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Coaching the Sales Process: Overlooked Points in the CONNECT Step

The Center for Sales Strategy

While technology and buyer behaviors have caused businesses to modernize their sales process, basic principles such as qualifying prospects, defining needs, and understanding buying patterns haven’t changed that much. Every business is different, but most follow a progression with comparable sales stages.

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How to Choose the Best Account Planning Software

Upland

Many sales leaders attempt to bring account planning into their organization and fail because they don’t have the right technology in place. A technology that doesn’t integrate well into your processes and has poor adoption with your team is an issue, and it’s often too late once you’ve chosen the software to go back on it.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. I’ve summarised the key points here as a supplementary learning resource for the delegates. The second question is “ Where will we play?”.

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From business goal to tangible sales enablement initiative

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Leading sales enablement initiatives effectively in a turbulent world is not an easy task Staying relevant and ensuring a steady flow of revenue are key challenges for every business these days. Let me ask you this: Have you derived your sales enablement initiative directly from the business goals? business case)?

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Measuring the ROI of sales enablement at different maturity levels

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Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. You learned about the three critical success factors of enablement , how to l everage sales enablement for digital transformation and how your leadership is required to lead through change. For instance, sales enablement creates an ROI of up to 15.3%

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15 Reasons Why You Might be a Bad Account Manager

Account Manager Tips

Here are fifteen signs you might be a bad key account manager and how to turn yourself into a good one. Too reactive A bad key account manager responds to situations instead of controlling them. They react when things go wrong and they don’t have the authority or command over what happens next. Putting out fires instead of preventing them.

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Mastering Sales Excellence: Strategies for Business Growth

Arpedio

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on achieving sales excellence and driving business growth. In today’s competitive business landscape, sales performance and effectiveness are crucial to the success of any organization. Sales performance is the measurement of the results achieved by the sales team and individuals.