Sales Training Connection

MARCH 1, 2013

Each year companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort implementing sales training and sales coaching efforts to help their sales team learn new sales methodologies and processes. The good news is we know that adoption of a well-designed sales methodology positively impacts results.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Each year companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort implementing sales training and sales coaching efforts to help their sales team learn new sales methodologies and processes. The good news is we know that adoption of a well-designed sales methodology positively impacts results.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Feb 06, 2012. Guest post Monday brings us John Doerr, president of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and sales performance improvement company. Would you be surprised to know those same 70% of companies that don’t have a standard process and methodology underperform those that do by significant amounts?

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SBI

AUGUST 6, 2013

According to Gartner Group, Total Worldwide CRM Software revenue in 2012 was $18 Billion. That means that $9 Billion worth of CRM investments in 2012 alone face a questionable return. Something that actively helps them qualify and move deals through the sales process. Shocking… yes. And that’s what Membrain does.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Enter sales methodologies. Businesses rely on sales methodologies to help their reps consistently deliver at every stage of the sales cycle. Here’s everything you’ll need to know to make the right choice: What is a sales methodology? Why do I need a sales methodology?

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Costello

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

For Eric Pratt, more than thirteen years in the sales and marketing industry taught him a few things about how these teams can work together. This understanding led him to found Revenue River in 2009, a digital marketing and sales innovation agency. How can sales enablement complement inbound marketing efforts?

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

Mark Hunter – Mark said: “After 10+ years of working with companies and salespeople through my consulting work, I felt it was time to write my first book, " High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price ", which released in 2012,” he shared with the group.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools. So there’s no lead generation coming in the door, and they’re relying on old sales methodology to reach highly educated buyers who don’t want to waste one iota of their time talking about what their salespeople are trained about.”.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 13, 2012

During the last 2 years we have seen an increasing interest and demand from business executives in Europe to understand and leverage technology within their sales organizations to improve overall sales effectiveness. Aligning the sales process with customers’ decision-making behavior. Larissa Gschwandtner provides the answers ….

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 3, 2012

Recently I spoke at a major software vendor’s partner and client conference and a few weeks later I received an email from one of the attendee’s suggesting I should comment in a future blog on the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2012) paper titled: The End of Solution Sales.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 16, 2013

According to Gartner Group, Total Worldwide CRM Software revenue in 2012 was $18 Billion. That means that $9 Billion worth of CRM investments in 2012 alone face a questionable return. Something that actively helps them qualify and move deals through the sales process. Shocking… yes. And that’s what Membrain does.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 7, 2012

During the last 2 years we have seen an increasing interest and demand from business executives in Europe to understand and leverage technology within their sales organizations to improve overall sales effectiveness. Aligning the sales process with customers’ decision-making behavior. Larissa Gschwandtner provides the answers ….

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

He's one of the best coaches in college football, having now won four BCS championships with Alabama in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015, and another with LSU in 2003. If you have the time, and you’re a salesperson or sales leader, I think it is worth watching. A while ago, CBS 60 Minutes did a segment on Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Refine B2B Sales Process in 2012 With Tools and Attitude. A new calendar year always brings the possibility of discussions of business process improvement and in particular, sales process improvement. Doesn’t that impact sales? © Score More Sales 2001 - 2012.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Of important note to vendor sales teams, "Several key vertical industries, such as manufacturing and financial services, will not see IT budgets recover to pre-2008 levels before 2012 or 2013," Peter Sondergaard, head of research at Gartner, said in a statement. Its easier to do nothing, unless economic reasons are provided for change.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 10, 2012

So, of the less than one-third of leads sales’ qualifies, they close 20% for a net of about 7% of total leads generated. The Sales Process. The final place for leakage is in the sales process. There are scores, if not hundreds, of sales methodologies. A lot more leakage.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

Then I came in in 2014 to rebuild the sales force from a cold start once the Department of Justice’s ruling cleared. It was 2012. Implementing The Transparency Sale. Sam Jacobs: Is there a methodology that you would employ to redo the sales process? The DOJ came in and shut it down. Todd Caponi: Yeah.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

To which type of sales does MEDDPICC® apply best? What’s the history of MEDDIC/MEDDPICC® Difference between MEDDIC & MEDDPICC ® – MEDDIC vs. MEDDPICC® MEDDIC vs other sales methodologies How to identify pain, How to quantify pain , how to get metrics? It’s actually compared to great methodologies. Steve : Yeah.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 11, 2012

Optimized Sales Process? Better Sales Methodology? Improved Sales Model? Effective Sales Management? c) Copyright 2012 Dave Kurlan Assessments? Accountability? Competition? Killer Product? Buying Incentives? Performance Incentives? Ultimatums? Bertter Demos? Professional Proposals? How can you fix them? (c)

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Expect outmoded and inefficient sales stacks to drag growth instead of driving it. Every innovation in sales methodology upends the art of selling, and as best practices shift, can you really afford to stay on the sidelines? . The top professionals at hyper-growth companies are busy hacking their sales process.

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Score More Sales

JULY 20, 2011

© Score More Sales 2001 - 2012. . __ You don’t know who your target market is – who is your niche? Our Recommendations When you purchase any of the books, programs, and/or products we recommend we may receive an "affiliate fee". Please note that we only endorse products that we believe in.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 29, 2018

In our 2017 World-Class Sales Practices Study , we found that quota attainment across all geographies, industries and size companies had dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. Perhaps sales technologies are preventing even steeper declines.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 29, 2018

In our 2017 World-Class Sales Practices Study , we found that quota attainment across all geographies, industries and size companies had dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. Perhaps sales technologies are preventing even steeper declines.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Qualification: The sales rep learns more about the company, their customers’ pain points , and asks questions to see if they meet the basic requirements to purchase the product (BANT is a popular sales qualification method but several other sales methodologies are used to qualify).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Staffing a team of field sales, inside sales, and sales engineers in lockstep. Incorporating MEDDICC and MEDDPICC to build a value sales methodology. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We started building that in 2012. The single number that drives the revenue model. We’re on iTunes.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 12, 2019

The Role of B2B Sales Teams. B2B sales effectiveness requires psychology and social skills, but it also requires rational analysis. Best Practices for B2B Sales. The vocabularies of the best B2B sales methodologies emphasize the political and analytical nature of sales.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Went from manager to manager, trying to learn different sales methodologies, which was a disaster. AJ Bruno: Yeah, that’s also an interesting story because in 2012, my wife and I were on the West coast. I didn’t even know what the term SDR meant in 2012. I did get my ass kicked.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

If Your Sales Emails Look Like This, You’re Definitely Losing Potential Customers. A former economist, Heather traded the world of academia and research for tech startups in 2012 after moving back to the Bay Area after completing economic development projects in Egypt. 5 steps to close a sale (quicker) and get better deals in 2018.

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