Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is good news for B2B sales teams that have faced economic headwinds, shrinking customer budgets, and delayed or canceled purchasing decisions. But even throughout this tough period, some sales organizations have found a way to meet or exceed targets—and feel confident in their ability to do it again this year.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Buyers have been tasked with making an important decision, and they want to be sure they get it right—and choose the product or solution that makes them look good. It’s your sales team’s job to bring value to a decision maker and help them make the decisions that are best for them and their company.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. This blog post recaps their conversation, exploring why metrics are indispensable for effective management and how they serve as the guide toward strategic success. We need to catch up,” said Alice Heiman.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

This blog post takes a deep dive into the key benefits and drawbacks of the sales profession to help you make an informed decision. Commission-based pay and fluctuations in sales volume can make it challenging to predict your monthly or annual income. This can make it difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

What makes successful salespeople isn’t just inherent abilities—it’s also their skill set. Let’s dive into the capabilities that make a salesperson truly exceptional and how to develop these qualities in your sales team. By making the unknowns known, they instill confidence in the customer’s mind.

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MDI Training

MARCH 29, 2024

“ Learn and act ,” that’s what I stand for, and I want to contribute to moving and enriching individuals and organizations. The second event focused on how to increase effectiveness in decision-making processes : What influences the way we make decisions ? What strategies are needed for each?

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Brooks Group

APRIL 10, 2024

Prospecting Techniques: Before the Sales Call The right sales skills and a consistent set of best practices before sales calls will make prospecting time more productive. Make sure every team member has a professional headshot, sales title, and product-oriented “About” section. Here are some to focus on. Pre-call planning is critical.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 25, 2024

That’s why many leading sales organizations are turning to The Brooks Group’s IMPACT Selling ® program to equip their teams with proven selling skills that get measurable results. This levels the playing field and makes sales cycles and revenue more predictable. It increases sales effectiveness and efficiency.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

7 Common Barriers to Sales Transformation Barrier 1: Siloed Mindsets and Departments One of the most persistent challenges in many organizations is the presence of siloed mindsets and departments. This abundance of data can lead to analysis paralysis, where decision-makers are overwhelmed without the insights to drive action.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable. This makes it far more likely they will listen to you—and that you’ll make the sale. They make buying decisions about products and services they don’t personally use.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. Today’s major purchasing decisions often involve cross-functional buying committees that include executives from the C-suite. Your prospect lacks budget authority.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 19, 2020

B2B marketers rely on SEO , or search engine optimization, to generate high quality leads at very low cost through organic search. Unlike PPC advertising , you’re not spending a dime to put this content in front of searchers—outside of what you pay your content team to produce it—which makes SEO an incredibly cost effective lead source.

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Brooks Group

MAY 14, 2024

When you take the time to actively listen and ask the right sales discovery questions , you gain valuable insights into their motivations, priorities, and decision-making criteria. They likely have budgeted funds available, the authority to make purchasing decisions, and an active project or pain point driving them to explore options.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. Transformation is about ensuring your organization has the right mentality and supporting solutions to stay on the pathway of continuous innovation. percentage points per year. Where do ideas come from?

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

You need to stand out to make buyers want to do business with you. This blog post dives into how you can develop these three sales differentiation skills to set yourself apart. If they have good relationships and can get things done within their own organizations, that means they have that skill set. EI is a perishable skill.

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Brooks Group

MAY 23, 2024

Hiring the wrong person for a sales role, whether due to a lack of necessary skills or a poor cultural fit, can have serious negative consequences for an organization. Not only are there significant financial costs, but a bad hire can also negatively impact team morale, customer relationships, and the organization’s reputation.

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Nutshell

APRIL 5, 2021

Skip ahead: Blogging. Wait, what makes these particular skills so special? In these organizations, inbound leads are plentiful, and the salespeople take a more passive approach in simply responding to SQLs (sales-qualified leads) who have already expressed interest, requested a demo, downloaded a trial, and so on.

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Strategic Account Management Association

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To grow your IDN customer relationships, you need to understand how the health care market is changing and where your organization fits into the ever-evolving health care ecosystem. At Advisory Board, we work with over 4,900 provider organizations, 90 health plans and 400 suppliers to produce syndicated research studies about U.S.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They will also be highly educated in the sales process your team has been trained in, and the sales enablement tools that will make the reinforcement successful. The coach is there to answer any questions, and to make the seller feel comfortable putting their new tools into action. Download this white paper to help guide your decision.

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AchieveIt

AUGUST 23, 2023

Organizations have been navigating through an era marked by profound shifts. Organizations now face an imperative to infuse their strategies with adaptability, resilience, and agility. There are a number of strategies that organizations and strategy leaders can adopt to fortify their strategic planning and execution processes.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 10, 2020

The strategic opportunity quality scorecard has three key uses in sales organizations: It measures the quality of an opportunity in two dimensions: desirability and winnability. Decision-making process. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at the first three categories of the Big Six. Decision-Making Process.

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AchieveIt

JULY 24, 2023

A few months into implementing their carefully crafted strategy, a team gathers for an organization-wide meeting to present updates on their respective initiatives. It ensures that every department within an organization is reporting on the same key performance indicators (KPIs) and initiatives.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Part of our rigorous screening and training process includes making sure each of our sales trainers has the following skills and characteristics. Sales trainers with leadership experience make good coaches in the classroom, and are invaluable during sales management training programs. 7 Characteristics of a Successful Sales Trainer 1.

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AchieveIt

AUGUST 11, 2023

Be honest, does your organization truly embrace transparency? This fear of transparency leads to a culture of secrecy and mistrust within an organization. Imagine you’re part of an organization that has a company-wide event twice a year to present all of the progress that has been made in the past six months.

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Brooks Group

MAY 9, 2024

When you understand your customers better, you can offer solutions that meet their needs, making it more likely to close a sale. In fact, if your entire organization is not focused on helping the buyer discover their needs before pitching the deal, you’re missing a critical component to your contemporary sales approach.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, there is one more thing that is non-negotiable for a thriving organization, and that is having your finances in order. A business Finance Playbook is the exact answer to this need, as it can help you define, organize, and execute financial workflows with ease. What is a Finance Playbook? One of them is finance.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 21, 2024

It turns out, most sales organizations are not using the most effective sales questioning techniques. That means sales organizations are leaving a ton of potential on the table when it comes to questioning. Because they aren’t doing discovery well, most organizations are leaving significant potential revenue on the table.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since CRMs are all about capturing and organizing every piece of customer data, and marketing is all about turning that data into sales leads, CRMs and marketers are a perfect match. Furthermore, many marketers find themselves stuck in sales-heavy organizations, with fewer resources at their disposal than their sales colleagues.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2023

These advantages make selling digital products a good option for artists, educators, writers, freelancers, and more. In this blog post, we'll cover the following: What is a digital product? Creating a preliminary product catalog will help you organize your offerings and ideas. How can your business sell digital products?

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PandaDoc

MAY 16, 2024

It also helps you increase revenue because qualified leads are the ones who’ll eventually make a purchase. You can also personalize the sales experience to make your pitch and value proposition relevant to each lead. As we know, qualifying leads is about predicting their likelihood of making a purchase.

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AchieveIt

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s about setting a clear course, tracking your progress, and making data-driven decisions along the way. KPIs and metrics are used to obtain a clear picture of an organization’s performance and its progress toward its strategic goals. Often, organizations aren’t sure where to begin or what to aim for.

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AchieveIt

JULY 10, 2023

Quarterly tracking seems like a reasonable approach, giving you enough time to assess performance and make the necessary adjustments. We’ve seen it take some organizations anywhere between four to six weeks to carry out their quarterly update process. Decisions cannot be made confidently.

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Red Star Kim

JANUARY 28, 2024

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Socrates Emotional intelligence and change Emotions during change Convincing people of the rational need for change – making the business case – is relatively easy. Winning their hearts – and emotional commitment – is tougher.

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Nutshell

MAY 21, 2024

Organizations in this industry often provide several different services, requiring them to have access to various software solutions. This blog post covers everything you need to know about building your financial service tech stack, including the core software categories, top options per category, and how to get started.

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Insightly

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Before you can create a customer-focused organization, you need to get your entire frontline staff on the same page ( e.g. the same CRM ). Purchases are emotional decisions. When compiling a comprehensive list of touch points , organize them in phases. download an eBook, check out a blog post).

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Nutshell

MARCH 12, 2024

To achieve this, you need to know what makes a landing page outstanding. Some examples include landing pages for downloading a digital asset, registering for a webinar, or signing up for a free product trial. Studying some of the best landing page examples from across the internet is an excellent place to start.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 22, 2024

It provides decision-makers with empirical insights to navigate through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and other business transactions. Due diligence VDRs provide a centralized location for all relevant documents, allowing parties to share and review confidential documents and files in a controlled and organized manner.

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