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Why Selling Product Features Doesn’t Work

The Sales Hunter

We’ve all been told that selling product features is not the way to sell, but even knowing that, it seems it still is what happens, not only by salespeople, but also by marketing. Case in point: I recently was prompted to change a password for some software I have. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Why Are You Trying to Sell Me? Quit Sending Me Stupid Emails. You Don’t Know How to Sell.

The Sales Hunter

This is garbage, and what makes this one even worse is the person is trying to get me to buy some sort of sales prospecting software. I crack up over this, because clearly this person hasn’t even used their own software to determine who to prospect. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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2nd Secret to Selling at Full Price: Position Your Product to Warrant Full Price

The Sales Hunter

One example is you may be selling security systems for computers: A low-end outcome might be to prevent employees from downloading software for personal use. Keep coming back to the blog as I explore the remaining secrets to selling at full price! Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Trends in sales training – an interview with Richard Ruff

Sales Training Connection

Most companies have purchased some sales training – especially around basic selling skills. A better approach is to help the sales team to a dapt their sales existing sales skills to new sales challenges. Sharing knowledge is idea for online – like sales skills or product knowledge. ©2014 Sales Momentum LLC.

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Sales coaching – jump start by leveraging trigger events

Sales Training Connection

All Trigger Events represent some type of strategic shift so the sales team will indeed need to adjust and adapt their selling skills to the new reality. Here, the good news is the development in the last three or four years of online sales coaching software that can support the Trigger Event. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®.

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

Sales Training Connection

In 2015 and beyond your sales team will need to be able to sell consultatively at a very high level of competency in order meet customer expectations and to differentiate you from the other guys who have gotten the message. This means you have to be very good at the following: Consultative Selling Skills.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 Only 1 in 7 Sellers Do This Crucial Skill. Insights, actionable advice & founder interviews aimed at helping you grow your expansion stage software.