Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Best Sales Leaders Share These 4 Traits On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Sales Gravy Senior Master Sales Trainer Brad Adams talks with Learnit CEO Damon Lembi about maintaining authenticity and integrity as a sales leader. This concept also applies to sales.

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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. By accessing this level, you position your solution more strategically and reduce the risk of being viewed as just another vendor or commodity supplier. Build credibility.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 30, 2023

The goal of “enablement,” whichever term you use for it (sales, revenue, buyer, buying, performance, other) is ultimately to improve organizational performance. There are also other factors at play, such as product-market fit, strategy, the chosen sales model, organization design, or lack of top-down support, that also influence our work.

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KAM With Passion

MAY 27, 2021

When starting a new KAM/GAM Programme or revamping an existing one, Training is a topic that immediately draws attention as it is a key instrument to allow an organisation to execute on its KAM Strategy. In this first part, we discuss how to set a solid framework for the KAM training.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. 70% of buyers wait until after they’ve chosen a solution before engaging a seller. 70% of buyers wait until after they’ve chosen a solution before engaging a seller. Define a Sales Methodology.

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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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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why Is Sales Coaching Important for Revenue Growth? Sales coaching gives sales professionals the mentoring they need to resolve critical skills competency gaps and be more productive. One-on-one coaching is an essential way to supplement group training sessions, with topics that are tailored for each individual.

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Upland

JUNE 15, 2023

Many sales leaders attempt to bring account planning into their organization and fail because they don’t have the right technology in place. A technology that doesn’t integrate well into your processes and has poor adoption with your team is an issue, and it’s often too late once you’ve chosen the software to go back on it.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s still a lot of talk these days in the sales enablement community and the market at large about the need for sales and marketing alignment. If it sounds as if I’m ignoring the need for top-down support for enablement from company executives and especially sales leadership – trust me, I’m not. Insert ominous music here.].

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Arpedio

MARCH 20, 2024

Organizational change and stakeholder buy-in Implementing ABS often requires a cultural shift within the organization, moving away from a transactional sales approach towards a more strategic and collaborative mindset. Misaligned goals, conflicting metrics, and lack of communication can lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 28, 2023

Marines conduct a great exercise to demonstrate how simple it is to tie up a sale (or in their case, gain commitment for enlisting). Salespeople either get a “yes”, and can proceed with the sale, or they get a “no” and can backtrack to handle the objection or concern. Ask a Direct and Simple Question The U.S. Did you ask for referrals?

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Sales Outcomes

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you are a salesperson or sales leader and aren’t doing this, you’re missing an opportunity to improve sales performance. Many companies configure their conferencing solutions (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, etc.) Most conferencing solutions enable comments on the recordings, which inform the perspective of others.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 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. Sellers, however, tend to view their success point as the sale.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Sales Transformation. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. The Elements of Sales Force Effectiveness.

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Arpedio

APRIL 3, 2024

What is Solution Selling? Solution selling is a sales methodology focused on addressing the specific needs and challenges of customers by providing comprehensive solutions rather than simply selling products or services.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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Showpad

JUNE 15, 2020

Critical to the success of a sales team is skill development — not just as a whole, but for each contributing representative. Sales professionals are expected to be experts in their industry and the products or services they sell. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you need formal sales training and how to guarantee its success. .

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Arpedio

MARCH 6, 2024

Rather than solely focusing on sales transactions, account management emphasizes building trust, understanding client needs, and delivering tailored solutions to drive long-term growth. It’s crucial to distinguish between sales and account management.

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Revenue Storm

JUNE 15, 2021

The sales venue has changed… a lot. In the pre-pandemic environment, selling and sales leadership were comfortable and relatively predictable. As sales leaders quickly adapted their selling approach to virtual, they worked to leverage the technology, but missed several strategic points.

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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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Revegy

MARCH 8, 2021

You crafted virtual presentations and organized endless agendas just to create the perfect Sales Kick-Off. But, is your sales team adopting the new technology and processes you’ve put in place? If you aren’t reinforcing the training they received in the SKO, then the answer is almost certainly ‘no.’

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What is a sales strategy? Every sales leader understands there are pitfalls to building a sales strategy. Many sales teams engage in activities that are working against them, without even realizing it. This post walks you through the four pitfalls of sales strategy and provides best practices to avoid them.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Korn Ferry surveyed sales organizations around the world to find out, uncovering how companies are working to achieve stability in the midst of ongoing crisis. Accurate forecasting is even more significant when each sale counts. Working in a remote environment has changed sales manager engagement levels with sellers.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on achieving sales excellence and driving business growth. In today’s competitive business landscape, sales performance and effectiveness are crucial to the success of any organization. Sales performance is the measurement of the results achieved by the sales team and individuals.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in!

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A sales strategy is the answer to a simple question: ‘Why am I doing the things I’m doing?’ In sales, your goal may be to own a certain share of the market. To do that, the company needs to win a set percent of deals in the sales pipeline. Your sales strategy is a long-range plan for reaching your goal.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enable remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Instructor-led training is now virtual.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Spin Selling is a highly acclaimed sales methodology that revolutionized the way sales professionals approach their craft. Developed by Neil Rackham in the 1980s, Spin Selling has since become a cornerstone of modern sales strategies, offering a systematic approach to understanding customer needs and closing deals effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Get certified.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales effectiveness is the domain where enablement collaborates with sales management to translate enablement efforts into tangible sales results. Sales effectiveness is where enablement efforts translate into sales results. Selling challenges linked to sales effectiveness.

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SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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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. The Solution. The Solution.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 27, 2021

Navigating rejection and helping your potential customers move through their objections and reservations are the name of the game when working in sales. What are the most common objections you get during the sales process? When you get the "too expensive" objection, your first instinct may be to lay out the ROI of your solution.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In today’s fiercely competitive market, achieving sales excellence is paramount for business growth and success. One key aspect of this pursuit is understanding and effectively implementing sales methodologies that align with modern buyer behavior and preferences.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Joan Ridgeway, sales training performance consultant at Roche Diagnostics , suggests innovative ways to make sales training more fun—and more effective. One of the most challenging roles in any sales organization is that of the sales manager.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

What Is Sales Coaching? Sales coaching is the practice of evaluating and instructing salespeople one-on-one to improve productivity and ensure strong success through coaching sessions. Why Is Sales Coaching Important For The Growth Of Business? Strategic Coaching Deals made by your sales reps contain hazards.

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Whetstone

MAY 9, 2023

You know how valuable your solutions are. When you’re not allowed to differentiate your value and you are forced to compete solely on price, it can be difficult to close a sale, and if you do close the sale, you know it might not have been worth the effort. He said he wanted to understand how his sales team was being trained.

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