Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

OK, maybe keep it a secret between us for now, but when you kill your sales quota and everyone starts calling you a Rockstar, you may want to let on (in the right circumstances). Train Your team. Your team does need training. You need to train them. But you have my blessing to become a small business owner.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you ask anyone, post-pandemic, what the best online meeting software is, many will quickly reply, “Zoom!” But is Zoom the best video conferencing software for sales ? . But Zoom is not the only online meeting software around. Video conferencing with leads is possible, and external users don’t need to download any software.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gone are the days of cold calls and one-size-fits-all pitches. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Is B2B Sales Training? It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal.

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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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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The telephone company donated a dozen rotary phones, and we paired up to practice how to answer the phone, take a message, call a neighbor, and call 911. It was a room full of 8-year-olds running through call scripts like pint-sized sales reps. But old-school sales training will only take you so far these days.

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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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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked with thousands of sales leaders who run large sales teams and we’ve found that there are seven highly-effective techniques that are responsible for consistent and effective sales strategy development: Break training down into bite-sized chunks to help reps retain more product knowledge.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. There’s no doubt about it,” Salesforce president and COO Brian Millham said in a recent earnings call. Your internal structure should enable this type of instant outreach.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to boost marketing and sales teams. A Lack of Training. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns.

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Showpad

JUNE 15, 2020

Sales training programs offer your reps the opportunity to develop their sales skills and connect with customers more meaningfully — when set up and executed properly. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you need formal sales training and how to guarantee its success. . Components of a successful sales training program.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. This equips them with vital skills to engage with prospects on their preferred social media platforms, building meaningful relationships that lead to increased revenue. Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A few years back, someone in Wing’s position might have faced a long slog full of trial and error and manual research. Conversation intelligence software like Chorus, which pulls rich data from sales calls in real time, is a powerful solution to build customer relationships and close more deals.

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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. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. Any takers?

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

Non-tech companies have a big opportunity Not surprisingly software tools, like AI, are usually adopted first by tech firms. Scott notes that “I’m going to point back to my experience in MarTech on this. We can pull the transcript out of our call recording. Scott: I’m going to point back to my experience in MarTech on this.

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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. What is the podcast about sales prospecting? Ready to set sail? How do I start a sales podcast?

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Lessonly

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Welcome to Training 101, where we take a deep dive into the essentials that make up effective training and coaching for sales and customer service teams. How to make training easy to understand. . This is particularly true when training incorporates practice. 5 Tips for Making Training and Coaching Easier to Understand.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 29, 2021

In 1998, this Texas software engineer woke up with numbness in his legs. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today. It took him more than eight hours, but he did it.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

That, of course, was written before the virus shutdown, but it shows that virtual meetings with clients and prospects were exponentially on the increase before it became the only methodology that we could use to reach prospects. Here are some ideas that will help when you are holding a virtual meeting with a prospect online.

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy of making marketing decisions based on the characteristics of target accounts and prospects.

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BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy. Lets you evaluate your training program’s impact on sales KPIs. How long will your training materials be?

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Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2020

We do not aggressively pursue the new prospect.”. The company hasn’t had to do too much pursuing as of late, given that the pandemic—and the worldwide corporate transition to working from home that has accompanied it—has supercharged the demand for what Zoom sells: web conferencing software. Was it the Marketing? . Was it the Product?

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 1, 2019

Here are 5 things you can begin doing right now: Email Secret #1: Use the prospect’s first name in the subject line. Putting your prospect’s name in the subject line (first name) will immediately distinguish your email from the hundreds of others your prospect gets. Email Secret #3: Keep your email short and easy to read!

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 25, 2021

Not all deals come to a close, so when a deal doesn’t close, how long should you wait before re-engaging the prospect? Re-engaging the prospects David is a big fan of value selling. Value selling is part of the training that enterprise sellers can go through. David Perry speaks in length about closing in today’s episode.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 29, 2020

You can credit Drucker for all the KPI’s you collect and measure, and for all the software that’s been created to measure all the stats in your sales process, i.e., calls, contacts, closing ratios, top, middle, and bottom of the funnel management, etc. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Gong.io

AUGUST 12, 2022

You’re staring at your notes, trying to remember every detail from the prospect conversation you just had. . In an instant, it all comes back – pain points, objections, weather in Chicago. . You cringe at the thought of sifting through 2 hours’ worth of a zoom call. . Was it something about the competition? .

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

I was onsite training in Montreal , Canada last week—a software company, hi everyone! and one of the sales reps brought up today’s quote as we were reviewing calls during the training. Instead, the rep commented that it was essentially a “catch & release” call! Want to be trained how to sell better?

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a salesperson in sales, have you asked other successful salespeople this question, “Is there magic involved in grabbing the attention of your prospects?” In this episode, Daniel and Eliott talk about how you can grab your prospects’ attention. When you get a meeting with a prospect, make it your goal to geek out with them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Zoom, the video communications firm, uses software to analyze call data in order to identify winning communication styles and inform training. . Qualia, a real estate company, uses software that allows sales managers to listen in and “whisper” feedback. . The salient question now becomes, what cannot be sold virtually?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects. Some methods inside sales reps use to engage with prospects include: Phone calls Video conferencing Email Social media Other online channels Conversely, outside sales reps rely on face-to-face conversations. What do inside sales reps do?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales engagement is all about connecting with your potential customer or prospects to build a relationship and hopefully move them closer to wanting to buy from you. In fact, it should be called buyer-seller engagement, because that’s really what it is. . Sales engagement is a crucial element of the prospecting process.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 4, 2021

What are sales skills training and techniques as they apply in the modern sales process? The important thing to note is that with sales skills training and techniques you can be learn and developed a whole range of selling ability. Sales Skills Training and Techniques – Listening Skills. Self-Motivation Skills.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2024

Increasingly, sales teams use it to personalize content, enhance sales training , improve onboarding, conduct competitive analysis, streamline sales communication, and more. So, you must make sure you train the AI—input all the information and resources necessary for the tool to generate accurate results. There’s no doubt about it.

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Allego allows sales teams to onboard new reps without having to meet face to face or rely on traditional classroom training. Q: What steps can Sales Enablement solutions users take to best facilitate their prospects’ decision-making given that interactions are likely remote?

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