Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Handling objections. Initially the logic of not handling an objection immediately may sound counterintuitive – but when it comes to dealing with objections not only what you say but also when you say it is key to success. In fact, it’s a core sales skill. After all, what really is driving the customer’s objection?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Instead, they follow you around through every aisle, rattling off information about every article of clothing you look at, and constantly ask, "Do you need help now?". And while their intentions are probably good, their behavior reads more as desperate and invasive than noble and constructive. The same principle applies to B2B sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! Much too frequently, their articles on selling are written by out-of-touch researchers with little field experience and lots of theories. References verify that information. It''s all about potential.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A recent article in Columbus Business First discussed background checks and use of personality tests. The most important line in the article read, " Personality often is the best insight into whether a person is a good cultural fit for a specific company.". That''s because it isn''t.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team. That’s where AI comes in.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here are 33 tips and techniques that I believe will help every salesperson to improve their overall sales figures and create more motivation and drive. If you get a sale, learn what went right so you can repeat it and improve it. If you lose a sale, learn what you can do differently, so you can improve it.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Sales Training Article: Ignoring Evolution. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. As someone who has worked in or with sales organizations throughout my career, it''s been painful to watch the snail''s pace at which vendors have adapted to changing buying behaviors.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 5, 2013

The board is not happy with the results of your last strategic sales initiatives. Cost of sales is rising and no revenue lifts to show. In addition, you made sure you built the proper consensus between sales and marketing. We will then help prioritize sales initiatives your leadership team will execute.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Salespeople: Take testimonials and stories as key elements for your sales strategies. Do not underestimate the impact of testimonials in your sales toolkit. Ensuring your customers’ satisfaction is the first step in realizing this objective. Assuring them that constructive criticism can be beneficial may be a tall order.

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SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Before we explore that point in more detail, we need to take a step back in time to the origins of sales training to understand where we are today. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. Sales goals are often specific.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2023

But as we’ll see in this article, deduping your records actually takes more tactical work than you’d expect. I’ll be covering these tactical gremlins in this article, as well as offering you some practical solutions to preventing and cleaning up duplicate leads in Salesforce. Check out my article: Do I Need Salesforce?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Sales is an inherently competitive field. Let's dive in.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 10, 2022

One of the worst things you can do for a sales call is go into it unprepared. Preparing for a sales call beforehand will get you there. This article will discuss 14 tips for setting yourself up for a successful sales call. Sales is one of the most stressful career options. Identify Sales Call Boundaries.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Marketing Toolbox. Sales enablement, the ongoing process of providing reps with the training, content, and tools they need to sell effectively, is often thought to be a function exclusively owned and operated by sales teams. But this isn’t true. As a result, content goes unused by salespeople.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 19, 2024

Aligning individual goals with organizational objectives. As such, leadership must establish robust feedback mechanisms that enable open and constructive dialogue between employees and management. Today’s insights are provided to help you achieve the Smooth Sale! Outlining career progression opportunities. Celebrate Success!

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

In a recent survey, we asked sales professionals: “Which aspect of the sales cycle induces the most anxiety?” This article delves into practical strategies to transform cold outreach anxiety into confident communication, allowing you to break the ice without slipping. Don’t view each call as success or failure.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Set Definite Objectives And Goals. Setting specific goals and objectives is one of the most crucial aspects of business planning. Setting precise, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals entail outlining your objectives. Construct A Strategy Plan. Effective Marketing Precedes Sales.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2024

Whether you are a seasoned exhibitor or a first-time attendee, constructive preparation can maximize your experience and achieve your objectives. Send personalized follow-up emails or make phone calls to nurture relationships, answer any questions, and move prospects further down the sales funnel. Follow up with leads.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

It's true across the board, and sales is no exception. That's why sales efficiency is one of the most important metrics for businesses to understand, track, and ultimately improve. Sales efficiency is, in large part, a measure of the speed of your sales operations. Why Sales Efficiency Matters.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2013

B2B Sales Reps compete with their peers for sales support resources. Good Sales Reps consistently secure these resources and create their own virtual teams. You can cash in on Social Debt to build your virtual sales support team. The Sales and Support Relationship. Sales Reps have a sense of entitlement.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Simple, but not easy. Who should be trained?

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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.

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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.

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Apptivo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What is Outbound Sales? What is an Outbound Sales tool? Why use Outbound Sales CRM? Advantages of Outbound Sales 5. How to find the best CRM for Outbound Sales? So, why not take a technologically smart approach to their sales outreach, thereby decreasing their sales cycles? What is Outbound Sales?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Many sales leaders think their onboarding process stinks… . According to Bridge Group, 26% of sales leaders list ramping new reps as their top concern. Luckily, tech-enabled sales teams are getting much more sophisticated about how they provide sales coaching and enablement. Sales Onboarding 2020.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

How To Approach Sales Coaching Like a Pro the Right Use of Sales Data. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Using Sales Data to Inspire Commitment. Here are the highlights of this article: 1) Why does data driven sales coaching matter? Why Does a Data Driven Sales Coaching Matter?

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Women Sales Pros

JULY 20, 2018

Ever since CEB/Gartner published The Challenger Sale in 2011, the book has attracted much publicity. The book also presents the concept of Challengers building “constructive tension” using three elements: Teach – Offers unique perspective and maintains two-way communication. Challenger. Hard Worker. Problem Solver.

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Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

in April , the steepest decline since 1959 according to a May 29 article in the Wall Street Journal. None of this is good news for your company or your sales team – unless you happen to be one of the companies serving a market or industry that’s actually experiencing growth. Keep Sales Going . in January to 86.6

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

How To Construct and Implement a Successful Business Development Strategy. ” A significant initiative within that exercise was submitting articles for publication. .” ” A significant initiative within that exercise was submitting articles for publication. Why is all of that relevant to today’s post?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2020

I don't know if you've ever thought about this before, but sales and professional wrestling don't have very much in common. Sales and professional wrestling can both be cutthroat. As you can assume, sales gimmicks are quite a bit different. Lowering prices in some way, shape, or form is the basis for a variety of sales gimmicks.

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Increase Sales

JULY 28, 2012

Given that buyers are people and people are unique, there is no special magic sales skills that are the answer to how to increase sales. However each of these sales training coaching professional development action plans will have some shared goals or objectives such as: Read a book on selling, marketing or business.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2018

Consider these statistics: 40% of business objectives fail due to inaccurate data ( source ). For the sake of today’s article, when we refer to data we mean contact and company data—like the data most businesses house in their CRMs. We recommend using data to construct buyer personas —or profiles of your ideal customers.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. AI is no longer a construct of the future. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. At the very least, you’ll stay up-to-date on trends in sales.

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