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Enterprise Sales Leadership
Kandra Vu, Head of Global Inside Sales Adjust, and Greg Reffner discuss the different types of leaders for different stages of companies, and what it takes to be successful …
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Missing Sales Development Reps KPIs
Would you still put a Sales Development Representative on a Performance Improvement Plan if you knew that they consistently handled objections correctly, 90% of the time were able to get past the gatekeeper and consistently asked 80% of the qualifying questions they were supposed to? Here at ABSTRAKT, we are going to propose that you…
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The Oprah of Sales Leadership
Companies reach out and say we want to attract and hire more women in sales and I always ask them what plans or what measures do you have in place to retain them. The ones that you have and the ones that you’d like to bring in and 9 times out of 10 there’s no…
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Using Data to Build a Formula for Winning
The question becomes, we know buyers are engaging in different ways to fact-find, yet reps are not being trained in how to use that information. Why not? Sales coaching needs to incorporate an understanding of how prospects look for information in order to use that as part of the sales cycle.
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How to Clone Your Top Sales Performers
I’m serious – How do you clone your Top Sales Performers? Since the beginning of time, coaching has been a word used to describe leveling up players whether in sports, business, or any other activity, coaches aim to optimize the performance of humans by observing their performance and suggesting changes. In sales coaching, this is…
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Why Abstrakt?
Add to that the pivots many of us are having to make to get through this unprecedented time of our lives. I am often asked “Why Abstrakt”? Spring…Fresh Starts I remember feeling like it was just yesterday; it was a beautiful sunny Spring day and my first day as a Sales Development Representative. Filled with…
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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…
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Outbound Cold Calling with Hunters and Farmers
If your entire sales organization is not using all the available tools that they have at their disposal to both create leads by hunting and close them when the deal matters most. You are wasting company resources, and you are likely not meeting your own personal goals. When a manager you go begins to train…
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Assess Your Skills for Sales Management
From sales management, all the way down to the sales representatives, techniques in sales coaching have changed for the better…. I think the hardest lesson I learned stepping into sales management was that what worked to get me to quota, isn’t going to work for everyone else… it likely won’t.
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Sales Coaching for Sales Leaders
sales coaching is one of the hardest things you do as a sales leader. Managing people is never easy. Once you get into management, there is no more … Truth be told… sales leadership isn’t for everyone because most …
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Improving Sales Through Real-Time Call Intelligence
Sales leaders and reps today have a plethora of tools available to help them communicate with their customers, and we know it is important to …. What factors make Call Intelligence Software stand out? Why is it so different from some of the reactive, call analytics tools on the market today?
Sales Leadership
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