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This is a test article published by Julio to confirm the new Blogs section works end to end. It will be removed before launch.
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If you can read this on the Blogs page, the full pipeline is working: Julio created this post, filled the template fields, tagged it Blog and published it.

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The article renders through the same Elementor template as the hand-built insights, with the kicker, standfirst and takeaway cards all populated automatically.

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Delete this post and publish the four real drafts after review.

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Sales Effectiveness Assessment: What to Measure and How to Act on the Results
Most leadership teams that commission a sales effectiveness assessment are looking for the wrong thing. They want to know why the sales team isn’t closing enough deals. What they usually find, when they look properly, is that the problem isn’t in the sales team at all — it’s in the handoffs, the misaligned incentives, and the gaps between functions that nobody owns. A genuine assessment doesn’t grade your salespeople. It maps your commercial system and finds where value is leaking out of it.
Why commercial performance breaks between teams 
Commercial performance is usually reviewed function by function. Sales effectiveness. Marketing performance. Customer success delivery. Each one is critical. None works in isolation. The structural weakness often sits between them. AI is starting to expose the cost.
Why value selling fails in practice, and what makes it actually work
Every CRO wants value selling. Most sales teams are trained on it. Almost no business does it well. The gap between the theory and the practice is structural, and in 2026 it is becoming the most expensive gap in B2B commercial performance.

When growth slows, there is usually a reason.