SBI Growth

MARCH 18, 2017

Joining us for today’s show is Biju Baby, a Vice President of Global Sales Operations who knows a thing or two about supporting revenue growth. His company has seen an impressive 54 quarters of sequential revenue growth and Biju has.

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Connect2Sell

JANUARY 15, 2020

Check each box that applies. How many of these topics are covered in your organization’s sales training program on a regular basis?

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Selling Skills Training Sales 159

Pipeliner

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this our next in this series on the biggest mistakes you can make today in B2B sales, we’re going to talk about hard selling—you know, that pushy, insistent, “wear-‘em-down-till-they-buy” approach from years gone by. Social intelligence is what we’re talking about when we talk about Network Selling. The post Hard Selling?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

The hard sell vs. soft sell debate is an old one, full of subjective opinions, anecdotes… and not a whole lot of data. Some folks argue that neither a “soft sell” nor a “hard sell” are the right way to think of selling. Hard Sell vs. Soft Sell: The Results.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 29, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? 3 Lessons for Effective Communication in Selling. How to Sell (21). Selling (45). Selling Attitude (22). selling success (1).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile eBook Webinar Metrics 159

Emissary

APRIL 15, 2021

The overwhelming sentiment is that it is hard to buy. Each quarter, we examine the IT buyer’s perspective and current trends to provide sellers and marketers with valuable insights to sell tech solutions: How Do Tech Buyers Buy? The post Selling Tech is Hard. Some are caused by off-target sales approaches.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The most successful sales organizations have blurred the lines on purpose because they understand modern selling techniques require an omni-channel presence and the formula for success is a multi-channel strategy where digital selling has a starring role. That sounds hard, doesn’t it? Sales Has Always Been Hard.

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Trade Show Referrals Segment Sales Qualified Lead 72

Partners in Excellence

MAY 11, 2020

I’m busting my ass selling to them?” A common strength of sales people is our compelling need to sell! The problem is, regardless how strong our need to sell, unless the customer has a compelling need to buy, we are wasting our time and the customers.’ Product Versus Solution Selling.

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Sandler Training

JULY 8, 2020

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them.

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Smart Calling

MAY 30, 2019

Hard sell, “pitchy,” pushy sales reps give us all a bad name. The post I Learned This One Good Thing from a Pushy, Hard Sell Sales Rep appeared first on Smart Calling Blog. They are part of the reason many people resist salespeople. I encountered one of these. He was all of the above. Listen Here.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

One person started talking about how difficult it is to sell. Much of the difficulty we have in selling is a reflection of the difficulty the customer has in their buying process. They have to deal with clueless sales people worried about selling…… more on this later. Finally, I couldn’t restrain myself.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 23, 2022

I wrote the best-seller, Baseline Selling , so it should come as no surprise that I'm a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan. I'll be at Fenway Park for a game this week and I had some thoughts about how the Red Sox compare to many of the sales teams that get evaluated by Objective Management Group (OMG).

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Groups Objections Sales Consultative Selling 352

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Sales Training Article: Does the Hard Selling Approach Still Work? I've been writing about sales for over a decade and I keep hearing from various sales gurus and experts that the hard sell doesn't work any more. However, I have personally experienced the hard-sell of car rental insurance at several rental car outlets.

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Insurance Insurance Segment Up-Sell 55

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

Not only is it hard to get prospects back on the phone, when you do, you usually lead off with the ineffective opening line of: “Did you have a chance to review that email I sent you?” Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? “Can you email that to me?” If you think about it, that’s the perfect stall.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2023

“This product will never sell!” “The I wonder what I can sell that’s easier than this?” While managers want you to jump on the next call, go from a negative experience and be positive again and “smile and dial,” you know how hard that is. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Commonality with Sales While I thought it had a lot in common with selling, the twelve central figures: Were not professional investors although they did invest in GameStop. Those eight qualities are the equivalent of five key Sales Competencies known as Will to Sell. Were not skilled traders although they did conduct some research.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Cherry Garcia not vanilla As I’m sure you’ve seen at least a few dozen times in your inbox there are plenty of people out there that want to sell you a list. If you’re selling to other businesses, this is approximately the annual rate of decay of your list. Building a list is hard work, maintaining it is more hard work.

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Real Estate Sports Segment Outbound 195

The Sales Hunter

JULY 12, 2012

View what you sell as music, whether it be a product or service. The biggest gain you’ll get from looking at what you sell in this manner is you’ll find yourself connecting with the customer faster and closing sales faster — and doing both at a higher price. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Selling value. If we could listen to all the internal sales conversations occurring during any 30-minute period and do a word count, “ selling value ” would be right at the top of the list. The modern formulation of selling value has been around for a long time – let’s say at least 30 years. Let’s take a deeper dive.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Training Engineering 121

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I agreed with only one sentence in the article and it was the opening sentence which said, "Drop the hard sell." That's certainly not new as the hard sell was never a welcome component of professional selling!

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2023

Somewhere along the journey from hard sell to sales funnel, we have lost a key skill in the seller’s toolkit: the close. A closer look at what we're struggling with. The post The Step That Will Never Go Away appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 12, 2023

There are ways to close more sales that don’t involve a hard sell or deep discounting. The post Getting More Sales from Your Funnel appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Selling is one of the toughest things to do well. And it demands hard work and time–always. I wonder why they would do something so hard. I started writing about the issue, the first was: “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested in Selling.” I came to selling through an obscure route.

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Trends Resources Sales 104

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 4, 2023

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”—Stephen Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? —Leonard Bernstein “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”—Winston Winston Churchill “Talent is cheaper than table salt.

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Bernadette McClelland

MAY 22, 2022

When I was a sales rep in Corporate Australia, it was quite common to receive multi 5-figure commissions for selling certain solutions – and most often selling those deals involved a series of detailed stages: Your normal sales discovery calls. Believing that ‘selling’ means ‘ having to earn ‘ the money.

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Energy Commission Up-Sell Conference 448

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

This may sound easy, but if you’ve listened to any of your rep’s calls (or your own), then you know how hard it is. It may seem simple, but it’s hard to do. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? Compare that with your own close rate or your team’s closing percentages. Adopt the word “Oh?”

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker 212

Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At first glance, this seems hard to handle because it’s not really an objection, rather, it seems more like a stall. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? Ah, the amorphous, “I want to think about it.” But they rarely do. Make no mistake: this is almost always a “no” disguised as a “maybe.”

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 9, 2023

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? —Jeffrey Gitomer “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “Talent is cheaper than table salt. Sign up today.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker Licensing 222

Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

Developing solution hypotheses : In the next era of selling salespeople are going to have to start acting like consultants, having a “ one up ” approach as Anthony Iannarino calls it. You can’t just show up to a meeting and ask questions (“solution selling”). It’s time for the dreaded cold call!

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2021

Something that is hard to do if you have not gone through it before. It is hard to get buy-in from buyers when your sales approach is no different from others they are considering. It is hard to get buy-in from buyers when your sales approach is no different from others they are considering. You Only Have to Change Once.

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Lead Rank Vendor Buyer Prospecting 367

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2023

I believe we are at another inflection point in the evolution of professional selling. Ironically, this next wave of tech-powered selling may seem to some like a step backwards. So how do we get to this new era of AI-enabled personal selling? Do you need an Enterprise Selling Plan (ESP)? Are you authentic?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

As I look at selling, today, it requires far too much effort—far more than I’m willing to do. They don’t care about what we sell, they don’t want to go through our demos-at least until they have no other alternative. The rest are working awfully hard, but not succeeding. Confession time.

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Face-to-face Commission Up-Sell Discount 109

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It’s hard work, and I need all the support I can get. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? —Victor Hugo, writer If you enjoy quotes like these, you’ll be pleased to know that I send out three new ones every Wednesday. You can sign up for free by clicking here. If not, that’s perfectly okay.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 259

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I’m not going to tell you any of that about Buyer First: Grow Your Business with Collaborative Selling , a new book by Carole Mahoney. What I am going to tell you is, in my 40+ years of selling and managing sales teams, I’ve never read anything like this. Grab your copy now and embrace the power of collaborative selling.

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Buyer Strategy Cold Calling How To 177

The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2021

Pandering is easy, at one point you need to sell. This brings us to some popular myths order takers hang on to that prevent them from selling. Hard to do if you are not willing to demonstrate the willingness to change or advance. Prospect Not Sell. Not pandering and avoiding negatives for the sake of the relationship.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. Now you have a less qualified candidate with less onboarding and more machines to operate instead of sell. By Tibor Shanto. Smaller Treadmills. You need to start with leadership.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2021

Value is not always easy for salespeople to define, making it hard to leverage in sales conversations. One practice is throwing out something that sounds more right than it is, thus making it hard to argue with. Taking orders when anything could pass for value is easier than selling value to someone not already predisposed to buying.

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