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3 Ways to Kick Start Your Referrals into Overdrive

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-04-20. Yet, 95 percent of organizations don't have a written referral-selling strategy, written weekly referral goals, referral-selling skills training or a disciplined system to track and measure results. Author: Joanne Black. Teaser: The business case for referrals is clear. read more'

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

Sales Training Connection

The second point relates to an important trend in the world of B2B buying and it is the strategic reason for making a big to-do about selling consultatively. Recently Ian Altman published a Forbes article entitled – Top 10 Business Trends that will Drive Success in 2015. Consultative skills. Let’s take a look.

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A Failure to Close

The ROI Guy

From CSO Insights, we learn that taking your ROI selling skills from “good” to “great” can improve win rates from 37% to 51%. And, according to IDC, those who apply business value / ROI to deals discount much less, elevating deal sizes by 20% compared to deals where business value / ROI was not used.

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The 8 Primary Sales Competencies: Goal Achievement

Platinum Rules for Success

After writing 17 books and delivering over 3,000 professional speeches around the world, Jim Cathcart collaborated with Jeffrey Gitomer and Dr. Tony Alessandra in 2015 on the award winning sales skills assessment, Sales IQ Plus. Targeting explores the markets or groups you may target as prospective buyers.

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2017 - “The Year of Value”

The ROI Guy

Based on independent research from MHI Global / CSO Insights, taking your value marketing and selling to the next level can: Reduce the number of deals ending in “No Decision” by 30% Improve win rates to 51% (a 40% improvement) Boost the number of sales reps meeting / beating quota to 69% and increasing the average annual revenue attainment to 87%.

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Sales coaching – too bad it doesn’t happen more often

Sales Training Connection

Even if you have a winning product, the competition is likely to get a product to market that is just as good, at half the price … in half the time it took several years ago. 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.

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The MEDDPICC Leverage

MEDDIC

Each company has its own challenges: a market opportunity that is not going to last, pressure from the competition, ambitious goals set by investors, etc. TOOLS DON’T SELL; SKILLED SELLERS DO. This information is easy to understand and publicly available, but how many people actually do it?