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The Top Sales Trends of 2018

Hubspot Sales

What are the sales trends of 2018? Account-based selling. 2018 is just around the corner. To find out what’s coming, I asked sales leaders, experts, and reps to predict the top sales trends of 2018. When I consulted sales experts, managers, and trainers, this answer came up again and again. Video prospecting.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

Similarly, a Key Account Management (KAM) or Account Based Marketing (ABM) approach may help. There are many articles on both of these topics. But in essence, this is an internal cultural issue – do you have a “one firm” approach?

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Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

Red Star Kim

Delegates represented a variety of roles – many were MBD generalists covering a range of activities (planning, marketing communications, client listening, account management, campaigns, pitches etc). But some had travelled (with a rather early start) from the Midlands and others had battled in from the London suburbs.

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Sales Organizations Must Aim Higher to Ensure Transformation

Miller Heiman Group

CSO Insights’ 2018 Sales Talent Study confirms that most sales leaders (85 percent) do not believe their current sales teams will be able to universally make this shift to value engineers. This includes: Sales skills (surfacing explicit and implicit needs, social selling, negotiating, resolving concerns).

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What Sales Leaders Need to Do to Hire and Evaluate Talent More Effectively

Miller Heiman Group

In 2018, just 54 percent of all sellers met their sales quotas, according to CSO Insight’s 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. Furthermore, only 16 percent of sales leaders say they are confident they have the talent needed to succeed into the future, according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Sales Talent Study.

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Why Your Organisation Needs A Customer Crisis Plan

Jermaine Edwards

According to Deloitte Global’s 2018 crisis management survey, “ Stronger, Fitter, Better: Crisis Management for the Resilient Enterprise ,” nearly 60% of respondents believe that organisations face more crises today than they did ten years ago, yet many may overestimate their capabilities to respond.

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Is That Sales Rep a Robot? 8 Tell-Tale Signs You're Talking to AI [+Why Human Reps Are Still Necessary]

Hubspot Sales

In addition to managing customer contacts, reps are responsible for preparing reports, generating leads, and all other related administrative tasks. Data entry and administrative tasks took up so much time in 2018 that sales professionals could only spend one-third of their time making sales. Generative AI is changing the game.