Brooks Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is especially true for sales performance. Tracking key sales metrics and knowing how to influence them is critical. Leading and lagging indicators reveal how well your team is navigating the complex B2B sales cycle. Core sales metrics are important to the strategic goals of an organization.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 2, 2022

Senior sales leaders and C-suite execs, this one’s for you. Enablement is Booming. In an expanding number of vertical industries (but not yet everywhere), the concept of “enabling the sales force” has exploded. And today, even functions entitled sales training are doing some enablement work.

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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

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.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Pedro Correia, Sales Enablement Lead at IFF. In this interview, Pedro shares the innovative ways IFF is integrating technology into the sales training and content process , from information tagging to augmented reality and AI. We need to provide our sales teams with different ways to engage their customers remotely.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

You’re probably here because you want to build a successful sales enablement strategy for your business. Read on to discover how to create effective sales strategies through the power of enablement and turn your team into an all-star performance machine. What is a sales enablement strategy?

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

Welcome to the third post of this blog series for executives. In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . Successful enablement requires high adoption.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale. But with the right skills and tactics, sales leaders can equip their teams to overcome challenges and win these deals. Finance, operations, and management, oh my!

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Showpad

JANUARY 20, 2020

In recent years, analytics has found widespread adoption in numerous businesses across all areas of operations, including Sales and Marketing. As such, it makes sense that use of the method could also apply to subsets of those major categories, such as the Sales enablement process.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Even if you do, the pushiness is a turnoff and you might buy the product elsewhere or through a different sales rep. Embrace training and team resources. First impressions matter. Your phone rings and you decide to pick this one up instead of letting it go to voicemail.

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Showpad

JULY 7, 2020

Welcome to the second post of this blog series for executives. . In this edition, I’ll be discussing the three most critical success factors when it comes to sales enablement. Did sales enablement success factors change during COVID-19? . There are almost no comfort zones any longer.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Everyone in the business, including those beyond the customer-facing teams, has an accurate understanding of who the customers are and what matters to them. That culture-enabling work happens at all levels, from executives to frontline staff, and it happens every day. Others are design or product led.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Of course, when we talk about the future of sales, it's less about the products we might sell (flying cars, anyone?) Here, I spoke to sales leaders at Bardeen.ai , Aircall , and HubSpot to get their top predictions for the future of sales. Sales professionals need to become influencers — kind of. Let's dive in.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 27, 2019

In the first post in this series , I defined Learning, Training, Development, and Education. Training: Training is job-related learning about what, why, and how (and maybe when and where) to do something (or multiple things), to be successful in a specific role. Goals of Organizational Learning for Sales.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Do you have a new class of sales development reps starting soon? If so, you're probably thinking about how to train them and conduct effective coaching. While it might seem like a hassle to spend a lot of time on training, it's crucial to prioritize. That's why training is so important for your sales team.

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Arpedio

APRIL 3, 2024

Solution selling is a sales methodology focused on addressing the specific needs and challenges of customers by providing comprehensive solutions rather than simply selling products or services. What is Solution Selling?

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Apptivo

JULY 4, 2023

10 Sales KPIs 1.1 Monthly Sales growth 1.4 Sales pipeline 1.8 Sales cycle length 1.9 Sales closed-won vs closed-lost opportunities 1.10 But to ensure they’re heading in the right direction and making the most of their sales efforts, they need a compass, a guiding light. New leads 1.2 Conversion rate 1.5

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Showpad

APRIL 23, 2021

It can be easy to get lost in the world of sales terminology. That’s where sales readiness and sales enablement come in. At first, “readiness” and “enablement” seem like they’re nearly synonyms, and adding the word “sales” in front of both may make it seem like the two phrases are entirely interchangeable.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’re looking to get into sales, not having a college degree can feel like a huge barrier to your career. But what if I told you that a degree isn't always required for a sales job? In this guide, we’ll explore how you can get into sales without a degree. Table of Contents What does it mean to work in sales?

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s fair to say sales is an art as well as a science. However, that inherent talent isn’t the norm since most skilled sales agents started as novices and honed their talents over time. Contrarily, a subpar platform can actively detract from the operational efficiency and performance of the sales department.

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Arpedio

JUNE 15, 2023

Account-Based Selling Technologies – The Key to Revenue Growth ← Back to blog Account-based selling technologies are not just a flash in the pan – they’re here to stay– and if your company hasn’t already invested in these cutting-edge tools, now is the time. Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Account-Based Selling Technologies 2.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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Insightly

MAY 5, 2023

By organizing and centralizing customer contact information and other data, a CRM enables businesses to gain insights into their customers’ needs, preferences, and behaviors , which can be leveraged to deliver a better customer experience. So how can companies differentiate their businesses from competitors?

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Strategic Communications

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There is often tension between marketing and sales in many organizations. In a 2013 Harvard Business Review article , “Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along,” authors Andris A. Lorimer write, “Sales-marketing tension can stem from differences in marketers’ and sellers’ perspectives. Zoltners, P.K. Sinha, and Sally E.

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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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PandaDoc

APRIL 5, 2023

There’s a simple reason behind automating sales processes — less time spent on low-value-added activities results in more time spent on actual selling. That goes for the rest of your sales team stuck following established steps — how much of that time could they have spent doing something more productive than administering routine tasks?

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Zendesk

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most businesses strategize sales through the eyes of the customer. That’s where sales and operations planning (S&OP) comes in. Sales and operations planning is the process by which executive teams from across a business convene to ensure all departments are balanced and functioning. Sales and operations planning purpose.

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Arpedio

JULY 11, 2022

Back to blog. If you’re doing B2B sales – whether you’re aware of it or not – you’re most likely already doing account-based selling, hence ‘business to business’. Thus, ABS is not just a fancy buzzword; it’s a strategy that sales professionals use on a daily basis to target businesses, rather than just individuals.

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DemandFarm

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sales opportunity planning is a complex process that entails following several steps and requires a comprehensive guide. It’s built around a multi-step sales cycle with several stages that include research, qualification, and strategy development. Are there any new services or products that you can provide and gain market traction?

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 25, 2019

In today’s competitive market, sales organizations need more than just talented salespeople to generate qualified leads. Sales development teams need the right tools to communicate and grow pipelines. Software-defined radio (SDR) technology empowers sales teams to drive communications forward. Overview of SDR metrics.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

The SaaS industry has different selling techniques , key metrics , and sales process activities compared to the ones you’d encouter while selling a tangible physical product or a more traditional service like a marketing consultation package. By the end, you should have a clear roadmap for reaching your or your company’s sales goals.

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Insightly

AUGUST 25, 2022

But no matter how thoroughly you plan, even the best CRM software can’t be an effective business tool unless it’s structured to fit your organization’s unique processes and workflows. In this blog post, you’ll learn how it’s done. How many touch points are in a typical sales cycle? How do you close a sale? What are they?

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Zendesk

MAY 12, 2021

A “bad experience” can happen at any touchpoint in the customer’s journey, from their first interaction all the way to final sale and beyond. A “bad experience” can happen at any touchpoint in the customer’s journey, from their first interaction all the way to final sale and beyond.

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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%. Anticipate nerves.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Compared to traditional corporate functions — like sales, marketing, human resources, and finance — revenue operations is a relatively new field. In this blog post, we’ll dig into the emerging field of revenue operations. Not long ago, revenue was considered the sole domain of the sales team.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Compared to traditional corporate functions — like sales, marketing, human resources, and finance — revenue operations is a relatively new field. In this blog post, we’ll dig into the emerging field of revenue operations. Not long ago, revenue was considered the sole domain of the sales team.

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ACT

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Start-ups and entrepreneurs of all types have been feeling the pinch on several fronts, but key growth strategies can help you reinvigorate sales and drive growth. . This is especially important if sales of existing products have stagnated or if you’re looking to expand your market reach to a new geography or target demographic.

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