The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 17, 2019

Sales questions for discovery, clarification, engaging prospects or gaining commitments are critical across the entire sales process. Customers never stop thinking, so salespeople should never stop crafting great sales questions that improves the quality of sales conversations. Sales Questions.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every sales team is going to be looking back at 2019 and ready to head into 2020. As we know, cold call dialing is the preferred method to reach these goals. What Does a Great Cold Call Look (and Sound) Like? The truths of objectively excellent cold calling are still a black box. Chorus' Cold Call Central.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2020

Modern enterprise buyers are inundated by sales pitches and presentations that flood their inbox every day. Maybe you can picture a winning sales deck in your head but can’t quite put it into words on the screen. You need to create a bridge from the prospect’s problems to your solution. Sales pitch tips.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula. Most sales managers will tell you that they’re looking above all for the right attitude. Not for a set of hard skills.

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Many of us grew up in a time when sales was considered a numbers game. Make more dials, get more sales, right? In the search for increased sales, profitability, and market differentiation, vendors are scrambling to become solution-oriented. To improve your sales rates, give your clients a road map to success.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

One of the reasons why B2B sales is so complicated is because of the many blind spots it involves that can ambush sales deals. You might optimize your prices and meet compliance regulations or you might have the best sales tools at your disposal. Limiting sales to just phone and emails. Never asking for the sale.

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This is our list of sales skills with examples to give a glimpse of what it takes to be successful in selling today. This leads on to questions such as what sales skills are required for each step or stage? What is the difference between hard and soft sales skills etc? Today, sales talent is now a key differentiator.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2019

I enjoy initial discovery calls because they're like a puzzle I'm trying to solve to discover what the prospect's pain points are and if my solution can solve for those issues. Don't hold back on this question. They also bridge the gap between work and life. What do I want to stop doing? The answer is probably the former.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. Sometimes, this works.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

But if you need more reason than that, here are some findings from a two-year study of sales negotiations from Huthwaite International : Companies with no formal negotiation process had a 63.3% Top sales performers use about 102 words to explain their pricing, while the bottom sales performers use roughly 144 words.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Hakim Myers , Business Recruiter at Nextdoor , where he recruits for people, finance, and legal functions for startups. Join us for a revealing conversation on sales and talent from the perspective of a recruiter in an executive search firm. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2018

What would a 10 percent increase in annual sales mean to your organization? Compensation plans need to evolve with organizational objectives and sales strategy. Compensation plans need to evolve with organizational objectives and sales strategy. An effective comp program helps drive specific behaviors of the sales organization.

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Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you’re growing or starting up a team, you’re wise to spend time researching the type of rep that will best suit your sales process, talent pool, and customer preferences. And if you’re researching roles in sales, even better. Let’s dig in – starting with the top of the sales funnel or beginning of the buying process.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Recently we had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Ninivaggi, the Practice Director for Sales Enablement with leading sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 17, 2023

And when they do encounter sales objections, they scramble to overcome them. Overcoming objections is such a critical part of sales that I decided to sit down with our Head Sales Coach at Sales Insights Lab, Tiffany Torres, for a wide-ranging talk about it. There are so many sales objections we hear about all the time.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2019

Say what you will, but from where I sit, running effective discovery calls is THE most important part of the sales process. Two reasons… First, the discovery call can make or break your relationship with a new prospect. But keep in mind, making more discovery calls isn’t enough to generate success.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 7, 2020

So much of modern selling involves knowing how to pitch to a prospect from afar — cold calling, discovery, follow-up through email. A successful sales presentation still requires careful handling. We’ve broken down the essentials to creating an epic sales presentation into straightforward, actionable steps.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Does your sales pitch cut through the noise, or just create more? Yet each and every B2B professional reading this has had their time wasted by a sales pitch, probably as recently as within the last few weeks. ( *readers nodding* ). And if you’re in sales, you’re probably thinking something along the lines of: “ Hey, we get it.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 10, 2022

But simply increasing the number of meetings and calls isn’t enough to guarantee more deals. Only then will more of their calls lead to closed deals. Yet, most sellers are familiar with that sinking feeling that comes after a sales call has gone wrong. Schedule more time for calls. Neither situation is ideal.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 1, 2021

There’s no more effective way to articulate your product’s value proposition than with a well-executed sales presentation. At earlier stages of the sales process — particularly during the cold calling and discovery phases — your salespeople are in a constant fight for your prospect’s time and attention.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best Sales books for 2019. Which are the Sales books that will help you create more conversations and close more sales in 2019? So here comes the list that I promised you of the best Sales books for 2019.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19!

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Cold calling is probably the hardest thing to do in sales, and conditions in the market post-COVID-19 haven’t made it any easier. Cold calling isn’t naturally designed to make you successful, so sales development reps and sales reps need as much help as they can get to overcome obstacles and objections.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve worked in marketing or sales over the past decade then you’ve most likely heard it said: “Cold calling is dead.” And yet, many of the most successful businesses still practice cold calling in 2020, and they won’t be stopping anytime soon. How is cold calling still viable? What Is Cold Calling? Gatekeeper.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Many that work in sales choose the field because of the flexibility and edge-of-your-seat experience that implementing a sales strategy involves. While this is a good thing, it doesn’t mean your sales cycle should be completely unstructured, without any roadmap. What is a sales workflow? What is a sales workflow?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is it – the 52 best sales book you’ll ever read. Of all the different types of books I read, sales books have probably been the most common (though I spend a lot of time reading books that have nothing to do with sales, which has tremendous value). The Challenger Sale. This is a sequel to The Challenger Sale.

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Costello

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Here’s what they said: Almost 90% use analytics integrations—which isn’t surprising considering that sales and marketing is getting more quantitative all the time. But you might not have expected to see so many sales teams using video integrations. And I bet you didn’t expect to see that some people use another CRM. Internal Chat.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a lot to succeed in sales. You need to resiliently bounce back from rejection. And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! You need empathy, grit, and drive. You need to know your customers intimately.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2024

When you work in sales enablement , you need to be a bit of a psychologist. Whether you’re creating a training program or trying to get buy-in for new sales enablement software, there’s a science to it. Alycia is an expert in people development , sales enablement, organizational development, employee engagement , and team performance.

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