ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Hire new rep – train – fail – repeat cycle.

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Training Hiring Journal Education 71

Alice Heiman

JULY 18, 2023

Click to tweet Recently, he realized that the referrals he was getting weren’t going to power his growth to meet his goals so he added another way for customers to find him and started a series of highly successful online events where he trains salespeople on how to use case studies.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

As the year comes to a close and your team is busy trying to meet their Q4 target, don’t let prospecting for the new year fall by the wayside. Even the most skilled salespeople can’t close a deal if they aren’t capable of getting in front of the right people, so your team’s prospecting effectiveness should be your top priority for 2016.

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Prospecting Territories Pipeline Up-Sell 40

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Published – May 2016. Published – June 2016. Published – January 2016. Trish Bertuzzi is one of the world’s leading experts on sales training and development. Published – November 2016. Published – April 2016. Get this sales management book on Amazon. Author – David Brock.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Quota Coaching 116

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, it has evolved into the go-to-platform for sales professionals. Salespeople can connect with prospects, research customers, and get notified of job changes and company updates. Nothing worse than calling a prospect from your CRM and hearing, “They do not work here any longer.”

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Social Selling LinkedIn Guidelines Ideal Customer Profile 117

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

So, we set up training for recruiters to help them message and speak about the company’s strengths and differentiators just like we did for sales and marketing; the training involved role-playing, one-minute pitches, email messaging, cold call prospecting, and SLAs for response times. How Can You Improve Your Strategy?

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Maybe you’re 100% perfect at your job. Maybe your pipeline is always overflowing with hot leads, you never have to place a cold call or send a cold email, your sales cycle is complete in a matter of days, and … Read More »

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Inbound Cold Calling Sales Cycle Pipeline 48

MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2017

Harvard Business Review (HBR) discussed an interesting concept recently (Sept 2016) where they were comparing what customers actually buy and what sellers offer to sell. See what you can do to help prospects have an experience in working with and owning your products. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Dollarphotoclub.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

At the beginning of 2016, Anthony had a heart-to-heart talk with his supervisor and was inspired during the company’s annual January Sales Kick-off. In August of 2016, DiscoverOrg’s leadership decided to split the sales in into dedicated inbound and outbound teams. “It Heavy training to ensure the technology was fully adopted. “My

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

In 2016, we started following EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and established firm business goals. The training showed me that, while growing my business was an admirable objective, there was a better, far less altruistic motivator for making my sales calls. So I took my courage in both hands and signed up.

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Hubspot Prospecting How To Call-back 92

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

We are sharing secrets in a rapid-fire series of online presentations on Wednesday, March 9th, 2016. Confirmed speakers for 2016 include: Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor at CEB. Grant Cardone , CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Dave Mattson, CEO and President Sandler Training. And it’s completely free.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the most common social selling questions I’m asked is: Can I send LinkedIn connection requests to cold prospects? . Can I send a #LinkedIn connection request to a cold #prospect? Using my personal stats alone, between Jan 31 and April 2 nd 2016 we sent and/or received a total of 1,129 LinkedIn connection requests.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Social Selling Referrals 132

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. Versus the common practice of starting with the product, then shoehorning in the prospect. Absent the product; the only thing left to talk about is what does the prospect wants to do? One of those is thinking. Can’t join us live?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

In the last year alone, our data shows that the words “GDPR” and “Marketing” were mentioned together over 30,000 times on prospect calls. Adopted in 2016 and enacted in 2018, the GDPR was created to improve data collection, processing, and usage. Are you allowed to cold-call prospects in this country? What is the GDPR?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Only 20% of marketers will receive formal training on analytics and customer data management. Digital marketing investment will exceed 50% of total program budget by 2016. Success of content should be measured by how well it pulls prospects through the buying process.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. Because of this belief, CEOs invest more money in beer Fridays and office supplies than training their salespeople, sales managers, or any other department that interfaces with the customer. . Development Philosophy: You subscribe to “one and done” training. environments.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2016

How many times have you heard this word “obstacle” in many sales training programs or books on sales fact finding? Possibly there are far more limitations keeping the sales prospect from moving forward than one or two major obstacles? Or do you see something much smaller, something that may have been consistently ignored?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2019

They don’t want to be your first foray into their industry – they’re paying for your expertise, not to be your training ground. Build Targeted Lists for Prospecting. Building out targeted lists will help ensure your prospecting approach is relevant. Originally published by ZoomInfo on January 27, 2016. ZoomInfo can help!

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 140

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2021

See, your prospects are a lot like lasagna. There are three distinct layers of questions that correspond with the needs your prospect has: First Layer Questions. These types of questions are vital because they prompt prospective customers to think through a thought, fact, behavior, or situation. I’m glad you asked. Buyer: Well.

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How To Buyer Vendor Examples 129

Lessonly

JULY 12, 2021

Some roles have felt fairly similar, but here’s what’s varied from place to place: sales training techniques. These employers not only differed in sales training ideas , but also in culture, mission, vision, values, you name it. Each one wanted to sell, close business, grow, and make that money, but training was consistently different.

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Coaching Training Cold Calling Scale 26

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What you see in ZoomInfo today is a lot of the vision that I had for DiscoverOrg in 2015, 2016, but I never built a good enough engineering and product team to make that vision come to life,” Schuck said. So, he dusted off his old vision document and asked the new engineers if what he wanted was too hard.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

They didn’t have a true target prospect list, or ideal customer profiles — and no, “everyone” is not your ideal customer. From inbound and outbound processes, to the tools and content needed to achieve each level, an SDR needs a program of training to attain these skills. Building Your Prospecting Engine.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Buying Cycle Account 52

Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Generative AI can help sales teams sell by gathering intelligence and creating outputs that save time and personalize prospect communications. 69% believe sales pros should use AI/automation for prospecting but avoid becoming overly reliant on them. Prospect outreach (16%). Here’s what we found. Research (16%). Sound familiar?

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Lead Rank Hubspot Microsoft Lead Scoring 99

Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

Though no planning or training could have prepared any organization fully, those that could quickly adjust to their salespeople working remotely work had an advantage. Yet building sales capability involves more than just implementing training programs. 54% actively designed training programs. Invest in Technology.

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Company Sales Outsourcing Hiring Telemarketing 98

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made B2B sales reps irrelevant. Moreover, the U.S.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 18, 2022

When objections arise, it’s not that they’re rejecting you , there’s simply a gap between you and the prospect. In 2016 Spencer and his brother decided to sell their business. From 2016-to 2019, they transitioned to a structure someone would buy. This episode is brought to you in part by The Sales Evangelist Sales Training.

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Objections LinkedIn Survey Lead Rank 40

Sales Evangelist

APRIL 18, 2022

When objections arise, it’s not that they’re rejecting you , there’s simply a gap between you and the prospect. In 2016 Spencer and his brother decided to sell their business. From 2016-to 2019, they transitioned to a structure someone would buy. This episode is brought to you in part by The Sales Evangelist Sales Training.

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Objections LinkedIn Survey Lead Rank 40

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2018

General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, April 27, 2016 (“GDPR”), Article 3.). So, if you are simply processing business contact data and using it to reach out to prospects, that would not appear to constitute monitoring. Perhaps a prospect provided their information when visiting your website.

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Data Marketing Ideal Customer Profile B2B 215

Allego

JULY 29, 2020

Voya Investment Management, an Allego customer since 2016, uses the learning and enablement platform to share high-priority internal information to keep financial advisers up to date on market changes, collateral, and product messaging. We’re also using it for onboarding by creating training channels.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2016

It was entitled, 2016, The State Of Marketing. The problem with much of our prospecting or follow up on “leads,” is that it is completely disconnected from the content that generated the lead. It’s this disconnect, that actually hurts our abilities to prospect and engage the customer.

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Objections Face-to-face Study Prospecting 48

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. It’s prospecting that’s hard. Account based selling teams find it increasingly challenging to reach their target prospects. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. Closing is never the problem. environments.

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Referrals Cold Calling Account Video 149

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

Tito and host Colin Campbell also touch upon the concept of a sales champion and how to find the ideal champion within a prospect’s organization. Further, employees must be equipped and trained to act upon established processes. Tito shares what those conversations with prospects look like. I started in 2011.

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How To Decision Maker Retention Referrals 85

Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Your sales reps have a deep knowledge of how prospects can leverage your product, and they can craft customized plans about the best ways to do so. When it comes down to it, those are the only reasons prospects actually need reps. Are there specific features prospects always go crazy for, or competitors you consistently lose to?

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Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

When UberEats first launched in EMEA in 2016, my team and I found ourselves immediately confronted with the challenge of scale. If you’re going to work with a third party though, understand that training is important. From 2016 to 2018, he was Head of Uber Eats in EMEA. Therefore, establish a feedback loop.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Hiring Face-to-face 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Direct Prospecting at Interested Buyers. The truth is that fewer prospects are ready to buy than most imagine (or hope). The train either has not arrived yet, or has already left the station. Sales reps using this data can answer crucial time-saving questions in advance : What technology is the prospect currently using?

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Data Lead Rank Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 120

Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2018

For this reason, you must be transparent, both in your brand messaging and your interactions with prospects and customers—even when it’s difficult. Instead of providing scripted responses, train your employees thoroughly. Your customers and prospects are more likely to forgive an error if you own up to it and handle it professionally.

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Face-to-face B2B Loyalty Consumer 178

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …). It’s always been tricky for SDRs to balance quantity and quality when prospecting. SDR/BDR Skills for 2018.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 141