The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 29, 2023

Closing techniques to finalize a sale should be understood by every salesperson. In the dynamic and competitive realm of sales, the ability to close a deal is the ultimate measure of success. However, closing a sale is often easier said than done. To execute the Ben Franklin Close, sketch a simple two-column table.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

Construction: A formal, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sequence of events. In its most generic form, stages correspond to opportunities as they move from suspect to prospect to qualified opportunity, to closable and finally, closed. Purpose: A framework for consistent, predictable, repeatable results.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 8, 2014

Before constructing an action plan to increase sales, consider the sage words of President Eisenhower: “Plans are worthless; planning is everything.” Sales Training Coaching Tip: This downloadable PDF 3-Phase-Sales-Process-ADVSYS may provided additional clarity. Marketing is the first phase of the sales process.

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criteria for success

MAY 24, 2022

Looking for sales training ideas to implement during your next team meeting? When you read “sales training ,” you probably think of an offsite retreat. This type of sales training does have its time and place as it provides an opportunity for breakthroughs, and the shared experience helps foster a healthy team culture.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. Get practical advice for developing an effective, modern sales training strategy.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They specialize in New Construction Home sales, Land Acquisition and Investor Relations. In this expert insight interview, Justin discusses “ how using a training system to reinvent the real estate brokerages can increase businesses and referrals.”. Make real estate training an essential part. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When considering in-house or outsourced sales training, the question is not, “which method is better?” Not every company is a good fit for partnering with a sales training organization. In this scenario, they might have minimal leads, and the founder can handle and close accounts, while they perfect their Go-to-Market strategy. .

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). When you're creating a new-hire training plan, remember a few things : Keep your training plan personalized, because no two reps are the same. Pre-week training. Product Training.

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Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

Imagine if not just a few, but the majority of your sellers exceeded quota and contributed to a higher number of closed-won deals in the same amount of time. Most importantly, when reps are more productive, the time and budget it takes to close deals and drive revenue decreases. That’s when you know they are working productively.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. Gazing up at the daunting mountain, a skilled guide provides the necessary tools for success – sales training programs designed to transform your game. Your answers await… What is Sales Training?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sales training accounts for less than one-third of what you should be doing to enable sales. If your sales enablement initiative is not having a big enough impact, it could be because of the common mistake made by companies to confuse training with enablement. Most sales training is focused on the basics of a company and its products.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Sign up for our Q3 Make The Number Tour to get access to the LDR Skills and Exercise Checklist to give them the training they need. Look at your Sales Training dollars. Sales Departments are willing to fly all the field reps into a centralized location and train them for two days. One big training event and hit the phones.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

Let’s start with an analogy: You wouldn’t expect a rookie with no training to pick up a bat in a major league baseball game and knock it out of the park on his first try. Salespeople become more capable of closing deals only when managers actively coach them, not when they’re badgered about getting the forecast right.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 5, 2020

The senior sales leader said, “When I have the right team, I will train them.” He believed investing in this particular team wasn’t worth investing in, and that he was better waiting until he could assemble something like the cast of characters in an Avengers movie to train, coach, and develop them. His salesforce is poorly led.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Many CRMs have tools dedicated specifically to pipeline construction and maintenance, allowing you to set your own stages to serve as reference points for the maturity and feasibility of deals as they progress. One perk of constructing a sales pipeline model in a CRM is being able to identify where you're losing opportunities.

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criteria for success

JULY 26, 2022

How accurate are your sales forecasts , both amounts and close dates? Do your salespeople provide constructive feedback to the marketing team on the tools they are given? Do your salespeople effectively hand new customers off to the delivery team when they close deals? Choosing the Right Sales Training Partner.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If so, you're probably thinking about how to train them and conduct effective coaching. While it might seem like a hassle to spend a lot of time on training, it's crucial to prioritize. That's why training is so important for your sales team. Below, let's learn HubSpot sales managers' top tips for training your SDR team.

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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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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. The post PODCAST 60: Effectively Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback w/ Alyssa Merwin appeared first on Sales Hacker. This has been the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

There are three great closing questions that salespeople often ask because everyone in the sales arena wants to make sure that we’re closing effectively. The answers to the three great closing questions will help salespeople close like a pro. There are challenges in closing. It halts the closing process.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

.” Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction ​ As sales leaders, we often focus on developing hard skills such as product knowledge and closing techniques. By reflecting on our emotional reactions, we can better manage them and respond more constructively.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One way to weed out the actual top performers from all the candidates who appear to be top performers involves introducing constructive challenges early in the interview process. When you probe, superstars can provide quantifiable data on their sales achievements, such as revenue generated, deals closed, or sales targets exceeded.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From here, most well-meaning sales managers pivot into the helpful, inspiring part of the conversation, discussing the need to increase activity, generate more proposals, ask for the sale, and increase the closing ratio. When delivering performance feedback, a little constructive criticism goes a long way. Positivity.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Nearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. Closing the deal. Getting them trained and on-script takes time. How has it changed that way they work?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals. Recruitment and Training Building a competent, successful sales team is crucial. Provide constructive feedback and offer support where needed.

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Lessonly

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But if there’s zero professional development, career coaching, or quality workplace training , then teammates will feel, at best, demotivated, and, at worst, like it’s time to start looking at other job options. So, what does great workplace training look like? People crave consistent, constructive feedback from a trusted advisor.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

So much of our training and our engagement strategies involve our talking. Even when we ask questions, they are carefully constructed to elicit the answers we want. While we are trained what to say, how to talk, how to handle objections, how to close. We’re taught how to pitch our solutions. The answer is simple.

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Increase Sales

JULY 5, 2013

During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? My quick and direct response was “banks and other financial institutions continue to use the same training providers they have been using for the last 20 plus years.”

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Chris highlighted that his company doesn’t just find people for clients, but also handles recruitment, compliance, training, and ongoing coaching for VAs. He offered a list of 250 common tasks that VAs can handle in various industries such as legal, real estate, property management, and construction.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

AUGUST 23, 2023

Construction : It is fairly common for construction and building materials distributors to provide on-site vendor managed inventory solutions. That way the distributor can help manage the inventory of construction materials right on site. Training encourages both loyalty and upsells.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Digital selling has taken center stage, offering sales professionals unprecedented opportunities to connect, communicate, and close deals in ways previously unimagined. Pay close attention to your clients’ verbal cues so you can truly understand and address their concerns. It boosts skills, confidence, and sales effectiveness.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2022

So he created a fake persona, “Ron Smyth,” to work and close the deal. There was a list of objections that you would get and responses to those objections, and a little bit of a training manual too. But the construct is the same, right? That construct, that framework exists today. But there was one problem.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In addition to deal coaching and forecasting, managers should challenge reps to know their deals and develop plans to close them. Also, companies that train managers on pipeline management had nine percent growth. Once the problem is identified, it can be corrected with coaching or training. Is their close rate tracking?

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SBI

MAY 14, 2021

“Our latest research found more than 67% of sales leaders feel it’s harder to observe remote sales professionals during calls to provide them with constructive feedback,” said Andre Black , Chief Product Officer, Allego. They can clip out video examples of great message delivery for playbooks and learning recommendations.

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

You’d be surprised as to the depth of dialogue that naturally occurs during this, including feedback that’s not only constructive but also encouraging. Almost immediately, other reps started to chime in with constructive feedback, or “I didn’t know that,” and “have you tried this.”

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And it’s a big training and development challenge in all organizations. But they were still close enough to their own learning experience that they could teach the subject matter the way they would have liked to have learned it. Choosing your spots So when should you use near-peer training?

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 15, 2014

New hire sales training. Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training. Five designs have proven to be particularly effective for new hire sales training.

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