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Why Are You Still Using Your Old Playbooks?

Partners in Excellence

We may have buffed them up a little to make them look shinier, but underneath they are what we have always done. It hasn’t changed since I started selling, despite all the data showing us customers don’t buy that way. Yet year after year quota attainment plummets, our activities present fewer results, win rates plummet.

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What Having Cancer Taught Me About Sales

Cerebral Selling

I was instantaneously thrust into a world of tests, scans, special doctors, surgeries, follow-up treatments, and the crazy rollercoaster of emotions that go with all the above. However, despite my secrecy, there were people I opened up to immediately about my experience. It starts with Googling WAY too many things!

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What Is Sales Enablement? Goals, KPIs, And Tools

Gong.io

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair. Let’s start by answering this simple question: “What is Sales Enablement?”.

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5 Key Strategies for Building a Team of Unicorn Sellers

Sales Hacker

Revenue leaders who accept this notion often cross their fingers during the hiring process, hoping they’re lucky enough to find the rare “unicorn seller” with those innate, unteachable skills that translate to quota attainment. The best managers understand that the right follow-up ensures coaching actually sticks.

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Why 3x Pipeline Coverage Is a Terrible Strategy

Salesforce

The sales pipeline should be three times the annual quota.” Filling the pipeline with 3x quota wasn’t working, and we didn’t know how else to figure out coverage. Get started What is pipeline coverage and why does it matter? The saying has been passed down from seller to seller over the years. By now, it’s set in stone.

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Key parameters to be included in sales training programs

APACSMA

Start training with an assessment It is not always true that the reps who completed their training are ready for the field. Deliver training in light of millennials By 2025, millennials will make up to 75% of the global workforce , so your sales training must accommodate the learning needs of a changing workforce.

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What is Inside Sales? Everything You Need to Know

Gong.io

Compare that to long days on the road stuck in traffic, in the air, or on your feet, trudging through the rain going from door to door, and you start to understand the appeal. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up.