Insights

Smarter Selling

Insights that accelerate your sales performance

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Sales Strategy

Do You Have the Wrong Go-to-Market Strategy?

The ever-changing market requires an ever-changing go-to-market approach. We believe each market requires a different GTM model.

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Sales Consulting

10 Deal Killers in 2018

To make this year's number, leaders and enablement must prioritize helping their teams avoid these far too common deal killer issues.

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Sales Consulting

Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Sales Enablement

Sales leaders & enablement teams must avoid some common, but deadly missteps. Taking the wrong perspective is the root cause of these sales enablement sins

Challenger Sales Methodology

Sales Consulting

How to Survive the Post Challenger Sales Methodology World

Selling has continued to change since the initial challenger sales methodology research. We’ve seen the rise of social selling and new buyer dynamics.

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Sales Consulting

CRO Compensation: 7 Critical Considerations for Incentivizing New CROs

CROs get paid a lot of money and compensating them can be tricky. Here are 7 things to consider when designing the CRO compensation plan.

Sales Consulting

Modernize your Sales Enablement with Situational Awareness

In order to fix your sales methodology, your sellers need to recognize the key situational awareness factors that drive their opportunities.

Sales Consulting

Sales Enablement Leader And Their 4 Rockstar Characteristics

Sales leaders want to know what separates a sales enablement rockstar from someone who is just "so-so." Thankfully, we've seen what "great" looks like.

Deal Strategy

Sales Consulting

Nailing the Right Deal Strategy for Your Situation

High performers of all types—from highly-trained military to elite athletes to world-class surgeons—share one common trait: situational adaptability.

Sales Consulting

3 Deadly Sales Training Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

Today’s fast-changing sales environment creates new capability requirements for sales reps. Sales professionals need quality training to be successful.

Sales Enablement

The One Discipline That Separates Elite Performers from Their Peers

What separates elite performers from the rest of the field? Effort, practice, knowledge, and even individual choices or experiences plays a roll in this.

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Consulting

Turn Your Sales Training Best Practices From Theory to Application

Taking your sales training from theory to application can be difficult. We believe that best practices sales training should be customized to the audience.

Top Selling Tools

Announcements

PointForward Recognized as Must-Have Solution by SmartSellingTools.com

We are proud to announce that PointForward, our video-based training, and coaching solution, has been named one of the Top Selling Tools of 2016.

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Sales Enablement

Are You Ready For Next Generation Sales Reps?

Understand the Next Generation Sales Reps and preparing your training & enablement to best benefit them. The importance of Sales Training for Millennials.

Sales Messaging

How to Identify Meaningful Insight from Your Best Salespeople

Identify insight, understand capabilities, and recognize key skills in your best salespeople to run a more effective sales organization. Learn more.

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Sales Training

Solving the Problem of Sales Training ROI

Understand how to break down your hard and soft cost structure to gain a positive sales training ROI (return on investment) from your sales training.

Sales Training

Information Overload: Closing the Last Mile in Sales Training

Establishing an application-oriented training system that challenges reps to continue to practice key concepts is the most critical component to effective.

Events

Dreamforce Sales Enablement Soiree

As the only networking event designed exclusively for sales enablement professionals, the Soiree is your best opportunity to connect with peers and...

Sales Training

Sales Training Tips: Make the Most of It

Make the most of your sales training. Here are some helpful tips, if followed, will help you generate that return for the organization and your wallet.

Sales Training

Using Sales Competency to Maximize Sales Training ROI

Are We There Yet? Five tips for building better sales competency-focused training programs that you can use to effectively measure sales training ROI

Sales Coaching

Sales Training

Sales Coaching the Seattle Seahawks Way

Perhaps success in sales teams is rooted more in sound fundamentals and positive atmospheres. Get back to the fundamentals of sales coaching.