Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bringing it closer to sales, you invested in the CRM application you needed but your salespeople aren't using it the way you had hoped. As a result, you don't have realtime data to populate your dashboard and still don't know what's really going on with your sales organization, their pipeline and the forecast.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In the face of all this, for the most part we are training our sales people in the same skills I learned many decades ago, and my predecessors learned decades before that. Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 23, 2011

To Become A Master Salesperson, Master NON Selling Skills. Tweet Share Everyone talks about “how to sell” Not me. In order to struggle less, you must begin to make the transition from “making a sale” to “creating a buying atmosphere.” What is selling about? Online Training.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2018

Advanced Selling Skills. Core performers seek to gather information in preparation for a sales call, but star performers focus on testing information in preparation for a sales call. But what about more advanced skills? Advanced Selling Strategies. What has this company bought from us in the past?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We are all familiar with the battle cry of many in sales: People Buy From People. Specifically for sales people who believe they have such a tight relationship with their buyers that they tend to ignore things that can cost them revenue and clients. While people buy from people, clients deal with and stay with companies.

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Tom Hopkins

MAY 3, 2013

Diagnose Your Strengths and Weaknesses as a Salesperson As a corporate sales trainer, I am often asked about the traits and characteristics salespeople should develop in order to increase sales. Here’s a personal inventory test for you to determine how you stack up against a top champion sales closing professional.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Earlier this week I received an unsolicited email from the founder of a company who introduced himself and asked me to try his new tool for speakers. Unlike most, this particular email was actually formatted and the sender signed his complete name, title and company. Image Copyright 123RF Stock Photo.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Some companies are augmenting current training practices and, as by-products, improving hiring, onboarding, best-practice dissemination and performance management as well as selling skills.

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 20, 2019

For Parts 1-3 of the Essential Selling Skills Bootcamp, click here. Best Sales Prospecting Tools. Your reason message is the second critical millstone to the sales process. Through social media, the sales professional is able to engage with prospects that meet their buyer’s persona. Don’t Sell Anything.

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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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Allego

APRIL 7, 2022

With 92% of B2B buyers preferring virtual sales interactions, virtual selling is no longer considered a passing trend. As Bain & Company reports, virtual selling has become simply selling. Companies have turned to Allego to help them to enable and train sales reps to navigate the new digital buyer experience.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. Credibility is key to buyers.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I used to think it was just sales newbies who struggled with referral reluctance. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof).

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Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

In the sales domain, this big change has accelerated the trend to digital selling. As sales forces have been sent home and told their clients won’t meet them with them in-person, they have had to use new digital tools just to keep doing their job. Most companies are now taking action to get out of this crisis.

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Lessonly

MARCH 1, 2021

Sales moves quickly. New sales trends emerge. Before you know it, you’re in the back of the race, losing sales and profits. Time to level up with online sales training! What is Online Sales Training? Overall, sales training programs help sales reps learn and improve their selling techniques, skills, and processes.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On average, sales reps don’t know the answer to 40% of product questions asked by customers. That’s just one of the many surprising findings from new Allego research on the current state of sales enablement for companies nationwide. The report, Who Owns Sales Enablement? Top Pain Points of Sales Enablement Teams.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

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. Is Your Company Ready for Year-End Sales?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most companies are under immediate pressure already to begin accomplishing their new goals and sales targets. You can probably feel it in your company, too. If I get an, “Ah, I don’t know,” then I once again use layering questions like: “Have you heard of my new On Demand Inside Selling Skills Training?”

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 17, 2014

Too many salespeople and sales managers spend too much time in the office! They will miss opportunities that are vital to the company. Yes, we need more empty chairs. Salespeople need to be out interacting with prospects and customers. Too much office time will kill a salesperson’s drive and ultimately hurt the bottom line.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Why not use them to upgrade your team’s selling skills so they can hit the third and fourth quarter hard? Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! It forced me to listen rather than ad-lib poor sales techniques—perhaps some of the things your team is doing right now….

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Tom Hopkins

APRIL 28, 2015

A big part of your job in sales is to be the person in the company who gets the “no’s.” ” My job as your sales coach is to provide you with ways to re-think no. The post 7 Ways to Re-Think No / Selling Skills appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . Companies that have been quick to adapt have been able to mitigate the impact of COVID. However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID.

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Someone is one of the top performers in a sales team and they still get sacked. The trick is be super customer-focused and take the opposite approach when dealing with people in your own company. The person that achieves this trick often says “I’m too busy selling to deal with the political nonsense in my company.”.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I received two assessments for the same candidate: one from Objective Management Group (OMG) and one from Caliper. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. The candidate scored 60% on Caliper and 92 on OMG.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Keep moving at full speed in your prospecting and selling efforts now through Dec. There are many companies with money to spend before year end, so if you are in B2B sales especially, you need to be contacting all of your customers. Blog Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation sales motivation'

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 15, 2014

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been doing sales training with several companies that have salespeople who spend a considerable amount of time on the telephone. We’ve had some great conversations around the role body language plays. Yes, you read that right: Body language and the role it plays with telephone calls.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 26, 2014

Many salespeople and companies are missing out on a lot of business simply by not having a presence on the internet. One of the easiest ways to create a global presence is by putting testimonials (written and video) on the internet. If prospects were to search […].

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 12, 2014

Too many salespeople and companies look at profit the wrong way! I meet so many people who think if they can just get the sale — even at a discount — then they will eventually make up profit in the long run. But quantity of sales won’t ever make up for quality of sales! […].

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 11, 2012

All companies want to win more sales. More sales equals greater profits. So why has winning more sales become the. The first place to start is by looking at your sales people and discerning why they are not performing. You have been sold that the initiatives listed below, will help you win more sales.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Sales Tips: How B2B Companies Are Increasing Revenue. By Connie Schlosberg, Primary Intelligence.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 20, 2013

When you call up current customers and mention your company is doing a referral blitz, you will be surprised at how many people will give you names of people you could contact. ” Sales Motivation Blog. . ” Sales Motivation Blog. . Professional Selling Skills'

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Consultative Selling Skills are used by organizations in many different industries to drive high end Business 2 Business sales, and whilst Consultative Selling is undoubtedly difficult to get right, the rewards are high given the typical values of the products & services involved.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 8, 2024

Sales training is one of the most significant investments an organization can make in their sales team. In fact, research cited by taskdrive.com shows sales training has an average return on investment of 353 percent. When choosing a sales training partner, start small and work your way up. You can always upgrade later.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 14, 2014

That''s how some companies recruit salespeople. It doesn''t matter who they are, where they come from, if they have selling skills, and whether or not they have any experience. These companies treat sales recruiting like the instructions on their shampoo bottle - they rinse and repeat.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There were a lot of companies that realized they didn’t have a sales team. Blog Consultative Selling leadership Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation sales motivation selling selling skills'

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley dive right into the execution challenges. We need to identify the critical success factors and narrow them down to three manageable items. “Change management is sales management, and that’s going to make the difference.”

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

Mindset determines the actions you take, how you deal with adversity, how much you use good selling skills (and how much you invest in them), and how you adapt to the changing conditions around you. Example: I’m working with a coaching/consulting organization right now that has many related companies in their portfolio.

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