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16 Top Sales Conferences You Should Attend in 2017 & 2018

Hubspot Sales

Professional conferences are not only an opportunity to meet industry leaders -- and maybe do a little prospecting -- they’re also a way to break yourself out of your usual routine and pick up new skills. So we’ve compiled a list (in chronological order) of the top sales conferences you should attend in 2017 and 2018.

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Five Long-Term Sales Trends From the LinkedIn State of Sales Project

Miller Heiman Group

Post-virus, the top two long-term measures identified by respondents in the survey were customer satisfaction (43%) and customer retention (40%) , followed by the short-term measures of meeting the sales team’s quota and individual quotas (both 37%). Sales Technology Is Playing a Transformational Role.

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Three Major Changes Challenging Today’s Sales Leadership

Miller Heiman Group

Most buyers think that sellers will merely meet their expectations and won’t provide added value or find new strategies for solving their business problems, which doesn’t create loyalty; instead, it fosters apathy. The most pressing worry that sales leaders deal with today is transforming their organization to meet new expectations.

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Elevate Preview: How Sales Enablement Helps Sales Organizations Adapt to Changing Business Buyers

Miller Heiman Group

Although business buyers are not overly negative in their view of salespeople, over time, they have come to think of the salespeople they interact with as “meeting” expectations, but not offering the kind of value that helps solve business problems. Enablement can be the catalyst for sales change, but not in its usual form.

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Most Sales Enablement Platforms Fail to Answer the Most Important Question: What Should a Salesperson Do Next?

Miller Heiman Group

Why is there such a disconnect between sales enablement investment and business results? Most sales enablement platforms today don’t answer the critical question on the minds of salespeople everywhere: What are the actions I should take right now to win this deal? To find out more, grab a seat at Dana’s presentation.

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73 important sales statistics for 2022

Zendesk

Sales funnel facts. Sales call facts. Sales email figures. Inside and outside sales statistics. Sales facts for onboarding. Sales statistics for productivity. Sales technology facts. Only 25 percent of leads that sales teams generate from marketing strategies are ready to meet with a sales rep.

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Use It or Lose It: Improve Your Sales Forecasting

Miller Heiman Group

A sales forecast is only as good as the processes and data that support it. In its 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study , CSO Insights found that companies with a formal, structured forecasting review process increased their win rates of forecast deals by 25%, compared to organizations that did not.

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