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How to Transition From Founder-Led Sales to Your First Sales Team: 9 Top Tips

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And Get Them Both Hitting a Basic, Sustainable Quota. Include scripts, objection handling, and key metrics. CRM Setup: Use a CRM like Salesforce or HubSpot to track leads, deals, and pipeline. You need to continnue to join key sales calls, review pipeline reports, and talk to customers. This is a classic mistake.

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How sales, training, and revops leaders use learning analytics to boost results

Highspot

For example, sales reps who skipped interactive role-plays in training struggled with objection handling. For example, sales reps with low engagement in sales coaching sessions are 30% less likely to hit quota. Quota attainment: By linking training and content to sales outcomes, sales enablement analytics show what works.

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How to Conduct Sales Performance Evaluations

Highspot

Thats the difference between a sales team just getting by and one crushing quotas. Raise the performance bar: Actionable feedback helps reps refine their sales techniques, objection handling , sales presentation skills, and pipeline management. They feel unsupported, undervalued, or constantly chase impossible targets.

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AI Sales Coaching: Your Always-on Coaching Assistant

Highspot

In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching. This tool acts as a virtual assistant that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, offering suggestions for objection handling, tailoring pitches, and delivering compelling messages.

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Why Are You Still Using Your Old Playbooks?

Partners in Excellence

We still train our people the way we always have, providing them endless product training and sales skills training (prospecting, qualifying, need identification, proposing, objection handling, closing). Yet year after year quota attainment plummets, our activities present fewer results, win rates plummet.

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AI Role Play for Sales Managers: How to Train and Sell Better

Highspot

Team Management Managing team members while juggling an already overburdened pipeline can negatively impact even great sales managers , especially if some sales reps work remotely. Experience level: A new rep vs. a seasoned seller Performance challenges: Struggling to close deals, low confidence, or poor objection handling?

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“A La Carte” Comp Plans

Partners in Excellence

I’ve seen numerous discussions around, “our people aren’t doing the prospecting needed to fill their pipelines, but if we compensate them on their prospecting efforts, we can incent them to do the work… ” Huughh???? How do they achieve their quotas, max out their comp plan, if they don’t do the whole job?