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Sales Training Doesn’t Work and Four Other Common Myths About Sellers, Buyers, and Coaching

Myths are widely held but are often false beliefs or ideas. They arise and are hard to shake because they are usually based on perceived common sense and logical or long-held thinking. But, myths are myths: incorrect, untrue, and just plain wrong. You can’t afford to hold onto con...

Published: May 30th, 2019

Handling HR and Payroll for Remote Employees

If your remote employees live in the state where your business is located, you must follow federal employment laws plus your state's employment rules. But if your remote employees live in a different state from where you conduct business, you must comply with federal employment laws plus th...

Published: May 21st, 2019

The Epic One Week Sales Onboarding Plan: How To Ramp Gen-Z Reps

Are you ready for Gen-Z to join your sales team and to onboard a new generation of reps who will bring unique strengths, opportunities, and challenges to the table? Developing an epic onboarding program for this new class of reps will be critical to your success over the next few years. In ...

Published: May 20th, 2019

State of Sales Performance Survey Report 2019

Powerful trends that shape the world of sales performance. Every day, new technologies are rolling out, buyers are getting savvier — and the sales world, as we know it, is changing. That’s why, together w...

Published: May 16th, 2019

Results of SalesTech Recommendations Assessment at the 2019 Sales Leadership Summit

Vendor Neutral hosted a SalesTech Experience Zone at the AA-ISP Leadership Summit in Chicago, April 16th - 18th, 2019.  Attendees were invited to take the SalesTech Assessment, which filters through 350+ technology applications and matches them to the sales prior...

Published: May 7th, 2019

Research: The Foundational Importance of a Learning Culture

As part of the 2019 Top Challenges Research, leaders and reps were asked to report on the challenges and root causes to the gap in training and development.  See the research here!

Published: May 3rd, 2019

State of Conversation Intelligence - Q1 2019

The Chorus.ai research team analyzed over one million sales calls with our Conversation Intelligence platform to discover how top revenue teams conduct their sales motions in 2019. Get the data across BDR, AE, and CS teams to learn the metrics that matter for winning deals and retaining cus...

Published: Apr 30th, 2019

Building A Winning Sales Team: The Moneyball Way

How do you develop your Sales People and build a winning sales team on a limited "training" budget with so many "sales training" options out there for you to choose from?

Published: Apr 22nd, 2019

Key Account Management - Underestimated areas of competence

Key Account Management is regarded as the most prestigious function in sales. It is often overlooked, however, that Key Account Management is based on sales expertise but a much broader range of competence is required to tap into its full potential.

Published: Apr 11th, 2019

How to Implement a Coaching Culture in Your Sales Team

It is well known that a successful sales coaching program can help improve results across the team. However, in most cases sales teams work through such a long list of priorities, that coaching gets neglected. In this PDF, you'll learn the core components of coaching culture, the five types...

Published: Mar 29th, 2019

Why ‘Agile’ Salespeople Outperform Challengers

Florida State University Sales Institute was sponsored by 40 leading corporations and asked to evaluate the Major Sales Methodologies (specifically compare Challenger against other approaches) and identify what sales methodology worked best. FSU’s independent research project incl...

Published: Mar 27th, 2019

Sales Benchmarks Report: 2019

Featuring industry-standard sales outreach metrics based on 8 key roles across 3.1 million conversations between 1.4 million people in 20 different industries. See how your sales outreach response rates, response time, and more compare to the best based on your role.

Published: Mar 14th, 2019

How to Enable Your B2B Sales Team to Convert Inbound Leads

In this white paper, we break down the best practices for coordinating marketing and sales to convert your sales qualified leads to warm opportunities (and eventually deals).

Published: Feb 4th, 2019

13 Trigger Emotions Behind Every Sale

Our emotions and desires are great motivators. Create a connection with your prospects, understand what they want from a business AND personal perspective, and develop a strategic offer that fulfills those desires by using this as your emotional guide.

Published: Jan 18th, 2019

The Organic Inbound Marketing Playbook

Launching an inbound B2B marketing strategy does not need to be expensive. It does not require tons of money for Google AdWords and PPC. It does not require that you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on expensive events and sponsorships. It does require the implementation of thoughtful...

Published: Jan 14th, 2019

The BAO Inside Sales Trend Report

BAO recently conducted a market research study of more than 100 Inside Sales leaders at high tech companies to better understand their team’s roles and responsibilities in the organization’s go-to-market strategy. This research explores the structure, responsibilities an...

Published: Sep 20th, 2018

Technology Industry Predictions for 2018

In 2017, the technology industry experienced another year of tumultuous change. The industry is moving more rapidly than ever toward XaaS, while marketing, sales and service models struggle to accommodate the pace of change. Industry leaders will face a variety of challenges and imperatives...

Published: Sep 5th, 2018

The Sales KPI Report

Quota attainment has decreased since 2012, and the missing ingredient is sales manager enablement. The research points to a very specific area that sales managers need to be enabled around: “... managing the right activities and coaching the related behaviors (leading indicators) ...

Published: Aug 30th, 2018

OutboundView Predictable Pipeline Strategy

Attached is an overview of how B2B companies should build a B2B predictable pipeline strategy across categories such as outbound, inbound, paid advertising, and thought leadership.

Published: Jul 23rd, 2018

Start a Successful Sales Coaching Plan Tomorrow

Sales managers have a lot of responsibility. Not only are they in charge of their team’s sales numbers, they need to worry about their own quotas, sales rep performance, rep retention, sales effectiveness, and personal development. Fortunately, there is a single solution for all o...

Published: Jul 9th, 2018

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