Integrity Solutions

MARCH 18, 2021

Effective sales recruiting strategies start with a well-defined Sales Success Profile based on objective performance criteria. As a sales manager, it’s pretty frustrating when you spend a significant amount of time and energy coaching and developing someone only to discover in the end that, well, it’s not you, it’s them.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 13, 2023

After all, employee engagement is rooted in emotional factors, and managers, their coaching effectiveness and the coaching culture they create can make or break those emotional ties. Studies consistently show that manager behavior is a significant driver of employees leaving — or staying at — companies.

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Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s important to understand what it’s really going to cost you when you lose a sales rep — and what steps you can take to minimize your turnover rates. Every sales leader can relate to that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when a star sales rep says they’re moving on. In some industries, average sales rep tenure is just two years.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2018

Few activities are considered as important as sales coaching. So why do so many companies still struggle to make coaching pay off? Originally published on The Sales Management Association. Coaching is pivotal to maximizing sales potential. Provide coaching for the sales managers themselves (+10%).

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. In many organizations, revenue has “fallen off a cliff,” as one sales leader put it, and companies are looking at where they can make cuts and recapture lost momentum.

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Quality Contact Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sales leaders are one of the most critical assets to your company. Their decisions are directly responsible for how sales reps contribute to the company’s growth or lack thereof. But what makes sales leaders great? Here are 10 qualities that great sales leaders have in common.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

What Is Sales Training? Sales Training – at its heart – should be about learning to uncover and identify customer needs, thus creating value and providing service. Successful sales people know is about doing something for the customer – not to the customer.

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CallSource Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Implementing CallSource call coaching improved new employees’ onboarding experience, creates a culture of transparency, accountability, and acts as a motivational tool to improve career skills. If the (sales) person is someone I feel our company could work well with, then I am more inclined to move forward.”

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Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2021

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. It’s also clear that the shift to a remote sales model isn’t just a temporary fix. New Sales Pipeline Strategy. By Will Milano.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 13, 2020

No matter how rapidly and dramatically external events may change, the top sales challenges seem to stay the same, year after year. Why aren’t salespeople and sales organizations able to make much headway in overcoming these common struggles? But the sales challenges persist. Sales Quota Achievement.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 9, 2023

And Improve Deal Velocity & Win Rates Along the Way… Sales cycles are already longer than we want. What can you do as a seller to create greater urgency in sales? There are a number of things we can actively do to accelerate the buying process, shorten the sales cycle and close more deals. Is it indecisiveness?

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Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 29, 2019

The best sales leaders know that sales coaching is an investment of time that ultimately creates time on the back end. Firms that coach their salespeople effectively rack up 9% higher sales than the rest. Clearly effective sales coaching yields results. That’s a 15% gap. We know it’s important.

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Quality Contact Solutions

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sales leaders are one of the most critical assets to your company. Their decisions are directly responsible for how sales reps contribute to the company’s growth or lack thereof. But what makes sales leaders great? Here are 10 qualities that great sales leaders have in common.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 8, 2021

Creating an experience that drives people to your website, your store, or willing to meet with a sales representative is all part of marketing. 16 Tips For Boosting Customer Satisfaction With Happier Employees by Forbes Coaches Council. My Comment: Here is a fascinating study of online shopping behavior. They build brands.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Sales leaders need to reevaluate what an effective approach to sales onboarding really looks like. Whether a salesperson is new to the company or a seasoned high performer, the pressure is on in today’s world: Up your game, add more value, strengthen customer relationships and meet aggressive sales targets—fast.

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JustCall

MARCH 28, 2023

A sales workflow is the overarching plan or process that sales teams use to achieve their sales goals. It encompasses all the sales operations — from getting leads to closing deals. For sales leaders, a well-thought-out sales workflow helps maximize sales potential and boosts team efficiency.

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CrazyCall

MAY 20, 2019

Especially when you’re working in sales. To help you stay on the front of the race we’ve compiled a list of 97 super-effective sales tips that will help you take your sales skill to the next level. These are sales tips used by top sales gurus who know all the tricks. Sales Tips from Top Sales Gurus.

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Tethr

MARCH 1, 2021

This year, we’re exploring a new frontier: inbound sales. We all want to know how to improve sales performance—so there’s a lot of snake oil out there founded on the mystique of a good seller, or the “x-factor” of a good sale or sales agent. “We We have the tools to analyze 100% of sales calls, 100% of the time.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 2, 2021

In fact, 37% of companies lack time to collect and analyze their QA data, 31% struggle to have the time and resources to coach and train people to read the data, and 25% lack the necessary technology to do so. Let’s consider four topics that will directly impact your call center QA and improve your training and coaching.

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Expivia

JULY 19, 2023

Quantifying effort was relatively straightforward – it’s about showing up consistently, being open to coaching, and demonstrating commitment to improving. For instance, if you run a sales-focused center, your focus might be on persistence and performance. Quantifying attitude was more challenging.

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JustCall

MARCH 21, 2022

Sales training isn’t just about having the right tools and tricks up your sleeve. That’s why you need sales training to ensure that the behaviors that help win deals can be codified and shared with new hires and trainees. Preparing a training program for your sales team. Sales Training Program.

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CCNG

MARCH 30, 2022

Some sales organizations utilize email “cadences” to drive their business development efforts by utilizing a certain order of pre-programmed emails in the quest for increasing sales. Coach the agent for 20 minutes – check off the box and get the green dot. The supervisor goes on, “So I’ll send this to you in the coaching form.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Limiting beliefs in sales can become a huge barrier to reaching higher levels of success. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of accomplishment that comes off of a great year in sales. But then you realize that your sales manager is going to expect an even more spectacular year from you next year. Can you really do this?

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CrazyCall

AUGUST 16, 2019

One way to expand your knowledge is to listen to the best sales podcasts. To help you become a better salesman , saleswoman, executive, representative, and manager I’ve listed 41 best sales podcasts hosted and recommended by actual sales pros. Ready to level up your sales career? The same goes for salespeople.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 2, 2019

A customer-needs-focused philosophy is just as important for inside sales teams as it is for the external salespeople—in some ways, even more so. What’s on the minds of inside sales leaders as we head into mid-year? By Will Milano. Salespeople are missing important cues on customer needs that can help advance discussions.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Stay tuned: The full Customer Success Leadership Study report with more key findings and recommendations for Customer Success leaders will be available in the beginning of January 2021. You may not be able to get it from the sales ops team anymore. I don’t think sales ops and CS ops are apples-to-apples types of roles.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In other words, great managers are great coaches. Leaders consistently tout the critical role of a “culture of coaching” and the need to maintain one. In our study of sales coaching practices, for example, 76% of respondents said coaching is important to sales success.

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Win the Customer

MARCH 8, 2017

Here are some case studies in successful emotional branding that business leaders can emulate to acquire and maintain customers. More recently, Old Navy has revisited this marketing strategy with ads featuring 80s celebrities such as Chevy Chase, Saturday Night Live’s Superfans and the Superfans’ idol, Bears Coach Mike Ditka.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2018

Originally published on The Sales Management Association. Coaching is pivotal to sales success. If you’ve been in a sales management position for any length of time, it’s not even news. It’s now well-established that a strong coaching culture is something high-performing companies have in common. By Mike Esterday.

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2020

Sales training is not a simple 1-2 days’ process. It takes days and weeks of training to equip sales representatives with the right set of skills. Planning a sales training program timeline is a step towards creating an effective team of sales professionals. Remember, sales is a competitive field. Tech Setup.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

No two people on your Sales team are the same. Coach accordingly… You’ve been coaching one of your salespeople and you think you’ve made good, clear points. It’s like they’re not hearing you during sales coaching sessions. If you’re a sales manager and coach, then you probably know this feeling.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 6, 2022

And for those in the sales profession, sales books are one easily accessible way to engage in continual learning, even when you’re on the road. To help you narrow it down, we have compiled a selection of some of the best sales books (in our opinion) to read this summer, starting with two from Integrity Solutions.

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Tethr

APRIL 27, 2021

In this series, we’re diving deeper into some of the research that went into our recent HBR article, 4 behaviors that boost inbound sales. In today’s episode, we’re gonna be talking about the fourth behavior we discovered in our study on strategies for B2C sales: De-risk the purchase decision. Q&A: Dig into objections.

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Balto

MAY 10, 2022

Next generation of sales professionals test skills in role play to sell the Balto platform and compete for top prize scholarship money. The annual sales competition pits teams of students against one another in a tournament style pitch-off for the chance to win a $3,000 scholarship. We didn’t go easy on them.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As such, they may already be armed with intel on your product/service even before they get in touch with a sales rep. As these tables turn, adopting the right sales methodology could help you regain the upper hand and guide customers through the sales funnel. A Little Background on the Different Sales Methodologies.

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Tethr

APRIL 27, 2021

In this series, we’re diving deeper into some of the research that went into our recent HBR article, 4 behaviors that boost inbound sales. In today’s episode, we’re gonna be talking about the fourth behavior we discovered in our study on strategies for B2C sales: De-risk the purchase decision. Q&A: Dig into objections.

B2C 62

B2C Sales Inbound sales Coaching 62

Tethr

APRIL 27, 2021

In this series, we’re diving deeper into some of the research that went into our recent HBR article, 4 behaviors that boost inbound sales. In today’s episode, we’re gonna be talking about the fourth behavior we discovered in our study on strategies for B2C sales: De-risk the purchase decision. Q&A: Dig into objections.

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