The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Sales training courses for beginners is normally focused on all the general selling skills a new salesperson will need to acquire over a relatively short time period. Sales training courses for beginners should be separated into two different types of sales training.

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Course Training Education Social Selling 59

The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 6, 2012

It’s time to put to rest the belief that unless you know exactly what it is you want to say to a sales prospect, you should not call them. The problem I have with this is that far too many people use it as an excuse to get them out of making sales prospecting calls. The fear then has a way of growing with each day and week.

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Prospecting Strategy ACT Exact 182

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

You’re right — I do act busy each time you call on me. If you’re not focused on what I need, I act busy to get you to leave. Blog Prospecting Sales Training Sales Training Tip customer service sales call sales skills selling skills' ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Customer Call-back ACT Selling Skills 240

The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training initiative can be one of the most impactful things you can do to improve your organization’s success. The question is, will the training program result in permanent behavior change and lasting sales performance improvement, or will it be a “flavor of the month” that your sales team abandons a few weeks after the experience?

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Maximizer ROI Training How To 40

The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training initiative can be one of the most impactful things you can do to improve your organization’s success. The question is, will the training program result in permanent behavior change and lasting sales performance improvement, or will it be a “flavor of the month” that your sales team abandons a few weeks after the experience?

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Maximizer ROI Training How To 40

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2022

Consultative selling is an effective sales methodology that revolves around understanding the buyer’s needs and identifying how your product solves them. Sales reps act more like a consultant than a salesperson. It’s similar in approach to the Sandler Selling system , which also encourages reps to act like consultants. .

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Consultative Selling ACT Cold Calling Buyer 62

The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sales scripts are a valuable tool that can help salespeople have meaningful conversations with customers or prospects. They act as a guide or map to keep the conversation on track and to build confidence in the salesperson. Decrease sales training time. What are Sales Scripts? Avoiding misinformation.

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How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

Summarize the reasons to act now based on facts and needs. This approach allows the prospect to raise any objections or doubts that they have so the salesperson can handle them and get agreement. It is a powerful psychological tool that can influence your prospects’ decisions and help you close more sales.

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Closing Objections Buyer Proposal 52

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. Your own enthusiasm and passion to help others will encourage others to act the same way around you. Sales Training Tip #359: Ideas Mean Nothing…Until… Why Long-Term Thinking is Vital to Your Sales Motivation.

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Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Journal 211

The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Research Our Prospects or Customers. Separate out our sales skills from the people we really want to sell to. The goal of our sales conversations are to ascertain if a problem exists, and the customer is willing to act on that problem. The sales skills to actively listens to hear our client’s real needs.

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Buyer How To Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 59

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. 1. Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy). 3. Criteria for Success. Go check it out!

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Channels Face-to-face Video Hubspot 187

The Digital Sales Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nearly every sales skill that is essential for engaging buyers today can be acquired with regular sales training. The world of selling is moving fast around us, moving towards digital, moving towards soft skills and moving towards helpful consultative selling without the hard sales pitch. Soft Skills.

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Negotiation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media 85

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Furthermore, if you end up hiring the wrong person, it could cost you a fortune to find, onboard, and train a replacement. New sales reps should be hired when it’s more likely for them to make a positive impact on your business and also when you’re ready to onboard and train them. Listen Closely for Selling Skills.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Selling Skills Sports 94

Vengreso

JANUARY 21, 2020

LinkedIn ® alone has more than 660 million professionals , providing a platform for sellers to share relevant content, develop their thought leadership, and build relationships with prospects to create more sales conversations , fill your organization’s pipeline, and improve win rates. Has your #sales team adapted?

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Social Selling Strategy Social Media Buyer Persona 88

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Met Life was spending $30,000 on sales training per salesperson, but 80% of their reps had left within four years. His results proved soft skills do produce hard sales results. Turnover decreased and sales increased because Met Life focused on hiring for optimism, not just hard selling skills. 3) Take control.

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Hiring Insurance Insurance Lead Rank 108

Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Since the pandemic, 45% said that their enablement initiatives cover content, training and coaching. However, there are still 41% that only focus on one domain right now, on content or on training, and 13% report to only have some random acts of sales support that cannot even be called enablement. This is an encouraging trend.

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Study B2B Face-to-face Report 111

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton formulated three physical laws of motion that describe the relationships between two objects, and the forces acting upon those objects, and the resultant motions in response to those forces. Most people act or respond the way they do for very specific reasons.

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Penetration ACT Selling Skills Exact 115

The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The basic rule of selling is that people do not buy products; they buy benefits. Sales is about getting someone else to take action, to teach customers something new and compelling and provide reasons for them to act. Today, buyers budgets are tight, so selling features and benefits alone just won’t cut it. 3) Why act now?

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Examples Ideal Customer Profile ACT Sales 100

The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Or could it be the skill to really understand a customers needs and then take them on a journey which ends with the salesperson presenting them with a solution they feel compelled to act upon? Experts say that when you boil down selling to its key parts, it’s about two critical things – Conversations and Commitments.

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Social Media Selling Skills Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Before making the first call, the sales rep should scour the internet and your CRM for as much information about the prospective buyer as possible. Perhaps a prospect has complained about a particular problem on LinkedIn that your rep can help with, for instance. In other words, they teach rather than sell.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 90

The Science and Art of Selling

APRIL 14, 2014

What if they act like they may be interested, but still won’t buy? The first and most important step is to realize that you are not bothering your prospective customers/clients. Those skills are not wrong; they are simply incomplete for today’s market. The common objections are: I don’t want to bother anyone.

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Cold Calling How To Lead Generation LinkedIn 96

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As my product knowledge increased and selling skills became more polished, I felt I could really own the deals in my pipeline – proving to myself that I could win deals solo. Exec (Egg): I’ll run through the product demo and teach prospects what other companies in their space are doing to solve similar challenges.

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Energy Up-Sell Call-back Case Study 121

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. Harness The Trigger Events That Turn Prospects Into Customers. They also do not spend a lot of time planning and researching or any of the other things that seem to consume the prospecting time reps set aside.

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Cold Calling Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 161

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Eye contact may sound like a trivial skill to average reps, but for top performers, every behavior matters. Our experience in sales training shows that 50 percent of sales reps regularly miss quotas or underperform. Don’t attend sales training. Don’t have a system to develop sales skills.

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Referrals Exercises Discount Study 62

The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Then the sales teams have to be active in multi-channel selling, overcome the barrier buyer, changing business needs, and prospects who are increasingly well-informed. A comprehensive sales process encompasses all major customer interactions from prospecting to selling to nurturing. B2B buyers purchase in teams.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer 98

SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. They would ask, “What good is a prospect research tool if reps don’t know how to get a decision maker to engage? Sales Skill-Sets.

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Sales Tools Tools Decision Maker Cold Calling 126

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Analysis - the candidate studies the data provided, does independent research and determines the prospect''s needs. If appropriate, this may include a business impact analysis and cost justification to demonstrate analytical skills. But the job tryout is a exercise that proves how the candidate prepares, thinks and acts.

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Hiring Proposal Exercises Lead Rank 300

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. His focus is to accelerate peak performance fast. Go check it out!

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Channels Video Hubspot Face-to-face 100

Keith Rosen

MAY 26, 2013

Are you spending a lot of time following up with prospects to see if they have received the information you sent them? Learn why the hasty and untimely use of brochures and other marketing material can easily spoil even the best prospecting efforts. Marty was well into his conversation with a prospect that he cold called minutes ago.

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Collateral Cold Calling Analysis Call-back 133

The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Reps who are motivated to put in the time, who are always on the phone, researching prospects, and going above and beyond to close a deal– even in the face of constant rejection– are more likely to be successful. When a sales rep doesn’t have the necessary selling skills, leaders have options. Quadrant 2: High Will, High Skill.

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Commission Compensation Motivation Intent Signal 78

Sales Training Advice

MAY 31, 2010

I lead a lot of sales training sessions that focus on the first half of the sales process. I make and hear hundreds of prospect calls a year. If you look like your prospects, sound like your prospects, feel like your prospects, even smell like your prospects then you cease being a sales person and turn into a peer.

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Training Face-to-face How To Decision Maker 69

Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 18, 2012

Who is acting on your words? Prospective customers who call and want to buy. The random acts of kindness you perform. Communication that’s transferrable. Customers that are loyal and give repeat business without a bid or quote. How many of your customers fit into that category? How many referrals did you earn last month?

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Referrals ACT Facebook Channels 165

The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 4, 2018

Cold calling techniques should continue to be a valued sales skill and be included in any sales training program. Cold calling has evolved from a standalone blunt prospecting activity into a tactic that when combined with social selling and data is a powerful customer recruitment method.

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Cold Calling Social Selling Proposal Ideal Customer Profile 49

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ll also explain some essential things like why a good sales candidate is so important, where to find good candidates, how to make an offer, and how to hire and train your sales team to create successful salespeople who will improve your business. Want to train and develop talent in your company.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech.

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Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 85

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2019

This stage also involves learning how to prospect. Prospecting is just as fundamental to selling as closing, even though we often spend too much time worrying about closing. Once you have a command of these first level fundamentals, you can graduate to the intermediate selling skills. Intermediate Selling Skills.

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How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring Up-Sell 88