DemandFarm

APRIL 26, 2023

Key Account Management (KAM) focuses on building long-term relationships, and aims to improve customer satisfaction – especially in a B2B scenario. A key account manager’s primary responsibility is ensuring that the needs of key clients are met, and that they remain satisfied with the company’s products and services.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the most common requests we receive at The Brooks Group is for sales negotiation training on closing techniques. Too many sales managers think their team has a closing problem, when in reality, they have a prospecting problem. Treat prospecting as your most valuable time management tool.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I received an email last week from Trevor Borrows who is a newly appointed National Sales Manager in charge of a team of Account Managers. Here’s what Trevor asked: “Hi Sean, being a new National Sales Manager I need to understand how to develop account strategies. there to block sales.

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Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. This article will unpack everything sales leaders and sales reps need to know about sales pipeline management.

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Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. This article will unpack everything sales leaders and sales reps need to know about sales pipeline management.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Sales effectiveness is your sales professionals’ ability to achieve their goals and objectives efficiently and successfully. Sales effectiveness also corresponds with the return your organization gets from its sales investment. Big goals such as doubling profit in a year happen incrementally.

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Apptivo

JULY 4, 2023

Here are key sales KPIs that will energize any company and lead it to extraordinary success. 10 Sales KPIs Let’s look at a few key sales KPIs that provide full insights into the entire sales cycle, from the initial contact to the final transaction.

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QYMATIX

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

How to make data work for your B2B sales team while avoiding common pitfalls in data management. Data gives you information about customers, products, sales, employees and much more. In all areas of a company, data can help to support planning, optimise processes and improve sales potential.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Excellent, high-value content: Negotiation skills (under-taught in most sales curricula today). Business acumen (grossly under-taught in most sales curricula today). We also offer solutions to diagnose and improve your sales force’s effectiveness and hire more effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

No matter how much — or how little — experience you have in tech sales, it's possible to climb the career ladder in this field. You can start in SaaS sales as an SDR and with enough experience, you'll be able to work in roles like account executive, sales manager, and even vice president of sales.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 21, 2021

We’re revisiting the topic of Strategic Account Management (SAM) today. In this edition, we’ll be looking at the inverse – the mistakes that will cause your strategic account management efforts to fail. Patience is more than virtue when you’re an account manager – it’s a necessity.

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QYMATIX

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Pricing policy decisions are of enormous importance for companies due to their straight impact on profits. However, the targeted and systematic design of price management poses considerable challenges for companies in many different industries. An average 5 % increment in pricing can drive profits up by 50 % on a regular business.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As I touched on earlier, a deal desk might have a role in other aspects of the deal-closing process, including providing advice on negotiation strategy and insight about product knowledge. Profit can tell you whether the data and insight from the stakeholders at your deal desk are actually paying off. Who do you want to involve?

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Brooks Group

MAY 24, 2023

In truth, there are an endless number of possibilities of what a customer can do with profit or savings, and you won’t know if you don’t ask. As a sales manager, you need to make sure your team knows how to uncover the customer’s wants in addition to their needs. Building out your value formula. Overcoming objections.

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QYMATIX

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Let us disclosure that our software uses AI-based data mining methods to present a B2B pricing strategy to Key Account Managers. Based on these data mining algorithms and techniques, we would like to discuss how any sales representative can create a price corridor for predictive analysis using Excel.

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 16, 2017

I have recently been running some training with a very successful client and we have been working on the negotiation skills of their salespeople and sales managers. If we give the discount then a large chunk of profit disappears for no good reason. In the words of the sales manager, “I don’t want to upset the buyer”.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

A sales process is a set of repeatable steps that your sales team takes to convert prospects into customers. Building a sales process is absolutely necessary to your company’s success, and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager to impact your team’s ability to sell.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

AUGUST 4, 2021

We continue our journey through strategic account management by examining the best practices in coaching strategic account managers. The single most important skill set to have as a strategic account manager is communication. Strategic account management is, after all, a partnership – even more than sales.

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Zendesk

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you think of sales, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably chasing profits—followed closely by how to chase those profits. That’s perfectly normal, but the truth is that sales is more than tactics. To truly understand and succeed in the sales industry, you have to know the whole industry.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

In short, sales teams have a significant role in increasing the revenue of a company. If you are part of a sales team, you must be acquainted with common sales terms like CRM , pipeline management, opportunity vs lead, customer relations, and conversion rate. What is lead in sales? Understanding objections.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 17, 2023

Negotiation Experts – Sales Negotiation Training According to Aberdeen Research , best-in-class sales enablement strategies help a company experience an increase in the contract value of enterprise deals by 13.7% As you can see, sale training courses are one of the most important things you can do for your company.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Additionally, using the right sales enablement tools help you move faster through the contract negotiation process and deliver a good experience for your prospective customers. These can be, for example, solid contract and sales management software like PandaDoc, and invoicing and payment tools that are intuitive for clients.

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Zendesk

MAY 19, 2022

B2C sales include your typical purchases from various stores—clothing, furniture, groceries, and everyday essentials. Compared to B2B sales, B2C sales are usually more spontaneous and generate a lower profit per sale. Profit margin. Profit margin measures a company’s gross profit relative to its revenue.

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Zendesk

JANUARY 24, 2022

But before they can even get to that point, they need to make their biggest sale ever: themselves. When you’re applying for a sales job, you’re essentially selling your value to a hiring manager. The hiring process is almost like a “sales funnel” if you think about the application stage through the onboarding stage.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

The goal of sales training is to improve the performance of your sales team. This, in turn, can lead to increased revenue and profitability for your organization. Sales training can be delivered in various formats, including classroom-based instruction, online courses, webinars, and one-on-one coaching.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

The second wave of sales enablement, moving up and to the right, is what we call the Territory Planning wave. Programs in this wave are based on the sales managers’ decisions about what their teams and territories need to make quota. Negotiations and Discounting – Review deal profitability to find the “unscrupulous discounters.”

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Sales Management Matters

AUGUST 8, 2019

In the final blog of OpenSymmetry’s seven-part blog series on effective sales compensation plan design, we’re looking at how to manage all kinds of deals — even the unforeseen deal. Rewarding significantly large sales is a challenge for any business. How do we best manage these situations?

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Nutshell

JANUARY 17, 2023

CRM software, short for customer relationship management software, is used to manage, analyze and understand customer interactions by storing and organizing business data. A sales process ensures that sellers don’t advance the sale until the buyer is ready to move forward. Product Manager 3. What is CRM?

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

Research from Clearslide and CSO Insights found that, on average, it takes new reps between six and nine months to get fully ramped up to the performance levels of established sales agents. This requires you, as these new reps’ manager and mentor, to boost the efficiency of that process any way you can.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since a SaaS product is typically more complex to use than a physical product, prospects need a lot more education and training from sales reps before they feel prepared to buy. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush. Free Trials.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A CRM strategy is a prescribed method of leveraging the various features of your customer relationship management system ( CRM ) to propel your business forward. An efficient e-marketing and customer relationship management strategy is practically a necessity for nearly any kind of modern business.

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Insightly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A CRM strategy is a prescribed method of leveraging the various features of your customer relationship management system ( CRM ) to propel your business forward. An efficient e-marketing and customer relationship management strategy is practically a necessity for nearly any kind of modern business.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is often due to a lack of training in areas that sales professionals need to succeed. Sales team training can greatly improve the effectiveness of your sales team, resulting in higher sales and increased profits. In this post, we will discuss three reasons why companies should invest in team sales training.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s economic environment, effective account management is essential for building and maintaining strong client relationships and achieving growth. From podcasts and webinars to blogs and social media posts, these influencers are using a range of channels to help other account managers learn, grow, and succeed.

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Zendesk

JUNE 28, 2022

However, it’s worth training your top sales reps to become great at enterprise sales because they tend to yield high profits. This program was built to help companies transform their reps into highly skilled salespeople who understand the enterprise sales process and can deliver great value to customers. Sandler Training.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

The second wave of sales enablement, moving up and to the right, is what we call the Territory Planning wave. Programs in this wave are based on the sales managers’ decisions about what their teams and territories need to make quota. Negotiations and Discounting – Review deal profitability to find the “unscrupulous discounters.”

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most salespeople are set sales targets. These are usually expressed in terms of turnover, market share, profitability, number of new accounts and renewal of existing contracts and so on. The problem with being in sales is that everything we do is measured and if we are underperforming we are vulnerable. You can’t manage outputs.

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