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Showpad Video Enhances Customer Relationships for the Modern Seller

Showpad

Months of negotiations can be finalized in a matter of minutes, and an hour-long meeting can lead to years of partnership. At Showpad, we have a specific year in mind: 2012. In 2012, FaceTime was added as a feature for all cellular iOS devices, and suddenly we were living in a world full of instant, effortless video communication.

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Sales Technology Investments are Accelerating, but Training is Lagging Behind

Miller Heiman Group

In our 2017 World-Class Sales Practices Study , we found that quota attainment across all geographies, industries and size companies had dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. Meet Your Sales Technology ROI Expectations With These Three Best Practices. Take social selling, for example.

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Sales Technology Investments are Accelerating, but Training is Lagging Behind

Miller Heiman Group

In our 2017 World-Class Sales Practices Study , we found that quota attainment across all geographies, industries and size companies had dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. Meet Your Sales Technology ROI Expectations With These Three Best Practices. Take social selling, for example.

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Build vs. buy: 5 reasons companies end up ditching their homegrown solutions for Zendesk

Zendesk

Many of our customers started with homegrown solutions only to realize that their systems couldn’t meet their needs or deliver the ease and efficiency that Zendesk can. From initial implementation to onboarding agents, rolling out Zendesk Support took about a month. “We In 2012, GitHub moved to the Zendesk CX platform.

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4 Steps to Break the February Sales Talent Exit

SBI Growth

For top earners it marks the end of the 2012 comp accelerator. Recovery Step 2: Onboard & Mentor. Onboarding is more than just scheduling new hires for Sales Training 101 class. The meeting should be in person. Onboarding programs and parallel exit interviews also require expertise. Next Steps.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

Tools include: Analysis of past clients – Often taking the major clients (on the Pareto 80:20 rule) and looking at data over the past three years or so: source, need/issue, onboarding process, satisfaction and potential fee/profit opportunity.

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Building Your Plan Priorities, Goals & KPIs

OnStrategyHQ

Follow Up Offsite Meeting: 2-4 hours. *To HR Mgmt: Hire and onboarding processes. Reach a 15% annual increase in new customers by end of year 2012. Your strategy meetings should easily facilitate this process. Cascading action items and to-dos for each short-term goal is where the rubber meets the road – literally.