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Consultative Selling: 5 Strategies You Need in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Consultative selling is an approach that focuses on creating value and trust with the prospect and exploring their needs before offering a solution. Build Knowledge-Based Trust. 2) Build Knowledge-Based Trust. What is consultative selling? Consultative selling tips. Balance Questions With Insights.

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36 Apps Every Sales Rep Needs on Their Phone in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Calculate this along with a slew of other profit-based metrics with Profit Story. Get real time notifications of when prospects or customers open your emails. Scores of potential prospects lost in one fell swoop. When a prospect is ready to commit to a contract, a rep is going to get them to sign, come hell or high water.

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5 Keys for Motivating Your Top Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

Whatever it is, it should challenge what they know and expand their skill set and/or knowledge base. Examples of skills and attitudes in your success profile could include: Prospects consistently, strong work ethic. Involve them in the hiring process. Excellent at coordinating sales activities of each member of the account team.

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Cross-Selling and Upselling: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

In this instance, you wouldn't be offering an upgraded version of the software the prospect purchased, you'd be selling them separate products that can complement one another in the interest of alleviating their pain points. Blog posts and knowledge base content also provide compelling ways to start the cross-sell or upsell process.

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6 Sales Enablement Problems: How to Overcome These Challenges

LeadFuze

They’ll also be able to answer any question their prospect throws at them, all while guiding them to the end goal (a sale!). We can all agree that a major part of sales in 2018 is utilizing technology to its fullest extent so as to make a salesperson’s job that much easier (CRM, chrome extensions, automation tools, etc).

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A Complete Guide to Thought Leadership + 6 Ways to Drive Sales Using It

LeadBoxer

Between 2018 and 2019, the percent of decision-makers who spend an hour or more a week reading thought leadership content grew by eight points. This shows that you are in tune with prospects’ needs and are capable of supplying the solution on demand. This data will help you zero in on the most promising prospects.

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What should the relationship between your sales and support teams look like?

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In comparison, the chances of making a sale to a new prospect are only 5 to 20%. According to a 2018 report from NewVoiceMedia , 67% of customers are willing to switch to a competitor because of poor customer service. The secret to sustained revenue growth is in the upsell. Finding new customers is expensive.

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