No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

You probably started with a tricycle (very safe), then got a bicycle with training wheels (safe), which you eventually dropped for a free ride (not so safe). You fell, skinned your knees, and got back on. Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills? Then make time for practice.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Now more than ever it is important to have some sales training ideas to engage the remote or home based salesperson. Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The Importance of Sales Training. Sales Training Ideas to Try.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Online Training. It’s that time of year: “Call me back after the holidays.” Tweet Share Call me after the holidays is not an objection. For all requests and questions, including reprint permission, please call 704/333-1112 or email us. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey?

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If it’s not perfect selling skills, then help them upgrade those skills today! Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Unlimited License: One to 100 reps can attend for one low price!

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many salespeople have found the entire shift very frustrating and are still uncomfortable selling virtually. Salespeople who had poor selling skills before COVID are now extremely challenged in hitting their quotas. Virtual selling is a new skill for many. Virtual Coaching. Conclusion.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. Yet, neglecting it might be what’s holding your team back. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel.

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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? Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. What is B2B Sales Training?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 20, 2021

Instead, you’re practicing poor sales skills over and over again. If you’re practicing poor selling skills day in day out, you’ll get really good at being…well…being a poor sales person! Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

Mindset determines the actions you take, how you deal with adversity, how much you use good selling skills (and how much you invest in them), and how you adapt to the changing conditions around you. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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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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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

APRIL 4, 2022

This on-demand LinkedIn training for sales professionals program teaches you how to leverage the site to create more sales conversations and build your book of business. So, if you want to make the very best online impression and actually attract customers to you, taking a LinkedIn learning course, tutorial, or training is the way to go!

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Selling a Price Increase. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. At the end of each day, look back and congratulate yourself for the most significant thing you accomplished that day. Calling your mother when you have a bad sales call. Sales Motivation: Getting Back on Track After a Bad Month.

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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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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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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales training topics that actually get results can be challenging to nail down. There is the hard sales skills V soft sales skills debate not to mention social selling, customer profiling, outreach tactics and all the steps in the sales process. So, in your sales training you will need consistency and patience.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Respect the time frames they are giving you—and then schedule a call “just to check in” at the time they suggest. Response: “Thanks for getting back to me during these rough times! I’ll check back in with you in a couple of weeks just to see how you’re getting along. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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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. Consultative Selling Step 1: Establishing Comfort and Trust. One of the most foundational consultative selling skills happens at the very beginning of an opportunity. Where to Begin.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Every sales call you’ve made has always been perfect, so this is not for you, but I will ask you to read it anyway. I will admit I have blown more than my fair share of sales calls and I have learned a few lessons along the way. Disastrous sales calls are never as disastrous as we think. You’ve never made a mistake.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 4, 2019

Most of the sales training we see today focus on fast-track training. With more emphasis placed on social selling and our ever-changing buying climate – it’s inevitable that salespeople look for new ways to understand buying behaviour. Emotional intelligence training and sales go hand in hand. Management style.

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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 But keeping a calendar of sales training topics has been tough to juggle with everything else I have to do.”. If you’re on the hook for delivering impactful sales training, but you’re short on time, this post is for you.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

I’ve been revisiting a lot of selling basics. We take for granted that people, us, understand the basic of selling. What we do, why we do it, who it’s for… The reality is few training programs address these things well, focusing instead on how we do these things. It can be a telephone call.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 9, 2019

There are hundreds of sales training companies offering thousands of programs in all aspects of selling: call planning, presenting, negotiating, managing key accounts, questioning and more. There had to be a better, less confusing and practical way to improve sales training. I concluded they didn’t scratch the itch.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Online Training. Just go back to the third grade where you made excuses that were equally as silly. Not having a deep enough belief in what it is you are selling. sales training meeting for a car dealership, I asked 30 salespeople how many of them drove the brand of car that they sold. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 30, 2013

Two days after the customer makes their purchase, reach out to them with a phone call thanking them for buying and making sure they received what they wanted with regard to the benefits they were looking to fill. Use the call to help identify another need with which you might be able to help them, either now or in the future.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

I base this on the number of phone calls and emails I’ve received the last few months from sales managers and other senior people looking for sales talent. One of the reasons I believe for the shortage is due to the excess of salespeople that existed up until a few years ago and more importantly the shift in the selling process.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 28, 2017

This is one of my favorite sayings, and I love to use it during training or during a speaking event. Unfortunately, whenever I go into a company and listen to their pitch, or the way they handle objections, or open their calls, I hear it. Many sales teams, and sales reps, are practicing poor selling techniques over and over again.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 11, 2012

Often, companies will invest in sales rep training , CRM systems and buy new toys in an effort to improve sales rep performance. New Selling Skills Training: Let’s say you source and deliver the “best” selling skills training program. So why has winning more sales become the. unreachable dream?

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. Every time you meet with your boss, you say something like, “If only we had _, then I would be able to sell a lot more.”

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Why Virtual Sales Skills Training Matters The shift from in-person to remote work demands new skills. With only 33% of salespeople effective in virtual environments , training in virtual sales skills, emphasizing digital communication and platform proficiency, is crucial to adapting to customer needs in a virtual setting.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Selling a Price Increase. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. Sales Motivation: Don’t Sell the Economy. cold calling. high profit selling. sales training. sales training tip. selling a price increase. selling skills. training tip. cold calling.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

There are certain trainings that can produce these results. As a VP, you have various training options with your reps to generate sales. Training typically involves selling skills or negotiation methods. Rarely do you train on how to strategize on a deal. I am behind in my numbers for the year.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Too much reliance on selling tools. Upcoming: Not enough training in the industry/space. That was selling in 1996. There was no Outreach or Salesloft to provide cadence support (I built my own cadence, and BTW cadence wasn’t even a thing back then). Lack of Coaching. Too Product-Centric and Not Problem Centric.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Online Training. It remains an enigma to me that more salespeople don’t use it to replace the cold call (which ain’t no fun). Categorize them on the back of their card as soon as you get it. (A. Write it on the back of their card as soon as you finish the conversation.). See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Regardless of how you felt your last sales call went, there are a few things your customer just called me about and asked me to share with you. By the way, if you’re really that good, I don’t think you would be wasting your time calling on me. Please return my phone call. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Allego

MARCH 10, 2022

On a recent Sales Hacker Panel: Mastering Virtual Selling , three virtual sales experts discussed why virtual selling is a skill, one that needs to be taught as part of an organization’s sales training. Challenges of Virtual Selling. Virtual selling skills are new skills,” says Bob Basilieri.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

Don’t treat this as a simple call to ‘touch-base’. See this call for what it really is…a fact-finding and initial meeting online. This is not the time to sell your products. Treat it as a business call, with greater empathy than ever before. Ensure the prospect is aware of what will be discussed in the call.

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