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Sales Training

6 Ways to Break Through Sales Training Issues and Come Out Ahead

As a Sales Manager, an essential part of your job is providing your sales team with the tools they need to be successful. This includes high-quality sales training that actually produces results. How can you make sure your sales training really works? Here are six proven ways to make sure your sales training is worth everyone’s time and investment. 6 Sales Training Tips 1. Clearly define the problem the sales training will solve. It is surprisingly easy to jump into a new sales training initiative while still unclear on what issue the training will actually solve. Start by deciding what
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Sales Training

The Top 13 Ways You Can Improve Your Sales Training Today

There is no denying that sales training is integral to the success of your sales team. But just how important is sales training? Very important. With proper sales coaching, your sales reps can hone in on the skills that are required to be successful and properly learn how to implement them into their work. Unfortunately, most sales training programs fall short of sales managers’ expectations. Though companies in the United States are, according to Training Industry, dumping over $161 billion into sales team training, it seems the results rarely meet or exceed expectations in the end. In fact, much of
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Top Tips on How to Improve Sales Team Performance
Sales Management

Top Tips on How to Improve the Sales Performance of Your Team

According to a Hubspot study, 66% of salespeople miss their quotas. This statistic really shines a light on the fact that a lot of sales teams are struggling. Even if you feel your sales team is doing a good job, ask yourself this: “Could they be doing better?” No salesperson in the industry has reached their absolute peak — the point at which they could not possibly improve anymore. There will be waves with your sales team in just how well your they are performing — sometimes things will seem like they are going swimmingly, other times you will feel
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How to Measure the ROI of Your Sales Training
Sales Training

4 Ways to Measure the ROI of Your Sales Training [Guest Post]

Guest Post by Rochelle Ceira Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of an investment is an essential part of running a business. Since sales are what keep a business running, the return on investment (or ROI) of your sales training is a valuable tool for assessing the company’s performance. ROI measurement is a bit tricky but very useful to companies who want to make the best of their sales teams. Moreover, choosing a specific training course and the right ROI measurement methods is quite difficult. It is not impossible, though. One should not only start measure sales training  in terms of
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Insider Secrets to Help Your Salespeople Sell Faster
Sales Management

5 Insider Secrets to Help Your New Salespeople Sell Faster

The success of your salespeople is rooted in one major thing: motivation. Without motivation, your hopes and dreams of your sales team achieving sales goals and bringing success to your company will forever remain hopes and dreams, and never transform into reality. But, as you likely already know, motivation is not as simple as it may seem. In fact, according to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of the workforce in the United States is disengaged from their job. Sure, a brand new salesperson fresh off of training may not be quite as jaded as some senior sales reps, and may
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How to Coach Your Sales Reps to Success
Sales Management

Top 5 Ways to Coach Your Reps to Become Sales Superstars

Being an effective leader is one of the top ways to boost your sales. The better you are at leading your team, the better your team will be. Oftentimes, when your sales are sinking, you can trace it back to the lack of management and poor coaching skills. In order to avoid dealing with sinking sales, it is best to stay on top of coaching your sales reps. However, we recognize that this may not be as easy as it sounds. In fact, the daunting task of coaching your sales team is what has led to this staggering fact: according
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