With work from home and social distancing, email prospecting has become more important than ever and how you write your emails has changed significantly. Remember the rule to put the call to action right at the front? Not any longer. How about the rule to forget what your second-grade teacher taught you? Now you have to remember it!  

Sales training and enablement is tougher than ever before. Whether your sales force is across the street or across the country, you’re working overtime to support your team.  

Forget Photoshop and pricey stock photography—you already have everything you need to create professional looking image-centric slides in PowerPoint.

US companies spent 15 billion on sales training in 2018 according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report. For companies who didn’t focus on management training to make that training stick, they likely lost up to 13.5 billion of that investment to the Forgetting Curve- where up to 90% of new information is lost within a week of their training ending.

New clients are the lifeblood of every business.  With Covid 19 many businesses are reporting their sales pipelines are getting week.  Deals are stalling, pushing out and if you sell to the airlines, or hotels, cancelling.  It is critically important to discover new ways to dramatically increase the number of conversations your sellers / channel is having with prospects. More at bats is one of the more effective ways to de-risk your pipeline and increase for forecasting accuracy. For many leaders this KPI will mean life or death to their business over the next 6 months.

Hiring right has always been important, especially for sales roles, which are like the Olympic athletes of business or corporate astronauts (they need to have "the right stuff"). Right now, this is even more true than it usually is, and even more important that your new sales hires can sell (possibly remotely, for a while) and deliver the results you need.

Looking for a way to accelerate sales results, but can’t get buy-in for new tech? Sales readiness technology helps you directly impact the bottom line by targeting activities that move the needle: training, onboarding, coaching, and in-field productivity.

There are a thousand programs out there that teach you "How-To-Sell"--  most of which are really good. What they miss is how to handle the natural adversities and occupational hazards of the sales profession. Sales is one of the few roles where the better you are, the harder it may be to keep your job.  

In this interactive webcast, we'll explore specific referral acquisition strategies.  The key to warm referrals is to give and then to get. All too often referrals are lost because one party is looking to get and forgets to give. 

Make winning sales presentations. Learn the tricks the pros use to get audience agreement and sell a product, solution or idea. Use the latest behavioral psychology and neuromarketing techniques. Use what you learn during class to make a clear, compelling presentation that gets buy-in and improves your success rate. It’s easy—when you know how to do it.

The United States is in a crisis. The Corona pandemic now combined with protests in our streets are shaping what will become the new normal for organizations. Many of our first responders and front-line employees have friends and family members who have been directly impacted by these events.

As sales people, we are always looking for our next prospect. We’re picking up the phone and making calls to brand new people, we’re reaching out to strangers on LinkedIn, and we’re asking for introductions and referrals from our clients and networking partners. While all this activities are important, we’re ignoring the people that are already in our network who we probably should be nurturing.

Just like any good work person knows the tools of their trade, its vitally important as trainers and coaches we understand which behavioral assessment tool best fits the required need.

Has your sales team gone from in-person to virtual selling overnight? Selling while physically distancing is a new approach for many teams. It means big changes for your field sales reps and for sales managers.

Anecdotally, we all know it. Some have experienced it firsthand. Academic and corporate research supports it. Yes, sales coaching can make a significant improvement in the performance of your sales force.

If you’re managing a distributed team, you know getting everyone on the same page to drive productivity is more important than ever. But depending on where you are, this could be difficult. In some states, stay-at-home orders and other restrictions are being lifted, while others are a long way from in-person meetings.

In this session, attendees will gain insight from practitioners who will share their perspectives on using video to drive skill development programs. Skill development programs require: Access to and absorption of knowledge, proof of comprehension and/or demonstration, practice and mentorship, and stick-to-it-ness in order to effectively apply skills to new areas.  

Come join us for a session dedicated to getting you tuned-up for your 2020 marketing efforts.  Author of The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business, Ted Prodromou, will give you the latest updates on how to become an effective marketer using one of the most effective marketing tools ever developed.    

Are you ready for a remote sales force? Sales for companies around the globe have been disrupted by travel cancellations and remote work in the face of COVID-19. Managing a dispersed sales team is a unique challenge. Corporate travel restrictions mean less contact with prospects, with the industry, and with the market. But with the right strategy, sales managers can succeed.

This webinar will reveal and teach some of the most innovative strategies during this time of transition.  Unlike any other time before in our history, the session provides learning and development departments and never seen before opportunity. This webcast will teach specific strategies to coach and reinforce coaching virtually.  

We are living in unprecedented times.  'Work' as we know it is changing.  In order to thrive, organizations must re-invent themselves and embrace the new normal.  As a former Fortune 500 business executive who has seen it all, Jill understands how organizations operate, and what they need to do to attract, retain, and engage employees - whether they sit under your nose or work remotely.

There are hundreds of assessments on the market today and its very confusing! The challenge is assessments are grossly misunderstood and each assessment company claims theirs is the best. It’s what they don’t tell you that gets you into trouble.

If onboarding new team members is important for every position in your company - getting it right for salespeople is even more crucial since they are the face of your company. And yet, many sales managers are so happy they finally filled an open sales position they pay little attention to helping their new salesperson get up to speed. The result? Baptism by fire and unnecessary mistakes!

Now more than ever, sales managers and company leaders must step up to better equip the sales team with more coaching and direction to lead their reps on the front line to bigger success.  In a "work from home" or even a partial remote work world, the sales team in particular needs a framework where sales reps are accountable and leaders really need to lead. It's not about taking what you did in your office and simply virtualizing it - it is about creating new best practices based on the long accepted training idea of repetition and reinforcement.