SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This blog represents a test. Are you capturing cell phone numbers for leads, prospects and customers? Are your systems and training mobile enabled? Top 5 Most Obsolete Sales Practices: Solution Selling - developed in the 80s when hair bands were popular. Some have embraced it and some are still in denial.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. And you competently juggle your frenetic schedule, apportioning just the right amount of time for office work, prospecting, sales calls, follow-up, travel, and communication. An interested prospect you just met with. The arrival of an RFP.

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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. Should they blog? That is how you build trust.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

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. Solution Selling Methodology. As you can see, Solution Selling is a complex skill, and it’s also incredibly question-heavy. SPIN Selling Methodology.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Prospecting is broken, even very good prospecting outreaches are no longer as impactful as in the past. Great prospecting outreaches are getting lost in the sheer volume of outreach that so many others are doing–virtually every channel, email, social, phone, text, is no longer working very well.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This is one of the major ways that value selling differs from solution selling. Value selling and solution both acknowledge that buyers are trying to solve a problem. While value-added selling focuses on the buyer’s needs, solution selling focuses on your product’s features.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Guest blog by Zahra Bukhari, sales operations manager at Localytics. In today’s sellers’ environment, there are many standard sales methodologies your team can use: The Challenger Sale, MEDDIC , BANT , Solution Selling, Value Selling — the list could go on. Training/Documentation.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Quality conversations and personal engagement with prospects. All the time we’re having unscripted conversation with our clients’ prospects. They have the experience, training and the personality traits to insure that the folks on the phone who represent you, represent you well. Each associate is trained.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 12, 2022

Tech sales involves selling software as a service (SaaS) solutions to other businesses. That could be anything from CRM software to sales prospecting software. Methodologies like: Solution selling: works by recommending specific products and services that will solve the individual concerns of the customer.

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SBI

APRIL 2, 2013

For salespeople, the best use of time is to spend it talking with a quality prospect. A novice might ask, “Why don’t salesperson spend all their time with prospects?” Unless the prospect says, “Holy-smokes! Salespeople do other things besides sell. Converting leads to prospects.

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Sell Integrity

MAY 13, 2020

Originally Published As a Guest Blog on SellingPower.com By Mike Fisher. Many gate keepers are not there to answer calls, so don’t be afraid to pick up the phone – you might just have a direct line to your prospect. . What’s next – in how we’ll serve customers, lead teams, and collaborate with each other?

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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 Issues. Sales Skill-Sets.

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

On February 6, 2013 Sales training industry experts Brian Lambert, Geoffrey James, John Roy and Scott Hudson discussed “The good, bad & ugly of Challenger Sales Model”. Every year, billions of dollars are spent for sales training. A big portion of these training efforts does not show adequate returns. Why should you care?

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SBI

AUGUST 28, 2012

Sales leaders use numerous methods for increasing the velocity of revenue already, including sales training, sales coaching, and sales process improvement. People:Staffing decisions, sales skill development, training, territory assignments, coaching, 2. Find and utilize the most effective and relevant sales content for each prospect.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

All the same guiding principles apply to social selling so it's been my personal mandate as of late, to advance social selling into something elevated that I've dubbed Advanced Strategic B2B Social Selling. Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! What's not to love about that?!

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

While both hunters and farmers are always needed, and both new accounts and current accounts are important, if you want to grow revenue in today’s environment you’ll need a large army of well-trained hunters and a smaller contingent of farmers. Follow Nancy on Twitter @sellingtools or subscribe to her Tool Talk blog. Simplified.”

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

These issues are all compounded by the growing need to constantly be on the ball and stay one step ahead of your prospects and competitors. Sales led businesses tend to rely more on solution selling, so the needs of their sales team are focused on things like re-baselining knowledge and sharing success stories for example.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

These issues are all compounded by the growing need to constantly be on the ball and stay one step ahead of your prospects and competitors. Sales led businesses tend to rely more on solution selling, so the needs of their sales team are focused on things like re-baselining knowledge and sharing success stories for example.

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SBI

JUNE 26, 2012

Linda built her company into an international power-house having trained over two million sales professionals to date. Follow Nancy on Twitter @sellingtools or subscribe to her Tool Talk blog. You may recognize her name as the Founder and Chairwoman of Richardson , the global sales performance company.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? However, most sales methodologies and most sales teams do not subscribe to a sales method that covers prospecting. Most, however, do not cover the prospecting phase. SPIN Selling. SNAP Selling.

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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. There is no doubt, whether you’re selling to consumers or businesses, salespeople take on the toughest roles out there.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. Fanatical Prospecting. Combo Prospecting. High-Profit Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sales training, whether solution selling, consultative, insight, value based, Challenger have, at various times been the key to sales performance and growth. Or we can solve everything about sales if we just do more prospecting and demand gen. The post Virtual Selling Is Not The Future Of Sales!

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

I read most of the other sales blogs too. Some of them are from companies within the Inside Sales community which, in an attempt to sell their services, are also publishing misinformation. Customer-Centric/Customer-Focused Selling Of course salespeople must be more focused on the customer and prospect.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . Content Management System. Conversion. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Success.

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LeadFuze

MAY 30, 2021

A sales process is a set of steps that a sales rep takes to convert a prospect. It helps sales reps stay on course by giving them a clear roadmap they can follow in order to move prospects from one stage to the next. It’s usually developed by a consultant or a sales training vendor. What is a Sales Process. Click To Tweet.

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Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Occasionally, a sales process or methodology comes to the attention of the sales community, like Solution Selling, or the Challenger Sale, most of which provide a valuable contribution to the craft. They complain about not being able to achieve compliance with CRM, their sales processes, their training, or their goals.

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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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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I have Darius Lahoutifard with me and we’re going to be talking about qualifying prospects with the MEDDIC sales method and welcome to the show, Darius, it’s really great to have you here today. So he’s definitely the right person to hear how to qualify prospects with the MEDDIC method here. Steve : Yeah.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 13, 2019

Use this blog to refine your existing sales process with data-backed best practices. Gain a detailed understanding of the customer’s voice, including the questions and objections that come up during specific parts of the sales process, as well as the materials prospects request. Already have one?

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John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

and it was filled with so much value, we decided to try something new and transcribe it as a blog post. Whether it’s an actual phone call or Zoom meeting, at some point you will need to jump on the phone with your prospects. What blog should I read to educate myself.” Top Takeaways from this Episode.

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SBI

JUNE 12, 2012

How do you lead each conversation so the prospect will want to continue the sales journey with you? Did you first think through the key sales messages and the best way to communicate them to prospects? Trigger statements are something the prospect says that gives you a glimpse into their frame of mind and their thought-process.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Prospecting 2. Prospecting Sales Tips & Techniques. Let’s start with PROSPECTING! You have to hunt them with outbound prospecting. BUT, prospecting is more than memorizing a cold calling script. Art and science are both essential to GREAT prospecting. Quick Links 1. Starting Meetings 3. Discovery 4.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Be an expert and start to radiate out insights, solutions and your personality from your blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, an Infographic Pinterest board (design the infographics yourself), get quoted in the media via deft press releases, speak at conferences and become omnipresent everywhere a customer in your industry would go on LinkedIn.

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