SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

CMO’s can help sales make the number in 2014. Understanding how the prospect thinks is part of the CMO’s DNA. But for the most part needs-based selling has been used as a technique to better ‘tell’ the prospect what they need. They ‘smooth’ the friction between a prospect and your company’s stone-age sales process.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In your 2014 plans, you likely have some significant revenue growth targets for the New Year. The #1 reason sales reps do not achieve quota goals is not a lack of leads, products, CRM or training – but a failure to effectively communicate value to today’s more frugal / skeptical prospect.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: 8 Tips to Help the CSO Prepare for the New Year. Meet Jim Welch. For a list of 2014 sales training workshops open for registration, go here. Go see a prospect. You''ll be training. Whatever happens in 2014, it''s a safe bet it will hold some surprises. Visit a customer.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." When an executive meets early in the buying process, win rates can improve up to 80%. Social Selling Emphasis : Social Selling is a modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities.

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Hiring Top of Funnel How To Social Selling 325

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. It’s changed how we prospect, but it hasn’t changed how deals get done. So, in 2014, I published Pick Up the Damn Phone! They get meetings they couldn’t land before, and they convert their prospects to clients at unparalleled rates. Here’s how it went: Do you like to get referrals?

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

What are Sales Training Programs. Sales training programs are any type of formal or informal training that helps employees sell more effectively. The fast-paced, online, data-driven sales environment requires new sales training programs to empower the team. Why are Sales Training Programs Important.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Amazed, you watch him visit with the prospect. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. Team meetings are run by sales managers. Then there’s a board meeting to prepare for.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Vendor Energy 308

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On the way to work today I heard on the radio that British Airways have just taken the title of 2014 UK Superbrand! This got me thinking about the sales people that we have trained for companies who have a “top brand”. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog. appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Have a great week! Sean McPheat.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. Every time you meet with your boss, you say something like, “If only we had _, then I would be able to sell a lot more.” Are you always critical of what you sell, claiming it doesn’t meet the needs of what the customer is looking for?

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Is it just another term to check off your buzzword bingo card at the next sales meeting you attend? It simply means having robust conversations, exchanging ideas, providing insights, and sharing expertise—whether we’re online, on the phone, or meeting in person. How to Get Prospects to Call You Back. Social engagement.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Meet Jim Welch. Go see a prospect. You’ll be training. Whatever happens in 2014, it’s a safe bet it will hold some surprises. Sales Leaders hate Q4. They have to get ready for the new fiscal year. And they have to do it while trying to end the current year strong. I recently asked Jim how he prepares for the new year.

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Hiring Trends Call-back Research 303

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Can they be trained to do things more effectively or, if necessary, in a completely different way?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

When commercial airlines made flying affordable enough for everyone, it didn''t eliminate buses, trains and cars. Yeah, once they have a prospect, they still have to sell. Social sellers get found, find prospects and connect using a myriad of social selling tools. It simply became a better choice for long-distance trips.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

Training organized in “sprints”. Training happens in the field, not in the class room. Call to Action: Prospects are taking meetings again. Your 2014 quota is going up. Learning activities completed is useless. Start to finish in 13 weeks. Content is video based. No printed material. No incubation period.

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Hiring Oracle Lead Rank Lead Scoring 308

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

From there I hopped on a plane to Seattle to host my own event with 33 Sales Shebang sales experts, and immediately after that I spent three more days in Boston at INBOUND 2014. You’ll meet potential buyers and even more importantly, many potential strategic partners and referrers. Do you already attend at least one?

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Conference 203

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

People get disappointed with sales training events. They satisfy a box checking exercise around providing training. New Capability Required - Modern prospecting methodology that sales reps can consistently execute. Ensured that your reps only meet with the right people. Hard projects are those you should do.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Analysis - the candidate studies the data provided, does independent research and determines the prospect''s needs. The candidate is challenged to handle objections and maintain control of the meeting. Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Sales can learn a lesson here.

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Hiring Proposal Exercises Lead Rank 300

Allego

JANUARY 30, 2020

For Jamie Cabral, Senior Training Specialist at Empower Retirement, the answer was simple: adopt an agile sales readiness platform. Cabral faced three main challenges: How to deliver more consistent messaging to prospects and clients after a 2014 merger of three organizations. Planning a ‘Revolutionary’ Sales Meeting.

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Hiring Face-to-face Video Groups 93

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 20, 2014

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. If you were thinking you were going to rely on 2014 carryover, then it''s the end of January and nothing has closed, you are late to the party. This is the final quarter of 2014.

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Hoovers Jigsaw Webinar Metrics InsideView 94

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Social Prospecting Guidance. A modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities. Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects. Role of Marketing: Training and quick reference guidance on social selling best practices. Author: Vince Koehler. Vince Koehler on Google+.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

The next step is to develop a training and onboarding program that will prepare them to start selling effectively and efficiently, followed by a compensation and rewards plan that will motivate them to continue performing. Prospect qualification. This should be based on a prospect’s engagement history and demographics.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Hubspot 118

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Sales Training Article: Creating Social Debt on LinkedIn to Make Your Number. Follow these tips and you''ll be swimming in referrals for 2014. The 5 Most Effective Ways to Create Social Debt 1) Provide a warm introduction to a dream prospect. In the majority of these cases, these people have dream prospects.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

“I like numbers when I want to look at quantitative data from a sales manager role, but the power of storytelling is way underrated,” says Carter Young, director of sales training and operations at SaleScout Data Solutions, a B2B sales intelligence provider. and isn’t that our goal in sales?—?a a story is the way to do it.”

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

Some execs promote giving reps a quota and letting them figure out the activities that will help them meet it. Not only does this strategy let sales leaders off the hook for coaching and training salespeople —which is their No. percent of sales reps made quota in 2014, according to the CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization study.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

More importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. Why Change Now? – Why Your Solutions?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2013

4) Hold a sales training session on Negotiating in October! 5) Increase your relationship contacts; make sure your Executives are involved in a prospect meeting, lunch, breakfast or phone call with your prospects Executives. Sales Leadership Training Sales Management Planning'

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Sales Qualified Lead Referrals Conference Negotiation 97

Appbuddy

JANUARY 8, 2021

These meet the GDPR definition of “sensitive” personal data, meaning the level of responsibility and care required in keeping the information guarded is even higher than normal. This is unsurprising, considering the attack lasted for a total of four years, starting in 2014 and went undetected until well into 2018.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

YoY decline from 2014. The spending decline is likely to make winning your next deal even more competitive, and make it much harder to meet your revenue growth goals. increase compared to 2014. the Prospect has a pain worth addressing and a significant cost of “Do Nothing”. Why Change Now? –

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Forecasting ROI Proposal Decision Maker 72

Increase Sales

JUNE 4, 2014

One of the big challenges that any salesperson faces is establishing credibility with a new prospect. If a prospect doesn’t know you or your company, that prospect must become convinced of three very important things: Making a change in suppliers is worth the hassle involved. Avoid the sales “stereotype.”

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

For IT solution providers who may be using these forecasts to invest in a turnaround for 2014 revenues, another flat year could have significant implications for your organizations and your career. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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Forecasting Proposal Decision Maker ROI 92

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. In this post I want to recommend three ideas to raise your game in 2014. Sign-up for one of these sales training workshops to get on track to making your new year''s resolutions in 2014. The greatest part of admin is spent on internal meetings.

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Anne Miller

AUGUST 6, 2019

In business, when a presentation flops, the presenter can be said to have “died” as well, if not on stage, at least in the meeting. Presenters have not been trained how to engage naturally with prospects and clients. The solution to all three is training and practice. This post originally appeared May 2014.

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Advertising Advertising Coaching Training 54

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 26, 2015

Because the sales rep may not be afforded the opportunity to meet many stakeholders involved in the decision, it is important that the value storytelling and justification be provided in a format that can easily be shared with the advocates – to continue selling long after the initial in-person conversation.

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Case Study Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 79

The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

trillion in 2014, a 3.2% Although the forecast predicts healthy growth for 2014, these same Gartner forecasts have been overly optimistic the past two years. For IT solution providers who may be using these forecasts and expecting a turnaround in 2014 revenues, we urge extreme caution. for the year.

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Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2013

Since the economic downturn we recognize that companies have cut back on training for salespeople. I predict that this year about 50% of salespeople will miss quota due to the cut back in sales enablement and training. As mentioned earlier, companies have drastically cut back on sales enablement and training.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Retention 214

SBI

MAY 14, 2014

Our portfolio of applications simplifies the day-to-day lives of sales reps, manages the information from CRM and marketing automation solutions, reinforces training best practices, supports reps on-the-go, and promotes alignment between marketing and sales. Sales reps have always been motivated to meet their quotas.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 23, 2014

A Value Gap exists between B2B buyer and seller: A divide between a changed buyer, and a traditional sales and marketing approach that has not shifted from product / service pitches, to conversations about prospect challenges, and the value you can uniquely deliver. In 2014, it is clear you need to Mind the Value Gap for success.

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