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Virtual Selling Is Not The Same Thing As Digital Buying

Partners in Excellence

While we focus on developing our virtual selling skills; do you have the right camera/lighting, an appropriate background, are you dressed appropriately–at least from the waist up, are you looking at the camera, not the person’s image on screen…… our customers are doing something different.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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The Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 20 Featuring David Bauders

Allego

In episode 20, SPARXiQ Founder and CEO David Bauders shares how sales organizations can adapt to the new normal, the power of analytics to accelerate sales performance, and why you learn the most from your most demanding customers. Episode 20: Driving Sales Performance | David Bauders. That, to me, has been a revelation.”.

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Chally on Challenger – “Defining sales role requirements is not as simple as comparing apples to oranges!”

Jonathan Farrington

The skill and capability of the customer facing sales team has never been more important. The best new ideas come outfitted with updated labels and catch phrases, suggesting a change in the key ingredients required for sales success in the new age of technology, demanding customers, and competition. And so the question?

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Sales Targets – 2 Reasons You Won’t Hit This Year’s Target

Klozers

Hitting Sales Targets should be one of the top goals for any Professional Sales person, yet survey after survey every year shows the majority of sales teams in every industry dont hit sales targets. In Sales more than any other job, it is easy to not only to appear to be busy, but actually be busy.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” Customers don’t want to spend time with sales people.

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Sales Targets – Top 4 Reasons Companies Don???t Hit Them

Klozers

Sales Targets continue to elude many companies, but more importantly the reasons why people do not hit sales targets has finally been uncovered. If you are not already aware, every year Jim Dickie and his colleagues at www.CSOinsights.com produce a fascinating report into the state of the sales industry.

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