Product Management University

APRIL 15, 2018

Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Here’s the thing: if you and all of your competitors are using the vanilla ice cream approach to selling, you’re missing an opportunity to showcase your unique value and improve win rates. Solution selling has long been the norm in B2B. It’s not wrong or bad.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

Almost every company has its own sales process — a progression shaped by factors like the nature of its industry, its target personas, its market position, and the structure of its sales organization. Thoroughly train your reps on both. Ultimately, it's a series of steps made by a business for that business.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Listen to the entire episode to learn how to build your modern B2B sales strategy and team. 4:47] If you’re training your team in a legacy approach where it’s looks like solution selling and we start with let me tell you how great our company is and look at all these logos…. [8:21]

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

He is the creator of the Top 1% Academy, where he trains on how to sell to buyers, whether they be CEOs, business owners, or entrepreneurs, and how to be in the top 1% of sales earners doing so. Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice! For this week’s episode, I am joined by Doug C.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2021

If you focus on solution selling , your reps may give customized solutions to prospects that display how your product will meet their individual needs, whereas teams that use the outbound methodology may focus on outreach tactics like cold-calling. 88% of salespeople with Sandler training said their sales strategy improved.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Value selling, also known as value-based selling or value-added selling, focuses on unique benefits, not just features. Incorporating value selling into sales training can help your company stay ahead of the competition. Remember that proper sales training equips sellers with the skills to excel in this approach.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

This is leading to frustration among many B2B buyers. Buyers have been trained to expect speed, availability, and a self-directed buying experience. This leads to friction when B2B sellers don’t match their new buying world. They have kept up with the market. Miller Heiman, SPIN, Solution Selling).

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

And just because a sales rep is skilled at closing SMB or mid-market deals, it doesn’t mean they have what it takes for enterprise sales. The following are just a few: Revenue growth Enterprise deals are typically larger than small or mid-market deals. Enterprise sales isn’t for the faint of heart.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

This sales methodology also works well in highly competitive markets. Marketing has to help prep your team by playing an active role in training your sellers on the market, buyer personas, pain points, and insights. If you don’t have a strong marketing capability, your message will likely be inconsistent and confusing.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, organizations need sales training software to ensure their reps have the training required to be consultative sellers. Solution selling vs. consultative selling: how they differ Consultative selling is a vastly different approach from traditional selling and requires a different set of selling skills.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

You can use our LIGHTHEARTED guide to test your own B2B Sales Knowledge and that of your sales colleagues. 4) Account Manager  a Sales person who only sells to the customers they have, as they cant close any new customers. Much easier to sell on price. Much easier to sell on price. Dates to be confirmed.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, sales organizations must deliver training and ongoing learning opportunities to ensure sellers master the strategies outlined in the playbook. Let’s take a closer look at a few of those B2B sales playbook components. Sales process The sales process section should take up a good portion of your B2B sales playbook.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Virtually every organization I work with has a real misunderstanding of Selling Processes and Sales Methodologies. And, I think, training companies and consultants (like me), sometimes confuse these issues, not serving our clients as effectively as we should. What are our strategies in our target markets and customers?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have."

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. Let me clarify: I would argue that the highly trained, effective salesperson is more important than ever. The Pipeline Guest Post – Craig Rosenberg.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

The methodology you choose also needs to fit your customers and your market, so it’s crucial to choose the right one! There’s SPIN Selling, The Challenger Sale, SNAP Selling, Conceptual Selling, Consultative Selling… The list goes on. Conceptual Selling. Consultative Selling.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. So the first question is answered: A “real” lead is qualified and nurtured by Marketing—and ready for Sales to take over and turn into revenue. Since 1997, we’ve had 3.6

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Marketing and selling today isn’t a predictable progression that you’ve decided is how your prospects and customers should buy. Too often, marketers and salespeople base their messaging on the needs prospects tell them they have. Align Sales and Marketing. Sales is a design point for better marketing.

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

Success in a selling role requires an educational background, experience, focus, tenacity and strong communication skills. Selling roles can be highly rewarding with the right support and training. What is Sales? How to Get Into a Sales Role? To get into a sales role, one must have the right skills, experience, and attitude.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dario Prolio from leading sales training and performance management firm Richardson. Our buying behavior as consumers has influenced our buying behavior as b2b buyers. They hear “sell the solution” but they don’t know what that means and they don’t know how to do it.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 12, 2019

The internet has changed the fundamentals of B2B sales. The tectonic plates have shifted between buyer and seller: Skilled sales teams are no longer necessary to provide product or solution information, except when online marketing content is inadequate. The Role of B2B Sales Teams. Sales training firms are thriving.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 25, 2018

Miller Heiman Group CEO Byron Matthews kicked off Elevate 2018 by telling the audience something they probably already feel but may not have realized: “Buyers are getting better at buying faster than sellers are getting better at selling.”. Sales enablement brings it all together.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

As starters, Mark Hanan established the branding this term in his brilliantly written book Consultative Selling – an early and extremely important work about selling consultatively. Because of the branding, Consultative Selling has become one of the “ings” in our field like: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling and Solution Selling?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Written by a legendary sales consultant with going-on four decades of selling experience, The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople is a must-read sales book – whether you’re a novice or seasoned veteran. podcast host Andy Paul has spent decades as one of the foremost experts on sales strategy, process, and training.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And though this method is perhaps more nuanced than the usual cut-and-dried sales practices, some market trends indicate consultative selling skills are 100% worth the extra effort. In fact, as far back as 2016, buyers were already expressing a preference for collaborative sales experiences without the standard “hard sell” tactics.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) can only fulfill its potential if it delivers consistent content that is useful for Account-Based Selling (ABS). The best B2B sales teams already utilize ABS, having realized that one-dimensional, product-centric selling is not enough. B2B account targeting starts with account fundamentals.

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Gong.io

APRIL 18, 2022

The SPIN Selling Methodology is similar to Solution Selling. It relies on great sales discovery and question-asking to help customers understand their problems, how impactful they are, and what the best solution might look like. This article will not review every single methodology on the market. What does S.P.I.N.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Most sales training companies and sales teams subscribe to a sales method but generally, it covers from “hello to close” That’s the phase from the moment you say hello, begin building rapport and trust, all the way to learning how to effectively negotiate a contract and close. . SPIN Selling. Solution Selling.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

You need to train them and equip them with the right strategies and tools to succeed, such as the right CRM system , and a sales playbook. It’s not supposed to sit in a dusty cupboard, from which you pull it once or twice per year to train new salespeople. Even if you hire the best sales reps , this doesn’t guarantee success.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But what’s really different about selling this as a solution? Sure it may require a consultative/solution selling approach, it requires deep product knowledge, but there is nothing about the technology implementation that necessarily requires specialized selling skills. So why the mystique?

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Sales Methodologies can make or break your business , as they not only impact the way you sell, they have a direct impact on many other important factors in your business. It is a series of common and shared beliefs on selling, which will influence everything from sales recruitment, to sales tactics and strategy.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 22, 2013

Exacerbating the problem even further is when a sales manager wants to change the behavior of its sales force and pushes them to sell solutions, yet pays them (sometimes very well) for selling just products. The clear disconnect between what solutions actually mean to a provider versus a customer seems to be getting wider.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2013

” There all sorts of planning meetings, presentations, training sessions, and so forth. Which brings me to sales and marketing. When I first started selling in the early 80′s, one of “THE HOT TOPICS” in selling was “solutions selling, consultative selling, customer focused selling.”

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

This sales glossary is meant to reduce ramp time for new reps that are getting immersed in B2B sales jargon for the first time. Account-Based Marketing. Account-Based Selling / Sales Development. Average Sale/Selling Price. AB Testing. Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Account Development Representative. Base Salary.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. These 25 solutions form the bedrock to proven sustainable results with advanced social selling injected as a force multiplier: Move from push to pull marketing.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 13, 2019

Some examples include: Assess that there’s actually a need and the customer is qualified to buy Educate the customer and prove value Agree on a solution, including pricing, timeline, deliverables and KPIs Complete a contract It’s adaptable. Instead of pushing to close customers, inbound selling looks to meet customers where they are.

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