Resources

Upgrading the sales force? Your first stop should be first-line sales managers. No single role in the firm has a bigger impact on sales performance. Join us for an expert web panel exploring how firms are meeting manager development challenges. Panelists will also address audience-submitted questions. Drawing from our recent...Read more

Talent, compensation, CRM, enablement- there are many priorities competing for the attention of today's sales leader. Join us to take a look at 13 key dimensions of a sales ecosystem, and how to prioritize when they all seem important to a successful sales transformation. Our customers are changing the way...Read more

Join us for our latest research insights on assessing sales tools. Over the past two decades, technology-driven innovation has profoundly changed selling and sales organizations. PCs and smart mobile devices are now essential selling tools; CRM platforms are virtually ubiquitous; and new applications appear daily to help automate, enhance, or...Read more

Sales operations functions serve a vital, strategic role in sales organizations – as change agents. Increasingly, sales organizations must restructure deployment models, rethink selling roles and messages, and wring greater efficiency out of existing resources. Sales operations departments are uniquely positioned to drive these efforts. But supporting strategic sales changes...Read more

Many sales forces grew large and successful with a hands-off approach -- one that might have included hiring good salespeople, putting them on commission plans, handing them a phone book and turning them loose. If they were good, they made lots of money. If not, they starved themselves out of...Read more

Over the past two decades, technology-driven innovation has profoundly changed selling and sales organizations. PCs and smart mobile devices are now essential selling tools; CRM platforms are virtually ubiquitous; and new applications appear daily to help automate, enhance, or speed up how salespeople sell. This research examines how business-to-business firms...Read more

Technology is transforming how sales organizations sell, but also how they're managed. Among technology's greatest potential management benefits relates to coaching salespeople -- an activity under-prioritized and poorly supported in most firms. This webcast explores multiple technologies that amplify, automate, and enhance management's coaching efforts. Our expert panel will present...Read more

In many companies, proposals are not effective as they could be. In some, proposals may actually turn business away. For a variety of reasons, sales organizations often overlook the importance of well crafted, effectively presented proposals. As a result, a vital sales tool goes under optimized. In this webcast we...Read more