The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

One question I always when helping sales teams prospect better, is “why B2B professionals don’t like to telephone prospecting?” Rather than worrying about rejection, focus on what proceeds it, an objection. When you learn to manage objections, you can change the trajectory of the call, and avoid rejections. By Tibor Shanto.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 13, 2022

Lately, I’ve been watching some eLearning programs on objection handling. It suddenly struck me, there’s a unique arrogance we sellers have about the concepts of objections. Too often, the underlying thinking seems to be that salespeople are the only people that encounter objections.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 21, 2023

In sales, you need to understand the difference between an objection and an objective. Here are the four most common customer objections that a salesperson will encounter. Objections are easy to overcome if you've done your homework prior to your customer needs analysis meeting.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

Too often, there is an alignment challenge between what buyers need and what sellers do. We seem to be on diverging paths, and this creates problems for both buyers and sellers. What don’t buyers need from sellers? Their objective is to solve a problem and successfully drive a change initiative.

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Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2020

If you’re dealing with a sales objections…congratulations! We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , ZoomInfo’s Vice President of Sales. When sales prospects offer objections, it means they’re taking you seriously. ” Most Common Sales Objections. It can drag on forever.”

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 10, 2018

If you’re dealing with an objection, congratulations! We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , DiscoverOrg’s VP of Sales. I love objections. If you’re NOT getting objections, you’re probably not very close to a sale, because your pospect doesn’t have that uncomfortable feeling of taking a risk.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2019

I hate objections, and I bet you don’t wake up looking to be rejected first thing in the morning, and then have to work the rest of the day. As with most things in prospecting and sales is the same, to develop a routine you can and willingly implement. Once you master the basics, you can move up to using questions to get them to think.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sales objections are a common occurrence during a typical sales cycle. Therefore, learning how to effectively handle objections is crucial to hitting goals, crushing sales quotas , and developing a successful sales career. Whether you’re new to sales or a seasoned professional, today’s post is for you.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

But they are completely ignoring the buyers’ state of readiness. That is the time between NOW, and when the buyer indents on making a decision. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. The challenge is that the number of Active Buyers is tiny.

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SBI

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Six Essential Skills for Responding to Sales Objections. By Randy DeHaan, Director of Sales, Chorus.ai. Every sales rep has experienced it: A call is going well until a prospect voices objections that throw you off, leaving you searching for a response as the silence grows.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

Just the anticipation of being rejected crushes egos and opportunities to boot; sellers become so paralyzed by the thought of the objection, they fail to deal with it properly when it comes, and it always comes. Take it as an objective, and you get defensive and lose. This requires you play offence on your field, not defense on theirs.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2020

Voicemail is a great example in sales, there are as many opinions as there are pundits. It’s about voicemail for buyers vs. voicemail with prospects. Mastering the asynchronous sales element is key, but it assumes that there is something to continue. Of course, not unless they are one of the 10% of active buyers in your segment.

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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2014

Yesterday on this blog, I wrote about sellers who drive commerce for their buyers have greater success than those who just drive sales. The Objective Seller Webinar. The webinar will discuss how all businesses have objectives relating to their market, their commerce, and their opportunities. Building a better question.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

In sales, a business development strategy is central to understanding and engaging with your customers. Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 4, 2018

How do I overcome price objections? These questions and countless others often show salespeople are looking at sales from an old, out-of-date, perspective. These days, it isn’t about how good you are at selling; it’s about how good you are at determining the needs and wants of your buyers. Talk my language. Read that again.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 13, 2021

We’ve been giving away too much money in sales over the past century. We’ve been trained to think the buyer’s budget matters. For years, when a buyer says my budget is X, we assume and operate from the fact that that’s all they have to spend and that if we don’t meet their budget we’ll lose.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2014

Join me for this special webinar looking at: The Objective Seller – presented by salesforce.com. All businesses have objectives, focusing on objectives and the buyer’s desired return on those objectives, are the most effective way to engage and align with buyers. sell better Tibor Shanto'

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The Pipeline

APRIL 10, 2014

Most sales people think about objections as being a bad thing, a lot of sales people and worse leaders, get really uptight when it comes to objections. But objections are really not a bad thing, not always convenient or easy to manage, but they are not a bad thing. Allow you to qualify – disqualify buyers.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Their success hinges on buyer engagement — getting the prospect’s attention, holding it throughout the sales cycle , and maintaining interest to build customer loyalty beyond closing. With this type of news, sales reps need to engage as many people as possible. These leaders typically don’t have time for cold sales calls.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 29, 2016

If you read this blog regularly (and why wouldn’t you), you know that I put a lot of emphasis on understanding and selling to a prospect’s Objectives, a much better area of focus than pains or needs. One of the positive elements of Objectives is that they are generally long term, and they continuously evolve. Well maybe.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 3, 2018

Objections to your proposal can occur at any time in the sales process. Whenever they occur, you need to be confident in your approach and recognise that any objection is not a definitive ‘no’. Whatever the objection, I believe there are some words you can use that will help you initially deal with it. You “ I understand.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One certainty for salespeople is that, at some point, they will handle objections. In deals ranging from the transactional to the complex and at any point in the sales process, chances are someone will scrunch their face, purse their lips, or straight up shake their head. Another common objection stems from a competitor’s offer.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 8, 2014

Return On Objectives - Harnessing Objectives to Drive Better Sales Conversations. Learn how to change the sales conversation and who should be having that conversation with! Sales Skills Tibor Shanto' Presented by . Join me on March 19, at 3:00 pm Eastern. . Proactive exploration.

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LeadFuze

JULY 25, 2021

9 Overcoming Sales Objections Strategies for Getting Your New Product Launch Marketing Plan on Track. Even when they do, overcoming sales objections needs to be your next goal. Overcoming sales objections of all of those leads is possibly the biggest differentiator between those who succeed and those who don’t.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 25, 2012

This entire sales interaction from start to finish could have been a blue print for the sales training manual. You foresaw every objection and stall well ahead of time and you eliminated those objections before they even came up. Still, the prospect objects. The No Objection Objection. It was perfect.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? Increasingly, buyers are choosing rep-free buying experiences. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. As a result, we focus on the buyer.

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Connect2Sell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

No one wants so hear an objection from a buyer. Sellers would prefer smooth sailing from open to close.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2018

As a B2B sales rep, you already know objections are an unavoidable part of your job. Yet, as we explained in a recent blog post , there are many tips and tricks sales reps can use to bypass common objections during the sales cycle. Four Ways to Establish Value in the Face of Price Objections. Keep reading.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The main reason for that is that they are approaching things from a deficit, they are casting a small and porous net, one that only captures a small set of buyers, those with a defined need. While those without a recognized need, will just object to the call, leave those looking for need or selling solutions rejected and dejected.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Most sales professionals recommend using a sales methodology that involves uncovering a buyer’s biggest problem or pain point. While this is essential for sales success, it’s also only half of the story. Sellers hear a buyer’s complaint and often jump to problem-solving far too quickly.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2014

I recently saw an ad for a sales program, and that big bold letters enticing me to buy read: “How To Get Ahead Of Your Buyer”. One of the key things we help sales teams accomplish with the EDGE framework is alignment with the buyer. Apparently some sales people still ask what keeps the prospect awake at night.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Ask any sales leader what they want, and you’ll get an answer along these lines. You can’t tell a sales rep to “increase sales” and expect them to know what to do. A good place to start is to set the right sales objectives. We’ll also look at examples of sales objectives that you can set for your sales team.

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The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 18, 2022

When dealing with sales objections, the first thing you need to understand is that an objection is how a buyer communicates that a gap exists between their current situation and the clarity of the problem to be resolved before proceeding to buy. Understanding what Sales Objections are.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

Try this technique yourself and watch as you begin qualifying real buyers, or disqualifying those who just want to get you off the phone… And if you’d like more scripted rebuttals to this and many other objections and selling situations, then pick up a copy of my new, best-selling book on phone scripts.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, we sometimes find even these most patriotic of buyers can cause us challenges through raising objections or concerns. 1) Keep close to the buyer to check on any sign of concerns. Whatever it is, you need to be aware if there’s any deviation from the normal relationship you have with the buyer. Happy Selling!

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Objections. Objections. Objections. Cold call objections are par for the course for outbound sales reps. Follow this 3-point framework to overcome any and all cold call objections you will face. Bonus: We’ll also share 4 cold calling tips to avoid cold call objections entirely. Label their objection.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 16, 2017

Not everything prospects say that does not align or agree with your view is an objection, and more importantly, you shouldn’t react to everything as if it was. Some objections/questions, especially when you know when and where they will appear, are actually good. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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