STAR Results

JUNE 3, 2020

Unleash the 10X Factor to Close the Sales Gap. Do you want to close the sales gap? Businesses are starting to open, which hopefully is a good thing. Now is the time to get sales on track. What can you do to jump-start your sales and make up for any lost sales during the last several months?

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. What is sales quota?

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STAR Results

APRIL 15, 2021

Quarterly Business Reviews . Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. A meeting should be no longer than 3 hours.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 23, 2023

Are you ready to revolutionize your sales process and skyrocket your team’s productivity? AI sales tools are transforming the way sales teams operate, automating tasks, providing valuable insights, and optimizing efficiency. But what makes these tools so valuable for sales and marketing departments? Let’s dive in!

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STAR Results

JUNE 20, 2019

Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. That is where coaching programs fail miserably.

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STAR Results

MAY 15, 2021

Sales Leadership Development in the New Millennium. Leading-edge sales organizations understand the value of investing in leadership development. They believe that strong sales managers are the key to driving sales rep performance. He said he would speak to the training manager. They really loved it!”.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s swiftly promoted to a sales leader without proper training, only to struggle in their new role? It’s a situation that plays out in businesses all too often. Salespeople often thrive on their individual performance, while sales leaders must nurture, guide, and inspire their team to achieve collective success.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Business Operations & Marketing Assistant at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B sales and marketing, the role of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is both demanding and critical to a company’s success. That’s where a business coach comes in. Why Hire a Business Coach?

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SalesLoft

MAY 3, 2024

The turbulent business climate has left many organizations with empty seats that won’t be filled any time soon. Hard Choices: Lean Revenue Team Options When revenue teams shrink, it feels like you have two choices: Work fewer deals, or Work the same number of deals but see sales cycle times increase. Smoother handoffs.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. I contribute my fair share to the clutter.)

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather, it requires process, structure, discipline and collaboration with customers to help them improve their business outcomes. Why I Love Sales Dave, I found your question very thought provoking. As I pondered my response, I arrived at several reasons why I love Sales. Sales IS business. It’s all self-initiated.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 12, 2023

At that point I started trying to coach ChatGPT. It reminded me of so many coaching sessions I’ve had with human beings. ” It returned a reasonable answer, including revenue growth, pipeline value, conversion rates, CAC/CLD and other business management metrics. We went through another cycle of coaching.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I asked my question because I believe being really interested in selling is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to be successful in SALES. One can be interested in selling but for the wrong reasons, which then becomes a hindrance for sales success. To answer even your first question:” Are you interested in Sales?”

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We discussed the huge impact emotions and coaching have on sales teams. Sales Leaders Set the Tone John and I talked about how sales managers shape team engagement and performance. Many sales leaders get promoted for sales skills without leadership training. Here are some top takeaways.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

This is not an analogy about inflatable trampolines, but it is about the analogy between pumps and sales and for variety, it will be two separate stories instead of one culminating in pumping up sales. Last week the CEO reconnected with the sales team to check if everyone was selling properly. They weren’t.

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Martech

JUNE 23, 2023

HubSpot’s May releases include a prospecting workspace, playlists for coaching, an AI content assistant for social media, content approvals and many releases related to goals. Previously, many teams had to leave HubSpot and use a point solution to manage the high volumes of daily prospecting activities efficiently.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

He has a fascinating background in coaching, consulting, and working in and with early stage companies. He just wanted to build a business and help his customers. Here is how I discovered my love for selling and how I became obsessed about integrating coaching skills to sell and help others sell better.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Highspot

JUNE 1, 2023

Major advances include: generative AI for sales enablement, enterprise-class training and coaching, and ​​services and success resources that empower revenue teams to scale what good looks like in business-to-business (B2B) selling. Highspot prepares our team with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to excel.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Closing Bigger

AUGUST 31, 2023

This sales podcast episode is on the fundamentals of sales leadership with focus on behavioural change and coaching. I have taken the transcript from the sales podcast episode and am providing it below with minimal formatting or grammatical changes. In no organization is the coaching process perfect.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve seen countless businesses (including enterprise companies) compile — and try to analyze — sales data in spreadsheets like this. Sure, spreadsheets are useful for small projects, but they can be cumbersome when dealing with complex sales data. Sales dashboards to the rescue. Identify sales goals you want to track.

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you are a sales manager, you probably received some solid training, read lots of books,and learned from experts in the field through seminars, webinars and blog posts.And all along the way, you learned that your primary job as a sales manager is to develop and coach your team. The Sales Manager.

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

Imagine that only 28% of your sales reps expect to hit quota. As a sales leader, you’d probably scoff at this. But according to Salesforce, this is the reality for many businesses, and the pressure to hit revenue targets has companies looking to improve sales processes to boost performance. What is Revenue Enablement?

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

The business case for a dedicated enablement function is powerful: 92% of companies acknowledge that the enablement function improves sales performance and, as a result, enablement budgets will increase 50% by 2027. The Role of Enablement in Modern Sales Organizations Enablement’s primary directive should be driving behavior change.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

We had a great one last week with Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital! #1. Mark Roberge is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital and a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School.

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criteria for success

AUGUST 23, 2022

Happy Tuesday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! Rene is the President at Sales Manager Now , providing fractional sales management services to small and family-run businesses. He is also the author of How to Build a Dynamic Small Business Sales Team. How fractional sales management is unique.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 22, 2022

Done well, 1:1 sales coaching can make every seller a top performer. . But for many of the sales managers we talk with, the current state of coaching isn’t working. As a result, it’s no surprise that managers struggle to retain the best sales talent and book more revenue. . – Zengar Folkman.

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Cross-sell Construction Trust Sales 97

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You can try 13 pre-prompted “personas” that were created to provide help and generate marketing (or complete other generalized tasks – sales, revenue generation, MOps, HR, talent development, etc.): Email marketing expert Content marketing expert AI expert A snarky marketer who must might make you laugh SearchBot image generator.

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Hubspot

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

We (including me) spend a lot of time talking about the importance of coaching/developing our people. Unfortunately, high impact coaching is rarely done. If we “coach,” too often, it isn’t a collaborative discovery/learning process. Their own managers aren’t great role models, as coaches.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sales great Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” ” That’s the struggle of every team without clear sales targets: no clarity, no progress, no growth. See how it works What are sales targets? Why are sales targets important? But will they?

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Explore how they drive their team to achieve immediate goals while building loyalty for long-term business growth. What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? By setting clear priorities and objectives, sales managers can transform good sales reps into exceptional ones.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We talked about something I rarely hear managers discussing, and something I don’t see pundits commenting on. ” It’s remarkable because it flies in the face of “conventional wisdom practice” in business. I seldom hear career pathing discussions from sales leadership.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2021

Sales coaching is often a touchy subject. We carried out research on sales coaching , looking into how different sales employees view it, and the results showed overwhelmingly that sales coaching works, and that most people involved want to see more of it. It improves your bottom line.

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