Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The candidate scored 52% on Caliper while OMG found that this was a weakness for this candidate. Caliper scored the candidate at 57% while OMG said this was a weakness. OMG said it was a weakness and Caliper scored it a 59%. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. Caliper scored the candidate at 64%.

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Comparison Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 306

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

I recounted that story in my recent presentation—“ Sales Experts Channel: How to Recession Proof Your Sales in 9 Killer Steps ”—because it perfectly illustrates a key business insight. Do you know how to have those kinds of sales conversations? It’s time to get rid of your sacred cows. A young girl watched her mother prepare dinner.

Referrals 279

Referrals Cold Calling Lead Generation Webinar Metrics 279

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Once you see rejection differently, you can deal with it differently. Rather than a weakness or a baseless emotion, it can be looked at as a condition. So here’s the deal; no matter what your Sales Disablement types or managers tell you, few people woke up this morning thinking about what we sell. By Tibor Shanto .

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Face-to-face Quota Prospecting Buyer 246

The Accidental Negotiator

JULY 21, 2023

With a little luck, you’ll be able to reach a deal with them. It turns out that you can gain leverage and improve your results by banding together into a coalition with other relatively weak parties. So this brings up the interesting question: how do coalitions work? There has to be a better way to go about doing this.

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Negotiation Face-to-face Hiring Competition 98

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2023

They ask questions we don’t know how to deal with. ” Despite all the training we’ve had, the tools we leverage, even the preparation; the customer responds in a way we’ve not experienced and don’t know how to handle. How do we engage a customer that disagrees with what we’ve said?

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Face-to-face Tools Training Conversion 102

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully. My responsibilities included building profitability models for large, multi-million deals. Initially, I provided the models to sales teams.

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Hiring Lead Rank B2C Conference 96

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Specifically, how we use positive data in prospecting and Discovery, in this case the latter. Weak Use Of Data. Merely presenting prospects with data, no matter how impressive and relevant, is not a good use of their time. I had the opportunity to dissect a recorded Discovery call with a team last week. Weaponize Your Data.

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Data Objections ACT Lead Rank 368

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

How can you assess if you are on track? Go through the checklist below and see how many items you have completed ensuring that you are on track. Realistically, how many managers take the time to plan how many days they will spend in the field, how many days they will work with each rep and what the monthly breakdown is by month?

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Compensation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota 386

Adaptive Business Services

MAY 3, 2023

The only numbers that I was ever interested in were … How much is in my/our pipeline? How much money do I have in my bank accounts? How much money do I have in my bank accounts? While it is getting better, It’s still pretty weak at reporting if big data is your bag. I’ve never been much of a big data guy. I get that.

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CRM Banking Maximizer Data 122

Allego

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Not only must salespeople know the product, the market, and sales methodology, but they must also know when and how to use that knowledge to nurture leads, engage buyers, and close deals. But learning how to use this information can’t require a lengthy training session. But what makes a good employee experience?

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Sales Enablement Positioning Coaching Collateral 139

The Accidental Negotiator

OCTOBER 20, 2023

During a negotiation we don’t want to underestimate ourselves Image Credit: Tamyka Bell So, how is your next negotiation going to turn out? I think that we all go into a negotiation with an expectation of how things are going to proceed. Could this impact how we go about negotiating? However, could we be wrong?

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Negotiation Face-to-face Competition Positioning 52

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. How can your competitors possibly disagree with or defend their strong suits? There’s no answer for that!

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Competition How To Positioning Exact 52

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

Faced with this, selling isn’t for the weak spirited. While I’m not weak-spirited, I’m not sure I want to work that hard! While I’m not weak-spirited, I’m not sure I want to work that hard! How could I sell more, with much less work? Confession time. I’m terribly lazy.

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Face-to-face Commission Up-Sell Discount 107

Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Save A Failing Business Does your business give you a sinking feeling? Our collaborative blog offers insights on how to save a failing business. It will also help pinpoint your weaknesses and any threats you may face.

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How To Face-to-face Exercises Hiring 78

Smooth Sale

APRIL 10, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Thrive Working in a Tough Environment Many people realize that they need to take almost any job to earn a wage. Nobody likes working in a precarious, tough, or even dangerous environment.

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How To Benefit Motivation Lead Rank 106

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shortening the deal cycle is one of the most effective ways to increase revenue. When deal cycles shrink, account executives can meet with more prospects, generate more leads for account managers, and ultimately, close more sales. These reviews will form the basis of testimonials that you can use to promote your products.

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Closing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 100

BrainShark

MAY 2, 2024

Example sales rep Scorecard metrics are: calls, demos set, opportunities created, deals won, bookings, ASP, close rate. Example sales rep Scorecard metrics are: calls, demos set, opportunities created, deals won, bookings, ASP, close rate. A great indicator of performance is how a rep is doing compared to their peers.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Inbound Outbound 62

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Drawing from his extensive experience as a consultant, Karl noticed that salespeople often focus solely on closing deals without truly understanding the customer. Drawing from his extensive experience as a consultant, Karl noticed that salespeople often focus solely on closing deals without truly understanding the customer.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 64

Mindtickle

MAY 20, 2021

When salespeople swing and miss in front of buyers, it’s always a priority to save the deal. Without visibility into what your salespeople do in front of buyers and a way to improve their skills, you can’t win more deals — just predict which ones you’re going to lose. How it works.

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Conversion Lead Rank Lead Scoring Remedy 98

Smooth Sale

APRIL 12, 2024

Our guest blog explains why you should build relationships with your event staff and learn how a mutually beneficial relationship based on respect can pay off. Building these relationships means understanding your staff’s unique strengths, weaknesses, and preferences.

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Networking Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 106

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, there is a cultural tendency to focus on weaknesses rather than maximize strengths. Our Host John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.

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Video Intent Maximizer Lead Rank 52

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How exactly will these sales leaders approach the year ahead? We also gained insight into how sales organizations leverage technology – including revenue intelligence and artificial intelligence – to drive sales effectiveness and efficiency. It’s no secret that 2023 was a challenging year. However, the reasons why vary by industry.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Funnel 52

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As I look at how too many sellers are using Generative AI, I wonder if we are using it to its full potential? Before I dive into this discussion, I do recognize we are in the very early stages of learning how to exploit these tools for greatest value. My feeds are filled with all sorts of stuff on Generative AI and LLMs.

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Engineering Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Airlines 108

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

analyzing how often Directors and Executives are involved in the sales process. As my product knowledge increased and selling skills became more polished, I felt I could really own the deals in my pipeline – proving to myself that I could win deals solo. Let’s just say the win rate was far below what we expected.

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Energy Up-Sell Call-back Case Study 121

Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? It gave us the opportunity to think about how we worked together to help each of us achieve our goals.

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Territories Maximizer Compensation Account 162

Smooth Sale

JUNE 23, 2023

Photo by Blizniak Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How Can Team Building Activities Improve Company Success ? Our guest blog offers insights on how team-building activities can improve company success. __ What Does Team Building Entail? Team building is an excellent investment for all types and sizes of organizations.

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Company Exercises Hiring Lead Rank 78

Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

B2B deals are high-cost, span multiple touchpoints, and take months to close. It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We have already discussed in our last post how managing a large sales team creates hurdles at tracking performance, analyzing sales data, providing personalized coaching, etc. and how innovations in AI are arriving at the perfect time to provide sales leaders with smart solutions for handling the increasing complexities that come with scale.

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Scale Maximizer Remedy Analytics 105

Autoklose

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What you should do is reframe rejection and see how you can benefit from this seemingly worst-case scenario. Here are some ideas on how to handle rejection in sales that are the result of my close to 20 years of sales experience. Turning every no into a yes in sales is a must. It’s crucial to be gracious in defeat.

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How To Follow-up Motivation Objections 52

Hubspot Sales

MAY 31, 2020

Without tracking their sales and pipeline activity, in addition to results at both an individual and company-wide level, it’s impossible for sales leaders to pinpoint weak areas. Opportunity to Deal Ratio. Call to Deal Ratio. Sales Activity Metrics. Call to Connect Ratio. Connect to Opportunity Ratio.

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Inside Sales Forecasting Quota Pipeline 93

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

How do we survive (though some real leaders are asking themselves how we thrive.) How do we survive (though some real leaders are asking themselves how we thrive.) And too many have never seen this, they have no experience with which to deal with this. Slowdowns are impacting many sectors of the economy.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring Churn 112

Anthony Iannarino

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

When you start in sales, you need deals. One deal is as good as another deal, a perspective that is helpful because you cannot learn to sell without actually selling. As you progress in gaining sales acumen, you also acquire the business acumen and the situational knowledge necessary to winning bigger deals.

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How To Competition B2B Lead Rank 125

Pipeliner

MAY 7, 2023

In a recent podcast episode, expert coach and mentor Tracy Crook shared her insights on how women can break through their self-imposed limitations and become confident, authentic leaders. Embrace Your Vulnerability: Vulnerability is not a weakness but a strength. Build on these strengths and use them to your advantage.

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Video Social Selling Coaching Lead Rank 52

Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Your sales reps have a deep knowledge of how prospects can leverage your product, and they can craft customized plans about the best ways to do so. As a sales leader, you need to know exactly which deals are sure things, which might push, which you could lose altogether, and how much of an impact each deal has on your bottom line.

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Analysis Report Churn Collateral 117

Allego

APRIL 28, 2022

These analytics help teams identify strengths and weaknesses and make a better business case for when, why, and how to adapt. How did it happen? How can we improve the outcome? “Go with your gut.”. We’ve all heard this philosophy. Trusting your gut is supposed to lead you in the right direction.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Analytics Lead Rank 71

Allego

AUGUST 2, 2022

How do you know? What if you could find out exactly how to kick productivity up to a new level? Imagine how difficult it would be for a coach to develop a cohesive strategy without a scorecard. How did it happen? Is your sales team operating at its best? Why is sales enablement intelligence important?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Enablement ROI 118

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prevents deals from falling through the cracks by creating ownership across the team. When you start to think about how to create a sales territory map, there are a few different things that are important to conceptualize first: Think about your team and your company's long-term goals. How to Create a Sales Territory Map.

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Territories How To Demographics Software 135