BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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Training Hiring Objections Coaching 62

The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Now more than ever it is important to have some sales training ideas to engage the remote or home based salesperson. Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The Importance of Sales Training. Sales Training Ideas to Try.

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Training Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Selling Skills 98

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. In this article, find the ethical concerns and best practices for using AI. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly. But how do you do that ethically?

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criteria for success

MARCH 30, 2022

Use this outline to help you get good coaching training. As a coach, you build relationships with your team and a big part of your coaching training is learning when to challenge and when to support others. Learning how to facilitate these interactions is a key part of sales coaching training. The Coaching Process.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Training Journal 95

Smooth Sale

AUGUST 11, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Struggle with Being Nice to Prospects? An early morning friendly conversation brought up the topic of struggling with being nice to prospects. In all honesty, sometimes it is a struggle to be nice to prospects and, occasionally, a client. My Story : Being Nice to Prospects.

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Prospecting Hiring Networking Conversion 78

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 20, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I was asked to comment on an article called The End of Solution Selling , which appeared in Harvard Business Review. The article was generally right on, but it also included several things that irritated me enough to question them and the article.

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Face-to-face Solutions Selling Discount Consultative Selling 169

Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 10, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Keith Daw , VP of GSD and Trainer at McDonell Consulting Group , where he ‘Gets Stuff Done’ and teaches the Sandler Training methodology. Know why you’re training your team before you start. Training during the last 15+ months [10:43]. powered by Sounder.

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Training Scale Webinar Metrics Face-to-face 119

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2023

Dinger, our GoldenDoodle, who I have featured in several articles , tore his ACL last week. There is a 100% correlation between how salespeople make major purchases and the behavior they’ll tolerate from their prospects. Hold that thought. Disconnected. Hold that thought too.

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Groups Comparison Buying Cycle Exercises 156

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 5, 2022

In a perfect world, prospects would immediately recognize the value your product or solution delivers and take the required actions to secure the solution for themselves. Therefore, value can be proposed but until prospects recognize value, they will remain hesitant to move forward in the sales process. Communicating Value is Hard.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting Scale 62

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to boost marketing and sales teams. A Lack of Training. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Recently I was talking to a group of college students regarding a sales career and they asked me what I thought were the best sales tips I’ve ever heard. Sales Training Tip #375: RFPS are Rarely Final. prospecting.

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Motivation Training Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 280

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 15, 2021

Once very couple of years, I like to re-run this article on the importance of asking questions as opposed to pitching. When you speak with a prospect for the first time, how much of your script is focused on describing and pitching your product or service as opposed to questioning and uncovering buying motives? Want a better way?

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Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Gatekeeper Decision Maker 194

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. before reading the rest of this article. Any takers?

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What you might not know is that LinkedIn members also publish a wealth of information, tips, and advice for their peers via LinkedIn articles and newsletters. One group particularly prolific is sales professionals. Sales leaders, trainers, and consultants regularly post articles that they distribute via their LinkedIn newsletter.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Excited to announce the public launch of LearnAboutLinked.com and the best LinkedIn training focused on B2B sales and marketing professionals that understand the power behind social selling. I have been involved with LinkedIn training for over eight years and have trained and spoken at sales conferences across North America on the topic.

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Social Selling LinkedIn B2B Training 120

Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 10, 2013

Sales Training Article: Competition. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company In my first year of selling I worked for a company that had a competitive analysis group. Read more sales training articles from CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 17, 2014

Let''s start today by looking at a couple findings from the Objective Management Group Sales Force Evaluation: Will Prospect. Prospects Consistently. The difference between the two findings is this: Will Prospect - this is a sales person that will prospect as long as they are managed to do so. Same as prospecting.

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Prospecting Hiring ACT Exercises 185

Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

This on-demand LinkedIn training for sales professionals program teaches you how to leverage the site to create more sales conversations and build your book of business. So, if you want to make the very best online impression and actually attract customers to you, taking a LinkedIn learning course, tutorial, or training is the way to go!

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LinkedIn B2B Conversion Training 71

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be. LinkedIn groups would be a fine place to start. Tell me; who would you rather deal with?

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Cold Calling LinkedIn 197

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

Janek Performance Group

JULY 15, 2022

When a sales rep asks us point-blank, ”What is the best way to follow-up with a prospect that goes silent?“ In this article, we will explore why prospects go silent, ways to handle it, and most importantly, solutions to help prevent being on the receiving end of the silent treatment. . Why Prospects Go Silent.

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Prospecting Sales Cycle Benefit Call-back 62

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 31, 2010

Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales management training (4). sales prospecting (34). Sales Training (5). training sales (25).

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Training Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 120

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

Sales Training Article: How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling. The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. On April 18th 2011, BMW CEO Jim O''Donnell told a group of reporters: "Electric Vehicles won''t work for most people. Reps can use event to get an appointment with prospects.

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Social Selling Top of Funnel Training Case Study 45

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Because time in front of qualified customers is the most productive, it’s critical to maximise those moments and minimise the hours spent driving, doing paperwork, and visiting with no or low-return customers and prospects. Sources of information will vary according to your customer/prospect’s industry. MTD Sales Training.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Territories 120

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 19, 2022

In this article, we outline six tips to motivate your sales team and increase performance, today and in the future. In addition to considering what makes different employees tick, managers must keep an eye on how group dynamics affect overall team performance. . Managers should train on opportunities that are still open and fresh.

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Motivation Sales Coaching Coaching Call-back 117

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Prospecting. Sales Training.

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Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. But the most vital thing to remember is that training isn’t just for onboarding. Ongoing training and continuous development are crucial to a rep’s and an organization’s success. Training isn’t just for onboarding.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Enablement Retention 122

MTD Sales Training

MAY 12, 2017

Prospects can now research company information, reviews, feedback, and all manner of information online, so the need to have a salesperson presenting and demonstrating benefits is becoming less and less necessary. Well, as just stated, gone are the days where you need to present information as if the prospect has never heard of you before.

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Negotiation Groups Channels Prospecting 120

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here are ten alternatives that will drive interest in you and your products: 1) Write and share informative content that helps prospective customers solve their business problems. 3) Join in with, contribute to and learn from specific LinkedIn groups. 3) Join in with, contribute to and learn from specific LinkedIn groups.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Face-to-face 169

LeadFuze

MARCH 9, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn: What is a sales role play. How to train your team effectively with sales role play in 3 steps. Image Source: Elevate Corporate Training ). Providing group learning efficiency. Instead of using a ‘narcissist’ approach, you should focus more on the prospects’ needs than yourself.

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Hiring Training Sales Qualified Lead Exercises 105

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 17, 2014

Let''s start today by looking at a couple findings from the Objective Management Group Sales Force Evaluation: Will Prospect. Prospects Consistently. The difference between the two findings is this: Will Prospect - this is a sales person that will prospect as long as they are managed to do so. Same as prospecting.

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Prospecting Hiring ACT Exercises 136

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Some aspects of sales training are easy to measure others not so, but it is a fair question when I am asked what they can expect from an ROI standpoint. Companies have shown selectivity with other training or development programs. Given that, why train them?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Smooth Sale

MAY 6, 2024

Remember, nurturing your talent is key to successful growth, whether through recruitment services, training programs, or building a leadership pipeline. With these fun ways to spruce up your business , the return might not appear on a balance sheet but is pivotal to your company’s overall health and prospects.

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Ideal Customer Profile Real Estate Hiring Networking 101

Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And one of the most common Sales Self-Limiting Beliefs we see in sellers is the belief that Prospects Are Honest. You probably have heard the old adage, “How do you know a prospect is lying? Most prospects are not deliberately being dishonest with sellers. They don’t take what the prospect says at face value.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead 59

Smooth Sale

MARCH 19, 2024

Finding the better way includes increasing our motivation to right a wrong by: Asking questions Realizing disturbing news Witnessing a population at risk Speaking up regarding concerns Creating or joining a significant group to contribute by acting specifically to correct wrongs. Learn more to train teams and join the advocacy program.

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Lead Rank Face-to-face Hiring ACT 110

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to boost marketing and sales teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130