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Challenges of Remote Onboarding SDRS
The Sales Development Playbook has helped many leaders grow SDR orgs across the world! As the Chief Sales Officer at The Bridge Group, Sally Duby knows a thing or two about ramping a SDR team. She joins us on Abstrakt’s podcast to share a few tips and tricks about ramping SDRs in a completely remote…
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Sales Enablement 3.0
Who better to discuss Sales Enablement on today’s podcast, than the guy who came up with the term! Abstrakt is honored to have Roderick Jefferson, CEO of Roderick Jefferson and Associates join us today to help our listeners bring their sales and marketing teams together. On the eve of his new book. Sales Enablement 3.0:…
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Stop Accelerating The Suck
Why Teachers make great reps, and the missing middle piece of the Sales Triangle – should be good times. We are lucky to have Richard Harris, Founder of Harris Consulting Group join us today on the ABSTRAKT Podcast. Walking away from our time with Richard, we learned a few things: 1.) Teachers make great sales…
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Are Outside Sales Skills Transferable to Inside Sales?
ABSTRAKT is so excited to chat with Jake Dunlap today, CEO of Skaled Consulting on our podcast. We had him for a whole 30 minutes to share his thoughts on what traditional outside sales reps and organizations can do to make the switch to inside models. After our time with Jake, we walked away with…
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Maintaining Culture in a Remote Environment
With over 3750 employees across 120 countries, being able to talk with employee #6 at Hubspot is kind of a big deal! With us today is Dan Tyre, local start up legend in the Phoenix area joining us on Abstrakt’s podcast today. In a world where remote work is here to stay, Hubspot has done…
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Has COVID Changed the Landscape of Sales Recruiting?
Goldfinger, Sean Connery, being thoughtful in your job search and the future of remote Enterprise sales. Please listen to our podcast as Abstrakt hosts Amy Volas, CEO and Founder of Avenue Talent Partners to discuss the future of remote Enterprise sales. Some of our biggest takeaways were 1.) Flexibility – top sales reps are in…
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How to Teach Reps to Manage Complex Sales While Remote
Alice Heiman started her career in teaching (which we learned on another episode of our podcast is a great background for Sales), and then went to work at the Miller Heiman Group, the company her father co-founded. A career in sales had never been on her mind but she came to be one of the…
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Sales Process for Funnel vs Micro Processes on Steps
Hindsight is 20/20, and coaching on calls in arrears is not immediately effective. There is a strong reason for ramp-times that are built into compensation plans for sales representatives. That is one more reason for sales leaders to have repeatable processes within their sales process in order to get new reps up to speed. Making…
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Sales Techniques for Sales Success
Mix in a sprinkle of some sound Sales Coaching and Sales Technology and boom, quota crusher! Looking back, that interview I had to land my first role as a Sales Representative taught me more about myself in 3 minutes, than 5 years of college ever did. It taught me to have confidence in myself, control…
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Sales Call Analytics: Coaching in Real-Time
Speaking too much is something that salespeople find out after the call, and that is if you are even analyzing your sales calls (you should be…). But coaching after the call amounts to little more than “get ‘em next time, Tiger”. Being able to ask the right questions is key to having a lower talk…
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Building World-Class Sales Reps Using Real-Time Call Intelligence
live sales coaching and truly live sales enablement is a must. Without either, you are wasting opportunities or at a minimum not giving them the same chance of success as your hard-earned leads. If given the opportunity, your salespeople will accelerate more quickly and “power up” in fewer repetitions of sales cycles with proven groundwork to…
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Does conversational intelligence software actually improve revenue?
In a recent podcast I did with Richard Harris, he used the phrase “stop accelerating the suck.” This was in reference to the automation technologies being deployed by SDR teams around the world to drive more meetings into the pipeline. He was referencing the fact that organizations are placing so much emphasis on driving more…