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Your Sales Year is Coming to an End. Are you ready?

InsightSquared

So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist. Track your “best cases” but don’t include them in your forecast. If you have open headcount for Q1 be interviewing in Q4.

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Is a Sales Operations Career Right for You?

Sales Hacker

Forecast accuracy. There are so many dependencies involved with any sales organization and this is especially the case with larger and more complex products and companies. In order to make everything work, the sales ops team handles all of the backend processes. A career in sales, sales ops, or sales enablement?

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Your 2021 Sales Enablement Platform Buyer’s Guide (+10 Tools to Consider)

Sales Hacker

Their sales tools are integrated effectively, coaching is readily available, and sales reps are happily using their CRM. They have a sales enablement plan and the right sales enablement platform in place. What is sales enablement? Sales enablement has evolved quickly. Not exactly.

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Sales Engagement: What You Need to Know in 2020 and Beyond

Sales Hacker

What’s the difference between sales enablement and Sales Engagement? As sales leaders figure out how to do more with less, 9 out of 10 sales orgs consider a Sales Engagement Platform (SEP) critical to their team’s success. What is a Sales Engagement Platform (SEP)?

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Sam Taylor: So no matter what, I mean, Dropbox, no matter how you slice it, what function you’re in, was just insane from a growth perspective, headcount-wise, user base-wise, you name it. How do you think about effective sales planning? And how do you think it maybe impacted your operating mentality today?

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Making Trade-Offs In Marketing with Meagen Eisenberg (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount. They’re trying to figure out how to preserve cash, how to control costs, how to forecast out, how to run the business and maintain it successfully through this time.

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