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10 Essential Selling Skills Every Sales Rep Needs in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills. In order to answer these questions and find out what separates sales winners from second-place finishers, RAIN Group, a sales training company , studied over 700 B2B purchases from the buyer’s perspective to find out what really happened in their buying experiences. Collaborate with prospects.

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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

It may not reflect immediately on top line figures, but their follow through moves the needle on other metrics — productivity, discovery of new tools or techniques, and sharpened selling skills — any one of which will eventually translate to higher performance and attained goals. We have mismatched skills and roles in the sales team.

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Four Ways Using a Perspective-Based Methodology Puts You Ahead of Your Competition

Miller Heiman Group

But in the eyes of buyers today, nearly two-thirds of sellers fail to set themselves apart from one another, according to the CSO Insights 2018 Buyer Preferences Study. Sales professionals should—and do—plan for calls and meetings with prospects and customers. No salesperson sets out to seem ordinary.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your L&D Dollars in a Recession

Miller Heiman Group

Are the numbers masking the truth about your sellers’ performance and lack of effective selling skills? If you’re like most sales organizations, you saw increased revenue plan attainment and a higher percentage of salespeople meeting quota. Better Planning for Better Conversations.

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Why Aligning Sales Enablement to the Customer’s Path Matters

Miller Heiman Group

Alignment is a key pillar of a sales effectiveness framework. For a sales organization to succeed, alignment needs to exist on many levels: between sellers and customer service, between salespeople’s skills and sales methodology and between sales enablement strategies and the customer’s path.

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The MEDDPICC Leverage

MEDDIC

I have always been fascinated by the magic of LEVERAGE and want to share my view about how leverage applies to learning, particularly to MEDDPICC ® sales training. The MEDDPICC leverage is about using the MEDDPICC ® Sales Methodology and Training to achieve extraordinary results in a sales team, often unimaginable.

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THE Sales Methodology That Will Explode Your Team’s Sales Pipeline

Vengreso

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? However, most sales methodologies and most sales teams do not subscribe to a sales method that covers prospecting. What is a Sales Methodology? SPIN Selling.