Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I received two assessments for the same candidate: one from Objective Management Group (OMG) and one from Caliper. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. The candidate scored 60% on Caliper and 92 on OMG.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2023

Day or night, year after year, all of our trips were based on how far I might have to drive. There are simple, easy, fast and powerful solutions for sales problems too. Salespeople aren’t prospecting as required because sales managers are not holding them accountable. And then I discovered the solution. Sunglasses.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lesson: cold call multiple people in each account.” The best way to respond to this is to execute a full “Frontal Sales Blitz”. The Sales Blitz approaches this a bit backwards, where the sales rep attempts to engage all the players on the decision team in order to build and create consensus around their offering.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. If you’re thinking about a career in sales, you probably want to hear the cold, hard truths about sales and what it entails.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 23, 2014

I sales there is always talk of trust, easy to see why. Further, in sales, talk of trust brings with it an ever expanding range of opinions and advice from a number of “knowledgeable experts”. With trust, it is better to master a given element, learn, and build a base of success from which you can move to the next set of elements.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 10, 2014

Two guys talking about eating out a lot, could even have been road warrior sales types. They also sell and upsell you from wine to desert and everything between, helping their restaurant sell more profitable items, increasing the size of the bill, their tip, and your experience. Sales person, really?

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Bernadette McClelland

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For Salespeople, that behaviour is Responsibility , and to complete the equation, for the Sales Manager it is Accountability. In other words, 94% of elite salespeople don’t make any excuses or blame, compared to those 20% who, perhaps, shouldn’t be in sales. . This is the Accountability Stage. Both in equal doses!

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For the longest time we were encouraged to use the BANT as a means of qualifying potential buyers, and I guess by extension shorten sales cycles and get more sales. Crowded because every sales person has got their eye fixed on these people, as they are declared buyers. One of his needs was not sales training.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Account based sales reps think that the more we automate selling, the better, easier, and more effective their jobs will be. Text messages with truncated words or 140-character Twitter posts are not the kind of meaningful, effective dialogue that guarantees qualified sales leads. . That got me thinking.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Crunchbase

MAY 22, 2023

Sales prospecting is an integral part of the sales process. When done manually, it can be time-consuming and demand substantial effort — but automated sales prospecting can help. Automated sales prospecting tools, also known as sales automation software , streamline your workflow and allow you to spend more time selling.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Today’s sales teams have the ability to use tools that would simply blow the mind of someone who first came up in the industry just 10 years ago. ZoomInfo vs. Alternative Let’s take two sales teams: Company A uses ZoomInfo Company B uses basic contact-scraping software Each company has a team of 10 sales reps working eight hours per day.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2014

I got a note from one of the pundits in my inbox telling me things I should do for sales success in the New Year. You may expect these type of things mid-way thru December till maybe January 10th, but after that it is just an indicator that they don’t really understand B2B sales at all, and the customers they get as a result, they deserve.

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The Pipeline

JULY 3, 2013

One of the big Canadian banks, we’ll call them the Green bank, has a current radio ad that I believe holds a great lesson for sales people. Sales Process Sales Success Tibor Shanto' By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Tibor Shanto. Did You Just Say.?"

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 30, 2013

First an endless barrage of meaningless awards shows meant to squeeze the last bit of sales out of last year’s products. Successful sales people master things that work and then stick with them till they stop helping them succeed. But they all have objectives, focus on that, and you engage with more potential buyers, and sell more.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 27, 2014

There are certain universal concepts and sayings in sales that everybody just nods to, “sure, of course, that’s hockey, motherhood and apple pie, of course.” ” And then they go in about selling like they always have whether they implement the concept or not. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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The Pipeline

APRIL 10, 2014

Most sales people think about objections as being a bad thing, a lot of sales people and worse leaders, get really uptight when it comes to objections. The goal here is not to specifically give you techniques, but more to get you to relax a bit and see how objections are good for you, your sales, humanity, and global warming.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2013

Sales like any other craft takes practice, evaluation, more practice, repeated coaching, and just when we think we have it down, we need to practice some more; and then things change, which means we get to practice some more. Consider that in North America, there is an average 1,760 hours of active sales time.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Believe that, and your account-based sales strategies are doomed from the start. Big mistake! The best account-based sales strategies aren’t reactive. Your account-based sellers have one job and one job only—to get in early before a prospect knows they have a need. their current clients.

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Lead411

APRIL 11, 2024

doing for the B2B sales data world? Data is king in the ever-changing world of business-to-business (B2B) sales. Then along comes AI, a game-changer that is drastically altering the landscape of business-to-business sales data. What is A.I. Enhancements: 1. This, in turn, increases efficiency and closing rates.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. How Does Dirty Data Affect Sales?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 30, 2014

Change is hard for all of us, that much more so for sales people. Some of the most creative modern prose have flowed from sales people enticing their buyer to change, “Your business dreams, are but one change away”. This could be the very reason why many sales people prefer to be “gatherers” – account managers than hunters.

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Webinar Metrics Cold Calling Objections Discount 257

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I''ve seen this happen in youth baseball so many times. Are there sales versions of this? An example of a successful, but not necessarily busy salesperson, would be the one whose two whale-sized deals generated three times more business than the rest of the sales force combined.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 21, 2013

It’s June and you’re not sure your sales leader is going to last through the year. If you’re a CEO without selling experience, what you need may not be clear. The secret to hiring a great sales leader is the ‘A’ Player Scorecard. The secret to hiring a great sales leader is the ‘A’ Player Scorecard. Accountabilities.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 26, 2013

I’ve spoken before about how sales people seem to have a better grasp on the stats of their favourite athlete than their own numbers, just sit back watch them pick their football pool. Yet as soon as you introduce any form of metrics, and a means to manage the data/outcome, many sales people resort to the M word. Micromanagement!

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

Because most SaaS products are subscription-based and allow for recurring revenue, this business model is becoming the go-to for many businesses — new and old. In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 3, 2014

I am have a hard time not screaming when a sales person asks me “Should I call that prospect or not, I called him a couple of weeks ago, he didn’t call back, I guess he is not interested.” No, from where I sit, it is the sales person making that statement who is not interested. 25% Of Sales People Make a Second Contact and Stop.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2014

Had the opportunity to listen in on an interesting discussion the other day between two sales practitioners, they were not aware of me, or what I do, I was just snooping. Fred was saying that he often felt unprepared for the negotiations phase and having some solid training and a process to manage that part of the sale could only help.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2013

I suspect that this is the sales world version of the Bradley Effect , where voters told pollsters one thing about how they will vote, while doing opposite when they actually went to cast their vote. Sales eXchange Sales Mistakes Sales Success Selling to Executives Attitude cold calling how to sell better Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2021

While the process is tough to make sense of, there are some definite "no-no's" businesses need to avoid — common mistakes companies often run into when pricing products. Here, we'll go over some of those common pricing hitches companies often hit and get some context on how to identify when you've made a mistake with your pricing strategy.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

B2B data is enterprise-focused information used to improve sales and marketing campaigns. It highlights behavior-based activity such as lead sources, social media engagement, form fills, and time spent on a website. Fit data helps marketers score and segment prospects into personas suitable to be in your customer base.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The best way to accomplish sales goals is to have the right salespeople on your team. To achieve your sales goals in 2022, there is one essential question you need to ask before you spend a dime on marketing. . Do we have the right sales team in place to achieve our sales goals in 2022? But that can be misleading.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How well can you explain (or defend) the way your company compensates sales employees? In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid. Let’s get into it!

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 9, 2014

I guess at one point someone alerted sellers to the fact that the word ‘Pitch’ was not conducive to consultative selling. So things evolved to USP – Or “Unique Selling Proposition”, exalting the uniqueness of one’s offering. As with many things in sales, the problem is less with the concept than the execution. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Sellers are taught to ask probing questions, trying to discover what the opportunities can be uncovered, where the “pain” may be that will allow us to present “the solution”, win hearts and minds of buyer, win the sale, and win the day. We have all seen scenarios where despite all the right elements being in place, there is no sale.

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The Pipeline

JULY 21, 2014

You know sales is a lot like politics, some are isolationists, others realize we live in a big world with plenty of room for all to thrive, and not always at the expense of others, I guess these would be the inclusionary camp. Sales Execution Sales Process Selling to Executives Tibor Shanto' What’s in Your Pipeline?

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