No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills? Here’s how B2B sales professionals can keep their referral skills sharp: 1. Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook. Then one of my clients said, “Practice makes permanent.”

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 6, 2014

Linkedin stinks! Maybe it’s not LinkedIn that stinks, but rather it’s people who use LinkedIn that stink, especially when it comes to prospecting. If I get one more message from somebody via LinkedIn extolling about how wonderful they are at whatever it is they do, I will do something rash. Let me clarify.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2018

Advanced Selling Skills. We often talk about “sales fundamentals” or “sales 101” -- the basic skills and knowledge a professional seller must master to execute an effective sales call. Anyone hoping to execute an effective sales call is going to have to start with this kind of information.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Selling Skills or Selling Process? A person with strong selling skills. Strong selling skills certainly are a beginning. These include the ability to listen, ask questions, create a unique selling proposition and ultimately close. I refer to these as selling skills, not a sales process.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2024

So rather than me succumbing to any fear or bias, being able to reflect on this reference point (aka evidence) opened my thinking up to ask for feedback on LinkedIn. Discover Sales for Non-Salespeople : Not everyone who sells is a stereotypical salesperson yet the psychology behind professional selling skills are still necessary.

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 20, 2019

For Parts 1-3 of the Essential Selling Skills Bootcamp, click here. Be active on social networks like such as LinkedIn by joining groups, posting relevant content and getting involved in discussions or questions but be vocal and controversial. Send InMail via LinkedIn. Telephone Prospecting. Subjects Covered.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

Alyssa Merwin, VP, LinkedIn Sales Solutions Americas on a Sales Hacker webinar said that Linkedin useand engagement is up during the lockdown. Now is the time to pick up some new digital selling skills. Given this, now it as great time to connect with your buyer.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We should be way past even needing to have this discussion, but until everyone gets it, here you go: The five reasons why you need to have your profile on LinkedIn. I couldn’t pass up posting this, because the LinkedIn Photo Tour is coming to Omaha Sept. See the link at the end […].

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

The Secret to LinkedIn that You May Be Missing. Want to know a secret about LinkedIn? And obviously if you think senior level people aren’t even on Linkedin, you need to think again!). Over the last year, the number of senior level people who have begun using LinkedIn is amazing. Sales Prospecting and LinkedIn.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Social selling on LinkedIn has become a vital cog in the sales process and as a means to interact with people for the purpose of building credibility. However, as smart salespeople are learning, if you combine the more traditional methods of selling in in conjunction with social selling on LinkedIn, your success rate improves.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Charlie Anderson is the founder and owner of Selling Skills INSTITUTE , a transformational (able to influence shifts in thinking and behavior ) sales training and coaching business. Join me This Friday for another great conversation with Olivier Rivière – Live 8:00 AM ET Live On LinkedIn Live, YouTube.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

To get that inspiration, direction, and motivation we follow mentors on social media like Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn influencers. And when it comes to expert advice & motivation, LinkedIn is the best place with over 400 million professionals sharing their stories & lessons. Steli Efti. CEO of Close.io (Elastic, Inc).

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

To get that inspiration, direction, and motivation we follow mentors on social media like Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn influencers. And when it comes to expert advice & motivation, LinkedIn is the best place with over 400 million professionals sharing their stories & lessons. Steli Efti. CEO of Close.io (Elastic, Inc).

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We’ve all received stupid messages through Linkedin from people trying to sell us stuff. It’s things like this that have people wondering if Linkedin is a viable sales tool. The stupidity of the message is how they’re all feature driven and dealing with something you could care less about.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JULY 9, 2019

Native video on LinkedIn has become a hot topic. And with LinkedIn Live still early in its roll-out, video promises to continue to grow in prominence. And it’s a question I wanted to answer: Is LinkedIn video worth using for the average member? Does LinkedIn Video Drive Reach? The LinkedIn Video Experiment.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 14, 2021

Solid social selling skills are transitioning from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have for sales professionals, but developing that kind of expertise is much easier said than done. In the past, I've leveraged mutual team connections with a HubSpot director on LinkedIn to successfully initiate and book calls with prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 5, 2018

My new LinkedIn sales training courses take out the guesswork! Is selling really tougher today? And my new sales training courses on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com are your ticket to referral selling. Sales: Referral Selling by Joanne Black. Forget closing. Just getting prospects to return calls is hard enough.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Readers are always referring me to articles that list top sales traits, that discuss what makes salespeople great, that name the most important selling skills, or that otherwise contradict the science-based findings and statistics that I share in my articles. As a matter of fact, I actually found the article refreshing.

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Allego

JANUARY 12, 2022

Scrolling through LinkedIn recently, I saw several sales leaders sharing their goals. That means you must get serious about virtual selling and help your team develop and sharpen their virtual selling skills. Don’t assume sellers have the skills they need to be successful. Start the Year Strong.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By overloading the reps with the information they would face in a live selling scenario you can simulate what they would encounter in real life and assess their selling skills. LinkedIn: Amy Borsetti, Global Director of Sales Effectiveness; Naomi Davidson, Sr. Find the right balance for your organization.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 4, 2016

By overloading the reps with the information they would face in a live selling scenario you can simulate what they would encounter in real life and assess their selling skills. LinkedIn: Amy Borsetti, Global Director of Sales Effectiveness; Naomi Davidson, Sr. Find the right balance for your organization.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Selling skills still matter. The thinking is that AI will turn B-players into A-players, and A-players into unprecedented selling machines. AI will not supplant selling skills; A-players will likely be better at using assistive intelligence than B-players. including the B- and C-players?

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Build Your Brand Instead of training, first you must arm sales reps with a LinkedIn profile optimization. A buyer-centric LinkedIn® profile serves as a foundation that prepares a seller for training to implement new modern sales techniques. In fact, many of the techniques overlap and work cohesively, rather than independently.

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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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Vengreso

MAY 11, 2020

After their sales team completed Selling with LinkedIn ® training in the Spring, participants told me that selling in the Fall was easier than ever because they had connected socially and maintained a steady schedule of content posts and engagement which strengthen relationships virtually. Selling with LinkedIn ®.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 22, 2018

Check out my NEW online sales training course on LinkedIn Learning. Then a colleague suggested LinkedIn Learning, a new platform for online sales training. I checked out the platform and spoke with a colleague who’s already a LinkedIn Learning instructor. Step #2: Take the Referral Selling Course on LinkedIn.com or Lynda.com.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 14, 2023

At Janek, we call these Critical Selling Skills. Besides developing their interpersonal skills, new sales reps need to sharpen their technical skills. They are taught the basics of their CRM, sales enablement tools, and LinkedIn Navigator, but this only scratches the surface.

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Sell Integrity

JANUARY 18, 2021

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. Selling Skills and Techniques To Maintain Your Sales Pipeline. You can’t just have a LinkedIn profile anymore.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

One of the best social networks for sales, especially in the B2B space, is LinkedIn. LinkedIn is one of the best platforms for salespeople to find, engage, and connect with prospects to develop correspondence that leads to offline sales conversations. Social selling is beneficial to most B2B companies. Nurturing prospects.

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Gong.io

MARCH 12, 2020

I’d list them here, but LinkedIn would definitely flag that s**t). That’s why I’m f–ing pumped to share our new Master Class Series: Advanced Selling Skills with you. It’s a 3-part video course that dives into advanced selling skills. Sign up for your FREE Master Class Series: Advanced Selling Skills here.

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Gong.io

APRIL 22, 2022

Hi Kevin, Read your recent LinkedIn article The 4:1 Give-Get Sales Formula, and as a pretty green AE, it was great advice to remember as I start, and progress my sales career. Hmmm … well … this is part of Evan’s LinkedIn bio: “In my spare time I enjoy traveling, snowboarding, and mountain biking.” see #1 here ).

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 26, 2016

Get your sales reps to focus on specific selling skills and practice. To learn more about how to practice asking for referrals, check out our No More Cold Calling Individual Referral Selling Programs. Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 19, 2019

This is particularly true in selling. Practice is essential in improving selling skills, specific techniques, interpersonal skills, and attention-to-detail in the selling process. 5 Keys to Coaching - Demonstrate. PRACTICE - We have all heard the saying, “Practice makes perfect”.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There are several reasons, I think this is a critical selling skill and responsibility. Just before a call, looking up the organization’s web site, understanding recent changes, looking up the person’s LinkedIn profile; these help prepare us to engage the customer in terms relevant to them.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 13, 2021

Based on that information, you can learn more about the firm by consulting publicly accessible yearly accounts, LinkedIn, and other resources. 5 Sales Readiness Group (SRG) – Comprehensive Selling Skills. Utilize sales information to ascertain what previously worked and which types of accounts were the most lucrative.

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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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

According to LinkedIn , 60% of sales leaders anticipate their team won’t be able to hit quota by year end. Selling skills is the number one area of focus for 38% of sales managers when coaching their reps. According to LinkedIn , 1 in 5 B2B decision makers change roles annually. Did any of these data points surprise you?

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