Insights

Smarter Selling

Insights that accelerate your sales performance

Consulting

What Every Sales VP Should Know About Their Millennial Sales Team

Here are a few challenges of a Sales VP in a modern selling environment that are categorized as “Millennial problems,” but are for all sales professionals.

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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Styles of Adult Learning: Your Current Sales Training Misses the Mark

The first step to tailoring your sales training for the specific needs of adult learners is to understand the seven distinct styles of adult learning.

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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.

Inspiration

5 Unconventional End-of-year Activities to Kick-start Your Sales

Follow through on some end-of-year activities to assess what you learned over the last 11 months and develop a plan for crushing first quarter sales goals.

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.

Sales Consulting

Video Sales Training: Consider Supplementing The Old With The New

The foundational truth is that sales reps learn and retain new information most effectively by watching their peers and modeling their behaviors.

Next Generation Sales

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.

Consulting

Sales Skills: The Importance of Mastering the Softer Side of Sales

Developing soft sales skills can be detrimental to your next sale, but mastering soft selling skills takes a lot of practice and feedback.

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 Enablement

How to Improve the Efficiency of Your Sales Training

We are in the midst of an exciting evolution in sales training speed and efficiency. However, those who fail to use technology to support sales training...

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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...

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Sales Training

10 Practical Sales Productivity Tips

Successful salespeople are always looking to optimize their productivity. Here are 10 practical sales tips that can help you boost productivity and efforts

Selling With Emotional Logic

Sales Messaging

Embrace the Irrationality of Selling With Emotional Logic

Don't try to make sense of buyers emotions, embrace the irrationality of selling with emotional logic. Emotions play a key role in how we make decisions.

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Sales Training

Don't Paint Your Car with Spray Paint & Other Sales Training Lessons

To really develop your rep’s skills and talents, you need to spend time applying multiple coats of training. Sales training lessons involve a few elements.

Inspiration

Running Can Teach Us How to Implement Sales Effectiveness Programs

Driving change within the sales force is hard. Here are five lessons from a novice runner that can help you implement sales effectiveness programs.

Sales Training

15 Min. Meeting: How to Improve Results with Shorter Prospecting Calls

Long meetings that drag on are rarely productive. Unlike actual sales calls, a prospecting or qualifying conversation needs to be short and to the point.

Sales Training

21 Mind-Blowing Sales Stats

We’ve gathered the most surprising, horrifying, and enlightening sales statistics on cold calling, social selling, sales training, and much more.