Showpad

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

In this interview, Leea shares with us how she’s implemented marketing automation, digital deal rooms, and digital media content to support the sales team in a hybrid sales environment. . “We The biggest change was working from home—and our sales team has been most impacted by the shift.

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QYMATIX

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The year is coming to an end and we know you’re all eagerly awaiting our “Best of 2021” blog articles. Every year we come up with a theme under which we decorate the five most successful blog articles. Thank you for your interest in our articles on predictive sales analytics. It’s that time again.

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Sales Outcomes

AUGUST 16, 2021

Shifting from Sales Emails to Blog-Form Emails: B2B Sales-Centric Emails are Dead. Shift to Blog-Form Emails. How to Get Started with Blog-Form Emails. B2B SALES-CENTRIC EMAILS ARE DEAD (not just mostly dead). The majority of the emails marketing teams are sending are sales-oriented.

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Zendesk

JUNE 15, 2021

A strong community of loyal advocates can serve as an extension of your sales and support teams and offer unique insights and experiences that benefit other customers and your company. Why customer advocates are important for sales and support teams. Why customer advocates are important for sales and support teams.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, I want to talk about using multi-factor analysis to maximize your sales performance improvement. The reason you’d do this is because there is rarely one right answer, or one performance lever to pull, that will deliver the maximum performance improvement with a sales force. Inventory levels are still high.

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Apptivo

APRIL 19, 2023

The essentials of sales lead tracking software 2. Benefits of Sales lead tracker with Apptivo 3. FAQ Right, sales management is our passion. Tools will help manage your sales process when things become hectic and enable effortless, effective, and efficient sales. Lead Activity Tracking Let’s be honest.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the Sales Enablement profession has reached a pivotal crossroads. To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability.

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Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

Yet, working together, they’ve built a high-performance sales enablement function at TOUGHBOOK Europe—the European Mobile Solutions Business Division of electronics giant Panasonic. They designed new industry research methods that include both customers and sales reps. Before 2020, Panasonic didn’t have a sales enablement team—at all.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In this post, I will offer advice about how to measure the ROI of your sales enablement program. This is a complex topic that is beyond the scope of one blog post, but I will do my best to provide a solid kickstart for you and offer what I hope will be some helpful perspective and good resources to continue to pursue.

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SalesGlobe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So as Gail mentioned, I worked for a specialty retailer for about 18 years, I worked in human resources and sales, but more importantly, worked in change management, as well as process improvement strategic planning. I am Gail Wright with sales flow. The post Video Blog: Change Management Best Practices appeared first on SalesGlobe.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In this interview, Tom shares how the partnership between marketing and sales made all the difference in rolling out a new digit al sales strategy. . “If I’ve worked myself into a marketing job, but 80% of my career has been in sales, account management, and creating marketing programming and other services to support sales teams. .

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Showpad

JANUARY 12, 2023

Meet Ljiljana Budimir Vukicevic , Sales Enablement Digital Capability Lead at Schneider Electric. In her 20+ year tenure with the global energy management and automation company, Ljiljana has seen and led major technological evolutions across the business — from customer care to IT support and, most recently, sales enablement. .

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 2, 2022

We’re all in sales, right? I think the answer depends on what you mean by that (intent) and how you define “sales.” I get the intent of the “we’re all in sales” message, generally, much like Dan Pink’s book, To Sell is Human. “The 1980s called, and they want their sales approach back.”

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Upland

JUNE 7, 2023

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard sales and revenue leaders use the terms, “sales process” and “sales methodology” interchangeably and incorrectly. What is a sales process? A sales process is a flow, and it is usually brand-free.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This strategic approach goes beyond conventional departmental boundaries, breaks down silos, and encompasses product, marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, and the encompassing realm of customer experience (whether it goes by customer support, customer success, customer service, or a combination of these).

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Mike Kunkle

MARCH 31, 2023

Sales process, sales methodology, and sales competencies are all important and related aspects of sales effectiveness. Because getting these right, having them support each other, and fostering adoption and mastery, improves revenue plan attainment, individual rep quota attainment rates, and win rates.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today we feature a blog by Michael DeRosa, the director of professional development at Travelers Insurance, and one of our 2019 Miller Heiman Group Icons. Channel selling is a different breed of selling from direct sales. Here are three ways sales managers can better support their channel sellers by cultivating better relationships.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s an honor to be added to the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Blogs 2014 list! Thank YOU for your ongoing support as we continue to bring you the cutting-edge in […].

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. Here is a summary of the sales targeting toolbox for professional services firms.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

“As in other studies we’ve done, this year’s enablement study found that sales process and sales methodology adoption rates above 75% resulted in above-average gains for revenue plan attainment, quota attainment, and win rates, with a big boost at adoption rates greater than 90%.” increase in revenue plan attainment 17.1%

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this interview, Matt shares his perspective on how to get a business to digital faster using methods and tools that reduce print and increase customer insights in a non-traditional sales environment. . Our organization is looking to add a layer of sophistication in the way we do sales enablement. It’s a balancing act.

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Showpad

JUNE 6, 2022

Meet Tricia Westfall, a Senior Manager for the Sales Capability Planning & Enablement team at Kaiser Permanente. Pre-COVID, we were focused on providing a specific portfolio of tools that our sales people could use when they’re out in the field and when they’re engaging with customers. Can you share an example?

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Virtual Selling Decision-making Sales Digitalization 52

Showpad

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Meet Jessie Hanna , Vice President of Sales Enablement at Stanley Black & Decker. In this interview, Jessie shares the importance of both understanding your sales teams’ immediate needs and setting a long-term vision for your digital sales acceleration strategy. . Showpad is something our sales teams need every single day.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) or senior-most sales leaders (by any title), has never been more critical. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost. This is a definite growth killer.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Each week, we will cover a different essential area of sales effectiveness.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Pedro Correia, Sales Enablement Lead at IFF. In this interview, Pedro shares the innovative ways IFF is integrating technology into the sales training and content process , from information tagging to augmented reality and AI. Tell us about your current role as Sales Enablement Lead at IFF and how it’s changed in the last year.

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Value Proposition Account Management Decision-making Digitalization 52

Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A skilled customer success team is especially critical to sales success because they touch an account 10 times more than the sales team. Customers report that sellers don’t show enough interest in them after a sale, according to the 2018 Buyer Preferences Study. Creating a Symbiosis.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

I am exceptionally pleased and excited to announce that Felix Krueger of FFWD and I launched The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement Learning Experience on November 25, 2022. Access to a Growing Library of 4+ Hours of Video Content , teaching the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Outbound marketing with a high reach is typically very expensive, whereas you only have to invest time to start creating blog posts and optimizing them for search. The B2B Marketer’s Toolkit collects 120+ of the best lead generation tips ever published on the Nutshell blog. Download it today!

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 2, 2022

Senior sales leaders and C-suite execs, this one’s for you. In an expanding number of vertical industries (but not yet everywhere), the concept of “enabling the sales force” has exploded. Way back in 2003, I worked in a department called Performance Development and led the Sales Performance Development team.

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SBI

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Top 10 SalesTech Blog Posts of 2018 . For some of you in B2B sales, this may come as a surprise. Flash forward to the present, and the number of companies with dedicated sales enablement functions has more than tripled since 2013, reports CSO Insights. Top 5 Game-Changers sales tech interviews. Continue reading.

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SBI

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Top 10 Blog Posts & SalesTech Acquisitions of 2019. TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF 2019. The importance of Marketing & Sales Alignment is obvious when it comes to tradeshows. Read “Sales Tools to Increase Tradeshow ROI” if you not only want to have better insight on event ROI but also want to ensure a higher ROI.

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Acquisition Sales Training Suppliers Marketing 32

Nutshell

APRIL 24, 2024

That’s why integrating it with the best Outlook CRM is the perfect way to expand its usefulness and empower your sales and marketing teams. An Office 365 Outlook CRM integration allows you to do so much more with your email service, including team collaboration, sales management, email marketing, and lead generation.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many sales leaders think the way to do this is to help their sales team sell better value or overcome objections. These are both good strategies, but the true differentiator is the sales professional and their emotional intelligence. EI is also the foundation of sales, and the gateway to all of that is empathy.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 27, 2011

Support them with an idea. Tell them you support them and to please let you know if they need anything. Especially in a sales environment where the defaults tend to be the opposite. Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! The Sales Bible.

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2024

Additionally, establishing peer-mentorship programs that pair people from different cultural, educational, and work experience backgrounds has not only provided valuable support but has also enriched our professional development by exposing us to different leadership styles and approaches. Ridhima Rajpurohit Sr. Yessenia Zavala Sr.

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Sales Outcomes

JANUARY 15, 2024

Several organizations we speak with express a desire for better sales and marketing alignment. ” When sales and marketing organizations do things on their own in an ad-hoc manner, go-to-market execution suffers. Marketing takes the lead in the orchestrated effort, but a strong interlock with the sales organization is essential.

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