HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 12, 2012

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “What’s Wrong With Your Sales Training Program.”.   Somehow, “successful” sales training has become associated with a thick binder of material the salesperson lugs home from the class (never to open again). It’s Not Based Upon Win-Loss Customer Interviewing. . 

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Pointclear

JANUARY 11, 2011

Roles will continue to segment. No longer will companies buy data from one vendor but rather they will create a network of data providers to deliver to them the specific information in their target markets. Inside Sales reps will rely on and be trained on how to use that data to have meaningful conversations with their buyers.

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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.) into similar “birds of a feather” groups.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

We predict 2019 will be the year B2B organizations get serious about collecting user data and start using it to dictate action – revealing the most popular features, customers most likely to churn, users in need of additional training and more. Prediction #2: B2B Intent Data will (start to) go mainstream. under one roof. “In

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 3, 2012

Do you have strategic partners, vendors or employees helping you with this? Dear vendor: you are part of a business, and you need tools that manage e-mail so that no one is a victim of visible group email anymore. Lori Richardson writes, speaks, trains, and mentors company leaders on tactical ways to grow revenues. Consulting.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Key features include seamless integration with major CRMs, powerful search and segmentation capabilities, and ongoing data cleansing for accuracy and reliability. ZoomInfo ZoomInfos GTM Intelligence Platform enhances outbound call tracking by combining best-in-class B2B data, AI-driven insights, and seamless automation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Happy customers refer vendors they are working with to other potential clients. But other ways to partner productively with your clients and turn them into superfans include offering to train their staff to optimize their existing investment - what is the untapped functionality in your offering which they purchased but are not using?

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Those who fill out a registration form can be automatically segmented (by your automation platform) into a new email list. Yet more submissions often come at the expense of greater segmentation. Once you’ve established your goals, it becomes easier to select the tool or vendor that will best help you to achieve them.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 26, 2017

As we re-release our Startup and Small Business (SMB) dataset , which has grown by 400% over the past 12 months, we’ve been thinking about the origin of this popular segment of sales intelligence. We hired and trained a research team. In DiscoverOrg, it’s nothing but needles. This is the story of how we solved for it.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But to do this, revenue operations professionals work with a seemingly endless list of tools spanning a variety of use cases, industries, and market segments. Examples of these solutions: Showpad: Combines content management, training, and coaching in an all-in-one solution to support sales readiness.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Without recommending one platform or another specifically, we urge you to have one place where all of your contacts are – prospects, clients, former clients, vendors, and strategic referrers. This second tip – building strategic referrer relationships – works with all mid-market businesses and in every market segment. Consulting.

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Showpad

JUNE 15, 2020

Sales training programs offer your reps the opportunity to develop their sales skills and connect with customers more meaningfully — when set up and executed properly. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you need formal sales training and how to guarantee its success. . Components of a successful sales training program.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Once you’ve established your goals, it becomes easier to select the tool or vendor that will best help you to achieve them. Here are three considerations to keep in mind when selecting a vendor: Feature set – Begin your selection process by analyzing the features each platform offers. Invest in training. Content teams.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Early pipeline creation with expanded data attributes and advanced insights Advanced business data attributes and insights are helping teams better understand their ideal customer profile , prioritize and segment their accounts, and engage prospects as early in the buying journey as possible.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Whether a data vendor is a good choice for you depends on the type of data you need, the industry you work in, their feature set, your price point, and much more. This guide will walk you through the steps and criteria for evaluating third-party data vendors, so you can make an informed decision and find the right partner.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Many failed to integrate these tools with their existing workflows or invest in ongoing training. Others spent months setting up new tools and managing new vendors, rather than creating data-driven motions that unlock market-making plays. The result?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

We’ve created this guide to explain the nuts and bolts of the process, what questions to ask, and which vendors to check out. The mandate for sales enablement is to increase the effectiveness of their go-to-market (GTM) strategy by providing coaching, training, and introducing sales enablement platforms and tools. Training platforms.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2013

Sales Training Article: Selling in the Post-Internet Age By Geoffrey James, INC. Historically, buyers relied on vendors to provide product information and expertise, usually in the form of product/benefit presentation that provided information the buyer needed in order to make an intelligent decision.

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SBI

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2019, companies must nail their segmentation, value proposition, and build a sales strategy that is executed professionally – by well-trained and well-coached salespeople. We’ll also continue to see consolidation among software vendors, with acquisitions left and right. We cannot rely on self-regulation alone.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2014

In every segment of society, in every business, in every job we see constant change, innovation, improvement. Buying has changed, and buyers look for vendors to engage them very differently. We have to train, coach, develop them to maximize their performance and long term contribution to our organizations.

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Allego

JANUARY 24, 2023

The best option, Lundy and Olcay said, is to have a comprehensive sales enablement tech stack that includes the essential sales tools: CRM, sales learning and training, sales coaching , sales content management , conversation intelligence , and communications. You want to eliminate sellers’ excuse that they don’t have time for training.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Sales Training Article: Aligning with 80% of Your Market. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Challenger Sale has created a great deal of buzz in the sales training space over the last year or so.

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CloserIQ

APRIL 23, 2019

There’s an estimated 830-plus vendors (see landscape graphic below) offering solutions and it’s a growing list. Categorize and segment each sale into its smallest segments possible to deepen the data profile you are building. Remember, the more segmented your audience is the easier they will be to target and sell to.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 23, 2013

Sales Training Article: Reevaluating Sales & Marketing Roles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company My last blog article discussed the frustration senior executives with the tenuous control they have over their sales organizations. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“If you can get rid of all the manual work and segmentation, that frees up your people to do what they really enjoy, which is being creative and driving programs and campaigns — not managing vendors and doing manual tasks.” Ask the potential new vendor about their onboarding and training processes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

We sold out a 1000 person event in 3 months and had over 45 vendors there exhibiting. In 2017, we worked with over 100 vendors in the sales and marketing space. We worked extremely hard on building our new Partner Program for vendors in the sales space. Vendors are funny sometimes. This was an inflection point.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

Hear how we at HubSpot think about incentives and how we make sure we're motivating sales reps to do the right thing by our customers in the audio segment below. I'd grown up with these men, they'd trained me, but I knew in my heart of hearts that there was no way I was going to curve that behavior. He let them go. Source: PFX.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 29, 2022

About: Allbound is a self-service e-learning platform designed specifically to onboard and train partners to work with your company. You can share materials training, sales and marketing collateral, deal registration, and opportunity management, and follow the entire partner lifecycle from onboarding to deal registration.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 4, 2016

Sales Training Investment. How much money are companies spending on sales training? As reported in a research report by Sales Performance International – “In the United States alone, industry estimates for corporate expenditures on sales training and performance improvement are more than 5 billion dollars annually.”

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2021

Pricing models vary between vendors. Not only will this will require a lot of time and effort to train the system, and implementation will also consume significant time and money. Does the platform allow you to build audiences easily in order to segment your website visitors? Section 2: Pricing Models.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Define Clear Rules for Pricing, Discounting, and Approvals Establish tiered pricing structures that accommodate different customer segments, deal sizes, and volume discounts. Define a Centralized Pricing Governance Framework Establish standardized pricing structures for different product lines, customer segments, and deal sizes.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 16, 2023

And, I think, training companies and consultants (like me), sometimes confuse these issues, not serving our clients as effectively as we should. The mistake too many organizations make is failing to recognize these differences and trying to provide a single process for every offering and every market segment.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We haven’t come up with the buying process by surveying 1000s of buyers, categorizing and segmenting what they do into stages and activities that conveniently align with those things we want them to be doing.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Pricing models vary between vendors, and it is important to look at what they are offering and how they are offering it to you. Not only will this require a lot of time and effort to train the system, but implementation will also consume significant time and money. Can you support fallback options when a sales rep isn’t reached?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2014

Those of you in the telecommunications segment–at least the old timers will immediately recognize the term, QoS–Quality of Service. It’s not limited to a particular vendor, we see it all the time. In the old days of land lines, telecommunications providers were very concerned about QoS. Performance degrades.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I’ll say no to a solution that only plays in a small segment of the customer base.” Training and Promoting New Sales Reps Helps Everyone In his early days, Schuck was adamant about hiring fewer new salespeople and investing most of his resources into his core staff. It’s an easy implementation.

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Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It is true that the typical path is to gradually move up through the segments, but don’t make the mistake that Matt did in the past, assuming his top mid-market rep would replicate his success in enterprise. 4) Training: Do your sales reps know what to do? “ We hire for experience, so we don’t need to train our reps. ”.

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