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10 Essential Selling Skills Every Sales Rep Needs in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills. In order to answer these questions and find out what separates sales winners from second-place finishers, RAIN Group, a sales training company , studied over 700 B2B purchases from the buyer’s perspective to find out what really happened in their buying experiences. Collaborate with prospects.

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This Ex-Salesforce Veteran Reveals How He Transformed His Team’s Selling Skills

Gong.io

“Our sales conversations were a black box, and we needed to get inside of them,” Paul told me. Acknowledging that the CRM couldn’t provide answers, Paul put a stake in the ground that he and his sales managers would get visibility into frontline sales conversations to get these conversion rate issues solved.

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How to Have Interesting Sales Conversations

SalesFuel

Real conversations serve a critical function in selling,” writes SalesFuel’s Tim Londergan. The art of conversation can sharpen your selling skills and provide insight to your prospect’s needs, wants and pains.” There are many opportunities to have interesting sales conversations that educate the buyer.

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5 Best Practices for Sales Success in a Hybrid World

Allego

And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries are encountering the same challenges: Onboarding and training sales reps virtually.

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3 Ways to Achieve a Winning Sales Attitude

Hubspot Sales

Dr. Martin Seligman’s work with insurance company Metropolitan Life is one of the more famous case studies. Met Life was spending $30,000 on sales training per salesperson, but 80% of their reps had left within four years. What’s the baseline attitude at your sales organization? Emotions are contagious.

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Sales Content Management: Mastering The Content Chaos And Empowering Modern Sellers

Showpad

case studies, whitepapers, success stories), and internal content types (e.g., The selling challenges that directly link to sales content management. However, those with rather average communication skills experienced more limitations in their approaches. PDF, presentations, audio, video).

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Sales Onboarding at Hyper-Growth Companies: Key Learnings from Autodesk, Google, LinkedIn and Zenefits

Mindtickle

During her presentation, she explained how she has changed the sales onboarding for new Google sales reps from a pure online and self-serve experience to interactive and case-study based training. She talked about the importance of involving sales managers during onboarding and beyond.

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