Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Consultative Selling Skills are used by organizations in many different industries to drive high end Business 2 Business sales, and whilst Consultative Selling is undoubtedly difficult to get right, the rewards are high given the typical values of the products & services involved.

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Consultative Selling Selling Skills Ideal Customer Profile Sales Methodology 48

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

He may have been referring to the US market but, globally, we will see a slower return to our usual sales patterns. If so, use meeting software that allows for more people to be online. Do identify other uses of the meeting software. Do ensure people on the call are aware of the meeting software’s capabilities.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Business to Business , or B2B, sales occur between companies that sell products or services to other companies. This could look like a technology company selling marketing software to other companies and wholesalers selling products to supermarkets. The industrial sales industry is also a very specific market.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

If you sell complex enterprise software, a show-and-tell format may not be useful or persuasive enough to demonstrate your solution. Know your presentation platforms. Stumbling through your sales presentation with technical distractions is a sure way to sabotage your efforts. Deliver a Great Online Demo.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

A well-designed program, paired with a robust training software , will empower your sales reps with the knowledge they need to deliver value and close more deals. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. This includes market understanding, solution selling, and long-term relationship building.

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Carew International

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Time spent on day-to-day sales activities – closing deals, acting as an advisor to customers, completing sales negotiations – these are all symptomatic of insufficient selling skills on the sales team. When this dynamic is present, it is likely that sales training in the organization focuses heavily on product knowledge.

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Sales Leadership Tools Selling Skills Negotiation 42

Carew International

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Time spent on day-to-day sales activities – closing deals, acting as an advisor to customers, completing sales negotiations – these are all symptomatic of insufficient selling skills on the sales team. When this dynamic is present, it is likely that sales training in the organization focuses heavily on product knowledge.

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Sales Leadership Tools Selling Skills Negotiation 40

Smooth Sale

JANUARY 30, 2023

He is the founder and CEO of Seamless.AI (the #1 Sales Software in the world), a motivational speaker, and an 18x sales author obsessed with helping others maximize their success. To make this happen, you need exceptional selling skills. Selling is not about talking but about listening to realize a better solution.

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Tom Hopkins

JULY 26, 2016

Business productivity is a great topic to include in your sales presentations. With some products such as software, increasing productivity is a given–after the learning curve has been completed with training. The post Business Productivity Close appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

This comprehensive guide on how to upsell a product aims not only to improve your selling skills but also enhance your understanding of customers’ needs which ultimately leads to long-term business success. It presents potential upgrades at just the right moment in the customer journey, when their interest levels are sky-high.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 12, 2011

What software will I need to view the webinars? However, feel free to invite them to view the presentation over your shoulder. Presenting. There is no time like the present to change things up in 2012 to ensure its better than 2011! After the live sessions, the webinars will only be available to Ace of Sales customers.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 6, 2012

Hard to imagine Bill Gates in his dorm room cooking mac and cheese on a hotplate as he struggles with his 128k computer to create the future of software. Yes, I’m somewhat successful now, BUT I didn’t start with nine best-selling books. Presenting. But they all did. Then I gave them a glimpse of my beginning and my renaissance.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Monitoring market shifts. It also becomes harder to separate anecdotal evidence from a few reps from a larger shift in the market. A bad microphone or poor internet connection can affect the quality of your sales presentation and leave prospects feeling frustrated. Use sales enablement software. Lack of visual cues.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Lead Rank Pipeline 108

Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

But with sellers entering more competitive markets, it’s time to hit reset. For sales managers, being able to track and analyze seller performance all in one place using sales readiness software provides concrete insight into every time you say, “You’re doing a great job,” or “There’s room for improvement.”

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Coaching Data Sales Coaching Conversion 95

SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We don’t mean memorizing a script, or the “sales theater” involved in most canned demos and sales presentations. Real sales skills go beyond simple metrics like number of calls completed or number of deals closed, and they can and should be measured and managed proactively. And we aren’t just talking about selling skills.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Analytics 139

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Courses or certifications can specialize in sales skills such as sales presentations, sales methodology, social selling, or sales coaching. For sales reps, it's important to be a confident communicator, so you can empathize and sell to your prospects. Improve prospecting skills. Implement roleplay.

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Film Hubspot Sales Cycle Lead Rank 139

Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Presently, it is extremely difficult to sustain a competitive advantage by product alone. Even if you have a winning product, the competition is likely to get a product to market that is just as good, at half the price … in half the time it took several years ago. So coaching is clearly needed and warranted.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

An advanced sales training software can provide insights, strategies, and analytics that can help shape successful interactions and elevate your sales team’s productivity. Solution: Focus on educating the prospect about the evolving market trends and how your solution aligns. How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Closing Training Lead Rank Negotiation 52

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2022

Being a pushy salesperson who only focuses on their product’s features and benefits won’t get you very far in today’s market. That’s not great for them, but it presents an opportunity for everyone else. . You’d be hard-pressed to make any kind of product-focused strategy work in today’s market. This is how Gong can help.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

Social selling is the art of using social media tools to locate, contact, and nurture potential leads, enhancing the accomplishments of sales teams. Digital marketing can leverage this skill to establish lasting customer loyalty and improved brand awareness.

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Social Selling Training Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel 52

Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to implement a successful coaching culture for a virtual workforce, as well as the tools and techniques leaders should leverage to boost reps’ selling skills, knowledge and overall performance. Sales coaching involves providing ongoing instruction and advice to develop sales skills.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Face-to-face Sales Enablement 111

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

For example, if you are looking for an Account Executive, search for titles that generally lead to AE (Market Development Rep, Business Development Rep, Sales Development Rep, and so on). According to The Bridge Group, BDRs are typically in their roles for 10 to 19 months -- depending on the product they’re selling -- before becoming an AE.

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Hiring Quota Scale Lead Rank 91

BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

For example, you may invite a guest speaker to do a presentation and Q&A with your team or have team members do role-playing exercises to practice different sales scenarios. With Brainshark, you can choose to schedule a training session where you do a live presentation with a tool like Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Clicking mindlessly through an agonizingly slow video presentation or sitting in a hot, stuffy conference room with dozens of other people listening to a presenter drone on about things you already know. The market is evolving faster than ever, and sales reps need high-quality ongoing training to keep up.

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Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Gong’s sales analytics software takes unparalleled data capture and analytical capabilities and applies them to your customer interactions. Because nothing grabs a buyer’s attention faster than talking about what they could lose (market share, deal size, annual contract values, etc.). PS: Want an AI-powered filtration system?

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Sales Methodology Sales Qualified Lead 62

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Even companies with onboarding programs that build initial seller knowledge typically fall short when it comes to hands-on practice, certification, and the ongoing training necessary to keep pace with product, market, competitive, and messaging changes. . Engaging, interactive formats . Be ready by building seller knowledge.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Make a differentiated presentation . Data shows that sellers who close use their webcam 41% more often than those who don’t: Anchor your shiny new sales presentations with stellar visuals and the human element for a truly memorable buying experience. . Your initial presentation can (and must) play a redirecting role.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Coaching Lead Rank 81

Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

But with sellers entering more competitive markets, it’s time to hit reset. For sales managers, being able to track and analyze seller performance all in one place using sales readiness software provides concrete insight into every time you say, “You’re doing a great job,” or “There’s room for improvement.”

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Coaching Data Sales Coaching Conversion 52

Mereo

JUNE 9, 2022

Marketing might have a rebrand they could spend hours presenting. Lisa McQueen serves as the head of sales for Sandata , a leading software service company for Medicaid providers and payers that is a portfolio company of Accel-KKR. INVEST IN SUSTAINABLE SELLING SUCCESS. Prioritize your sales teams. They need it.

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Travel Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank 36

Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Success rates increase when sellers present slides in mid and late-stage meetings. Slides are less about conversation, more about presentation. Presenting ROI at any point in your sales process correlates with a 27% drop in close rates. However, any of the following may be true: Presenting ROI doesn’t work.

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Cold Calling ROI Call-back Negotiation 93

SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Soft skills involve emotional intelligence and include such things as empathy, interpersonal skills, assertiveness, impulse control, and problem solving.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Presently, it is extremely difficult to sustain a competitive advantage by product alone. Even if you have a winning product, the competition is likely to get a product to market that is just as good, at half the price … in half the time it took several years ago. So sales coaching is clearly needed and warranted.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Energy Face-to-face 50

Nutshell

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a fun sales podcast that’s sure to boost your selling skills. Each episode shares relevant and actionable advice for modern sellers like how to sell with confidence, how to handle no-shows, and how to craft the perfect pitch. If you use email to sell, read the Salesfolk blog ASAP. Your Sales MBA Podcast.

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Resources Hiring Cold Calling Channels 71

Gong.io

AUGUST 20, 2018

Take marketing technology as one shining example of this…. In 2011, the marketing technology landscape consisted of a total of 150 competitors in the space: Now, you’d think that 150 is already a lot to handle. Some might argue it’s due to their great marketing. And all of them are more or less the same.

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Competition Trends Case Study Up-Sell 54

Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole. Seven reasons why investing in conversation intelligence software should be a priority.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Whether you’re launching a new business or a new product, competition is fierce, resources are limited, and market preferences can change in a moment. . With over 700 companies competing in this highly saturated market, getting lost is easy. A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy Marketing 62

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

They pick up lessons about how to pitch, answer objections, use marketing collateral and other aspects of selling for that product in that market, while gaining confidence in their abilities. Once established, these processes help to unlock knowledge that in most firms is trapped in inboxes or tedious PowerPoint presentations.

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