Sales Training Connection

article thumbnail

Team selling – the need for more shorter, better meetings

Sales Training Connection

The good news is new software tools are available that can help. Easy-to-use and inexpensive software from companies, like Less Meetings , can help salespeople set agendas, keep minutes, automate follow-up and build in accountability. An additional role for the Call Manager relates to follow-up accountability.

Meeting 116
article thumbnail

Sales performance management – what is it really?

Sales Training Connection

And, as expected, most of the references related to software. They narrowed the search by putting “definitions of” in front and 429,000 results appeared.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

Sales Training Connection

The importance of middle managers can be especially significant in industries and fields that value innovation, like computer games, software, consulting, biotech and marketing, according to Mollick. a lack of the decision authority to get their jobs done. a disconnect with the people to whom they report.

article thumbnail

Consultative selling and selling consultatively – don’t confuse them!

Sales Training Connection

One relates to the just noted language distinction; the other to an important trend in the world of buying. The second point relates to an important trend in the world of B2B buying and it is the strategic reason for making a big to-do about selling consultatively. The second set of skills relates back to Ian’s point in the article.

article thumbnail

Isolating the swing factors for making big-ticket sales training investments

Sales Training Connection

A second bias is related to the failure to consider new technology-based methodologies like online sales training or software based coaching program because they are “new or “hard to implement.”.

article thumbnail

Managing your time – a key to sales success

Sales Training Connection

The number of great apps and software systems has grown exponentially in the last several years. First is second-level product knowledge which goes beyond features and functions and is all about the capacity to relate how your products can solve the customer’s business problems – for example: reduce risk, generate revenue and reduce cost.

System 50