Hubspot Sales

APRIL 9, 2018

Sales Objection Responses. “If What’s holding you back?”. What happens to those goals if you don’t act now?”. If I call you back next quarter, what circumstances will have changed?". Prospects commonly use the sales timing objection to stall or force you to walk away. 22 Sales Timing Objection Responses.

Objections 144

Objections Decision Maker Call-back Case Study 144

BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re trying to maximize sales rep performance and drive results, coaching should be an essential part of your strategy. CSO Insights reported that sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment over the span of five years. This example shows how a sales manager posted a win story from a top rep.

Coaching 62

Coaching How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Allego

MARCH 28, 2024

What separates the best sales teams from the rest in today’s unpredictable market? For David Ashe , director of sales development at Allego, it’s about ensuring your SDRs retain their human approach. Your team’s success also depends on you, the sales director. Are you staying on top of new sales techniques?

Strategy 62

Strategy Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Partners in Excellence

MAY 16, 2022

As our case is new, we must think anew, and act anew. Unfortunately, I get into conversations with sales people and managers, proudly declaring, “We made our numbers, we are growing!” We send the same old email campaign we sent last week because we don’t have the time to construct a new message.

Construction 78

Construction Call-back ACT Campaigns 78

The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2016

If you’re in sales, you know that a crowd favourite is differentiation. Companies, marketing folks, sales people all want to differentiate, which is not an easy thing in a climate where differences are few and subtle. Often the only real difference is the sale itself, since products tend to be often all but identical.

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Call-back ACT Construction Commission 120

Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Yet, neglecting it might be what’s holding your team back. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

Webinar Metrics 52

Webinar Metrics Training Strategy Ideal Customer Profile 52

Shari Levitin

JUNE 16, 2022

Back in those days, we purchased airline tickets at the airport ticket counter. Years ago, a large hospitality company hired my team to build a comprehensive training program for over one hundred of their sales sites. While some focused on sales activities, many focused on sales ethics. Putting Sales Ethics Into Practice.

Airlines 62

Airlines Hiring Negotiation Construction 62

Shari Levitin

JUNE 16, 2022

Back in those days, we purchased airline tickets at the airport ticket counter. Years ago, a large hospitality company hired my team to build a comprehensive training program for over one hundred of their sales sites. While some focused on sales activities, many focused on sales ethics. Putting Sales Ethics Into Practice.

Airlines 62

Airlines Hiring Negotiation Referrals 62

Lessonly

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Role playing is a powerful sales readiness method built into most b2b sales training programs. It allows reps to practice applying new concepts that they’ve learned to lifelike sales situations. Choose the learning environment that fits your team and specific set of sales training topics.

Training 49

Training Exercises Construction Scale 49

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. What is a cold call? What is the purpose of cold calling?

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Cold Calling Call-back Inbound Follow-up 98

Partners in Excellence

MAY 21, 2019

He poses the premise they should do this by answering every prospecting call they get–since sales people presenting their solutions will give the customer insights and ideas to improve their business. He goes further to imply execs are being irresponsible in not answering every prospecting call.

Prospecting 85

Prospecting Customer Channels Survey 85

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Stressful events can include job interviews, excessive workloads, group presentations, prospecting and sales calls, multi-million dollar revenue quotas, deadlines, moving, injuries, illness, divorce, marriage, loss of a loved one, and other high-pressure situations. Some had family that visited or called, and others did not.

Exercises 98

Exercises Positioning Call-back Networking 98

The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales training topics that actually get results can be challenging to nail down. There is the hard sales skills V soft sales skills debate not to mention social selling, customer profiling, outreach tactics and all the steps in the sales process. The rise of relevance in sales.

Training 52

Training Ideal Customer Profile Exercises Scale 52

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Causes of a Bad Sales Manager. To drive progress and growth in their team, sales managers must rock the boat. Newly promoted sales managers need to abandon the “conflict avoidance” mindset and embrace productive conflict. Sales managers: I understand.

Sales Management 111

Sales Management Hiring Promotion Coaching 111

Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 14, 2020

Some of the advice will be supported by “data,” a survey used to prove the idea, even if it is weak, poorly constructed, and taken out of context. The contacts you call on may not yet recognize a threat to their business or an opportunity that is available to them. You can call this “the relevance test.”

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Buyer eBook B2B Construction 99

BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI.

Sales Coaching 62

Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Aligning sales and marketing teams is a struggle for many companies. The sales department grows frustrated because they don’t have the necessary material (i.e., blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. The result?

Lead Rank 68

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead CRM Sales Qualified Lead 68

Sales Evangelist

JULY 1, 2022

Most modern sales methodologies focus on building rapport and trust with the prospect; challenging the prospect’s beliefs to make better deals is a hallmark of that perspective. Jennifer was shocked to see none of her current sales components in that report. This episode is brought to you in part by LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Survey 40

Sales Evangelist

JULY 1, 2022

Most modern sales methodologies focus on building rapport and trust with the prospect; challenging the prospect’s beliefs to make better deals is a hallmark of that perspective. Jennifer was shocked to see none of her current sales components in that report. This episode is brought to you in part by LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

LinkedIn 40

LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Survey 40

LeadFuze

JULY 13, 2021

Worrying about how to handle sales rejection? For now, let’s first talk about what sales rejection is. . What is a Sales Rejection? No matter how thick your skin is, if you’re not prepared for the inevitability of sales rejection, then it will be hard to overcome. Sales professionals eat rejection every day!

How To 98

How To Top of Funnel Decision Maker Face-to-face 98

SalesLoft

JUNE 6, 2017

When you consider the skill set typically associated with a sales rep, creativity is not usually on the list. Based on how they spend their time, sales professionals are often labeled as left-brainers. Sales professionals follow this cycle each and every day. Constructive criticism is crucial to innovation.

Analytics 52

Analytics Construction Cold Calling eBook 52

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

Top of Funnel 113

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

More and more startups emerge every year, and with remote working becoming the new normal because of the COVID-19 pandemic, sales teams need a reliable sales hub that can sync all sales touch points wherever they are. 70% of salespeople say CRM is very important to closing deals.

CRM 52

CRM Lead Nurturing Face-to-face Handbook 52

Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust. Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. Too much pressure, not much fun, and a likely trip back to my old ways. I was a wreck.

Epiphany 48

Epiphany Real Estate Construction Cold Calling 48

Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In fact, it’s a core sales skill. However, sales people too often want to address the objection as soon as it arises, get it off the table, and move on. Everyone agrees these are good questions, yet we too often see sales people fall into the trap, “If you have a better story, then tell it and all will be well.”

Objections 117

Objections Construction Training Call-back 117

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

What sets sales leaders apart from everyday reps? In today’s hyper-connected world, the “lone-gunslinger” model of sales is no longer effective. They’re good at reacting and responding to day-to-day tasks and challenges but struggle to look or act beyond the immediate scope of their job. The answer is simple: Business acumen.

Ideal Customer Profile 107

Ideal Customer Profile Churn Face-to-face How To 107

Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively? Managing individual and team quotas.

Sales Management 115

Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Top Sales World just held their annual ceremony for the Top Sales and Marketing Awards. It’s truly an exciting time for those in the marketing and sales profession. And Jonathan and Gerhart’s Top Sales and Marketing Awards ceremony is a good place to start. Most organizations live and die by quota.

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Quota CRM SAP Forecasting 135

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Thousands of sales people and some managers are saying, “Here’s Dave talking about writing things down.” ” In workshops, I see eyes rolling back in people’s heads, with the very clear body language, “Here he is telling us to write this stuff down, it’s becoming all about paperwork!”

Territories 92

Territories Construction Strategy Call-back 92

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Sales Tips: Understanding Why Good Sales Teams Lose in Competitive B2B Opportunities. Sales losses are hard. Sales teams often feel as though they’ve given their best proposal, their best price, their best value proposition. After a loss, it’s tempting to walk away and not look back. Not necessarily.

Vendor 40

Vendor Lead Rank Proposal Scale 40

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

In our digital sales age, we’re seeing increasing attention paid to the idea of personal branding. Although the idea itself is by no means new (a brief history is below), awareness of its importance and value in business – including for sales reps – is now reaching a critical mass of awareness. Excellence is not an act, but a habit”?

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Social Media Media ACT Follow-up 62

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. There are an unlimited number of angles from which you can attack a sales strategy. What is a sales strategy?

Ideal Customer Profile 62

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy 62

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to author Carson Heady , whose “Birth of a Salesman” series translates real-life sales issues into a popular fictionalized series of sales books. If you missed episode 42, check it out here: PODCAST 42: How Sales Managers Should Build Their Career Path w/ Jamie Scarborough.

Microsoft 69

Microsoft Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 69

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. The second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast. Then using that as a way to build up trust and transparency in a sales cycle and coordinate a handoff.

Marketing 63

Marketing Scale Demand Generation Agencies Marketo 63

Artesian Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Consumerisation of B2B: Analysing the impact of the ‘Amazon Effect’ on B2B Sales. Whilst in days gone by the B2B purchasing process was limited to in-person sales interactions, today more and more business buyers are growing to expect consumer-like experiences. Buyers are demanding more agile and responsive B2B sales practices.

B2B 45

B2B B2C Segment Lead Rank 45

Artesian Solutions

JUNE 8, 2018

The key to any successful sales strategy starts with understanding your buyer. Understanding buyer personas has been a long sought after ambition in the world of sales. Understanding buyer personas can contribute a great deal to sales strategy. As the famous Abba lyrics go “knowing me, knowing you, it’s the best I can do”.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 40

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

It’s particularly important in our effectiveness as sales people. Dave: Charlie, you know my passion about the role of sales managers in coaching their teams in improving their effectiveness. How can managers coach and develop their sales people to becoming more trustworthy in engaging and working with their customers?

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Incentives Incentive Lead Rank Motivation 89