Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As an fan of Challenger sales (and the variant Insight Selling Insight selling – building on consultative selling models (kimtasso.com) I was delighted to see that one of the originators – Matthew Dixon – turned his focus to selling in professional services. Rainmaking best practice in professional services firms (Selling behaviours).

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Nutshell

AUGUST 4, 2020

The best sales educators helps you take tried-and-true selling principles and modify them to current selling environments. Below are the 30 best online resources for sales professionals to sharpen their fundamental skills and learn some new tricks. Sales Podcasts. The Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Internet Sales B2B Sales Leadership 71

Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. Coaching is more of a challenge today, with sales reps often working remotely from their home offices. What is sales coaching?

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you haven’t already, it’s time your sales team abandons outdated “used car sales” tactics to reach their quota. So, sales organizations need focus on improving their sellers’ sales skills and strategic thinking abilities. What Is Value-Based Selling?

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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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Brooks Group

JULY 13, 2023

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of blog posts about the most important sales manager skills. Still more provide readers with tips and tricks for getting sales teams to take action toward desired outcomes. Still more provide readers with tips and tricks for getting sales teams to take action toward desired outcomes.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Planning your sales kickoff or national sales meeting? Your sales keynote speaker will set the tone for the rest of the event. A great speaker can help motivate your sales team, elevate your mission, and drive results. Step 1: Ask Your Sales Team The ultimate goal of a sales kickoff is to improve sales performance.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale. Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale.

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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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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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Mike Kunkle

JUNE 12, 2022

If you absolutely can’t avoid it and find yourself needing to resize and retool your sales force again at this time, I have some advice that I hope might help. If you absolutely can’t avoid it and find yourself needing to resize and retool your sales force again at this time, I have some advice that I hope might help. Strategy First.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 10, 2020

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, everything seems different, but sales fundamentals haven’t changed that much, if at all. What’s most different is our time: each moment seems more precious, which means sellers must be conscious of how they spend their time preparing for interactions and of how they spend their buyers’ time.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 27, 2019

Learning: Learning is the act of acquiring new knowledge and skills. In this post, I’ll share strategies for organizational learning that utilize training, development, and education to create a learning culture, close identified competency gaps, and improve sales results. Goals of Organizational Learning for Sales.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

There are no one-fits-all solutions for sales training. The best programs are the ones tailored to your organization and sales force. That is where role-specific sales training comes in. For a program to be effective, it must be tailored to the needs of your sales force; otherwise, it can be counterproductive.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. And poorly managed prospecting lists will result in seller fatigue. B2B sales prospecting in a nutshell.

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Brooks Group

JULY 11, 2023

Asking open-ended sales questions—and making an intention to listen to the response thoughtfully—allows your reps to connect with prospects and customers and gather the information needed to recommend the best possible solution. When Are Open-Ended Questions Most Useful in the Sales Process? What are Open-Ended Questions?

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Suppliers Decision-making Sales Sales Training 80

Brooks Group

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There’s a good chance you’re in planning mode for your annual sales kickoff. Organizations sink huge amounts of time and money into this annual event aimed at aligning teams to boost sales performance in the upcoming year. But are you getting the value and improving sales performance enough to justify your investment?

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Corporate Visions

JULY 8, 2020

At the core of Situational Enablement is the integration of tailored messaging, content assets, and relevant skills training to respond quickly and win at that moment. To make it happen, they needed to train about 6,000 sellers to deliver that price increase message to their customers. What is Situational Enablement? The Solution.

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Showpad

JULY 7, 2020

Welcome to the second post of this blog series for executives. . In this edition, I’ll be discussing the three most critical success factors when it comes to sales enablement. Did sales enablement success factors change during COVID-19? . The COVID-19 crisis has challenged all areas of our lives; not only in business.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Your sales kickoff – that annual team get-together that is equal parts goal-setting and pep-rally – remains critical and relevant in an uncertain sales climate. There are two main reasons a sales kickoff is more important in 2024 than ever: changing buyer behavior and a tightening economy.

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Showpad

MARCH 19, 2021

” This theory differentiates between the talents and skills we’re born with and those we develop from outside influences. A knack for sales, for example, can absolutely be one of those things that a person is just plain born with. In the same way, “natural” sellers can benefit just as much from strong coaching.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

The objective of sales negotiations is to have a strategic conversation with your client that ultimately results in an agreement’s approval. Sales professionals will likely utilize this skill often during their careers because it is crucial for both customers and sellers. Is Negotiation Important For Salespeople?

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When engaging new prospects is tougher than ever, sales organizations know cross-selling and upselling are two effective tactics to increase revenue. Yet many sales professionals overlook these opportunities, either preferring to stay in “hunter” mode or because they lack the sales training , skills, and coaching to get it done.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a competitive industry like sales, it’s important to continuously invest in your education and stay up to date on the latest trends taking sales by storm. We put together this list to help you discover some of the brightest, innovative minds shaping the future of sales. LinkedIn isn’t just for social selling. Jed Mahrle.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today, you’ll see far more transactors of products and services adopt terms like account, client, partner, and relationship manager for their job title than the overt “sales representative.” On the positive side, many of these new terms are being employed to convey the consultative sales approach that many modern salespeople now ascribe to.

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Sales Training Account Growth Client Relationships Account Management 52

Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Over the course of this year, our blog took sales and services on a journey, with stories about practical challenges in growing prospects, advice for sales leaders anticipating a recession, conversations with major sales influencers like Neil Rackham and much more.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

On the surface, your sales organization looks like it’s doing everything your shareholders or board expects: Your revenue attainment is up, and more salespeople are exceeding their goal than you’ve seen in the last five years. But if you peel these layers back, how are your sellers performing individually?

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Organization Sales Shareholders Sales Technology 55

Corporate Visions

JULY 9, 2020

Situational Enablement programs are flexible and responsible sales enablement initiatives you can roll out to quickly address must-win business challenges and market opportunities. To make it happen, they needed to train about 6,000 sellers to deliver that price increase message to their customers. What is Situational Enablement?

Negotiation 52

Negotiation Decision-making Innovation Communication 52

Chally

AUGUST 13, 2020

Sales managers seem to be slowly confronting this new reality and are beginning to adjust their cadence and management of sales teams the longer the disruption triggered by Covid-19 continues. Yet, they seem to be resisting that their sales team may resemble the zombies on the Walking Dead. Think about it.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 14, 2011

BEST Places To Network. BEST places to network: 1. NOTE: Often at a business networking event everyone’s trying to sell – you gotta be able to wear either the buyer or seller hat, and listen for your opportunity. The Chamber of Commerce is your best local networking resource, IF you take advantage of it.

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Strategic Communications

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There is often tension between marketing and sales in many organizations. In a 2013 Harvard Business Review article , “Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along,” authors Andris A. Lorimer write, “Sales-marketing tension can stem from differences in marketers’ and sellers’ perspectives. Zoltners, P.K. Sinha, and Sally E.

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Arpedio

JUNE 17, 2022

Back to blog. Is there a proven method to build a great sales team? Sales needs to stay positive to succeed. Sales needs to stay positive to succeed. In sales there’s a lot of gaps where you can easily fall through. Another crucial factor when developing sales superstars and keeping them motivated is goal setting.

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Account Management B2B Decision-making Innovation 52

Showpad

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You need skilled reps and sound processes, plus analytics and tools to support them – and that is exactly what successful Sales enablement is all about. You need skilled reps and sound processes, plus analytics and tools to support them – and that is exactly what successful Sales enablement is all about.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

But I’m sharing the top paid virtual staging software and services below. BoxBrownie promises to increase buyer interest, help you sell properties 75% faster, bring in a higher sales price (up to 85% higher), and help you stage a home at a fraction of the cost of non-virtual staging. Paid Virtual Staging Software. VHT Studios.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too.

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Sales Decision-making CRM Value Proposition 114

SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

Sales teams know that social selling on LinkedIn will help make their number. The Marketing team can help support sales rep social sellers by growing their own networks. This gets your sales reps more connected to potential prospects. This gets your sales reps more connected to potential prospects.

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