SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

At SBI, we often see Sales Talent disparaged as the result of an ineffective Sales Training program. It will get you the access to the tool you need to begin developing the proper training, our prospect/customer interview guide. So how do you create the right training environment ? John is the Economic Buyer of our product.

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Product Management University

APRIL 15, 2018

Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Here’s the thing: if you and all of your competitors are using the vanilla ice cream approach to selling, you’re missing an opportunity to showcase your unique value and improve win rates. Solution selling has long been the norm in B2B. It’s not wrong or bad.

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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. Even with the advent of the Sales 3.0

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Increase Sales

APRIL 11, 2016

Sales experts promote their books to their sales training programs all promising a quicker, faster way to increase sales. How many “new normal” ways to sell have there been developed? SPIN Selling. Consultative Selling. Solution Selling. Authority Selling. Social Selling.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Value selling, also known as value-based selling or value-added selling, focuses on unique benefits, not just features. Incorporating value selling into sales training can help your company stay ahead of the competition. Remember that proper sales training equips sellers with the skills to excel in this approach.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

Right now buyer behavior is outpacing sales organizations. This is leading to frustration among many B2B buyers. Buyers have been trained to expect speed, availability, and a self-directed buying experience. If they have these skills they are more likely to sell effectively to the new buyer.

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Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

The Difference Between Telling and Selling Demos Telling Demos The telling demo is an overview of the product section by section, a demonstration of the features in each, and an explanation of how those features work and the benefits. The telling demos are more like an introductory training class on the product versus a sales presentation.

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SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. Sales field alignment with the modern day buyer requires more than lip service. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. Download 8 Strategic Imperatives of Buyer-Centric Selling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

On the other hand, depending on which experts you listen to, sales success boils down to how effective one is with either Inbound, Social Selling, Consultative Selling, Qualifying, Value Selling, Solution Selling, Relationship Selling, acceptance of the Buyer Journey, Sales Process, Sales Methodology, Prospecting, Telesales, Reaching Decision Makers, (..)

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

That means educating your buyer about a problem they either undervalue or don’t know they have. In other words, they don’t lead with their product, they lead with insight , and that changes how their buyers think about the problem their product solves. In new product categories, buyers often don’t recognize the problem you solve.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

The problem with a regular sales process is that it is misaligned with the buyer. Today’s informed buyer is through 57% of the buyer’s journey before reaching out to your team. The buyer does not think this way. You end up frustrating the buyer. The buyer is further down the process and has evolved.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Are your systems and training mobile enabled? The Tablet: Do you provide content that addresses your buyer’s market problems? Or is your buyer reading someone else’s content on their tablet? Social Selling: Is your profile top tier? Do you have a plan to connect to more of your target buyers?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Value-based selling sees your sales reps putting buyers first, focusing on their needs at every sales funnel stage. In doing so, buyers see your reps as trusted advisors who cut through all of the information in the market to help them find the best solution. Why adopt a value-selling solution? Here’s why.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 28, 2023

Buyers and sellers are focused on two entirely different things. But the challenge buyers and sellers face is more than bridging that gap. The challenge is the buyers are doing something they have never, or rarely, done. so solution selling doesn’t help. And this is where the challenge is.

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

He is the creator of the Top 1% Academy, where he trains on how to sell to buyers, whether they be CEOs, business owners, or entrepreneurs, and how to be in the top 1% of sales earners doing so. What are the 5 selling strategies? For this week’s episode, I am joined by Doug C.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They focus too much on touting the features and benefits of a product or service – without regard to whether or not these features are actually relevant to a specific buyer. Buyers become disengaged – and deals go south. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. The result?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2021

If you focus on solution selling , your reps may give customized solutions to prospects that display how your product will meet their individual needs, whereas teams that use the outbound methodology may focus on outreach tactics like cold-calling. 88% of salespeople with Sandler training said their sales strategy improved.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. In this article, we’ll explain what Solution Selling is, what sets it apart, and how to tell if it’s right for your team. What is Solution Selling? What sets the Solution Selling methodology apart?

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SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2013

You’ve trained the entire sales organization. Spin Selling” and “Solution Selling” are methodologies. Check this post for best-in-class guidance: Further, successful sales process implementations have to be based on buyer behavior. Conducting great research into how and why your buyer’s purchase is essential.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

All I’m doing is documenting the strategies and tactics that work because the buyer has a different problem than they’ve ever had before. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Highlights of this Episode: [2:21] I’m not disrupting the industry. They’re more confused, they’re more uncertain.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In my world of sales and sales training , I hear the term “consultative selling” thrown around quite a bit. First, it's about establishing comfort and trust between the buyer and the seller, and second, it's about understanding your prospect’s problems at a deep level. Does this resonate with how you sell?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 6, 2018

Solution Selling. First popularized in the late 1970s and early 1980s, solution selling focuses on the customer's pain instead of his or her own company's products. Products are framed as solutions, and emphasis is placed on achieving agreement on what a resolution of the customer's pain would look like.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 6, 2022

When he first started working as an application engineer at Copier Graphic, they supplied production automation solutions to newspapers. Frank began selling and giving solution training of sale in 1993, which was the process and approach that helped him determine what always made him successful.

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Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

There are many ways to approach sales, but the most common methods can be summarized as transactional selling, solution selling, consultative selling, and provocative selling. Yet many sellers still approach deals under the assumption that buyers are primed and ready to purchase. Buyers need a reason to buy.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dario Prolio from leading sales training and performance management firm Richardson. Their sales folks are still using a product selling approach, when today’s buyer has significantly changed and could care less about your latest version and what’s new in it.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. Buyers buy from people they like (and respect).

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Crafting this message means successfully differentiating your solution from competitors, creating contrast and urgency using stories and insights, and taking an empathetic approach to answer key questions your buyers are asking at each stage of their Deciding Journey. But that’s just not the reality. The problem with this approach?

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 22, 2013

Sales Training Article: 5 Ways to Measure Your Sales Process By Patrick Seidell, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) You’ve invested in the technology. You’ve trained the entire sales organization. Spin Selling” and “Solution Selling” are methodologies. A process aligned with the buyer will greatly reduce your risk.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

Conceptual Selling. Consultative Selling. Customer-Centric Selling. Inbound Selling. NEAT Selling. SNAP Selling. Solution Selling. SPIN Selling. Target Account Selling. The Sandler Selling Method. Value Selling. Consultative Selling. E conomic Buyer.

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Showpad

JUNE 24, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. These customers bring in significantly more revenue, but the buyer journey and experience have their own nuances. Selling an enterprise solution that scales.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Essential selling skills to master whether you are starting out on your sales career, maybe you have just completed your onboarding sales training or you are already an experienced salesperson in reaching out to customers. A lot of sales training programs fail to engage salespeople due to outdated methodologies or delivery channels.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Research of 230 technology buyers from the USC Marshall School of Business indicate that Challenger approach works for some, but not all buyers. So what selling style is most effective? And the buyers who prefer this approach jumps to 50% when you are selling to the IT and marketing departments.

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Sell Integrity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Value is not about understanding the history of their firm, getting descriptions of the solutions being proposed, or reviewing case studies and testimonials. And we all know that buyers are further along in the buying process and spending less time with the salesperson than ever before. Sustaining Your Value Based Selling Process.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Training and coaching. Set aside time to make calls, chase opportunities, present to buyers, listen back on calls, and communicate with your team. . Training and coaching. This is the list of actionable steps reps must make to convert prospects to buyers. Solution Selling. SPIN Selling. Deal strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our training programs, our tools, our sales/marketing programs are no longer as impactful as they used to be. I get into conversations, “insight isn’t s effective as it was, how do we move beyond insight… ” “solution selling isn’t having the impact we thought…” It goes on, and on.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2018

To quash the competition, Xerox developed Professional Selling Skills (PSS), a formal sales methodology the company used to train its own sales reps that was later sold to other organizations (and eventually acquired by Miller Heiman Group). Strategic Selling pioneered solution selling as we know it today.

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Showpad

JUNE 23, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. These customers bring in significantly more revenue, but the buyer journey and experience have their own nuances. Selling an enterprise solution that scales.

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