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If Practice Makes Perfect, Why Do We Keep Practicing The Wrong Things?

Partners in Excellence

We learn how to make high impact sales calls by having lots of conversations with customers–whether through social engagement, email, phone, Zoom, or F2F. It seems too much of the “practice” in selling is practice in doing that which we know to be ineffective. The Importance Of "Cross Training" For Sales.

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8 Ways to Make Your Sales Org Recession Ready

Salesforce

Refocus on delivering value, not hitting quotas. Instead of obsessing over quota attainment, find ways to deliver more value and support to your existing customer base so they know their investment is worthwhile — and won’t disappear. Upskill and cross-train your teams. Also be sure this training is cross-functional.

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What Does Greatness Look Like?

Partners in Excellence

” Most of the time people look at me cross-eyed, “Well, it’s just great!” ” Or it’s expressed in outcomes, “Exceed quota.” ” To this, I normally ask, “how do you know you are doing the things that enable you to exceed quota? .” ” But then we dive into it.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

How does Manny think about quota construction today? Does Manny err on the side of setting high to be ambitious or setting low to increase confidence? How can managers really empower their reps to be aggressive in hitting their quota and exceeding it? Manny Medina: So you have the quota number. What is sufficient?

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Amy Appleyard is an experienced, strategic sales leader with demonstrated success in overseeing cross-functional teams to improve the customer experience, drive sales and increase retention in both Distribution as well as SaaS-based sales organizations. Joanne Black is one of the leading authorities in referral selling.

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7 Sales Performance Review Examples & Tips

Salesforce

Back to top ) Why sales performance reviews are important Data from Gartner notes that almost 90% of sellers feel burned out at work, 54% are actively looking for a new job, and 67% think sales leadership is overly optimistic and disconnected from selling realities. Time to close is above average for the team.” Watch the demo

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

How does Manny think about quota construction today? Does Manny err on the side of setting high to be ambitious or setting low to increase confidence? How can managers really empower their reps to be aggressive in hitting their quota and exceeding it? One is more relevant than the other, so you have the quota number.