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Planning to Grow with Your Most Strategic Customers

3 min read
Planning to grow your most strategic customer relationships is a game-changer for many salespeople and account managers, but if you haven’t added this best practice to your arsenal of success tools, you may be wondering how to get started.

Sales Cycle

When organized and managed properly, the sales cycle has the potential to help in determining which stages are strengths for certain sales reps versus which seem to be weaknesses based...

Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the strategic, ongoing process of equipping sales teams with the tools, content, training and support they need to engage customers effectively and drive revenue.
It used to be that the marketing department lived in the world of branding and brochures, and the sales department operated in a silo with little to no contact with marketing. However, things have changed.

Selling: Art or Science?

2 min read
There’s a common belief that it takes a combination of both art and science to be a successful salesperson, that is, a balance of both innate ability and systemic organization.

How Sales Training Can Benefit More Than the Sales Team

2 min read
Having a healthy sales culture means that everyone within an organization, whether they are on the sales team or not, is actively engaged in the processes and activities that result in increased sales effectiveness.

Touch-Points in the Customer Journey

2 min read
Returning customers are the heart of a successful business. Consequently, the ultimate goal must be to deliver a positive customer experience each and every time consumers reach out to your product, brand or service.
This is a story about two companies’ sales funnels. One company has a sales funnel that improves win rates, the other doesn’t. Company A uses the most common approach, orienting its sales funnel to the steps of its sales process: qualifying, solution...