Gong.io

APRIL 2, 2021

Sales prospecting is dead. Sales prospecting is an essential part of your process. . That’s why I stole these 10 sales prospecting techniques from the best-of-the-best sales pros. Prospecting Technique #1: Use This Cold Call Opener. Want to totally level up your sales prospecting game? Dramatic pause*. performs 6.6X

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The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. Access to all the data needed (e.g. Whether you are trying to dominate the market you’re in or not, that means you’re going to have to have a specialized data team, whether internally or externally. The Current Data Problem. Bad phone numbers.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition, consultative selling skills stand out when top performers engage with prospects. These sellers quickly determine the business problems facing their prospects. These proposals show the prospect how the solution will address the core business problem.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 3, 2023

I’ve never been much of a big data guy. If a lot of data is what you are looking for … you would be in the can’t help group. While it is getting better, It’s still pretty weak at reporting if big data is your bag. Regardless, isn’t selling all about relationships? No dough = no data anyway. Full disclosure.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Qualifying prospects is a critical step in the sales process. How do you determine if a prospect is a good fit for your products or services? It helps sales teams qualify prospects and determine if they have a high chance of converting. BANT is an acronym for: Budget: What is the prospect’s budget? .

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There are several reasons, I think this is a critical selling skill and responsibility. While others can do the research, presenting the seller the data, the reality is that too often, we lose context, we don’t understand what the data means. We need to understand the data relative to other organizations (i.e.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We all have ways to gauge whether or not a prospect is going to sign. But what if there was a data-backed way you could tell whether or not your deal was going to sign? We then analyzed the deal outcomes to find interesting data trends. You probably check your CRM, look for nonverbal clues, or maybe you trust your gut.

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Gong.io

MARCH 12, 2020

Back then, salesmen – I mean sales people (glad that’s changed) – would button up their best suits, court prospective clients in-person with bone-in steaks, and discuss business over a handful of dirty martinis. . Before you tweet that out, let’s dig into the data because it’s not that clear-cut. Speaking of Gong Data.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 13, 2021

Cleanse Your Data- With technology evolving at a breakneck speed, it is critical to take all reasonable precautions to protect the precision and reliability of all your data. Consider A/B testing the messaging for prospects and re-testing till you find the optimal messaging for target accounts/members.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Having access to easy-to-use data visualizations of your sales data makes it easy to raise the tide on your sales and revenue performance. What Are Selling Gaps? This gap can highlight differences in selling skills or the ability to upsell and cross-sell effectively.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 9, 2018

They taught me two simple, yet valuable, data-driven frameworks. In contrast, high effectiveness results mostly from skill. Exercising selling skills. Our sales development managers set up and run their own tests, occasionally collaborating with our data science team. The First Framework: Issue Tree.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 22, 2013

Treat email as one of the tools you have to communicate with a prospect/customer. While email isn’t an exclusive tool, it is a great tool to follow up with a prospect after you’ve met them. Don’t use it as a data dump that winds up doing nothing but turning off the prospect.

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Gong.io

MAY 18, 2018

They are based on intuition, rather than actual data. If you’ve followed us at Gong.io, you know we publish data from analyzing sales conversations with our AI-powered platform to figure out what works (and what doesn’t) in sales. Our data team at Gong.io Your prospects don’t care about you. Sounds harsh. But, it’s true.

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Gong.io

MAY 18, 2018

They are based on intuition, rather than actual data. If you’ve followed us at Gong.io, you know we publish data from analyzing sales conversations with our AI-powered platform to figure out what works (and what doesn’t) in sales. Our data team at Gong.io Your prospects don’t care about you. Sounds harsh. But, it’s true.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2023

In selling, what key elements of foundational knowledge and why are they important? Contrary to what one might think, it’s not basic selling skills. It isn’t the skills we need to use the various tools that support our work. We become more effective in our prospecting, qualifying and discovery.

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Allego

JANUARY 12, 2022

That means you must get serious about virtual selling and help your team develop and sharpen their virtual selling skills. Here are four things you can do to improve your reps’ virtual selling: Make sure sellers have up-to-date selling skills. The solution should also allow coaching and feedback.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Selling Skills 2018. Video skills. Framing skills. Challenger selling. Knowledge of Data Analysis. Video will be a major selling trends in 2018. Honing your video skills is a no-brainer. Your prospect will think, ‘Wow, they hated museums, but kept an open mind.’”. Ability to be honest.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 6, 2020

Not that long ago I was reading an article on “sales data” that was written by a man who I highly respect … David Brock. As David pointed out … sales has more data points to analyze than ever before. The problem is … are they looking at the right data and are they deriving the correct conclusions from reading it?

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But just blasting out cold email after cold email without a plan, without direction, without heeding our advice (based on data), would be silly … no matter what Oprah says: Fortunately, I have some good news: Cold emails still work. And we have the data to prove it. Tell me more about this data. A data point.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. Instead of traditional in-person sales meetings, the salesperson and the prospect are in different places such as their home or work. Why remote selling is the future of sales . Keeping prospects engaged.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline. Leveling up selling skills and keeping sales reps selling virtually will also drive more virtual meetings and allow your sales enablement team to do more with less.

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Allego

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. For instance, a seller can record themselves doing a practice selling session and show how they’d approach a call, share it with their manager for review, and then receive feedback on improvements.

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Allego

MARCH 10, 2022

Read what this experienced panel said about the importance of virtual sales training–and how to build virtual selling skills. Challenges of Virtual Selling. Unlike other aspects of selling, virtual selling is not a regular part of how most salespeople gained their selling experience. Learn More.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 17, 2023

Post after post, we cite examples and data that indicate something is broken. As sellers, we would hope that customers would want to engage us, but the reality is they do everything the can to minimize their need to engage selling. Look at your personal performance data, identify one thing you want to change and do it.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Even for the leaders who do recognize the necessity of skill development, many trainings are often a blanketed “one-size-fits-all” approach instead of a focus on the individual, likely because the manager lacks necessary data. Companies that measure competency improvement report a 6% higher win rate.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In order to improve your selling skills, you need to improve your competencies piece by piece. It’s to “get better at discovering prospect needs” – which in turn leads to more sales. Here are a few examples to help get you thinking: Selling Skills: With 14 attributes such as sales approach, negotiating and active listening.

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Alice Heiman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Top sales professionals know the importance of deeply connecting with prospects and converting them into life-long customers to exceed sales goals. But most salespeople don’t connect with their B2B buyer because they lead with logical features, functions, and data when your prospect wants an emotional story.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Instant access to data, personal networks, experts and your competitors have enabled them. Do they focus on skills that align with having a deep knowledge of the buyer? Does it require social selling skills? Does the site enable your prospect to buy what and how they want? Reverse Your Approach.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Because there are a lot of new challenges to overcome, sellers will need to develop keener virtual selling skills, overseen and coached by their managers. Acknowledge changes in the buying/selling process. . Increased client expectations add to challenges that include more meetings needed to progress opportunities.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Dashboards integrate with your CRM so you can instantly see performance data, trends, and progress-to-goal. Tracking those types of metrics in sales performance dashboards gives you data-driven insights regarding: How your team is performing. Related: The Definitive Guide to Sales Prospecting With Proven Outreach Methods.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

The Changing Landscape of Sales Skills Sellers are experiencing a pivotal shift in when, how, and why prospects need them. Incorporate these topics into your classroom and in-context sales training and onboarding program to equip sellers to engage with prospects and close deals more efficiently.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 17, 2021

Selling has a well earned reputation of being a rollercoaster ride and, by default, so goes your paycheck especially if your earnings are based on commission. Part of this problem might be based on a lack of consistent prospecting. This may be pointing to selling skills and/or training. Note the “weighted value” of deals.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And reps are using automation tools to do role-playing, perfect messaging, improve virtual selling skills, and have personalized conversations and interactions with buyers, he said. And reps can see if their prospective buyers are engaging with the content they send them. “If 3 Modern Sales Enablement Tools to Adopt Now.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Prospects do not want to be sold to. Instead of reading like a resume (which does nothing to earn the trust of prospects because it appears as though sellers are seeking new opportunities), a branded LinkedIn profile should include buyer-centric messaging that reveals who they help, how they help, and who they’ve helped in the past.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 18, 2012

Ken makes several valuable points in this post, so don’t miss the opportunity to strengthen your selling skills. Back then, a sales manager and I once drove 45 miles to see one of my early-stage prospects. Start by mining your own files or CRM database for information about a prospect or customer. Prepare questions.

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