Category Archives: Agile Sales

Something curious happened in Sales. Without any research into whether it works, sales leaders decided that sellers needed a single set of guidelines to execute. This idea became so ingrained in the sales culture that its perceived as a check box, a must-do in order to improve your sales team’s results. The first “modern” selling […]

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Current VantagePoint CEO Joe Terry to lead both organizations. NORTH PALM BEACH, FLA. (PRWEB) DECEMBER 05, 2019 Marketing training and events company MarketingProfs and sales training company VantagePoint Performance announce a strategic alliance to help marketing and sales professionals work more collaboratively. The two companies are teaming up under Joe Terry, who will act as CEO […]

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We at VantagePoint are grateful to have been a Platinum sponsor at the Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference 2019 last month, where one of the main themes was Sense Making.  Gartner surveyed 1,174 people and found that buyer enablement matters—having a 4x impact on buyer confidence—and further determined that 80% of sellers regularly closing [...]

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Many sales leaders emphasize repeatable, consistent processes as the basis of sales organization productivity. But in so doing, they also may undermine an attribute important to the sales organization’s success: agility. This webcast presents research that suggests a single-methodology emphasis in sales process is counter productive, and offers in its place a management approach that [...]

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Myths are widely held but are often false beliefs or ideas. They arise and are hard to shake because they are usually based on perceived common sense and logical or long-held thinking. But, myths are myths: incorrect, untrue, and just plain wrong. You can’t afford to hold onto concepts simply because they feel right or [...]

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You know the drill. Sellers need to offer their buyers insights and information they don’t already have.  They need to be provocative and consultative.  Disrupt all the time, and you will win.  But, it’s just not that simple.  And, we have research to prove it. It’s true that salespeople are often viewed by their buyers [...]

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Our research often uncovers unexpected things. Beyond everyone finding it wildly interesting and underscoring the need for empirical research in selling and sales, that unanticipated data often informs and inspires our next steps.  Take, for example, the customer who reported that a rep really differentiated his product in a meeting.  She remembered a lot about [...]

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Innovative Leader in Trailer and Truck Bodies since 1900 Chooses Industry Disruptor to Create an Agile Salesforce VantagePoint Performance, the only research-led agile sales coaching, consulting and training company in the world, announced today that Great Dane selected VantagePoint’s Agile Sales & Coaching Platform after hearing them speak at Dreamforce 2018. With a history dating […]

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Imagine you’re training for a marathon and have hired a coach to help you achieve a certain finishing time. He gives you his standard list of exercises to do and distances to run, but you’re not making the right progress. When you ask, he won’t give you any new exercises to try. Would you continue […]

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When organizations experience a sales performance problem – and most do –  they look to one of two places for the solution: their sales processes or their sales methodology. The underlying idea is that improving process or methodology to create consistent sales execution will solve the sales performance problem. This has been the common approach […]

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