A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

A big issue we care about is trying to make the sales forecast process easier and more accurate. Our CEO calls the current sales forecast system ‘the propagation of the lie.’ Their response; Jim, I like your blog/thinking a lot so I sent you our news mostly as an fyi.

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Allego

JANUARY 16, 2020

Today’s post is by Colleen Stanley, President of SalesLeadership , a sales development firm. She is the creator of the Ei Selling System ®, a powerful sales and management training program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills. Top salespeople study and learn.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2020

They covered almost everything from cold calling to sales forecasting and even provided helpful tips to handle prospects and close more deals. Sales podcast 2 – Sales Gravy. Where to find this sales podcast: Website , iTunes , Stitcher. Sales podcast 3 – Catalyst Sale Podcast.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 23, 2021

highly persuasive sales email templates. We are starting with the mother lode of sales email templates. These 11 sales email templates guide you through the complete sales cycle — from prospecting to follow-ups to multi-threading, to negotiating … to the close. The sales forecasting template.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Even more alarming, recent Sales Xceleration research uncovered only 20% of companies allocate funds for critical sales leadership training. While selling skills may be impressive, they often don’t crossover to managing several sellers and helping them produce sales results. Managing with an eye on the big picture.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

In the world of sales, effective communication is the cornerstone of success. Whether you’re a seasoned sales pro or just starting your journey, understanding and speaking the language of sales is essential to connect with prospects, build relationships, and close deals.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A sales enablement tool should enable go-to-market (GTM) teams to support the sales team with content, training, coaching, and analytics — helping sellers provide a stellar buying experience and ultimately drive revenue growth. Enabling the sales team members with the right content and guidance is not sufficient by itself.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

An ICP will also let your reps qualify accounts faster and sharpen their messaging so that it is almost certain to land with potential prospects. Involve your sales reps. Involve your sales reps at every stage of the process when creating sales territories. In short, reps can become even more effective and productive. .

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

Sales reps can use this forum to showcase their key selling skills, strategic and critical thinking capabilities in the past quarter. Though I’m biased, I of course recommend you use a tool like Everstage to forecast commissions.) How can you fast-track deals through the sales funnel?

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SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

With new terms like “sales stench” (when a cold call is so trite and annoying that the prospect can smell the spiel coming through the phone), to new ideas that-even if a little sarcastic-just might make a lot of sense (like using emoticons to indicate forecast probability). of leads will close. Anneke Seley).

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

That’s why we’ve rounded up the complete list of best sales podcasts to turbocharge your journey to achieving sales mastery. Listen To Sales Podcasts, Then Go Listen To Your Prospects! . Success in sales requires a lot of listening. Predictable Prospecting. Average Duration:15-30 minutes.

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Accent Technologies

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Explain the benefits of tracking prospect interactions and getting forecasts to achieve quotas faster. Speed and efficiency are certainly important to any high-performing sales team. It is understandable for reps to be apprehensive about anything that takes time away from their selling and prospecting activities.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 16, 2017

Sales Tips: How to Establish Urgency with Your Prospects and Accelerate Buying Decisions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Pricing that was too high and/or lack of some particular feature or function are often the reasons given by prospects to salespeople after having competed for and lost a potential piece of business. That information is then relayed back to sales management either via a formal Loss Report or through a post sales ‘autopsy’ discussion.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. At the start of my sales career my manager set targets for me for how many calls per week to make, how many proposals per month to issue, the number of cold prospecting calls that should be made each week, etc.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Moving forward for each rep they multiplied the total revenue at each stage by the historical close rate to create revenue forecast. At this point I asked him: Phil, do your sellers tell prospects they’ll have similar forecast accuracy rates? He was proud to show me his approach. He asked what I meant.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 1, 2017

Courage to anticipate a prospect's questions and plan how you will deal with them logically and professionally. Courage to stay the course when your prospect pushes back on what you are attempting to do. Courage to set aside sacred time to practice your new sales process, skills, methods, and tactics on a weekly basis.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They hate to enter volumes of data for unqualified prospects. Without wanting to micromanage, the first step in entering an opportunity is that a prospect or buyer has shared a business goal (or business problem) they are hoping to achieve through the use of a seller’s offering. For these reasons few sellers embrace CRM.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

He or she is in charge of a variety of functions within an organization, including setting sales goals, managing sales quotas, creating sales plans, monitoring progress, overseeing sales training, keeping an eye on key accounts, and recruiting, hiring, and mentoring sales reps. Quality #2: Communication skills.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Can You Make It Through the “Dip?”. By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer of CustomerCentric Selling®.

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InsightSquared

JULY 21, 2020

It prepares reps for every question, objection, or speculative comment a prospect makes. Strategic Prospecting Skills. Reps may know the product like the back of their hand, but without prospects to sell to, it’s of little use. . All of these options are fair game for quota-carrying ISRs to begin their prospecting.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Uncover the True Value of Financial Benefits. By Jim Naro, CustomerCentric Selling® Certified Business Partner.

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