Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. Most Critical Skill Gaps. Field Sales vs. Inside Sales. What This Means for Sales Managers.

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Contact Monkey

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If you’re a business owner, you know how imperative it is to get the most out of your sales team in order to maximize key business results. This is especially pertinent today as the sales process has become much more challenging , evolving with the needs of buyers over the years. . contact-form-7]. 1) Focus on Providing Value.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 7, 2016

It’s really no secret that the three GREATEST sales tools are your MIND, TIME and NETWORK. My guess is that if you look closely at these three sales tools, you will find areas where you can improve. But how well are you managing these? That is key to your success. Don’t delay!

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The “Out of Office” auto reply feature can be a great tool to capitalize on sales opportunities. Check out the below video to see how this works: Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. . Think about it… your customer or prospect emails you.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 22, 2013

Email is neither the primary way to make sales nor the best way. Treat email as one of the tools you have to communicate with a prospect/customer. Too many salespeople think they can use email exclusively to generate sales. Use email as a tool to engage and separate yourself from your competition.

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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. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2014

The fear is the high price will be a turn off to customers and sales will simply dry up. In fact, a high price can be an excellent tool in closing more […]. Blog pricing Professional Selling Skills price ultra high price' Far too many companies are afraid of what might happen if they raise their prices.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The telephone is still a great prospecting tool, despite what some naysayers might want you to believe. Voicemail is a great extension of it and can get you connections you’d never get any other way. In my new book High-Profit Prospecting, I devote several chapters to the discussion of the telephone and voicemail.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 27, 2013

Short-questions are truly an amazing tool most salespeople never seem to grasp. Problem is that questions of that type do little to help the sales process. In fact, I’ll contend many times that they wind up harming the sales process. The sales process is about getting the customer talking.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Voicemail messages are a powerful tool if done right! Voicemail messages are an effective tool if used properly and it starts by not doing the stupid stuff. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Definitely DON’T: 1. Speak with a bland voice.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 17, 2013

Sure, you may know quite a bit more than your customer, but if you don’t learn to pause at the right time, you may lose the sale. Just because this might be true doesn’t give the saleseperson the right to assume the sales call is their time to play “conquer the enemy.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We provide training, tools, content to reduce their ramp time. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 13, 2017

And you’ll build your sales motivation and prospecting skills as well. When you know a prospect or customer has been on vacation because of their “out-of-office” message, plan to call them a few days after they return. This gives you an easy way to build rapport, because you can ask them about their vacation.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2013

Sure, we’ll be able to remember the big stuff, but many times the ability to close a sale rests on our ability to take a small key piece of information and leverage it. Make a commitment to use the tools you have, and that includes your CRM system. This means either at the end of each sales call or at the end of each day.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

It’s things like this that have people wondering if Linkedin is a viable sales tool. The stupidity of the message is how they’re all feature driven and dealing with something you could care less about. Recently, I did a short webinar […].

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Score More Sales

JUNE 2, 2014

In Ken Krogue’s full day session on Business Development – inside sales tips, strategies, tools, and methodology, this acronym was one of the highlights of his session because it brings everything you need in sales together. Here is how it covers the gamut of selling -. Basic selling skills can be taught.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Voicemail is a tool you can use in prospecting. Here’s a sample of a message I might leave someone: Hi Ron, this is Mark Hunter, The Sales Hunter. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Key is to leave a voicemail that reflects you in a positive manner.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 31, 2014

While packing up after conducting a sales training program recently, I found myself talking with one of the participants. Despite what I thought, he was concerned and wanted to know how he could tell if he was making the right decision to be in the sales industry. Short-term success in sales is not that difficult.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2015

Sadly, too many salespeople fail to realize that the telephone is still a great prospecting tool. It doesn’t matter how much anyone says otherwise, I’m still a firm believer the telephone is an amazing prospecting tool. We’ve reached #10 in my list of reasons most prospecting plans fail.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I had the pleasure to sit down with Emotional Intelligence (Ei) Sales Expert Colleen Stanley recently and we talked about how sales training – sales skills – can fail because our reps were not aware of their emotional awareness. LR: What made you write a book about Emotional Intelligence and Sales Results?

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2013

A sharp sales manager who is a strategic thinker and has clout in the company. They don’t have time for petty stuff and especially for a sales manager or anyone else who wants to pick apart everything and insist on over complicating everything. They know the more tools they have, the more successful they can be.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. That means you can prepare your client-facing teams with the knowledge and skills to perform at the highest level and the score cards to know what’s working and how to improve. Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools. Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. 7 Sales Prospecting Ideas That Work. Sorry, social media is just one tool. phone sales tips.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. Coaching is more of a challenge today, with sales reps often working remotely from their home offices. What is sales coaching?

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

There are many misconceptions about modern selling. Some sales leaders immediately disregard the principles, claiming it is just another buzzword. Others are caught in the constant grind of achieving quota and cannot fathom trying to implement a new sales plan. What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Free sales training can be a step in the right direction for those of you who may be new or newer to sales. Selling is changing rapidly and having a longer term career as a salesperson now depends on having a far wider of value added sales skills than even five years ago. What Is Free Sales Training?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I was listening to a Boston Sports Radio Station, the same one I wrote about here. It got me thinking about the road most often taken to sales management. Compared to the rocky road to coaching in the NFL, the road to sales management absolutely sounds like a road paved with gold!

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The urge to cut your price to close a sale is something we all face, and for many salespeople, it’s almost a daily occurrence. Suddenly the urge to do something stupid just to close a sale is not nearly as strong. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

If you can’t raise your level of sales effectiveness by at least 15%, you’ll wind up losing ground to the competition. You must find ways to streamline your sales process. If you sell in the B2B market, this same thing holds true for the customers your customers sell to. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. Retail Sales Trends. Book Review: The Challenger Sale.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 26, 2015

Today I’m giving further explanation on reason #5: Relying on email as your primary tool to prospect. There are 10 Reasons Most Prospecting Plans Don’t Work.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to Sales Motivation Monday! Each Monday I will be dedicating my blog to providing you with a quick tip or idea to help you with your sales motivation. The Sales Motivation Monday blog will provide you with another tool to go along with the Monday Morning Sales Video I release each Monday.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Clearly, too many sales people don’t know how to do research, as a result, they waste a lot of time. There are many that don’t leverage the tools effectively. So there is a lot of room for improvement in the research that sales people do. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

At this point, your 2013 sales number is essentially decided. I speak with many VP Sales who say the same thing every year: “We have some underperformers that are killing us.” At this point ‘A’ Players should be very involved in Social Selling. Assessing Your Sales Team. Get a clear picture about your sales team talent.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2013

Want to know how to get the best answers to your sales questions? The best sales questions tend to be short ones. Because short questions get you LONG answers, which are jam packed with vital information you need to make a sale. ” Sales Motivation Blog. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 28, 2015

Today we’ll look at the first thing to remember: #1: Voicemail works when used as ONE of your prospecting tools, rather than the only one. I am making good on my promise that I would unpack in detail the 5 Ways Can Work for Prospecting. When voicemail is combined with emails and even postal […].

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 14, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. Retail Sales Trends. of your sales are happening at a discount.

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