sales is king. They are $1.29 I''ll let you know.".

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Consultative Selling Inside Sales Top of Funnel Funnel 297

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

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.

Training 52

Training Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 52

Tenbound

JANUARY 28, 2025

In todays competitive business landscape, Sales Technology software has become a must-have for organizations aiming to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and drive revenue growth. Tenbound lists over 3500 Sales Tech companies in the directory. – Are we struggling with lead generation, prospecting, or closing deals?

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Sales Technology Software Software Vendor 91

Sales Readiness Group

JUNE 30, 2021

Most companies don’t go through the process of hiring a sales training partner very often. When they do, they’re often looking to be educated about the selection process – or, in a worst-case scenario, influenced toward an ineffective solution by an unscrupulous vendor.

Hiring 118

Hiring Training Vendor How To 118

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Revenue teams – Companies will move beyond simply aligning sales and marketing toward revenue teams? super teams that include customer success in the same organization as sales, marketing and operations.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 289

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 7, 2024

Questions while qualifying: Closed ended: “Do you ever use an outside vendor?” Assumptive: “How often do you use outside vendors?” Closing the sale: Closed ended: “Do you have any questions?” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Assumptive: “Hi, can you connect me with __ please?” (or or just—“Hi, __ please.”)

Selling Skills 224

Selling Skills Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 224

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

Introduction In the fast-paced world of sales, speed is everything and lets face it, manually creating quotes is time-consuming and prone to errors. CPQ stands for Configure, Price, Quote , a tool that helps sales teams generate accurate quotes quickly and efficiently by automating configuration, pricing, and proposal processes.

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Training Proposal System Face-to-face 48

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. How to maximize customer training investment. Intelligent, strategic investment in customer training is crucial to remaining competitive in the upcoming year.

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Maximizer Training Customer How To 124

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Trends that are here to stay.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 19, 2024

I don’t know why sales reps still have trouble handing this typical blow off. I know it makes sense to have several vendors you can check pricing and availability with, and having another supplier in your back pocket is only going to help you, right?” [Get ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

Face-to-face 273

Face-to-face Gatekeeper How To Licensing 273

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Closing more sales. Slow time to action: Sales teams spend a lot of time looking for contact information, which cuts into the time they have to actually make a touchpoint with a potential customer. Automation works, but only as fast the sales rep can identify the correct person to reach out to, and how to contact them.

Marketing 246

Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 246

Allego

MARCH 27, 2025

High-tech sales have changed dramaticallyso has the role of content for sales. Buyers are more informed and selective, conducting independent research before engaging sales reps. Not only that, but buyers expect sales reps to provide valuable insights and guidance to help them make sense of all their research.

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Sales Cycle Vendor eBook Buyer 62

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.

Revenue 95

Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an era where efficiency and productivity are paramount, AI sales assistant software emerges as a game-changer for businesses eager to streamline their sales processes and maximize output. At the core of AI sales assistant software lies its capacity to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

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Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 115

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. The Problem with Virtual Sales Meetings. B2B sales reps have asked me that question repeatedly over the past year.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Referrals Face-to-face 287

SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers.

Training 116

Training Hiring How To Proposal 116

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

An original promise of SaaS was that it would take the pain away from internal IT personnel and transfer it instead to the technology vendor, which specializes in the thankless job of establishing the optimal hosting environment and maintaining the software for many clients at once. Managing the technology, however, is just the first hurdle.

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B2B Customer Vendor Enterprise 207

Sales 2.0

MARCH 30, 2014

As much as Sales 2.0 This email came from a “Sales 2.0 Subject: @Your Company: Tips for Training Your People. Hi Bruce, Loved the recent tweet from [Your Company] on how to train your people. I believe we can drive more meaningful meetings and increase revenue per rep for your sales force. Many Sales 2.0/social

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Tools Face-to-face Social Selling Banking 323

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Maybe this situation sounds familiar: A company with a sales team of 50 reps decides its data is stale and its customer relationship management (CRM) features don’t meet business needs. So the company begins defining requirements for new CRM software, and two months later selects a vendor. Source: ZoomInfo. billion estimate.

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Analysis CRM Remedy SalesForce 246

Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. These people could be investors, clients or vendors to your target firm. It can be a critical step in filling your sales pipeline with great opportunities. This content is for those who are not willing to accept those success rates.

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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2018

The fact is retaining best customers remains a challenge for sales and marketing professionals, leading to wasted time and money. Implement a robust order-tracking system, in addition to a CRM or within your CRM, and train your whole company on it. How you do it is less important than that you train everyone to use it.

Customer Service 286

Customer Service Retention Hiring Account 286

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2020

You probably wrote a sale just last week, and the top producers in your office are still writing business. True story: I was walking in my neighborhood the other day, and a home went on sale—you know, the sign in the front yard, etc. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! It’s temporary, and guess what?

Face-to-face 281

Face-to-face How To Call-back Gatekeeper 281

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Does your sales team struggle to get referrals? When I read a checklist of account based sales development strategies that omitted referral selling, I asked the creator why. Too many sales pros chase the bright, shiny social media stuff rather than doing the tough strategic thinking needed to optimize a referral selling system.

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Referrals Top of Funnel Account Scale 279

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. While various strategies can contribute to sales success , one critical factor often overlooked is developing a strong frontline sales leadership team.

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Quota Company Face-to-face Sales Leadership 156

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sales leader Jill Konrath has some pointed questions about the buying process for HR leaders, so she interviewed David Kingsley , Chief People Officer at Vlocity (formerly Head of Global People & Places at MuleSoft, and Head of Global Strategy at Salesforce): What technologies are forward-thinking HR leaders excited about? Compensation.

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Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 224

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.

Inside Sales 110

Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 110

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. Incorporate different perspectives into training teams. into similar “birds of a feather” groups.

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InsideView Scale Exercises Call-back 223

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It can make it hard to predict what B2B marketing and sales will look like when we enter the post-COVID-19 era. . Meanwhile, fine-tune a marketing plan that focuses on former clients of vendors that closed or are short on advertising funds. Next Steps. Grab those high-value enterprise leads and make them yours. Next Steps. Next Steps.

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Trends Marketing Lead Rank Conference 333