Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals. 7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The majority of Lead Development Reps are inexperienced, undertrained, and ill-equipped for today’s buyer. However, buyer behavior has changed. Informed buyer’s are entering the sales process with companies later than ever before. We are now living in the era of the self-directed buyer. Why are LDRs inadequately prepared?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. For example, let’s say an organization finds that its best sellers frequently use a specific piece of sales content to close deals. When it comes to B2B sales, content is still king.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Many salespeople fear the ‘close’ of the sale, as they think it might be putting too much pressure on the decision-maker. By anticipating and dealing with objections early on in the sales cycle, there is more chance you will hit the buyer’s purchase decision with a clean run. 10) Ensure the buyer is listened to.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 25, 2018

Some buyers make purchases on impulse; others take their time and try to avoid risk. Some buyers are very loyal; others will automatically choose the cheapest option. Some buyers can be quite intimidating to the point of being rude; others are quite passive and easily manipulated. The Analytical Buyer. The Amiable Buyer.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. Today’s B2B buyers research their options online long before they connect with any sales rep. Buyers have taken control of the purchase process.

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The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 29, 2023

Closing techniques to finalize a sale should be understood by every salesperson. In the dynamic and competitive realm of sales, the ability to close a deal is the ultimate measure of success. However, closing a sale is often easier said than done. To execute the Ben Franklin Close, sketch a simple two-column table.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. buyer enablement”?—?while

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. For sales training to be effective, you must: Identify Specific Needs: This involves understanding the unique aspects of your product or service, the target market, and the skills or knowledge gaps within the sales team.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

If a referral closes up to 70% of the time, why are we spending most of our effort on strategies that close less than 1% of the time?! B2B buyers want to do 70-90% of their product or solution research before speaking to a specific vendor. Over the past three years, there have been a number of seismic shifts in the market.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Buyers take advantage of salespeople. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with a number of buying departments, many times as part of the sales training I’m doing for their salespeople. There are six confessions professional buyers have shared with me regarding how […].

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 16, 2019

They can be known as ‘buyer types’. Some buyer types make purchases on impulse; other buyer types take their time and try to avoid risk. Some buyer types are very loyal; other buyer types will automatically choose the cheapest option. The analytical buyer distrusts salespeople because they lack precision.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 13, 2017

When getting to the closing of a sale, salespeople often start to feel nervous because they feel they may get a rejection or they are putting the buyer under some pressure. So they hold back in asking for the order, or project a nervous attitude so the buyer wonders if they are really making the right decision.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’m sure you’ve been in that situation where you’re about to gain commitment from the buyer and then you put your foot right in at, and completely blow the moment! It could be that you said something the buyer picks up on and it makes them nervous about making that final decision. So, seven tips for what not to say when closing.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because even though they contribute to and quite literally enable sales, their activities aren’t always as easy to tie to the deal as it is for reps who get phone and face time with buyers. The easiest way for enablement teams to prove their value to executive leadership is by connecting sales training to pipeline.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As sellers prepare to move prospects through each stage, they require resources to connect their solutions with buyer needs. Marketers create the content, such as solution briefs, product guides, and sales playbooks , that sales reps need to successfully maneuver buyer interactions. Enter conversation intelligence.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Buyers, like sellers, are creatures of ego, rather than admit they need help, they blurt it out as an aggressive question, an objection. The also-rans get defensive, close their mind to the possibilities, and respond in a way that turns the buyer off at the exact point when they were open to input.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. That’s why I’m not the biggest fan of the one-call close. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Conversational marketing is an audience engagement channel that lets buyers and sellers communicate in real time, using tools such as live chat, chatbots, voice bots, and audio conversations. With conversational marketing, sellers and buyers can exchange content and critical information at the right moment, accelerating the customer journey.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today’s sellers are dealing with the high expectations of savvy B2B buyers, decision-by-committee, disruptive technology, M&A, product innovations… and more. 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? What about sales training programs?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 16, 2019

The problem I’m hearing is that sales reps—both newer reps and even some seasoned reps—immediately drop the price or offer a trial, or readily hand out references thinking that this is what will close the sale. If they say they still need to think about it, it’s up to you to keep closing and isolate the real objection.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

There are certain trainings that can produce these results. It will help your team determine: What deals can close quickly in your pipeline. Recognize the deals that are moving faster than the buyer moving. Specific Seller actions that can get the buyer to take action. Rarely do you train on how to strategize on a deal.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

Good questions and the answers they produce can make a huge difference in your ability to close deals faster. So keep reading as we provide you with our top 12 B2B sales questions to close deals faster. From here you’ll be able to estimate the length of the buyer’s journey and set your expectations accordingly.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Closing should be a win for both sides. Hubspot details this sales closing technique with a few questions: Ask your prospect: “Think of a scale of 1 – 10, where 1 is ‘I would NEVER buy from you’ and 10 is ‘I wish you sold more so I could KEEP buying from you!' Being OK with Walking Away. Van Leuven agrees.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Know The Prospective Buyer. Buyer Traits. However, you will find that they provide a good overall view of commonalities in the different types of buyers. Different Prospective Buyer Types. The Assertive: This buyer personality is often difficult to deal with. Assertive/Aggressive Buyer Tips. The Assertive.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 2, 2024

With AI, sellers can boost productivity and close more deals , and CROs are taking note by investing accordingly. By 2025, 0 % of CROs will have a centralized AI operations team on their GTM org The most innovative organizations also incorporate AI in sales enablement to ensure their sellers always have what it takes to close deals.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 16, 2024

And they may also realize that sales training only goes so far in generating higher success rates. The average sales organization publishes continuous content updates to reinforce training. Interestingly, Mindtickle reports, around 80% of new training content sees only a 30% engagement rate.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 23, 2018

We had an enquiry last month from a sales manager who asked us to work with his sales team for half-a-day on closing techniques. He said his team was good at relationship-building but when it came to the close, they needed help. If you have done everything right before getting to the close, it really should be straightforward.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Then, it’s time for you to close the deal and boom! The solution lies not in being more forceful with how you close, but rather, being more open with how you prospect. Your goal is to build on the customer’s ego in the prospecting phase and not when you’re trying to close the deal. Customers have egos. It’s a problem.

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Score More Sales

JULY 15, 2014

We talk to sellers all the time that assume a buyer is thinking in the same ways that they are. You know the old saying, “never assume… ” To build business you cannot afford to assume what’s in my head is the same thought that is in my buyer’s head instead think like your buyer. Close More Deals.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. However, traditional coaching and training methods tend to fall flat because they take a one-size fits all approach that doesn’t fit the needs of each individual rep.

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 28, 2020

We created a virtual Gap Selling training course for salespeople. With a price point of $99.00, it was designed to make it easy and affordable for salespeople to access the same training we provide to large sales organizations around the world. We are doing our LAST virtual Gap Selling Training this May 5th and 6th at 10:00 MST.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. Compare that with your own close rate or your team’s closing percentages. In short, you’ll begin to tell the buyers from the non-buyers, and that is the start of closing more sales and making more money.

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criteria for success

JUNE 21, 2022

Looking for the perfect active listening exercise for your next sales training event? Here at CFS, we are big believers in group training activities. Sometimes salespeople forget about their buyers. The active listening exercise shared below puts salespeople directly in the position of their buyers. We can help!

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Highspot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To navigate these murky waters, salespeople are increasingly relying on the concept of buyer enablement – a sales approach that makes it easier than ever for buyers to champion your product, so reps can close new business. What are the four types of buyers. How do you engage a B2B buyer? What Is Buyer Enablement?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 3, 2017

You’d be surprised how often I hear, “My account based selling team can’t close.”. Closing is never the problem. Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. Trying to teach reps how to close without addressing the broken links in your lead generation system will not yield sustainable B2B sales leads.

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