Mindtickle

DECEMBER 17, 2021

On a video call, or even worse, on the phone, it’s hard to gauge how a buyer is feeling and respond accordingly to continue moving in the right direction. After reviewing notes, ensuring audio/video is working properly, and clearing video backgrounds of distractions, sellers have a lot to juggle during remote sales meetings.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s the only reliable way to carry it through to a successful end so the sales process keeps moving and feels great for your buyer. Prepare for your sales meeting in advance. The best salespeople don’t wing their sales meetings. Nothing lets you take hold of a sales meeting like this tip.

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2020

Companies around the globe have canceled sales meetings and training sessions and are enacting work from home policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet sales enablement professionals must get new hires up to speed and keep teams on track in a world where face-to-face meetings are impossible.

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Gong.io

MAY 6, 2020

We analyze sales interactions from our product users (anonymized of course). That includes everything captured by Gong’s software during web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails. Then we analyze how seller and buyer actions impact deal success. . In other words, your buyer is uncertain about what’s next.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If virtual sales training was ever needed, this was the time. Early on in the pandemic, there was a learning curve as we all adjusted to virtual sales meetings. Need to up your virtual sales game? It’s like a training manual, with exercises and opportunities to practice and refine what you learn.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Sales meetings often expose lazy or short-term mindsets and, sadly, waste most of the participant’s time. In my career I’ve held Sales Manager and Director of Sales roles for public corporations. Public embarrassment in a sales meeting is actually a form of bullying. I’ll start with a confession.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With all of the distractions and channels we use to communicate, both personally and professionally, it’s no wonder that it’s nearly impossible to get through to buyers. Through the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research , we surveyed 489 sellers in 26 industries and 488 buyers representing $4.2 Direct Mail.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There is nothing worse than finally getting a meeting with a buyer you have been chasing for some time, only to completely blow the meeting. Often it is no more than excitement that your buyer says something that aligns with your view or offering. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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RAIN Group

JULY 1, 2020

We teach the concept of the engagement threshold to sellers that need to hold buyers’ attention in virtual sales meetings. Engagement Threshold (noun): The point at which attention is captured and maintained, and below which is lost. When we teach it to sellers, we need to gain and keep their attention.

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Allego

JUNE 16, 2020

At the same time, few can afford to interrupt their busy schedules to attend sales training classes or read stacks of books, manuals and articles. On top of this, travel restrictions during the pandemic have made training even more difficult—both for trainers and for learners. 2 Ways to Kick Your Training Content Into High Gear.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Sales techniques training courses are about improving a salespersons selling skills across a broad range of activities from sales prospecting to closing to social selling. Sales Techniques Training Courses. Close More Sales by Opening More Conversations with Buyers.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! Sales eXchange – 125. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Compete , EDGE Sales Process , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales eXchange , execution. It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! Sales eXchange – 125 [link].

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2022

Virtual sales training is any synchronous or asynchronous learning provided online or via a digitalized experience. This means training can be delivered across multiple locations simultaneously and, in the case of asynchronous learning, at any time that’s convenient for the trainee. Assessing whether reps are ready to sell.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Insights into taking a sales prospecting training course with recommendations on course content, topics and learning outcomes. The essence of any sales prospecting training course is for the salesperson to learn how to engage prospects for lead generation and how to extend their influence for future sales opportunities.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 22, 2011

Many times, your buyer will take a look at your up-front price and reject it. Value is alwyas what the buyer thinks it is. If you think it’s goos and the buyer thinks it’s not, it’s not! So here you need to really educate your buyer. Value isn’t waht you think it is.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2011

So what are the main reasons why buyers make decisions to buy? Having a good long-term relationship with the main contacts is vital to the loyalty required by the supplier to offer the quality of service the buyer will need. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Happy Selling!

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

“I’m running out of sales training ideas ,” the director of sales told me, a bit embarrassed. “My My job is to upskill the sales team ,” he said. But keeping a calendar of sales training topics has been tough to juggle with everything else I have to do.”. With each sales training topic we cover here….

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LevelEleven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Oftentimes, people come to work in sales from a variety of backgrounds. This can be great because it provides the industry with a multitude of perspectives and views, but it can also be tricky to train people who have never sold your product or anything similar before. This sales training tip applies to both you and the rep.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 17, 2011

Online Training. Tweet Share You have THE meeting. I’m a Realtor and for a long time I would give a potential client 1/4 way through our consultation appointment (buyers AND sellers) a paperback copy of The Millionaire Next Door” Average nine out of ten would sign up with me. Dont let your next sales meeting suck!

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Vengreso

MARCH 7, 2019

As a digital sales evangelist, I’m passionate about helping sales professionals see that the B2B buyer journey is one of the most important things for them to understand. That’s because the WAY buyers are buying has changed dramatically with the rise of digital technology. What does that mean for sales professionals?

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 3, 2018

The most effective salespeople know how to read a buyer’s personality style within the first minute or two of meeting them. This information allows them to know what type of communication the buyer prefers, and whether they should open the conversation with rapport-building questions, or get straight to the intent of the meeting.

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Allego

MARCH 20, 2018

Key Takeaways for Training. The basic competencies for sales success really haven’t changed since the early days of the profession. However, the buyers have changed. Sales organizations increasingly recognize that relying solely on the good old fashioned bootcamp approach is a broken paradigm.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2018

Sadly, that behavior continues in sales negotiations today. We’ve trained our buyers to expect discounts and that everything is negotiable. They know sales reps will make the best offers at the end of the quarter or at the end of our fiscal year, so they wait. Buyers recognize an inflated price a mile away.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 10, 2020

After researching how vulnerability can impact sales, I decided to talk to CeCe Aparo , Vice President and GM of Corporate Training at Hoffman , a sales management training organization. However, you might be wondering, "Why would I want to be vulnerable in a sales meeting?".

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 10, 2020

After researching how vulnerability can impact sales, I decided to talk to CeCe Aparo , Vice President and GM of Corporate Training at Hoffman , a sales management training organization. However, you might be wondering, "Why would I want to be vulnerable in a sales meeting?".

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Though the “goal” is to set the stage for sales success, SKO agendas are dominated with things that do not help salespeople be better at the craft of selling. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. Buyer expectations keep rising.

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Highspot

MAY 6, 2021

And yet, many sellers are wasting their opportunities to connect with potential buyers and lead them into the sales process. It’s even harder to win back the interest of a buyer once you’ve lost it than it is to attract it in the first place. Or at least, that’s what it’s supposed to be.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 25, 2020

I’m sharing practical and actionable strategies for making your virtual sales conversations productive for you…and your buyer. Conversations Not Sales Meetings. The next several videos focus on the actual conversation with your buyer. Please notice I said conversation not sales meeting.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Jill is an internationally recognized expert who is known for her fresh sales strategies and game changing approaches. She is also a frequent speaker at annual sales meetings, kick-off events, and professional conferences. 2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 3, 2018

. Sales Probing Questions to Uncover Buyer Needs. Asking effective probing questions is critical to high sales performance. With the right questions, your salespeople can uncover the buyer’s needs and wants, as well as their budget and decision-making process. These questions are appropriate early in the sales process.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Getting a further meeting with a client isn’t always that easy, especially these days when buyers are so busy that the urgent often takes over from the important. Firstly, you Review what you have agreed at this meeting. It could be the points the buyer has made and agreed during the discussions. Next comes the Action.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

However, just because a rep can tackle every aspect of the sales process as one person, that doesn’t always mean they should all on their own. Some reps are amazing prospectors who can initiate meaningful conversations with potential buyers with ease. Here are a few we recommend: HubSpot Meeting Scheduling Software. Price: Free.

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SBI

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Mediafly & InsightSquared join forces to help revenue teams improve forecast accuracy, enhance buyer engagement and increase revenue production. Today, most sales leaders rely on partial insights from sales activity data to shape buyer engagement and forecast sales,” said Carson Conant, CEO and founder of Mediafly.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Around 80% of buyers and sellers favor digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions for a seamless buying experience. Discover how mastering virtual sales strategies can elevate customer interactions, even in complex sales cycles. In turn, businesses have to adapt and innovate in virtual selling.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic.

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