Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 6, 2021

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Tier 3: People Development.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) or senior-most sales leaders (by any title), has never been more critical. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost. This is a definite growth killer.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A sales training initiative can be one of the most impactful things you can do to improve your organization’s success. The question is, will the training program result in permanent behavior change and lasting sales performance improvement, or will it be a “flavor of the month” that your sales team abandons a few weeks after the experience?

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. As a sales leader or sales manager, your ability to navigate the complex terrain of market trends, team performance, and individual contributions hinges on a crucial tool—sales metrics.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

“As in other studies we’ve done, this year’s enablement study found that sales process and sales methodology adoption rates above 75% resulted in above-average gains for revenue plan attainment, quota attainment, and win rates, with a big boost at adoption rates greater than 90%.” increase in revenue plan attainment 17.1%

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Brooks Group

JUNE 2, 2023

Action Plan for Sales Target Achievement – 4 Steps As we round out the first half of the year, it’s a great time to regroup, recalibrate, and prepare our sales teams to hit the year-end sales goals we’ve set for them. Maybe your sales team has veered slightly off track since the target was set?

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. Coaching is more of a challenge today, with sales reps often working remotely from their home offices. What is sales coaching?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 1, 2021

For instance, a strategic objective could be something like, "We want to generate more online sales through an improved ecommerce experience." As I mentioned, sales operations teams are generally tasked with setting long-term strategic goals for their organizations. Starting a blog and working up to a specific publishing cadence.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 18, 2020

Market-leading sales organizations are maniacal about designing and executing their processes. These tactics can include a comprehensive Deal Desk, a detailed Commercial Management Cadence, A well-oiled revenue-generating organization deploys a number of tactics to align their assets for maximum effectivity.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Each week, we will cover a different essential area of sales effectiveness. Sellers, however, tend to view their success point as the sale.

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Insightly

AUGUST 23, 2023

A sales blitz, also known as a sales call or a sales campaign, is an intense and focused effort by a sales team to reach out to potential customers within a specified period of time. The main objective of a sales blitz is to generate leads, build brand awareness, and increase sales opportunities.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Every interaction a salesperson has in the interest of selling something constitutes what’s known as a “sales engagement.” Here’s a high-level overview of what sales engagements are, what resources are available to help facilitate them, and how what you can do to make the most of them. What Is Sales Engagement?

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Facilitation Sales Communication Prioritization 111

LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 12, 2022

How can you use LinkedIn for sales? Are you still trying to figure out how to do sales on LinkedIn or how you can make LinkedIn work for you as an outreach platform for your organization? Well, here is a blog where our VP of sales has shared interesting insights about how he and his team mates use LinkedIn to sell!

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Xant

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

LinkedIn and social selling give sales reps powerful tools to learn about their prospects and communicate with them. During our Sales Development Summit 2020, Daniel Disney shared his top 10 tips for selling more through LinkedIn in 2021. Prospects will absorb a personal brand and then reach out to a sales rep to learn more. “A

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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Management CRM e-Learning Sales 52

Arpedio

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back to blog. Another Linkedin Live, another blog post! This time around, we invited Don Lazzari, President at Delivering Value LLC, and Anders Gyldenløve Pedersen, VP of Sales at ARPEDIO – two absolute sales gurus – to talk about their shared passion for effective account reviews. November 23, 2021. Don Lazzari.

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Account Management B2B CRM Prioritization 52

Arpedio

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back to blog. Another Linkedin Live, another blog post! This time around, we invited Don Lazzari, President at Delivering Value LLC, and Anders Gyldenløve Pedersen, VP of Sales at Arpedio – two absolute sales gurus – to talk about their shared passion for effective account reviews. November 23, 2021. Don Lazzari.

Account Management 52

Account Management B2B CRM Prioritization 52

SBI Growth

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s been a rough couple of quarters for the VP-Sales. Greg Alexander’s blog post yesterday provides some compelling statistics. Depending on your average sales cycle, everyday counts. This blog will cover 4 ways to help you make the number this quarter. Flip the Sales & Marketing Funnel. VP-Sales (You).

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Sandler Training

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In our book THE SUCCESS CADENCE, Tom Schodorf, Bart Fanelli and I ask these questions: How can leaders scale aggressive sales growth consistently? How can they achieve rapid, dramatic growth in their company? How can they sustain that growth over time?

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere. Probably not.

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Showpad

MARCH 11, 2021

Looking for a crash course in sales enablement? We’ve got the quick and easy sales enablement guide you need. In this blog, we’ll run through a definition of sales enablement, some practical tips to developing a strategy and how to build a winning program. What is sales enablement?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. 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. Why Sales Managers Fail.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Editor’s note: Sales managers and leaders are often faced with creating a sales playbook from scratch. Over the past quarter, Lessonly's SDR team -- led by Sales Development Manager Kyle Roach -- used this playbook to improve their call-to-demo rate by 25% and closed-won ARR by 63%. Sales Process. Sales Team.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit of sales coaching is its contribution to revenue. Research shows that successful sales coaching programs increased average deal size, sales activity, win rates, and new leads by 25%-40%. Focus on specifics.

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SalesGlobe

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For a sales organization, time is precious. Sales professionals invest many hours in maintaining product and solution knowledge, keeping informed on the changing needs within a client’s industry, honing selling skills, and staying in tune with an ever-changing sales process. Continuous improvement is a daily focus. Performance.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With this in mind, it wasn’t a surprise to me to learn that top sales reps use data to drive their strategies and choices. Do you feel that your sales strategy could benefit from an injection of data? Here’s how to use these statistics to your advantage in the context of a sales outreach campaign. (Thanks, science!).

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

This guest blog post features one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons, Nicholas Gregory. In this post, he recommends ways that sales enablement leaders can implement sales transformation strategies. What Should the Scope of Sales Enablement Responsibility Be? Listen: Find the Magic in Sales Transformation.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Sales is evolving. If a prospect Googles you while in the awareness or consideration stages of the buyer’s journey and finds you’ve shared a blog post directly speaking to their pain points -- you’ve already begun to educate them. Record yourself answering a common client question and turn that recording into a blog post.

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Media Publishing Communication Marketing 99

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2013

When you assess the performance of your sales leader, perhaps you’re feeling let down. As you plan for next year, you have two options: Pull the Plug – Fire your sales leader and find someone else. As you plan for next year, you have two options: Pull the Plug – Fire your sales leader and find someone else. He works hard.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? Though there are influential salespeople who are at different points in their careers, they all have a love for sales and a deep sense of industry knowledge.

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Agile CRM

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Sales tool is a type of software that helps sales teams manage and optimize their interactions with potential customers. It is designed to streamline the sales process and improve the efficiency of sales representatives by automating certain tasks and providing tools for managing customer relationships.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Best Sales Podcasts. Sales Gravy. Linking Into Sales Podcast. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. Make It Happen Mondays -- B2B Sales with John Barrows.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2019

These days, there's a lot of talk about influencing sales through social media or "social selling." This post looks at how a podcast I developed has helped our company significantly influence the sales pipeline. Each episode gives executives and sales professionals actionable advice to be more effective at their jobs.

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Media Sales Training Sales B2B 95

Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s still a lot of talk these days in the sales enablement community and the market at large about the need for sales and marketing alignment. If it sounds as if I’m ignoring the need for top-down support for enablement from company executives and especially sales leadership – trust me, I’m not. Insert ominous music here.].

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It's hard to overstate the importance of B2B prospecting in the context of most B2B sales processes. It's the jumping-off point for every closable deal — and doing it effectively can be the difference between maintaining a steady stream of productive opportunities and your sales process never getting off the ground.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Membrain Announces New Prospecting Engagement Playbooks Optimized for B2B Sales Teams. Membrain has released its new Prospect Engagement Playbooks today, making it easier than ever for b2b sales teams to contact, qualify, and nurture sales leads in an effective, human-centered manner.

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Chally

AUGUST 13, 2020

Sales managers seem to be slowly confronting this new reality and are beginning to adjust their cadence and management of sales teams the longer the disruption triggered by Covid-19 continues. Yet, they seem to be resisting that their sales team may resemble the zombies on the Walking Dead. Think about it.

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