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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal sales training. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.

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Senior Leadership: Fertilizer for your Growth Strategy

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Senior executives know that, beyond mergers and acquisitions, a company’s growth is driven one deal at a time by the way salespeople sell and negotiate. billion every year(1) on sales and negotiation methodologies. Once training was viewed as a link to enabling an aspect of growth strategy, senior executive support came easily.

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Are Your Sales Targets Too High?

Brooks Group

As we pass the half-way point of the year, sales managers may start to hear a few grumblings that quotas are too high. While it’s wise to reassess sales targets to make sure they are realistic, assuming they are too high might be a mistake. Forbes reported that in 2017 that 57% of sales reps failed to meet quota.

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7 Steps to Establish a Successful Sales Mentorship Program

Hubspot Sales

Sales Mentoring: What's in It for You (the Mentor)? Many top sales organizations use mentorship programs to both ramp new salespeople and groom senior reps for leadership roles. Sales mentors must keep in mind the long-term benefits to the organization, including: Knowledge and Skill Development. Leadership Development.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.

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Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey

SBI

Wootton will join Seismic’s senior leadership team and continue to lead the Percolate team, reporting directly into Seismic CEO Doug Winter. Qstream can be used for sales onboarding or ongoing reinforcement and can test and reinforce sales qualification skills, sales negotiation, & product knowledge.