Sandler Training

JULY 27, 2020

Mike Montague interviews Rich Isaac on How to Succeed at Understanding the Decision Making Process. The post How to Succeed at Understanding the Buyers Decision-Making Process [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 10, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the high cost of making a bad hire in sales. They also stress the need for a systematic hiring process, including behavioral interviews and assessments. “As As you said, be ruthlessly rigorous, but also follow a defined process.

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Hiring Strategy Negotiation Ideal Customer Profile 296

Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

They emphasize the significance of face-to-face meetings in the sales process and provide insights on how sales leaders can set expectations and motivate their teams to prioritize in-person interactions. These reactions make it easier to be empathetic and build trust, essential for successful sales relationships.

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Face-to-face Video Decision Maker Loyalty 296

Highspot

JULY 16, 2019

Organizational process design is paramount to successful leadership. Intentional or not, we construct and model the communication frameworks that govern the way our teams make decisions. Inevitably, the processes we adopt won’t just guide our decisions — in tangible ways, the processes are the decisions.

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Influencer Top of Funnel Government Engineering 40

Increase Sales

MARCH 9, 2015

The problem with marketing is it is an ongoing decision making process because if other firms and people do not know about you, your company or your solution, you will remain pocket poor. To avoid the problem with marketing requires a consistent decision making process to ensure strategic business growth.

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Marketing Small Business Small Business Referrals 70

Anaplan

MARCH 30, 2022

Leaders often find themselves trying to modernize processes to fit technology rather than the other way around. For greater success, technology and procedures need to evolve together.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 14, 2024

This gap can be effectively bridged by integrating psychometric assessments into the hiring process, offering a more scientific approach to evaluating potential. However, where performance is measurable and crucial in sales, reducing the subjectivity in hiring decisions through objective assessments can prevent costly hiring mistakes.

Hiring 156

Hiring Forecasting Exercises Retention 156

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. To fully understand this powerful analogy, you’ll want to read the next three paragraphs and allow me to make my case. But that’s not the analogy I’m going to make. It will be worth it!

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Sales Process Sales Methodology Decision Maker Pipeline 334

Funnel Clarity

AUGUST 7, 2018

Many of the sales people we work with, and sales people in general, assume their prospects are in the market to make a purchase because something is going wrong. While this is a wholly justifiable assumption to make, it fails to cover the full spectrum of buyer motivation.

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Motivation Buyer Prospecting Marketing 42

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Earlier this summer, Hurricane Hillary became the first tropical storm to make landfall in Southern California. As we have seen in the past several years, most powerful hurricanes take more traditional paths and make direct landfall in vulnerable areas of the Southeastern United States where they cause billions of dollars in damage.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. Why It’s So Hard to Reach Decision Makers.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The challenge with time is that it reflects the decision we make about how we use it. If you know how to make decisions, you will make more of your time than someone who can’t or won’t make the hard decision. Decisions about how they use, spend, invest, or waste your time. Decision Time.

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Objections Leads Marketing Qualified Lead How To 378

Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

BOLD leaders continuously redefine the sales landscape, challenging the status quo to drive process improvements and grow sales. Revolutionizing Sales Processes with BOLD Strategies True to the strategies of BOLD leaders , innovation involves a deep dive into and a subsequent overhaul of sales processes.

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Strategy Face-to-face Guarantee Lead Rank 156

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Prioritize referrals: Executives don’t leave important buying decisions to chance. Make referrals your #1 outbound prospecting strategy, and watch the qualified clients pour into your sales funnel. Asking for referrals is ad-hoc, not part of the sales process, not a sales activity that gets measured, not mandatory.

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Referrals Scale Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead 194

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

Involving frontline managers in the decision-making process increases buy-in and accountability. He prioritized creating a system that allows time for coaching and provides resources to support the coaching process. He also highlighted the importance of reflection and thorough research before making major changes.

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Sales Leadership Coaching Resources Pivotal 268

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

The 3 most important questions that we need to address when making hiring decisions for a sales position are: Can the candidate effectively sell virtually? Unfortunately, most sales organizations have not adapted their hiring process to identify top performers in the post-COVID reality. Lack of a systematic process.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 22, 2024

Getting the first appointment with a qualified decision-maker of a target prospect can be one of the most challenging aspects of B2B selling. The ability to set appointments efficiently can make or break a business's success.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2024

When we look at the data on No Decision Made and Buyer Regret, we know how much our customers struggle with complex B2B change and buying initiatives. We talk about decision confidence, FOMU, FOFU, and regret. What has been their experience in making these changes before? But are they asking us the right questions?

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Customer Revelation Buying Cycle Lead Rank 119

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 24, 2024

This stat alone should make all sales leaders and managers take note. This includes monitoring activities, overseeing processes, and issuing directives. Of course, supervision and scrutiny are necessary to ensure the smooth operation of sales processes. Imposing rigid processes and scripts limit a sales rep’s ability to adapt.

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B2B How To Exercises Coaching 62

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ever since I started selling–you know back in the old days when phones were still attached to cords–I’ve been taught, “Buyers have a structured buying process.” ” I’d see all sorts of block diagrams, showing how the buying process always, coincidentally, aligned with the customer buying process.

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Buyer Face-to-face B2B Up-Sell 120

Revegy

MARCH 29, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, optimizing sales processes is essential for driving revenue and sustaining success. Sales enablement software offers a strategic advantage by empowering businesses to streamline operations, track performance, and make data-driven decisions.

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Maximizer Software Software Sales Enablement 105

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I asked the question, “How will you be making a decision on how do implement this initiative?” Who should I be involving in the decision?… … ” She reeled off a number of questions and concerns all around making decisions on this initiative. When will you make a decision?

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Face-to-face Buying Cycle B2B Customer 96

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s seeking new solutions and making smart decisions quickly. And shifts in business require changing how sales processes are conducted. This makes it essential that managers participate in sales coaching and training. How they make decisions. Do they provide data to support their decisions?

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Motivation 139

SalesFuel

APRIL 24, 2024

With some thoughtful effort, you can still make the sale happen. Jump-start The Stalled Sale By Confirming Qualification The first step, when assessing a stalled deal, is making sure you’ve qualified correctly. It’s important that you revisit the qualification process. a sense of urgency about making a buying decision?

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Hiring Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 113

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2024

The simultaneous promise/threat of AI, “Will it help me be more efficient or will it make me unnecessary?” For much of their buying, this makes sense. And AI, when leveraged by customers, makes that even easier. And others go, blithely, along, “AI can help you double/triple/quadruple your personalized outreach!

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Data Buying Cycle 107

Force Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Last month, the Revenue Builders Podcast featured some hard-hitting tactical conversations about the journey to elite sales leadership and the decisions we make along the way. These conversations cover everything from calculating business value for a prospect to defining a repeatable sales process that enables rapid scaling.

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Scale Sales Leadership Revenue Conversion 145

SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We want them to feel so comfortable, and at home, with us during the sales conversation that they make that decision to work with us. Take the processes we use for example. While processes are good, they are not a one-size-fits-all. This is the speed of the conversation and process. How do we do that?

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Conversion Analytics Education Prospecting 115

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

These include their needs, budget, timeline, and decision-making authority, among others. This makes qualification essential to drive revenue growth, optimize resource allocation, and foster long-term customer relationships. However, many B2B sales teams struggle with inefficient qualification processes.

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Lead Rank B2B Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 62

Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 118

SalesProInsider

MARCH 16, 2023

You probably made the decision to read or watch based on a book jacket cover, a movie trailer, or a friend’s recommendation. We make these decisions and invest hours of our time based on pointed, direct information. Which slows the prospect’s movement in making that important decision to work with us.

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Examples Opportunity Prospecting Up-Sell 132

SalesFuel

APRIL 16, 2024

You can increase team productivity by personalizing coaching and improving efficiency in sales team processes. You can start this process by linking your coaching techniques to the results of psychometric assessments. Some buyers are happy to conduct the entire process online, with minimal sales rep interaction.

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Coaching Top of Funnel How To Hiring 115

The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Navigating through the selection process to find the next strong addition to your team can feel like navigating through an obstacle course. The direction that makes your internal “red flags” go up could be just as dangerous, though. How do you know what the right decision is?

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Course 112

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2024

Do they feel confident they are doing the right things through their buying process? Do they feel comfortable they are making the right decision–for themselves and their organizations? Are we addressing the FOFU they develop in the buying process?

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ROI Customer Opportunity Company 107