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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

Nearly three-quarters of B2B buyers say they prefer to wait to engage a seller in the buying process until they have uncovered and prioritized their needs. The most pressing worry that sales leaders deal with today is transforming their organization to meet new expectations. Sellers Play a Smaller Role in the Buying Journey.

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5 Essential Skills of Exceptional Sales Managers

Brooks Group

World-class front-line managers focus their sales coaching on improving core performers or the middle 60% of managers (Harvard Business Review). The core of effective sales coaching is evaluating behavior and providing feedback to improve sales performance. Ownership will lead to better execution of the new strategy.

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Time to Get Your Data and Tech Stack in Shape for 2019

SBI

There are hundreds of sales technologies (thousands if you add marketing technologies) – and it’s impossible to know all the possible outcomes will be. The challenge is how do you prioritize and narrow your focus to the critical problems and solutions to consider. Identify and prioritize your needs.

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Three Pitfalls Holding Back Your Sales Operations Strategy

Miller Heiman Group

Most organizations today have a sales operations function: nearly 70% of organizations have a dedicated sales operations team, and of those that don’t, 10% plan to add one within the year, according to the 2 nd Annual Sales Operations & Technology Report from Miller Heiman Group.

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Don’t Let CRM Slow You Down

Miller Heiman Group

The simple truth is that CRM technology was never designed to help sales representatives sell more. To meet the challenges of today’s marketplace, your sales team needs more than CRM. CRM systems continue to benefit management teams, not sales representatives. Scout fills the gap in sales technology.

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Don’t Let CRM Slow You Down

Miller Heiman Group

The simple truth is that CRM technology was never designed to help sales representatives sell more. To meet the challenges of today’s marketplace, your sales team needs more than CRM. CRM systems continue to benefit management teams, not sales representatives. Scout fills the gap in sales technology.

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