Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We were discussing the pandemic and it’s impact on buyers and sellers. We’ve seen our worlds turned upside down. We and our customers are re-inventing our business. We, mutually, are discovering new ways of buying and new ways to engage our customers. They are looking for things to go back to “normal.”

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Because I’ve never colored my hair in my entire life. (I Or have you reverted to those old, tiresome sales pitches that go on and on about why you’re so great? We have sales playbooks, when what we really need are sales storybooks. With 2019 coming to a close, it was time for a new look. Why is this a big deal?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We need to revert to value-based appeal. Hubspot details this sales closing technique with a few questions: Ask your prospect: “Think of a scale of 1 – 10, where 1 is ‘I would NEVER buy from you’ and 10 is ‘I wish you sold more so I could KEEP buying from you!'” The 1-to-10 Rule.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been reflecting on projects I’ve been helping clients with over the past few years (in reality, I suspect I can trace it back further.) How does what we do with the functional/departmental groups impact the organization’s ability to meet it’s goals, execute the corporate strategies, and so forth?

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Marc Wayshak

JANUARY 6, 2021

You would never start building a house without a solid foundation, because you know it’d crack, wobble, and eventually fall down, no matter how beautiful it looked on the outside. Without a strong foundation of the basic principles of selling, you’ll never have an effective sales process that actually works on a consistent and reliable basis.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We need to revert to value-based appeal. Hubspot details this sales closing technique with a few questions: Question 1: On a scale of 1 to 10… Ask your prospect to think of a scale of 1 – 10, where 1 is “I would NEVER buy from you” and 10 is “I wish you sold more so I could KEEP buying from you!”.

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SalesLatitude

JUNE 21, 2018

Not only will you learn more about your customer or prospect, but you may also learn things you never even thought to ask. Not only will you learn more about your customer or prospect, but you may also learn things you never even thought to ask. But too many times we revert back to asking those easy closed-ended questions.

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Prospecting Maximizer Meeting Follow-up 85

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

A Very Short History of Personal Branding Although he didn’t define it as such, the underlying concept behind personal branding can be traced back to Aristotle, who observed in his Nicomachean Ethics , “These virtues are formed in many by his doing the actions” (Side note: That quote “We are what we repeatedly do.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 21, 2020

Did we take the right strategy? At the same time, the global approach has had to be taken, because for the first time we can orchestrate help throughout the world. It’s something that has never happened, is beyond anything we’ve ever previously imagined. Otherwise, why would we take such care of each and every one?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 19, 2017

Or more accurately, it requires reverting back to the old ways. . Account-based sellers should always ask for referrals in person or on the phone— never via email or LinkedIn. We only refer others when we’re confident they’ll take care of our connections just as we would.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 15, 2020

We’re all looking for the silver bullet technique when it comes to increasing our sales but we can also learn a great deal from those salespeople who make the most mistakes! We’re often looking for “what to do.” “Tell me about my company and what we do?” How many are you guilty of?

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Pipeliner

MAY 12, 2020

In his book The Road to Ruin , James Rickards poses the question of whether or not we are having a total collapse of society. It’s difficult to predict whether or not we can come out of this current crisis in a positive way, because so many people will not immediately revert to pre-covid19 behavior. Not Repeating Errors.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We need to revert to value-based appeal. Brace Yourself We’ve got millions of verified B2B contacts — ready for you to close. “It Repeat what they say back to them. Do you want to talk through how we avoid this issue with other clients?” You were concerned about X and Y, and we talked through that.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But we have tips to combat this, too. Addressing fear of judgment and inadequacy Metric-only based evaluations can be intimidating, especially if you feel like the measures aren’t accurate. Making judgments about team members can be daunting for managers as well. That’s not the goal at all. What does it take to meet expectations?

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Salesmate

AUGUST 4, 2021

Email marketing is something that’ll never get old. With the volume of information that we get on a daily, nay hourly basis, coupled with the variety of delivery methods, customers get notifications about emails almost constantly. This was quite true 2 years back. Now that’s a number that no marketer can ignore. CEO, FounderJar.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Don’t negotiate before the prospect is sold, and don’t revert to “selling” when you’re in negotiations. Now that we know what the goal of objection handling is, let’s look at 5 techniques you can use to swat away any objections and make the sale. #1 Never answer a question without understanding the context behind it!

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

ANDY FOWLER: The two inputs to this were 1) when we would have the internal resources to take on this project, with all of the members of the team necessary to do it, and 2) when it was relevant externally and in the company’s timeline. Also, our orange color wasn’t something we were ready to lose entirely.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 12, 2022

While we all have our favorites foods, Pooh’s love of honey causes trouble. Of course, sellers always revert to what has worked before. Instead of falling back on one, sellers should select the best of aspects of each. But never take rejection personally. This is the ability to bounce back from defeat.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

” Dreamforce is over, we all have visions of our technology based futures dancing in our heads. We see the MarTech and other charts, with 1000’s of suppliers, in unimaginable niches, giving us the most essential sales and marketing technologies, guaranteed to drive performance and customer engagement. The future is bright!

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The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 2, 2021

We simply cannot keep trying to train sales professionals in the same old way especially when it just does not work anymore. Sales training is never going to revert back to the old ways, it is time to allow online sales programs to empower sales teams to adjust the way they sell to accommodate the new selling reality.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We need to revert to value-based appeal. Ask your prospect to think of a scale of 1 – 10 , where 1 is “I would NEVER buy from you’ and 10 is ‘I wish you sold more so I could KEEP buying from you!” Acknowledge what they say by repeating it back to them. So any discounts should be last.

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Closing B2B Decision Maker Scale 120

Sell Integrity

JULY 20, 2021

It requires that salespeople show a willingness to help buyers think differently or consider things they’ve never even thought about before. They’ll revert back to spitting out product features. Confident salespeople also gain a lot of credibility with their customers. This same concept applies to personal branding as well.

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Coaching Lead Rank 117

Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Instead, they have a ‘management relapse’ and revert back to becoming a super salesperson for their team. The Regression From Sales Manager Back To Salesperson. I find that managers revert back to being the Chief Problem Solver, rather than coach; not because they often want to (and many still do!) The paradox?

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Salesmate

JUNE 22, 2021

Whenever we open the inbox, we just skim through the emails unless there’s a highly intriguing subject line or an email topic that will help you solve your problems. Before we get started, let’s first glance at why your sales pitch email is proving ineffective. All these factors combined, you’re sure to get a revert!

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

We recommend the following three-part framework for the Buyer’s Journey: Awareness. We recommend the following four-part framework for your sales process, or the Inbound Sales Methodology : Identify. As we discussed on our initial call, you aren’t happy with your current website. So, how well do you know [Common Connection]?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

And if we looked at the concept of “friction in the buying process, what is the greatest source of friction? Long time readers will recognize when I ponder questions like this, sometimes I revert back to my background in physics. For an object not in motion, in a frictionless environment, we could never get them moving.

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Keith Rosen

AUGUST 15, 2012

It’s at this point when managers tend to revert back to directive mode and say something like, “Look, this is just how it needs to be done.”. This creates the positive experience you want for them because they now feel that they have been heard; something they’ll never feel if you just dismiss them.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2018

As we started talking, I asked him, “Bob, what’s your job?” But everything came back to doing deals, most of the time with his people, but he was actively involved in the majority of the deals they were doing. Let’s go back to that first question/answer, Question: What’s Your Job?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One of the biggest errors any of us can make is Hearing What We Want To Hear. Most of the time it’s totally unconscious, we don’t realize what we are doing. As sales people, we want to engage the customer, we want to qualify the opportunity, we want to win the deal. We discover challenges.

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DialSource

JULY 24, 2020

Although remote work was already steadily on the rise, following recent events, we essentially jumped into the future overnight. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I predict that when we return to normalcy (or as close as we can get), the world will become far more tolerant of remote workers. Learn more here.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

You will also never see yourself as just another number; instead, think of what data is most important for that customer’s success. ” One exercise in improv comedy is to see how long you can go back and forth with another person by only asking questions. Benefits of the consultative selling approach.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 6, 2018

We all need to be getting better. Good salespeople are never easy to find. Taking a step back, a sales manager will see in applying the above method of operation that every time a new person is added to the sales force, the overall dynamic of the sales force changes. Because today, it’s a hotly competitive environment.

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Gong.io

JUNE 15, 2018

Either way, when the drinks are done, you’ll both go back to square one with the same goal: Sending your competitors home with their tails between their legs. Those conversations were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with AI, then matched against their CRM opportunities so we could assess the results. The data science team at Gong.io

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2018

This doesn’t mean you abandon your vocabulary and revert to 4th-grade banter. And though we all know you can dazzle your audience with all of your in-depth knowledge about your vertical, don’t do it. I definitely re-learned the necessity of practicing your pitch as a founder—something I should have done more of back in the day.

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Sell Integrity

JULY 20, 2021

It requires that salespeople show a willingness to help buyers think differently or consider things they’ve never even thought about before. They’ll revert back to spitting out product features. Confident salespeople also gain a lot of credibility with their customers. This same concept applies to personal branding as well.

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Coaching Lead Rank 52

Eyeful Presentations

AUGUST 7, 2018

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly proud of what we do here at Eyeful. We take complex, cluttered, and often confused messages, and we bring them together. Similarly, we support bid teams with our sister company Sales Engine and witness the direct impact our work has on winning important contracts.

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Intent Engineering Course Education 28

PandaDoc

APRIL 6, 2021

While we don’t like giving half-hearted answers, this really comes down to how much business you want to give to either company. At first, this might seem like a downside, but it all comes back to how involved you feel that either software should be in your contracting process. This approach comes with some serious downsides.

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