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Picture this: You watch a sales rep swing and miss with prospects all week. You’re a modern sales leader, so you look at their metrics, take plenty of notes and come up with helpful exercises to help them improve. You sit down for an hour-long one-on-one coaching session where you share the tips and exercises...
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In sales, speed matters. Everyone wants to sell faster. The faster you sell, the more deals you can close. Pretty simple, right? Maybe not. The destination is clear. The trick is getting there. As a sales leader, this means you must coach your reps on how to sell with velocity. The importance of speed at...
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This piece is part of our series on sales development, by sales development reps. SUBJECT: Chips, Broncos and … Beer? Step 1: Acceptance The biggest obstacle as an inside sales development rep is being accepted, plain and simple. And no, I’m not referring to being accepted for who you are as a person. This isn’t...
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Many of you rely on sales contests. Healthy competition — along with the recognition and coaching that come with it — can definitely change behavior on its own. But adding a little extra incentive on top of sales contests (i.e., prizes) keeps things fresh and can even boost motivation. When it comes to choosing that...
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Have you ever wondered if you actually measure the right key performance indicators (sales KPIs) for your team? As sales leaders, we want to manage our teams around the activities that ultimately lead to sales. The magic metrics. In “The Sales KPI Report,” we analyzed 1,500 sales activities used by more than 100 sales teams...
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We all know that navigating enterprise sales isn’t easy. SaaStr Annual 2016 presented its “Whale Hunting: Negotiating, Handling and Closing” session to help. These three top experts offered enterprise selling advice to a theater full of SaaS founders and execs: Shep Maher, SVP Sales, Guidespark (@shepmaher) Andrea Austin, VP of Enterprise Sales, InsideView (@aaustin94965) Marc Jacobs, VP of Sales, Greenhouse (@marcjacobs1) In...
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