Lead411

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Mastering the Art of Overcoming Cold Call Objections in Sales Cold calling can be a daunting task for many sales professionals. However, with the right strategies and mindset, you can turn objections into opportunities and improve your success rate in cold calling.

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Cold Calling Objections Case Study Call-back 97

Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. Tips for adoption of social selling training. It’s about achieving the perfect outcome – an eager prospect keenly awaiting a phone call or personal meeting. What is Social Selling?

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Social Selling Training Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel 52

LeadFuze

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Navigate these waters with ease – join us as we chart out a course through the vast ocean of best sales training podcasts. Welcome aboard as we chart out a course through the vast ocean of best sails training podcasts. In fact, sales training podcasts are emerging as a preferred learning tool for many professionals in the field.

Training 52

Training Webinar Metrics Industry Resources 52

Pipeliner

APRIL 8, 2024

Like part-time roles, and the necessity of preparing backups for critical positions through cross-training. The pair underscored the hidden costs of interruptions and the time it takes to get back on track, which can severely dent our efficiency. The conversation also touched on the value of flexible staffing solutions.

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Small Business Small Business Opportunity Hiring 52

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 17, 2024

Who likes cold calling? Not me, and if you say that you do … I would say that you are a … Back to 2006. Time to pivot again. I have decided to narrow my efforts to training and implementing Nimble CRM. I have developed a very effective training program and am in the process of expanding, and refining, that offering.

Networking 71

Networking Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Pivotal 71

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

A while back, my son was applying for a job in Manhattan for a position in the financial marketplace. Let’s transition to sales, if an interview is highly predictable, the same could be suggested for a sales call or customer/prospect interaction. I believe there is a difference between pre-call planning and strategic preparation.

Sports 184

Sports Call-back Pivotal Intent 184

Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. Fortunately, there are proven tactics to transform a traditional meeting or training session into a virtual one. What are you hearing from training managers?

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Cancellation Training Hiring Face-to-face 71

Sell Integrity

OCTOBER 6, 2020

They participate in the sales process training and listen diligently in sales meetings. But most sales training stays at the surface, focusing on things like closing skills, probing techniques, negotiation strategies, challenge phrases, closing techniques and manipulative devices. They’ve got the product details down pat.

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Education Motivation Training Up-Sell 79

Appbuddy

JUNE 30, 2019

After that, you brought everything into Excel and used a pivot table. Once you’ve got the answers you need and you know what changes you want to make, you’re faced with another problem: Salesforce Reports and Excel Pivot Tables don’t allow you to directly edit your data. GridBuddy’s Editable Forecast View (EFV).

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SalesForce Forecasting Data Pivotal 69

Sales Hacker Training

MAY 27, 2021

Even companies that are going back to the office will never be the same, as semi-remote and satellite offices become the norm. Just think, coaching, pipeline reviews, training, all running on 7% of its previous bandwidth. Hopefully, you’re at least using video during calls. Remote onboarding and training.

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Face-to-face How To Coaching Software 130

Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

A typical B2B sales strategy relies on Sales Development Reps (SDRs) making cold calls or cold emails to try to set up an appointment for an Account Executive (AE) to deliver a sales pitch. The SDR in turn calls the prospect and sets up a sales call for the AE to pitch. Good salespeople don’t sit back and wait.

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Referrals Top of Funnel Closing Strategy 131

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. My first manager, a classic extrovert who'd spent decades in sales, tried giving me specific lines and soundbites to use on calls. He soon realized I wasn't seeing results by mimicking him, so he pivoted.

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Hiring Training Hubspot How To 101

Shari Levitin

JUNE 30, 2021

There’s no going back. Some call this “Comparative Expectations,” or “The Amazon Effect.” In fact, I’m never going back. I call these multi sensory wow experiences in the sales process “T-Shirt Moments” My friend Karen Keating, a top B2B seller, makes a point to send her customers a playlist before group calls.

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Prospecting B2C Travel Face-to-face 149

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a sales leader, it should be no surprise to hear that preparing your team to win starts with building knowledge through continuous training and reinforcement. By creating customized sales training plans, sales managers can unlock the true power of their full team.

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Revenue Training Customer Quota 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. Have their back (and tell them you do). Invest in training.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 91

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Last week I posted a call for understanding the importance human involvement at crucial times along the prospecting experience. To be clear, this was not an either-or proposition; it was a reminder that the human element plays a pivotal role in success. Productive and does not talk back. By Tibor Shanto.

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Objections ROI Call-back Pivotal 258

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Embracing change and revisiting approaches could be pivotal. For example, Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, uses a strategy he calls an accusation audit. At this stage, you can smoothly transition into why you’re calling. The goal of outreach is not to sell the solution on the first call.

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Pivotal Call-back 62

Alice Heiman

JANUARY 31, 2023

Within a few months, Bob pivoted the in-person event platform into a virtual one. 13:10] EventMobi is a bootstrap company and so very different from a VC backed company. [13:43] 17:35] I think a lot of early CEOs hire what I call full-stack salespeople – they take it from lead to renewal. His strategy worked.

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Hiring Lead Rank Promotion Cancellation 131

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture. But often these expensive, time-consuming, efforts were led by small back office teams. They call the technologically enhanced ability to better understand customers and prospects Personality AI.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 26, 2021

If you've done your pre-call prep work, you probably put together a list of sales questions to ask your prospect an hour or two before your appointment. However, there's also a downside to using questions prepared in advance on a sales call. Asking another question might break the buyer's train of thought, but "Oh?"

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Follow-up Call-back Face-to-face Pivotal 105

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To do this, many brands looked to data to help them make tough calls and build new strategies. Sales is a fast-paced industry where lots of deals, lead qualifications, phone calls, and messaging happens all at once. Focus on the right sales metrics. But, with a lot of activity comes a lot of overwhelming data.

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Analytics Enterprise Enterprise Pivotal 135

Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2023

If I were to look back at my journey and how far I have come from — the “ What does a BDR do? ” Related: Sales Cycle Management: Definition, Stages, and Strategies Listen to your AE’s calls The leads that you pick from the above CRM report might have call recordings associated with them. That’s where your team backs you up.

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Ideal Customer Profile Study Sales Cycle Top of Funnel 84

Lessonly

JULY 26, 2021

You can feel the seconds passing by as you stare at your screen and think to yourself, “ How do you design a training program for adult learning? So, let’s go through the steps in designing a training programme together. By the end of this post, you’ll be a pro at designing a training program for any situation!

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Training Pivotal Call-back Coaching 26

Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the remote technology options have grown — and become easier to use for all, become more ubiquitous, and so on — there is less of a reason to jump in your car or hop on a train or plane to visit a future customer. And often, it’s captured via call recording software. Onboarding and training: Remote. Coaching: Remote.

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Software Software Sales Management Sales Forecasts 118

Chorus.ai

APRIL 24, 2020

Here are the numbers: Overall cold call dials are down 35% since January Connect rates are holding steady Timeline risk mentions are below peak, but still far above pre-COVID levels Employment risks are up since the beginning of March. Jenn responded: onboarding and training. “We We’re trying not to rely only on cold calling.

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Hiring Cold Calling Pivotal Call-back 62

Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A while ago we received a call from a company wanting to talk about coaching training for their front-line sales managers. They were real cheerleaders – they believed sales managers were the pivotal job for sales success and coaching was the sales managers’ key responsibility. Sales coaching puzzle. Here’s why.

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Coaching Sales Management Training Sales Coaching 50

Allego

MAY 5, 2022

Tim Murray is no stranger to career changes and professional pivots. He joined us on The Adapter’s Advantage podcast to discuss pivotal moments that shaped his highly successful career, and some of the lessons he’s picked up along the way, such as: Using strict enforcement to build long-lasting internal structures. It’s us.

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Pivotal Face-to-face Automotive Decision Maker 62

Corporate Visions

JULY 16, 2020

This kind of learning is what we call, “Deficit Learning.”. Training and enablement that’s inflexible and event-based won’t be of much help when you need to respond to an urgent situation right away. Research shows these different situations call for dramatically different messaging, content, and skills training.

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Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Enablement Pivotal 83

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days. There wasn't a lot of sales training. He didn't train me, but I was at least exposed to him having a camera. There wasn't a lot of sales training.

Prospecting 95

Prospecting Pivotal Cold Calling Incentives 95

Chorus.ai

APRIL 7, 2020

Two segments that bucked the trend were Training & Education and Data & BI companies - which are behind the baseline but up week over week. We’re also seeing call center and telephony companies having a boost.” Up until this week, cold call volume has held steady. Dial it back,” Todd advised. Jim agreed.

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Segment Pivotal Education Call-back 62

Allego

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This was a pivotal moment for me. I drove back to the office and reflected on what just happened. Traditional sales training textbooks refer to the customer’s internal conversation as “the black box.” They call it a black box because it’s a mystery to salespeople. He was no longer interested in anything else I had to say.

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Influencer Pivotal Commission Conversion 137

Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2023

Company : Mintel Noteworthy : Ben began his career in logistics and supply chain with ConAgra Foods, then moved into supply chain consulting, and eventually pivoted to sales when he joined Mintel. Two days ago, I joined a call where it was going to be a positive conversation. But we still approached the call, ‘Okay.

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Motivation Examples Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 80

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Buyer behavior: Many buyers are trained to buy at the end of the quarter or year. It’s no coincidence that 42% of managers and sales pros who coach or train their teams say that their primary goal is to get sales teams aligned on a common goal. The end of the year is no time to sit back on your heels.

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Data Discount How To Quota 118

Rob Jolles

JULY 29, 2022

For instance, one of my favorite little products is a pair of glasses made from a company called Thinoptics. This particular company manufactures a thin, lightweight, comfortable pair of reading glasses that can be carried on the back of your phone, purse or pocket. His podcast is called, “Listen Then Speak.”

Pivotal 52

Pivotal Call-back Motivation Training 52

Sell Integrity

MAY 25, 2021

As Bruce pointed out, “businesses are sitting on a pile of cash” today after pulling back dramatically on spending last year. Now that the pandemic is beginning to wind down, just like consumers who are anxious to get back out there, businesses are loosening up the purse strings and releasing budgets.

Call-back 113

Call-back Comparison Margin Pivotal 113

Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Deciding Journey: A Customer Journey Map Backed by Science. The unique pressures of each of these buying moments call for specific stories and situational skills—tailored to meet the demands of the decision at hand. Salespeople need the training to deal with that pressure and close deals profitably.

Conversion 84

Conversion Decision Maker Pivotal Discount 84

Sell Integrity

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are three factors that play a pivotal role in healthcare sales reps’ ability to adjust to this virtual selling environment and deliver value that results in more appointments and more closed deals. Once that appointment is confirmed, the prep work moves to pre-call planning: What’s your objective? by Mike Esterday.

Face-to-face 82

Face-to-face Pivotal Gatekeeper Energy 82