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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. Or any of the other buyer personas you so carefully put together? Now that we’ve got your attention, we can come clean: buyer personas aren’t really useless. A buyer persona is one of the best tools your sales reps can use to close a deal. Your sales team.

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Objection Handling 101: Handling Sales Objections Like a Pro

The Spiff Blog

Sales objections are a common occurrence during a typical sales cycle. Therefore, learning how to effectively handle objections is crucial to hitting goals, crushing sales quotas , and developing a successful sales career. This blog post will discuss the most common sales objections and provide actionable tips on how to combat them.

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Are Buyer Personas Dead?

The ROI Guy

A few articles have appeared recently touting the death of Buyer Personas, which prompted me to ask Jim Ninivaggi, Sales Enablement service lead from SiriusDecisions about whether this was really true. Each has different risks and potential objections. Each persona could potentially initiate the buying journey.

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10 Sales training ideas that increase team readiness

BrainShark

Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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How Top Sales Reps Prevent Worthless Training Efforts

SBI Growth

Every year, Sales Reps are forced into mandatory training. The question Reps want answered: how does this training help me make more money? Assess the value of your training and do one of these three things: If the training is bad, then tell your manager exactly why. Likewise, we must change with our Buyers.

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6 Sales Role Play Exercises to Try with Your Reps

BrainShark

6 key role play exercises to try with your sales reps Objection handling Negotiation Discovery Competition Buyer personas Getting to power #1. Objection handling Objections are one of the toughest responses for reps to react to — that is, if they’re not adequately prepared.

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New Hire Training for Salespeople: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). When you're creating a new-hire training plan, remember a few things : Keep your training plan personalized, because no two reps are the same. Pre-week training. Product Training.

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