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Smarter Selling

Insights that accelerate your sales performance

Metrics approach

Sales Strategy

MEDDPICC: A Metrics-Driven Approach

Learn how MEDDPICC provides the foundation for insight-driven deal strategy and coaching.

Sales Strategy

Death of the B2B Sales Rep?

There are four key components to effective sales strategy that begin to point to significant gaps and opportunities around sales structure and alignment.

Modern Sales Enablement

The 4 C's of Sales Strategy and Restructuring

Decisions related to sales strategy, model, and structure are highly unique to an organization and we can help guide those decisions.

Sales Quota

Sales Training

"Pipelies" – The Sales Pipeline Mirage

In B2B Sales, the sales pipeline is constantly scrutinized to ensure a seller has enough pipeline opportunities to hit quota or goal.

Sales Training

Sales Leaders: Assess Skills Gaps Now to Avoid Pipeline Issues Later

A mid-year assessment by sales leaders of all sellers on their team can reveal skills gaps that will affect the health of your current year pipeline.

virtual selling

7 Tips to Get the Most Value from Your Virtual Meetings

Here are the best tips and resources we’ve come across to maximize effectiveness of your virtual meetings.

Sales Training

Sales Training

5 Steps to Find Your Actual Cost of Sales Training (Part 2)

U.S. firms spend almost one trillion dollars on their sales forces, including training. Follow these 5 steps to determine your actual sales training costs.

win planning

Losing is Winning: Leveraging Win Planning to Improve Your Win Rates

How can you improve your sales team's win rate? We share approaches to qualifying opportunities and win planning.

sales leadership

Setting Sales Priorities in a Fast-Changing World

In an increasingly unpredictable market, a well-structured longer-term plan and investment roadmap are critical for managing sales teams successfully.

Sales Leadership

sales leadership

Sales Leaders, Did You Make the Right Decision?

We share perspectives on how sales leaders should balance data and other considerations when making decisions for their business.

Sales Coaching

Sales Training

Leadership Counts DURING Training, Too!

Sales leaders possess an incredible power to positively influence teams during sales training events.

Sales Strategy

'Transforming' vs. 'Tweaking' Your Sales Force

Many sales training companies use the word “transformation” when they’re only talking about tweaking the existing organization.

sales leadership

Why Newly Promoted Sales Leaders Rise to Their Level of Incompetence

The best sales representatives won’t make the best leaders. This is known as The Peter Principle. Here are the dynamics and ways around it in B2B sales.

Sales Enablement

The Big (Data) Obstacle that Sales Organizations Must Overcome

“Data-driven decision making” continues to be a hot topic. Why do so many sales organizations struggle to fully optimize the full potential of the data?

Sales Leadership

sales coaching

Boosting Sales Coaching: 3 Techniques to Reinforce Selling Skills

Sales leaders have a great capacity to reinforce fundamental selling skills in their teams, but day-to-day demands get in the way.

sales process

7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation: Building for the Future

Over the next 10 years, your vision for the sales organization will be crucial.

Sales Enablement

The Sales Transformation Dilemma – To Tweak or To Transform?

Does your sales force need a transformation? We provide key considerations and sales force assessment to help answer this for your organization.

Sales Strategy

7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation: Building Your Case for Change

We’ve identified six core components of common customer-facing sales strategies that should be applied internally in selling a sales transformation.

Sales Strategy

7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation: Drivers of a Transformation

The drivers of a sales force transformation often vary across companies and industries, but at the highest level, they fit within several defined categories.

Sales Training, Sales Organization Investments, Sales Process, Decision-Making

Sales Training

5 Steps to Find Your Actual Cost of Sales Training (Part 1)

This two-part series highlights 5 steps that define cost of sales training and determine the need for custom or off-the-shelf training.