For a small business that deals in sales the salespeople are the most important members of the team. They are the ones who truly get the business running. Therefore, hiring them is one of the most important steps you’ll have to take as a business owner. Make a mistake here and you might very well ...
Most organizations don’t always get it right the first time; unintended mistakes sometimes happen and customers are left disillusioned and angry.
There is a huge buzz about AI (artificial intelligence) in the business world. The technology promises to deliver accurate and honest insights that can help businesses in multiple fields including customer service and sales. If you use recovery and backup processes like ottomatik.io, it may be soon you should incorporate AI and machine learning to ...
If your sales training investment is not achieving the outcomes you expected, you are in good company. It happens pretty often. The problem probably isn’t the training program you chose. You probably made one (or more) of five common faulty assumptions about your sales training initiative. Did You Assume Training Doesn’t Require follow-up? A lot ...
The search for solid salespeople itself requires a healthy dose of salesmanship. Much like the presentations you’ll be hiring salespeople to deliver, recruitment pitches should be approached with a progression of goals in mind. Follow the widely accepted AIDA formula – Attention, Interest, Desire, Action – to improve your sales hiring success rates and chances ...
The growing concern is will sales remain human? Our beliefs about combining artificial intelligence and human selling are in the beginning phase.
In our last article we discussed the fact that automation and algorithms are created by humans, and so, therefore, can be biased. For our final article on the subject of automation and where it’s taking us, we want to examine the human’s role in the automated society, and how important it is for us to ...
Sales organizations are often challenged to be successful. They craft a strategically brilliant sales plan that would make the pundits proud. It’s replete with industry and competitive analysis, internal strengths, weaknesses and a set of objectives that are time bound with accountabilities assigned. Then they launch their plan but are disappointed in the results they ...
