If your sales team has not been trained on the latest features and techniques, then they are at a competitive disadvantage. Social Selling is no longer a cutting edge practice. LinkedIn is 13 years old! Many salespeople are now driving a significant percentage of their pipeline through outbound social networking and posting content to attract buyers. According to Forbes, 78% of salespeople using social selling techniques outperform their peers.

Simple mistakes have significant impact on sales results. Are you catching the blunders your sales team is making in their everyday activities? Whether they are new sales reps or experienced sales people who have gotten lax, as a sales manager you want to catch these mistakes before they impact sales and coach your team to higher performance. But before you can, you have to first recognize the mistakes.

Improving sales performance has never been more important for major global corporations. After years of recession-induced cost cutting, leaders are putting increasing emphasis on implementing go-to-market strategies to boost both top- and bottom-line results, and expecting their sales organizations to execute them.   But times have changed, purchasing organizations have gained more power, and it’s more challenging than ever to close the gap between go-to-market strategy as articulated by senior management and its profitable execution with customers.

Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion is one of the largest tech acquisitions in 20 years. The acquisition of the world’s largest social network for business by the world’s largest software company is bound to have far reaching effects for many decades.

LinkedIn is the most powerful sales tool for today's sales professional IF you know how to use it effectively.  If you're still thinking of the old (2016) LinkedIn or you're not confident in your abilities as an expert in using the new 2017 version of LinkedIn, you're losing out to competitors who are.  

Distribution channel partners have their own priorities. Getting their time and attention can be an enormous challenge. But if your success depends on distributors, dealers, agents or retailers selling your products, engaging these channel partners is mission critical.

Why do executives test and screen professional salespeople?  How can your salespeople circumvent that process and develop trusted advisor level relationships with those executives?

Join us to learn how Hudson's Spot Coaching approach equips managers and leaders with a simple, 3-step coaching method to support just-in-time development of their people. The approach includes elements of feedback, goal-setting, building a plan and establishing follow-up to provide support and track impact.

Did you know that depending on how it is used, money and other cash-based awards could actually negatively impact your engagement strategies? This presentation combines scientific studies and examples to show the way that rewards, recognition, program design, and communications should be properly used to stimulate activity and engagement.

Key problems for every sales manager are (1) managing performance of 5-10 "Lone Ranger" salespeople with different territories, varied skill levels, lack of proximity and (2) finding time to manage top priorities often lost in an excessive workload. The challenges of mixed activities, high work expectations, a chaotic environment loaded with interruptions sucks up time and creates performance obstacles. The ideal solution lies in two exclusive strategies found only in our new book format, comparable workshops, and this SMM webinar.

This presentation is an easy to follow roadmap showing you the necessary beginning steps to achieve success through increased sales. Knowing the importance of having passion and understanding for what everyone is doing. Continuously building the skills necessary to get the job done and remain competitive Effectively communicating roles and responsibilities without confusion. Having the flexibility to do things differently in the ever-changing business environment we all dwell in and taking ownership for the productivity and profitability of the organization.  Creating a culture where people can’t wait to come to work and be their best--a culture with people making a difference for their customers and each other. A culture that nurtures flawless execution of work, promotes teamwork and is fulfilling and fun. 

AI is changing the world. AI in sales is changing the way managers coach. Using AI managers get a deep insight previously unavailable to them for their coaching efforts. With insight from AI managers can craft the exact coaching to match the person and the skill development need. With AI managers can coach selling skills better in less time. 

Four critical fears have proven to be the greatest barrier to improved sales performance. Our experience has shown that leveraging personal power is, by far, the most important factor in addressing the Four Fears and ultimately determines success. Personal power is the single biggest "make or break" factor in performance for any career, sales or otherwise!

Does your business need a mantra, a purpose, a kick-ass marching order to motivate your team? Draw in like-minded people, hire only great fits to your company, and learn a lot about yourself in the process.  Ron will share his extraordinary system in building the best purpose statement on the planet.

Have you ever heard that Eskimos have multiple words for "snow?" That’s because it’s so much a part of their world and the different types of snow may have different consequences for them. In Sales Enablement, we have the opposite problem with "content." We toss around the word "content" a lot, but it means different things to different people. And yes, there are multiple types of content, each of which has a different potential impact on sales performance. Why not maximize them all?  

Companies today spend billions hiring and developing sales teams—yet many of them struggle to onboard reps effectively, especially in remote and hybrid environments.   

Recognition and rewards can drive performance increases of 20% or more by leveraging the power of motivation psychology, social dynamics and workers’ desire for aspirational awards within a positive culture that encourages the collaboration and success of all individuals and teams.  This seems like common sense, but it is not easy to implement in the workplace unless you create programs that are designed with recognition and reward best practices. There is an art and a science element to effective recognition. This includes smart program structure, rules, training, recognition tactics, reward choices, actionable analytics and more. 

Building the right sales compensation plan can be confusing.  Sales compensation has numerous unique words, practices and solutions.  But the fundamentals are known and the classic challenges have some great tested solutions.  

"But I’m not in sales." We’ve heard it before, and we’ve even said it before. But here’s the thing: You are. We all are, so we’ll address it head on to show you why the word "sales" isn’t what you think it is.  

Much of sales involves gaining and keeping momentum in your opportunities. Mastering the sales conversation can help you get there.  

But wait .... can we talk about this tomorrow? We've all done it, waited until the last minute, and then we are stressed. The deadline looms, and it's all we can think about - how this issue (that we set up) will ruin our day or week.

In spite of employee recognition and incentive programs, keeping employees engaged is difficult and turnover is high (especially for remote team members). Learn how to communicate authentic appreciation in the ways that are meaningful to your team through research-proven, easy-to-implement tools and practical actions.  

Unlock the power of LinkedIn Events to transform your networking strategy and drive meaningful business outcomes. This webinar, presented by Brynne Tillman dives deep into the strategic utilization of LinkedIn's Events feature to create engaging, valuepacked experiences that not only attract but also maintain professional relationships and enhance brand visibility. Discover practical, actionable strategies that leverage the full potential of LinkedIn to meet diverse business objectives, from lead generation to establishing thought leadership.  

There’s a "secret sauce" successful salespeople use to rapidly create customized nurturing emails using existing marketing materials and AI.