Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is good news for B2B sales teams that have faced economic headwinds, shrinking customer budgets, and delayed or canceled purchasing decisions. But even throughout this tough period, some sales organizations have found a way to meet or exceed targets—and feel confident in their ability to do it again this year.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. I often work with new sales managers who think, "If these tactics and scripts worked for me, they'll work for my team." The best sales coaching is individualized. But it's not enough.

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ACT

APRIL 16, 2024

Virtual sales professionals must have the ability to effectively connect with their prospects and overcome communication barriers. It’s challenging to showcase your performance How do you stay on top of your manager’s mind and show off your skills and results when you never meet face to face?

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. What is sales productivity?

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SBI

JULY 24, 2018

Sales reps love their CRM. They love spending hours entering information about the email activity they’ve had with customers, meetings held, proposals delivered, and especially updating their forecast. In fact, who doesn’t love a good forecast session with their sales manager?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Glassdoor predicts the average yearly salary of an outside sales rep to be $72,000.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the most common requests we receive at The Brooks Group is for sales negotiation training on closing techniques. Too many sales managers think their team has a closing problem, when in reality, they have a prospecting problem. Until a person meets all the above criteria, they are still a suspect.

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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

MAY 11, 2022

Includes territory planning, account planning, sales call planning, leading sales meetings, task management, using CRM, sales enablement tools, other technology tools and performance support, action planning, calendaring, project management, change management, and personal productivity practices.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Support sales teams in finding new leads and prospects (both inbound and outbound). Implement sales techniques and best practices that optimize performance flow. What Sets Sales Operations Apart From Sales Enablement? Sales operations and sales management are two different aspects of a business.

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Sales Advertising Sales Training Profitability 52

Brooks Group

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Obviously, this can be broken down into monthly or annual goals and can be applied to an individual sales rep, sales manager, regional manager, or the company as a whole. For our purposes, we will be discussing sales goals as they relate to the sales manager. All calls are not created equal.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Other AI tools draw data from sources like a CRM, LinkedIn, or industry databases. Generative AI can help sales teams sell by gathering intelligence and creating outputs that save time and personalize prospect communications. Sales reps say management doesn’t understand how time-consuming these tasks are. Sound familiar?

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PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

Want to increase sales and boost your bottom line? First, you must ensure that teams are properly equipped to meet these goals. This article will focus on the sales enablement process, what it means for your organization, and how you can benefit from the approach. What is sales enablement?

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. As training is often closely related to the content (no content without training!) Yes, sales enablement, sales ops and sales management are three different things: apples, oranges and pears, if you will.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

These responsibilities also make a career in sales highly rewarding. Sales managers can earn a median salary of $127,490. Simply put, you can learn all of the essential skills to work in sales outside of school. These are beautiful stories of people who launched their sales careers without a degree.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s like giving them the map and compass to navigate the sales jungle successfully. It’s no secret that tech has revolutionized the sales process. With advanced sales management tools, your team can track and analyze sales performance in real-time. Then there’s your CRM. Now, let’s talk about technology.

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CRM Decision-making Sales Software 52

Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. While these two functions handle different aspects of the sales process, there is some cross-functional collaboration.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Several leaders also stressed the importance of training reps on the tools and resources they need to succeed — with 38.5% of the leaders we surveyed said their sales training strategies at least partially revolved around providing consistent and ongoing coaching or feedback to reps. And finally, 37.8% And with 34.4%

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A sales pipeline encompasses every stage of your sales process. An opportunity moves from stage to stage of your pipeline based on concrete actions, which is usually represented visually in your CRM. Sales Pipeline vs. Sales Forecast. Sales pipelines are often confused with sales forecasts as well.

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Sales Negotiation Decision-making CRM 144

Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Now that we have explained some examples of primary goals, let’s dig into the stellar reasons a sales manager should implement them. Setting sales goals for your business is vital to ensure its success. Here are the top three reasons you should establish sales goals for your company. What is setting sales goals?

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Zendesk

MAY 19, 2022

If you’ve ever taken sales training of any kind, you know that mastering sales vocabulary is shockingly difficult. Many sales terms sound interchangeable when, in fact, they mean drastically different things. A conversion is any prospect that moves to the next step in the sales pipeline. Sales script.

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B2C Sales CRM Profitability 98

Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Joan Ridgeway, sales training performance consultant at Roche Diagnostics , suggests innovative ways to make sales training more fun—and more effective. One of the most challenging roles in any sales organization is that of the sales manager.

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Healthcare Brainstorming Sales Innovation 51

PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Primarily, you want to prioritize relationships with clients that meet your ideal customer profile. It’s paramount that account managers maintain a good rapport with clients. Take advantage of account management tools, such as customer relationship management (CRM) platforms.

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Key Account Management Account Management Management Prioritization 52

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You've established the various stages of your sales process. You know how the typical prospect goes from an email address in your CRM to a paying customer. You've trained your salespeople on the key actions required to move prospects from stage to stage. Demand for your product is clearly there, so expand your team to meet it.

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Sales CRM Banking Organization 140

Brooks Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Keep reading, and you’ll confidently make real-world sales calls in no time. What Exactly Do You Mean By a Mock Sales Call? Simply said, mock calls are practice calls made by the sales manager. Are Mock Sales Calls Beneficial For Your Team? Success happens when preparation meets opportunity. How To Conduct?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2022

Start planning how you can address those particular points — whether that be through additional training, constructively calling those issues out in meetings, or any other ways you can productively communicate those concerns to your team. Call the most pressing issues out in meetings. Is it reviewed each month? Is it up to date?

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Construction Decision-making Facilitation Prioritization 82

Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

MARCH 12, 2019

The beginning of the year sees a lot of long-term strategic initiatives – from sales training and new product roll-outs to sales forecasting and account reviews. To help your reps prepare for the meeting, give them advance notice of when the review will take place – at least a week, preferable two.

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Construction Sales CRM Sales Management 52

Brooks Group

AUGUST 10, 2022

Sales managers would do well to accept the fact that not everyone on their team wants to be the best. That’s a conundrum sales managers can manage by better understanding their salespeople, and supporting them with effective sales training to meet them where they’re at.

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Sales Sales Management Sales Training Prioritization 71

Zendesk

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sales executive KPIs. Sales support KPIs. Business development runs a little differently than other departments, as representatives are looking to expand B2B sales and B2C sales, often through cold outreach methods. KPIs for sales executives. Monitoring competitor pricing is a must for sales managers.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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B2C Sales e-Learning Software 52

Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Meet Tom Carter , National Vice President, Business Marketing at Kaiser Permanente. In this interview, Tom shares how the partnership between marketing and sales made all the difference in rolling out a new digit al sales strategy. . “If A lot of the sales training over the decades has been very feature-benefit-oriented.

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Digitalization B2B Sales Customer Value 98

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2020

Good sales performance is highly valued but it can also be elusive to achieve for many salespeople and organizations. The key to good sales performance is consistency. First, let’s discuss ways sales reps can improve their individual performance. The more people involved, the more variables to successful sales performance.

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SBI

MAY 4, 2021

In order to ensure that sales teams are prepared and to consequently optimize sales performance, sales training and enablement teams must use sales learning analytics and other sales metrics to develop sales representatives. What Your Sales Learning Analytics Dashboard Should Look Like.

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Sales Sales Analytics Sales Training Onboarding 59

Showpad

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

For example, when plumbing supplies specialist Wolseley transformed its inventory control system , Hitachi Consulting made sure to put senior figures in board-level meetings, and brought plain-speaking techies to briefings about integrations with its warehouse management system.

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Manufacturing Finance Stakeholders Sales 58

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Here are a few of the most commonly utilized: Features: The features of your product or service did not meet the requirements of the prospect. Either way, ensure these and all of your loss reasons are clearly defined so that Sales Ops can understand the why behind the dreaded "Closed-Lost" notification in the CRM. Quote Sent.

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Sales Decision-making CRM Meetings 129

Mike Kunkle

JULY 21, 2018

It’s often used in “on the fly” role play between a rep and their sales manager, and does excel for that purpose. This is a common role play used in sales training courses, with three roles: Salesperson, Customer, and Observer/Coach. Often the instructor or sales manager plays the Customer role, for consistency.

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Construction Sales Onboarding Sales Management 130

Openview

MAY 11, 2018

While being a good salesperson requires innate characteristics – or what I like to call sales DNA – it is important to recruit customer focused and tech-savvy reps. In today’s rapidly changing world of SaaS, artificial intelligence , big data and CRM, a firm handshake and killer smile only go so far. Next Gen Training and Development.

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Artificial Intelligence Onboarding Sales Profitability 90