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As sales managers, it’s our job to drive sales performance. The question is: what actions, specifically, should we take to do that? Recently, the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research undertook a major study to determine what those actions should be. The results were fascinating, especially as they relate to...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
Enlightened sales organizations invest in salesperson "onboarding" - a structured effort to speed new salespeople up the learning curve. As our recent research shows, successful onboarding dramatically impacts salesperson productivity and new hire success rates. A newly emerging idea attempts to leverage this approach for veteran salespeople too. Called "re-boarding,"...Read more
Sales organizations demand a daunting breadth of planning expertise: from prioritizing high-level objectives to align with firm strategy, to allocating limited resources to adequately cover opportunities, to establishing tactical performance goals at multiple levels within the organization, and, along the way, coordinating input from many corporate functions, on behalf of...Read more

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