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What Every CEO Should Know About Their Data and Why They Should Care

CEOs often get lost in data while trying to decide what's working, if there is too much, or if it's even correct. But ev...

25 Apr 21

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Sales

Selling to the Enterprise Customer vs. the SMB Market

One of the biggest challenges for a sales organization is moving upmarket. For example, if you target the small- and med...

21 Apr 21

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Sales

4 Key Leadership Mindsets for Your Sales Team's Success

Sales leaders often achieved their position based on their individual success and personal attributes. But when their ro...

8 Apr 21

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Sales

What I Learned Talking to 53 Sales Managers

Last week, I surveyed 53 sales managers, asking them, among other things, what essential skills their top-performing sal...

31 Mar 21

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Sales

What Ted Lasso Can Teach Us About Leading a Sales Team

“I think that’s what it’s all about: embracing change and being brave.” While this line is very applicable to the events...

27 Mar 21

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Sales

Improve Pipeline Management & Increase Win Rates

Managing your team’s sales pipeline is both an art and a science – and that’s why it’s one of the most challenging aspec...

18 Mar 21

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Marketing

How Marketing Leaders Are Supporting Acquisition, Nurture, and Retention

Since the turn of the millennium, mastering and perfecting the Customer Experience (CX) has been a goal for Marketing Le...

9 Mar 21

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Sales

6 Ways to Encourage Your Customer to Keep Talking

Early in the sales process, typically during discovery, it’s critical to learn as much about your customer’s issues, con...

5 Mar 21

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Article

The 5 P’s of Sales Talent Motivation and Retention

The most difficult challenge leaders will face in 2021 is motivating personnel. Even with a new prospect or a new projec...

2 Mar 21

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Sales

The Sales Manager's Role in Building a High-Performance Team

Hiring isn’t an exact science. Sometimes you think you have identified the perfect sales candidate, and it doesn’t pan o...

26 Feb 21

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Sales

Selling: It’s Not as Simple as ABC

Sales leaders often express that their sales teams need to close more business. While these leaders may be frustrated wi...

19 Feb 21

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Coaching & Training

You Had a Great Sales Kickoff Meeting – What Now?

The typical in-person Sales Kickoff (SKO) looked very different this year – and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In f...

5 Feb 21

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Sales

Advisory Board Learnings From Global Sales Leaders

At SBI’s most recent Sales Advisory Board meeting, market leaders from a variety of industries came together in a virtua...

30 Jan 21

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Sales

What Do My Sales Reps Do All Day?

One universal challenge of managing a remote sales team can be summed up with the simple question, “What do my sales rep...

26 Jan 21

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Sales

4 Simple Steps to Positive Meetings with Key Executives

It’s harder than ever to reach senior executives. The usual protections provided by gatekeepers are still there—but now ...

22 Jan 21

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Sales

Three Relationships You Must Build for Sales Success

Stop me if this sounds familiar: Your salesperson tells you that the first meeting with the major account was a success....

11 Dec 20

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Sales

Going From Virtual Training to Collaborative Learning

COVID-19 has accelerated the move from traditional classroom-based sales training to virtual training. Participants' exp...

9 Dec 20

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Sales

Use These 6 Persuasion Principles to Improve Your Selling

While COVID-19 has forced sales organizations to make a dramatic shift towards selling virtually, it hasn’t changed huma...

16 Nov 20

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Sales

How To Create Effective & Engaging Virtual SKO

For decades, the annual Sales Kickoff (SKO) has served as the premier event for companies to bring their sales teams tog...

26 Oct 20

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Marketing

How Leading CMOs Develop a Strong Messaging Architecture

You are to the point where you have built the ideal go-to-market strategy, completed a thorough buyer segmentation, and ...

15 Oct 20

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Increase Customer Retention

How a Sales and Marketing Leader Makes Meaningful Connections with Self-Serve Customers

With more and more possibilities available to the online consumer, the desire for self-serve options does not seem to be...

12 Sep 20

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Virtual Selling

Tips for Virtual Sales Calls: The Virtual Selling Readiness Checklist

Is your team ready to sell virtually? Training for virtual selling is about a lot more than just slapping the name “Virt...

4 Sep 20

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Sales

How to Establish Your Credibility on a Virtual Sales Call

Whether your selling virtually or in-person, the first minutes of an initial sales call with a new prospect are critical...

3 Sep 20

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Marketing

How to Optimize ROI From Revenue Marketing in 5 Steps

Let’s face it – Don Draper and the Mad Men era didn’t do marketing many favors. Don Draper was a terrible boss and would...

25 Aug 20

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Sales

How to Conduct a Virtual Sales Call & Connect with Customers

We receive a lot of inquiries about how to help sales reps improve their ability to engage with clients effectively—espe...

21 Aug 20

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Sales

How to Conduct Highly Productive One-On-One Sales Meetings

How sales managers communicate and interact with their teams is crucial to building a winning culture, and keeping the s...

7 Aug 20

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Sales

Becoming a Better Sales Leader During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the ultimate validation of the importance of leadership abilities for sales managers. In ...

31 Jul 20

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Sales

How to Lead an Effective Sales Team Meeting

Sales managers play a critical role in the psyche and success of their sales teams and that's especially true during the...

14 Jul 20

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Sales

Why Teams Need Better Selling Skills for the New Normal

The COVID- 19 pandemic is creating profound changes in how sales professionals engage with clients. While some sales pro...

5 Jun 20

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Sales

6 Cognitive Biases that Can Kill Your Sales Results

Like many, I‘ve spent plenty of time watching Netflix during the COVID-19 lockdown. I recently came across Salesman, a f...

28 May 20

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Sales

Pivoting to Virtual Learning: Your Questions Answered

We recently hosted a webinar with Sam Herring from Intrepid by Vitalsource to discuss how to make the pivot to Virtual a...

1 May 20

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Sales

Relationships, Revenue, and Retention During a Crisis

I recently presented to the Women Business Owners (WBO) association on this topic. It was interesting to share thoughts ...

25 Apr 20

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Sales

Three New Year's Resolutions for Salespeople in 2015

As we start 2015, there are many reasons to be optimistic. The US economy continues to expand, unemployment rates are at...

26 Mar 20

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Sales

Making the Transition to Live Online Sales Training

In the span of a few weeks, the work world has shifted en masse from regular offices to working at home as a result of t...

23 Mar 20

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Sales

Sales Readiness Checklist: The 5-Step Assessment

As your company begins to hire new sales reps and looks for ways to accelerate their ramp-up time, while we would all li...

20 Mar 20

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Sales

Virtual Sales Training During COVID-19 Travel Restrictions

Many of our clients are concerned about how the evolving COVID-19 outbreak and related travel bans will impact their bus...

14 Mar 20

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By Ray Makela Read More

Sales

Use Collaboration to Become a Great Sales Coach

According to industry research, sales managers that devote more than three hours of coaching per month to each of their ...

11 Mar 20

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Sales

Transforming How You Sell: No More Product Pushing

Traditionally the sales professional has been viewed with cynicism based on the perception of self-serving salespeople w...

13 Feb 20

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Sales

5 Key Factors to Calculate the Cost of Sales Training

I’m often asked by prospective clients, “what does good sales training cost?”. Although, the correct and straightforward...

30 Jan 20

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Sales

4 Steps to Start Coaching Your Sales Team Today

Most sales managers know they need to coach their salespeople to maximize performance, but they don’t know how to get st...

10 Jan 20

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