Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

And although I’m beginning by referencing the sermon, this is not an article about Religion. As someone who for thirty-eight years has led a global sales consultancy specializing in sales, sales management and sales leadership training, I can use the same words to describe people “who belong” to the sales profession.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Excited to announce the public launch of LearnAboutLinked.com and the best LinkedIn training focused on B2B sales and marketing professionals that understand the power behind social selling. When I need to dig deep into a LinkedIn question, the one I look to, my mentor, is Viveka von Rosen. She IS my LinkedIn trainer!

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Your LinkedIn Company Page (called LinkedIn Page) is an important branding opportunity that many businesses aren’t taking advantage of. When used effectively, your LinkedIn Company Page can be your business’ content hub—the first thing that your target buyers see when they research your company’s products and services.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

LinkedIn is now the go-to content platform for business-to-business organizations. This year, LinkedIn has been busy and launched several new initiatives to help sales reps and their organization expand their reach. LinkedIn Audio Events. Have you hosted or attended a LinkedIn Audio Event? Notification Bell.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For example, you might hear about a company using Instagram to market their products, LinkedIn to share industry expertise and insights, or Facebook Messenger to respond to customer service queries. LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter). Social Media Training for Sales Reps. Why is social selling training important?

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LinkedFusion

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s not always enough to stand out on LinkedIn just by having a beautiful CV. Therefore, one of the best ways to stand out on this professional social network is to add a LinkedIn portfolio to your profile. At the same time, it’s also crucial to have a LinkedIn profile that is thoroughly optimized as well!

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Vengreso

MAY 17, 2022

Although most people – including those in sales – treat LinkedIn like an online resume, it is much more than that. LinkedIn is an excellent resource for the modern seller and anyone involved in social selling. The value multiplies when one upgrades to a LinkedIn Premium account. Free LinkedIn Account.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

As a result, B2B companies don’t have to underrate the importance of building a robust sales strategy that targets high-value prospective clients and convinces them to transact with their brands. One proven way to avoid a sales mishap is to train your sales department and work with them to achieve common goals.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 25, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Improving Your Business Prospects One Step At A Time. Our collaborative blog provides insights for ‘Improving your business’ prospects one step at a time.’. Specifically, looking at how you can hope plus take action for improving your business’ prospects one step at a time. _.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. It is through the use of the right B2B prospecting that we can continue to succeed in this always-evolving field. But before we start, let’s define what sales prospecting is.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. Full Episode Article Welcome to the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, where we tackle the challenge of bridging the knowing and doing gap in sales leadership.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. A well-designed program, paired with a robust training software , will empower your sales reps with the knowledge they need to deliver value and close more deals. What Is B2B Sales Training? Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Your LinkedIn Company Page (called LinkedIn Page) is an important branding opportunity that many businesses aren’t taking advantage of. When used effectively, your LinkedIn Company Page can be your business’ content hub—the first thing that your target buyers see when they research your company’s products and services.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Salespeople need to be better at prospecting instead of hiding behind emails and LinkedIn messages or waiting for BDRs to schedule less than stellar meetings for them.

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John Barrows

MARCH 5, 2019

Here are some of the best practices we’ve found when it comes to building, and leveraging our personal brands, specifically on LinkedIn in 2019. A few years ago, simply sharing articles was enough to be considered “social selling.” When you start out posting to LinkedIn, it’s easy to get excited and do three videos your first week.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. They didn’t plan agendas, do their research, or even check the clients’ LinkedIn profiles to identify shared interests, connections, and similarities. The Only Fail-Proof Prospecting System.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. In this article and episode of the Modern Marketing Engine podcast, Mario Martinez Jr., The PVC Sales Methodology focuses on how to prospect , from the “pre-hello” to the “hello.” It can be a webinar, a report or a relevant blog article.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. In this article and episode of the Modern Marketing Engine podcast, Mario Martinez Jr., The PVC Sales Methodology focuses on how to prospect , from the “pre-hello” to the “hello.” It can be a webinar, a report or a relevant blog article.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. . Investing in team training is a critical part of business success and growth.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. The interactive podbook below contains videos, audio, articles, summaries, transcripts, and YouTube shorts from this podcast episode. “The world is moving faster.

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SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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HeavyHitter Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2016

  This is the story of two very similar LinkedIn articles. However, one article went viral and was viewed over 30,000 times while the other was seen by 1,000. Before we begin our discussion, it would be very helpful if you took a quick look at both articles:   The 30,000+ Views “Viral” LinkedIn Article.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

He complained that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. My colleague thought it was rather presumptuous of the prospect to ask him to drop everything and hop on a plane. A sales leader in Europe needed the same splash of cold water.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 31, 2014

Sales Training Article: How Social Prospecting Helps Forecasting. Register today for a sales training workshop to improve sales performance and increase sales. Connections Your team needs to take more responsibility setting appointments with prospects. Reps that can execute Social Prospecting win for 3 reasons.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. The Secret to LinkedIn that You May Be Missing. Want to know a secret about LinkedIn? And obviously if you think senior level people aren’t even on Linkedin, you need to think again!). prospecting.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Prospecting is still important in the 21st century. Thus, in this Expert Insight Interview, Tony Morris discusses how to do proper prospecting. Tony Morris is an experienced international sales speaker and trainer, the Founder of TMI Training Academy, and published author of five books. This interview explores: Positive Mindset.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be. LinkedIn groups would be a fine place to start. Does this take time and effort?

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Social selling on LinkedIn has become a vital cog in the sales process and as a means to interact with people for the purpose of building credibility. However, as smart salespeople are learning, if you combine the more traditional methods of selling in in conjunction with social selling on LinkedIn, your success rate improves.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. In this article, we focus on building excellence and how to have a blockbuster sales year. “The world is moving faster.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 2, 2019

There’s a huge prospecting opportunity right under your nose, and it’s a LinkedIn gold rush that can help you generate more leads and connect with more people. Even if you have been on LinkedIn since 2016 like I have, it’s possible that you aren’t even scratching the surface of what it’s capable of doing. Then share it.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Leveraging technology, social selling , and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone pursuing a career in sales. Buyer behavior and selling motion are completely in sync and it is through correct B2B prospecting that we can succeed in this always-evolving field. What is Sales Prospecting? Click To Tweet.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 5, 2017

How do you build up trustworthiness before meeting with a client or prospect? Of course, you can write blogs and articles on LinkedIn, send personalised emails and refer back to previous visits. This builds credibility with prospects and gives them a reason to trust you. I’ve listed five of my favourites below.

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2019

Your LinkedIn profile headline is an opportunity to grab the attention of your prospects and draw them to view your profile. Many sales reps miss this opportunity because by default, LinkedIn pulls in your current job title, which doesn’t hook anyone’s attention. Do you know how to improve your #LinkedIn profile headline?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. before reading the rest of this article. Any takers?

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. Gazing up at the daunting mountain, a skilled guide provides the necessary tools for success – sales training programs designed to transform your game. Your answers await… What is Sales Training?

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