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How to Identify the Needs of Your Sales Team

How to Identify the Needs of Your Sales Team

With the new year here,  many sales managers and executives are planning to make certain they have a plan in place to equip and prepare their sales teams for a good year.  

Certainly the changes in the selling environment we have all experienced in the last 20 months or so have exposed some areas for improvement as well added new expectations for how business is done. 

So, how can we best identify the needs of the sales team?  Here are two methods to consider.

Topics: sales process

Top Articles of 2021: Sales Leadership

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As we get closer to the New Year, we're taking some time to reflect on 2021 and the success we've seen our clients achieve. While many are enjoying this special holiday with family and friends, we're bringing you a recap of the most popular posts we've published in 2021. 

Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success.

We've searched for the most popular blogs of 2021, and we've curated these lists that will publish each day this week to bring you some of the most informative content from the year. Check out these top blogs on sales leadership from 2021.

Topics: sales performance sales management

Top Articles of 2021: Key Accounts + Account List Management

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Exceeding revenue goals is linked to developing new customers as well as increasing revenue from existing clients, today we are bringing you a recap of the most popular posts we've published in 2021 on key accounts and account list management.

Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success.

We've searched for the most popular blogs of 2021, and we've curated these lists that will publish each day this week to bring you some of the most informative content from the year.

Check out these top blog posts on key accounts and account list management from 2021, and let them kickstart your 2022 sales strategy.

Topics: key account growth account list analytics account list management

Top Articles of 2021: Talent

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We believe that talent + training + tactics = performance, and today we are bringing you a recap of the most popular blog posts we've published in 2021 on all things talent.

Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success.

We've searched for the most popular blog posts of 2021, and we've curated these lists that will publish each day this week to bring you some of the most informative content from the year.

Check out these top articles on talent from 2021 and let them kickstart your 2022 sales strategy.

Topics: sales performance sales talent

Top Articles of 2021: Sales Process

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It's hard to keep up with every article we publish throughout the year! So, today, we're making it easy by recapping the most popular sales process posts we've published in 2021.

Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success.

We've searched for the most popular blogs of 2021, and we've curated these lists to bring you some of the most informative content from the year. Check out these top blogs on the sales process from 2021, and let them kickstart your 2022 sales strategy.

Topics: sales process

Top Articles of 2021: Sales Performance

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Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success.

We've searched for the most popular blog posts of 2021, and we've curated these lists to bring you some of the most informative content from the year. Check out these top blogs on the sales performance from 2021, and let them kickstart your 2022 sales strategy.

Topics: sales performance company culture

A Year in Review with The Improving Sales Performance Livecast

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In October of 2020, as live streaming media began to gain traction on platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook, we launched the Improving Sales Performance livecast.

This livecast gave our audience an opportunity to hear from various thought leaders, experts, and industry gurus, who shared their insight, tips, and knowledge on several topics that help companies improve sales performance.

In case you missed it, here’s a year in review on The Improving Sales Performance livecast.

Topics: sales performance

Key Sales Statistics That'll Help You Sell Smarter in 2022

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The past decade has radically changed the way consumers learn about, research, find, and buy a product. Now, more than 90% of consumers research online before buying a product. 

If your company is going to stay relevant, you have to understand the trends of sales data for 2022. Learning the data and staying on top of the trends will allow you to make the most of your sales and marketing strategy and, ultimately, will lead you towards success in 2022. 

Follow along with this post to learn the sales statistics for 2022 that will teach you how to sell better and how to sell more.

Topics: sales performance

Weekly Roundup: Beat The Great Quit, Balancing Growth & Stability + More

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"Follow-up is not a step in the sales cycle. Follow-up is the sales cycle."

 

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How To Beat The Great Quit: Detoxify Your Workplace Culture The Great Game of Business

People are quitting jobs at a rate like we’ve never seen before. In what’s become known as “The Great Quit” or “The Great Resignation,” millions of workers are leaving their jobs every month. When you combine that with the flood of retiring Baby Boomers, we’re witnessing a seismic reshuffling of the work force. Even Santa Claus is in short supply.

What’s even more stunning is that this might be just the beginning. Research from Microsoft and Gallup finds that some 41% of the global workforce, and nearly 50% of employees in the U.S., are actively looking for a new job.

As many (if not most) employers now scramble to keep their existing people—let alone recruit new employees—it’s created a new emphasis on answering the question: Why are so many workers quitting? >>> READ MORE

Topics: Wrap-up

Improving Sales Performance | 2021 Media Sales Report Analysis

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Brand new, hot off the press, the 2021 Media Sales Report is now available for all to download!

This series of Improving Sales Performance focuses on the analysis of the 2021 Media Sales Report conducted by The Center for Sales Strategy; unpacking the data from the surveys to help media sales teams use these insights to drive sales performance in the year ahead.

In the first episode of the series, Matt is joined by industry experts, Stephanie Downs, Trey Morris, and Beth Sunshine, to dig into the key takeaways from the 2021 Media Sales Report and discuss the future and outlook of the media sales industry based on the data in the report.

Tune in now or keep reading for a brief overview.

Topics: media sales report