Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let's consider an extremely streamlined example — imagine you sell curriculum scheduling software, and you‘re working with a regional college in the southwest called XYZ University. They’re interested in your software and struggling with class scheduling conflicts. Look at those numbers! We're never going to churn!

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. Those who do are able to present bespoke solutions that solve their customers’ unique challenges. In this post, we’ll explore what solution selling is, when it’s used, and how it differs from other selling approaches.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. In this article, we’ll explain what Solution Selling is, what sets it apart, and how to tell if it’s right for your team. What is Solution Selling? What sets the Solution Selling methodology apart?

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Salesmate

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Have a meaningful conversation with your prospects. Active listening is important in consultative selling. The solution selling sales approach. This is a simple sales approach where you discover the prospect’s needs and recommend a solution to address those needs. Get close than ever to your customers.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

One of the biggest problems you’re likely to find is in the way low-performing reps have sales conversations. Poor sales conversations are a massive contributing factor to sales performance gaps. More often than not, performance gaps come down to your reps’ sales conversations. Solution Selling. SPIN Selling.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

Solution Selling Methodology. Solution Selling is based on a sophisticated approach to discovery and question asking called “the 9-box vision process model,” which looks like this: The sequence can be broken down into three phases : Diagnose reasons: Start by identifying the critical business issue using open-ended questions (box 1).

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). Data reporting software. Invoicing software. Inventory and order management software. This type of personalized communication wasn't possible until recently, and companies can adopt new software and technology as it's created. Solution Selling. Conceptual Selling.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

I used to help teach Solution Selling at an ERP software company. The classic “discovery questions” don’t work as well any more; prospects expect sales people to know a lot of that information before the first conversation. Making the shift to doing more work up front, so the process is easier in the end stages.

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SBI

JULY 16, 2013

Their available selling time goes from 50 hours a month to 71.6 The second is to better plan and prepare for each conversation so they convert more deals to the next stage in the pipeline. Start with a frank conversation with your salespeople and ask them where the time drains are. hours a month.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Reps won’t break a sweat asking for thousands of dollars from a future customer but second guess themselves when asking for a few hundred dollars from their boss for new software or a professional development seminar. Taking a trial or a demo will give you an idea of how easy or difficult it will be for your team to adopt the software.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 6, 2022

Then it dawned on me, with consultative selling, solution selling, and value selling, and a plethora of others, why hadn’t anyone developed “Perspicacious Selling?” That’s where perspicacious selling can flip traditional sales methodologies on their head. I had not noticed it in common sales vernacular.

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Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

There are many ways to approach sales, but the most common methods can be summarized as transactional selling, solution selling, consultative selling, and provocative selling. You can then use the timeline of that objective to drive urgency behind purchasing your solution. Let’s dive in.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 10, 2012

.” It’s a simple notion that is important for every sales person today–whether you sell cars, complex computer systems, complex services. Let me go back to my days of selling computers. We shipped a bunch of boxes (usually blue), software, and cables. We installed those boxes and software.

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SBI

APRIL 17, 2013

Umberto Milletti , CEO of InsideView spoke of better lead conversion through ‘enrichment.’ Engaging a prospect in a quality conversation requires that you have something of interest to offer and most salespeople don’t. Atri Chatterjee , CMO of Act-On Software took us through the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Marketers.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first contact will take the form of a conversation rather than a sales call. Budget constraints and time constraints are highlighted early in the selling process, instead of later. The Eight Components of Customer-centric Selling Include the Following: In comparison to presenting ideas, converse in situations.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 19, 2019

Transactional selling. Solution selling. Consultative selling. Provocative selling. Today’s chatbots can integrate with your CRM software, so you can essentially configure it to be a “leadbot.” It then hands off the conversations to their human counterparts. Here’s how it works….

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Quality conversations and personal engagement with prospects. Instead we drive intimacy with one-to-one conversations. Now let’s explore why all conversation is not the same. All the time we’re having unscripted conversation with our clients’ prospects. Since 1997, we’ve had 3.6 We engage our market. They can’t.

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SBI

MAY 28, 2013

Can I ask you a question, what would you say is the main thing you’ll remember most from our conversation today? As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools. Is it the [golden nugget]?”.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

A well-designed program, paired with a robust training software , will empower your sales reps with the knowledge they need to deliver value and close more deals. This includes market understanding, solution selling, and long-term relationship building. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

The right technology is key to enterprise sales, so we’ll also look closely at some of the best software that winning organizations use to power their success. Each stage is essential to a successful enterprise software sales strategy. Of course, completing enterprise software sales training doesn’t guarantee success in the field.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The three things to do are research your potential client’s business and make an introduction meeting agenda for what is going to be discussed during this first conversation. ” Check out Ed Wals book on Solution Selling. I have also done additional research on project management and collaboration software.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2013

At some point, however, they will make a decision to contact a solution provider and have an actual conversation with a salesperson. As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Enthusiasm begins its descent almost the moment you end your sales conversation. Prospect, I’m glad you’re excited about (taking the next step, continuing the conversation, exploring this further) [pick one]. In other words, the adage “You’ve got to strike while the iron’s hot” applies here in great measure.

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SBI

JANUARY 8, 2013

Customer Centricity is an overarching philosophy that puts the focus squarely on how to have critical one-on-one conversations—and not just what to say or how to say it. It requires authentic, mutually beneficial, conversations. Conversations matter most, and the more meaningful the better. Well said Jim! The answer is—not yet.

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SBI

APRIL 2, 2013

Along with the disappointing reality that there aren’t enough known prospects to occupy 100% of our reps’ time, there are two simple contributing factors: A long chain of to-dos is unfurled with each prospect conversation. hours of time each week from the above tasks, if you devote that time instead to prospect conversations.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

As starters, Mark Hanan established the branding this term in his brilliantly written book Consultative Selling – an early and extremely important work about selling consultatively. Because of the branding, Consultative Selling has become one of the “ings” in our field like: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling and Solution Selling?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2018

Most salespeople are comfortable with this part of the conversation which is why the focus of this article is on the meeting opening. Check out Ed Wal’s book on Solution Selling . We can then figure out whether our project management and collaboration software can help you above and beyond what you are currently doing.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Do you help with lowering cost of goods sold, increasing uptime of machinery, ensuring compliance, maximizing lead-to-customer conversion rates, lowering operating costs, or increasing market share? Gather six to 12 pieces of data about your prospect that you can use in your outreach messages to start a relevant conversation.

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SBI

MARCH 12, 2013

Content-marketing helps to develop, maintain and move relationships forward until they are primed for a conversation with a sales rep. It is not selling however. You need salespeople to sell. So who’s in charge of the content piece of ‘content-selling?’ That’s what people mean when they talk about lead nurturing.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

It is not until prospects decide that they know enough – about what they want,and what questions to ask – that they become willing participants in a sales conversation. If they say “I want to make sure I can access the software without being online” answer “yes”(if that’s the case). Naturally, prospects shy away from this.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Next time you’re involved in a conversation about Marketing and Sales being at odds with each other, or discussing the problem of forecasted deals not closing, will you be able to confidently talk about your plan for resolving the issue/s. Will you take the oath to banish these common obstacles once and for all?

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SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

And the small number of exhibitors means attendees have plenty time for quality conversations with solution providers and to learn first-hand, how they might impact sales. Some of the leading solution providers I’m particularly interested in are PROs , PGI/iMeet , and DocuSign. To register for the conference, click here.

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SBI

JULY 24, 2012

Ken always – ALWAYS – had time to talk with me, and during those brilliantly stimulating conversations, his boundless energy and sheer enthusiasm for life and for his business left me with the absolute conviction that whatever I set my heart and mind on I could achieve. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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SBI

AUGUST 14, 2012

Your success will rest on the one critical objective that all your efforts are designed to serve: to spend the greatest amount of your time and energy having meaningful conversations with high quality, sales-worthy prospects. Anything less, as far as fundamentals are concerned, is just a business-killer.

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SBI

JULY 10, 2012

Conversely, I’ll spend more time on activities that affect revenue like mapping each account to additional products they should be buying. As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Value Propositions provide helpful, specific, relevant and robust content to engage in conversations with buyers about what your solution can do for them. Account-Specific Conversations. Great Value Propositions support account-specific customer conversations. Value Propositions as ABS Tools. Account decisions.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, organizations need sales training software to ensure their reps have the training required to be consultative sellers. They can also use this software to deliver continuous learning to ensure reps have the skills they need – whether their sales interactions are in the field or virtual.

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