The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sales meetings are more than just a routine; they have the potential to inspire, motivate, and educate your sales team. A productive sales meeting introduces your team to new information, solutions, and opportunities, ultimately driving revenue. But a poorly executed one?

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Marc Wayshak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In this article, I’ll guide you on how to make a follow-up call that gets sales meetings. You have a genuine opportunity to profit from this conversation. Always present your best information early on in the follow-up call, as there may not be a later opportunity. Make the meeting attractive. Check it out: 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Author: Leeatt Rothschild Virtual sales meetings have become the norm as a result of COVID-19. However, many sales reps may find themselves unsure of how to best lead a meeting with prospects over video. Here are four actionable tips to help you lead more successful virtual sales meetings and ultimately earn more new business.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Discovery meetings are a vital tool for uncovering new business opportunities. The key to an effective discovery meeting lies in the ability to ask thoughtful questions, actively listen, and establish genuine rapport. This article explores best practices for conducting productive discovery meetings.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. We’ve had to make do with virtual sales meetings, and that has affected many B2B sales pros’ ability to access new customers and to make real-world connections. The Problem with Virtual Sales Meetings. Virtual Sales Meetings Are Here to Stay.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Scenario Generate a list of 60-day old open opportunities that have gone 45 days without a meeting. To restart these degraded opportunities, send an email from an executive such as the chief revenue officer, a VP, or a director on the sales team to the main point of contact.

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RAIN Group

APRIL 22, 2022

They're methodical in their approach to opportunities. They carefully map their sales process to the buyer's, set goals for every meeting, and do an exceptional job of communicating value. Sellers who win consistently plan to win from the start.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

He once said to me, “Sean, what do you do after a sales meeting that ensures the next one will be even better?”. But it got me thinking about what would be the best way to learn from the meeting experience and determine how I could improve next time. Ask yourself questions like these: How did the meeting start?

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

That, of course, was written before the virus shutdown, but it shows that virtual meetings with clients and prospects were exponentially on the increase before it became the only methodology that we could use to reach prospects. So, what would be the best practices to adhere to when meeting up with a client virtually?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 21, 2020

We spoke with Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, which connects meetings and events businesses with customers through annual tradeshows in Germany and Las Vegas. Are we looking at a new normal for the meetings and events industry? SMM: What do you feel will justify the return to traveling for meetings and events?

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time. The content quality is excellent.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Here are eight tactics and techniques that can help you meet your 2020 sales goals. You have the opportunity to meet your immediate goals as well as secure your job long into the future, provided that you can be the value-added resource that tailors solutions to customers’ unique problems and pain points. . Complete Your Tasks.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 8, 2024

With the rise of more intuitive interactions with technology, adapting to and leveraging AI could be a game-changer for meeting evolving customer expectations. The post Small Business Mastery: Turning Challenges into Opportunities appeared first on SalesPOP!

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Could they set up another meeting or a more in-depth demo? Trigger Aging opportunities (typically more than 60 days old; may vary based on your sales cycle ) Actions SDRs make calls to those opportunities If you can’t reach anyone, send an automated follow-up email What could they do to move the deal along?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The email should acknowledge your prospect’s interest and offer them an opportunity to take the next step. This method eliminates the huge inefficiency of setting up meetings through back and forth emails and can reduce the sales cycles up to 20%. Chat with your most engaged buyers on your website.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 25, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Are companies less likely to embrace meetings and events or is there a pent-up demand for getting together? Will the meetings and events industry rebound? Others feel the isolation we have endured will make people more eager to meet in person?—?or When will you feel comfortable flying again?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Today’s topic is on Meeting Planning. I want to cover a bunch of meeting types–mostly sales meetings or sales calls, but also meetings we have internally, management meetings, and so forth. The same basic principles apply to having high impact meetings, whoever we are meeting with.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Scenario A certain percentage of prospects will always fail to show up to the meeting, but you shouldn’t let these leads slip away. Set up notifications in your CRM for prospects that didn’t show up to meetings in the last seven days. This will keep your product top-of-mind and increase the likelihood of a closed-won opportunity.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Many sales people between sales meetings or between calls are blinkered to the sales opportunities around them. They take too much time to reflect on previous meetings, and some sales people will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2023

We spend a huge amount of time getting customers to accept a request for a meeting. We are juggling all sorts of balls, prospecting, managing qualified opportunities in our pipelines, making sure our current customers are happy, doing the endless amount of internal reporting our managers seem to want us to do. Customers are busy.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2021

They do this because they don’t understand the problem/opportunity the customer faces. Sometimes, they believe they must meet the customer’s complex situations with complex solutions. The post Meeting Complexity With Complexity first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But that doesn’t mean remote meetings are only relevant to them. There are numerous opinions about how to succeed in remote meetings. That means the overwhelming majority of reps aren’t using the engagement techniques that research shows to be most effective at securing meetings and advancing deals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2020

This article examines how to evaluate your current standing and begin translating losses into new opportunities to win. . Fortunately, this psychology provides the first opportunity to reframe the current situation by taking back some control. Start with the value you bring to the table. Be prepared to walk away.

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criteria for success

AUGUST 3, 2022

Let's say you're a super social salesperson who frequently meets people at networking events. If you listen to head trash that tells you to not come across too “salesy” – you'll be less inclined to follow-up and schedule prospecting meetings ! Create a list of your desired outcomes before the meeting. Handling Objections.

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Close.io

JANUARY 6, 2020

Keeping track of those meetings can be a pain—did the lead reschedule, who attended, and what happened next? Today we’re launching Meeting Sync , a power feature that gives you instant visibility by bringing your meetings directly into the CRM. What is Meeting Sync? Why we built Meeting Sync. Go get ‘em!

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Welcome to the next installment of our Meet the Team series. Ali Schurman, Customer Support Tech Meet Ali! Ali is thrilled about the opportunity to engage with users and help them overcome their day-to-day obstacles. I love all of the learning opportunities I have working at Spiff. Hey there, readers!

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While team-wide accomplishments are probably announced to everyone, individual teams in one region may not be aware of the successes of their coworkers in another region and how they all work together to help your organization meet their sales goals. How To Plan for a National Sales Meeting. Identify Objectives. Set a Schedule.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 6, 2020

Author: Colleen Honan and Liz Pulice As we head into 2020, many organizations are preparing for their sales kickoff meetings. These meetings are usually the one time of the year when companies can assemble their entire sales organization and get the team energized, engaged and prepared for the year ahead. . Before the Meeting.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Over the last 6 months, there have only been an elite few known as “Accelerators” — those companies that have thrived in a recessionary environment. One such company is CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. By expediting the growth.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

And to create a pipeline, you have to book meetings — which is no small feat. According to RAIN Group Sales Training , it takes an average of eight touches to get an initial meeting with a new prospect. And the longer it takes to get a meeting on the books, the more likely you are to lose the opportunity altogether.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

And I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more to this piece of contact information than meets the eye. Well, this story starts when I had a great opportunity at a young age to work for a third-generation entrepreneur who taught me the way to really sell business to business over the phone. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We looked forward to hiking, seeing cool geysers, and were hopeful we’d have the opportunity to see a real grizzly bear in the wild. You have a meeting with a prospective client, and you think it’s going great. Last summer I visited Yellowstone National Park with my family. How Objections Can Trigger the Fight or Flight Instinct.

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Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

Ron and I would meet with various decision makers who were involved in a project that would involve thousands of the items we sold on one contract. Then we would meet with someone else in the same division who was either an influencer or part of the decision team for the same project. Increase Opportunities. Get those answers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Author: Paul Nolan Janet Sperstad, program director of Meeting and Event Management at Madison College in Wisconsin, has spent her career working toward more purposeful meetings. SMM: When you talk about more purposeful meetings, are you saying we need to increase the human element and have less focus on business results?

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Whether you’re a Spiff blog regular or a first-time visitor, we’re thrilled to have you here for our latest installment of our Meet the Team series. This series gives you the chance to meet the faces behind Spiff—the dedicated individuals who work tirelessly to shape our product and company. Welcome, readers!

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