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The Missing Key Element to Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

When we think of sales training, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a series of workshops - usually instructor-led and evangelically-delivered – designed to hone performance in time management, listening and communication, objection handling, closing, and so on. What would you include?

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Persona insights: Intelligence on the typical decision-makers, influencers and users of your proposition. Customer business challenges/opportunities: Issues that customers face or opportunities to improve the way they do things that can motivate prospects to engage. Organizations’ qualifying characteristics.

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Successful Selling - Must You Demonstrate What You Know/Do?

Anthony Cole Training

Record collections are beliefs that individuals have developed over time that become the unconscious motivators for actions and decision making. Not getting to the decision maker. Additional Resources: Workshop - Why Aren''t Your Sales People Selling? Not making presentations at an appropriate time.

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Everything You Need to Ask In Your Next Sales Audit

Hubspot Sales

Are your reps motivated? What else can you do to drive further motivation? (We We have some tactics for sales motivation to get you started.). ?? Are there recurring workshops to strengthen your reps’ selling skills? ?? Are you presenting to decision-makers? If not, how can you reach decision-makers? ??

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The Selling Process – Do We Have It Right?

Anthony Cole Training

One of the long-held beliefs about closing a deal was that you had to get to the decision maker. In one of their studies, they evaluated over 100 deals both won and lost and discovered that getting to the decision maker was not a key factor in the outcome. Did you like today’s post?

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Sales Training Program Expert Tips

The Digital Sales Institute

Any sales training program can be delivered in many formats, from classroom to online, offsite workshops to seminars. It has positive effects on motivation, it helps to assess salespeople, identifies future managers or leaders, highlights weaker salespeople who may need more training or coaching etc. Strategic Selling.

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8 smart tactics to find and close new clients for your SMB

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Additionally, 65 percent of worldwide B2B decision-makers believe it positively impacts their opinion of a company. Consider attending workshops, seminars, conferences, and other networking events hosted by your local chamber of commerce. Bonus points if you can bag a seat as a speaker at these events.