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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 years , down by half from 2010.

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Dealing With Sales Rejection: Thoughts and Actions That Drive Success

Tenfold

The theory of gamification gained popularity as early as 2010, when the engagement and productivity gains from the strategy captured the fascination and funds of venture capitalists. In fact, Badgeville, one of today’s leading enterprise gamification software companies, started operating in 2010. Easy Progress Monitoring.

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Using Leverage in Sales: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

SBI

As it goes for business, so it goes for Sales. Do you employ leverage to get the most from your sales organization? One way to accomplish that is to deploy sales tools. Back in 2010 when I first wrote about the topic of leverage in Sales, I talked specifically about DiscoverOrg.

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Using Leverage in Sales: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

SBI

As it goes for business, so it goes for Sales. Do you employ leverage to get the most from your sales organization? One way to accomplish that is to deploy sales tools. Back in 2010 when I first wrote about the topic of leverage in Sales, I talked specifically about DiscoverOrg.

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Artificial Intelligence Example to Rock Sales Controlling in B2B

QYMATIX

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) hold the key to a tremendous improvement in sales controlling efficiency. A software is intelligent if it can solve problems independently and efficiently. This technology is progressing slowly and will probably not replace a sales controller – at least in the next 50 years.

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Which Type of Sales Job Is Right for You?

Hubspot Sales

Before you can analyze a sales job, you need to know what to look for. Industry and career path: Are you interested in working for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies? On the other hand, if you go into manufacturing sales, you’ll probably be responsible for handling deals from start to finish. Account Manager.

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3 Legacy Recruiting Tactics CEOs Should Eliminate Now

SBI Growth

of years in sales management. If your next sales leader candidate has 15 years of software sales experience, does it really matter if he was able to sell an on premise enterprise system to a customer in 2002? of Years in Sales ManagementSales management is changing rapidly.