Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2022

Those prepackaged PowerPoint decks and static presentations that customer-facing sales teams used to rely on are no longer enough to develop meaningful relationships with prospects in virtual selling environments. The post Enhancing Productivity with AI-Driven Speech Coaching appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We know that coaching is one of the highest leverage methods of maximizing their performance. We know we should schedule reviews with our people, integrating coaching into those reviews. As much as we know the importance of this, as much as we may want to coach our people in these meetings, reality smacks us in the face.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Too often, I hear the lament, “I don’t have the time to coach!” And every once in a while, they see a customer with their sales people. The universal response to anemic pipelines is, “They need to do more prospecting!” And they have less time to coach. And they don’t know how to coach.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Everyone needs coaching. I’ve spent a lot of time in this blog talking about coaching as key to driving performance in sales people. I’ve written extensively about directive and non-directive coaching–focusing on non-directive as the most impactful in helping sales people learn and grow. Customers need help.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. This makes qualification essential to drive revenue growth, optimize resource allocation, and foster long-term customer relationships. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. The problem lies in treating feedback and coaching as interchangeable, because they certainly aren‘t. Feedback Benefits What is coaching? Sales Coaching Benefits 1.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. However, traditional coaching and training methods tend to fall flat because they take a one-size fits all approach that doesn’t fit the needs of each individual rep.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ask yourself the following 10 questions to help assess how you’re doing with prospecting and selling: What do I feel is the #1 reason holding me back from being more successful? How much time do I spend customer facing? What can I change in my day to give me more time to prospect? What does my perfect customer look like?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2023

I wish I were smart enough to be the originator of this term, “Coaching is a language…” All credit goes to Aaron Evans for this term. Coaching is not something we do, it’s not a meeting we schedule with the people we are responsible for. High impact coaching permeates every conversation we have.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Typically, a coach (often a rep’s manager) will issue an activity: for example, “Show me your 30-second elevator pitch.” The benefits of video – in terms of bringing learning to life – are well-known.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. According to a study from Second Nature Sales Coaching , 96% of respondents agree or strongly agree that effective sales coaching positively impacts sales reps’ performance. This is no different in sales. Pricing: Essential, Plus, and Ultimate tiers are offered.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 27, 2016

At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Coaching is absolutely clutch. Here are three things we’re trying right now at DiscoverOrg to root down a coaching culture. Coaching at the Call Level. Just-in-time coaching, in other words.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The prospect agrees to take your meeting, and they even agree to your demo call. You get hit hard as this new favorite customer tells you that they have to take it to others to get an approval to buy. The solution lies not in being more forceful with how you close, but rather, being more open with how you prospect.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

We (including me) spend a lot of time talking about the importance of coaching/developing our people. Unfortunately, high impact coaching is rarely done. If we “coach,” too often, it isn’t a collaborative discovery/learning process. Their own managers aren’t great role models, as coaches.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes, I feel like a broken record talking about Customer and Business Acumen. Yet these same leaders complain about the ability to connect to prospects and customers. I ask: “How does your customer make money?” “What work does your customer do? “What work does your customer do?”

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is where prospecting has to come in. I want you to be successful, so my last 10 truths are to help you have success in your prospecting. When you put all of the “50 Prospecting Truths” into action, I promise that you will achieve your sales goals and more! Truths 11-20: Your Prospecting Plan.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

Say Hello to Custom GPTs for Sales Gen AI creators aren’t resting on their laurels. And now we have custom GPTs. Thousands of custom GPTs are available, making it a challenge to locate the right one for your needs. Below you’ll find GPTs for sales coaching, sales content, sales leadership, sales management, and sales strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today, I had the honor of participating in a webcast on coaching, with Lori Richardson, Jason Jordan, and Mike Kunkle. “Cold calling and most prospecting doesn’t work anymore… ” Hmmmm, that’s interesting, then how do you and millions of other sales people find opportunities. Provide Coaching Or Feedback?

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SBI

JANUARY 24, 2021

Bigtincan Acquires VoiceVibes AI-Powered Coaching Platform. in speech, acoustic psychology and data science, and supported by US Government funding programs to create the future of voice analytics for coaching and engagement analysis. Bigtincan (ASX:BTH) helps sales and service teams increase win rates and customer satisfaction.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

And even if you manage to convince a poor-fit prospect to buy, you're setting yourself up for an unhappy customer relationship and a potential hit to your reputation. To avoid the pitfalls of bad-fit prospects, look out for these seven signs you should give up on a deal. 7 Signs You Should Walk Away From a Prospect 1.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Download Your Free Copy of The 60 Second Sales Coach . Over 600 Coaching Questions and 40 Critical Conversations Managers Must Master to Develop Sales Champions and Coach More Customers to Succeed. Coaching is simply the language you use in every conversation. I look forward to hearing about your successes!

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Summary Video Article: Title: The Power of Face-to-Face Sales: Building Trust and Rapport Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction​ In today’s digital age, where virtual meetings have become the norm, it can be challenging to encourage salespeople to embrace face-to-face conversations.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The commonality between the two of us is the obsession around helping customers solve complex problems and create great value. My obsession to provide Customer Value Written by Christian Maure r Dave, thank you very much for picking up the challenge. That’s how my obsession to provide customer value was borne.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A few weeks ago, I received a prospecting email that contained over 15 different links. Your focus while prospecting is on uncovering a need and creating confidence. Not only am I anti-presentation in the prospecting phase, but I have a strong distaste for formal sales presentations at any time during the selling phase.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We cannot forget that not all prospects are created equal. Some prospects are actually not prospects at all, they’re just suspects in disguise. Everybody in sales cannot find enough time to prospect. This allows you to keep a cleaner pipeline, so you’ll have more time to spend on your best prospects.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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criteria for success

JULY 15, 2021

As sales managers, we’ve all been told we need to coach our teams. But what value are you adding if you’re consistently coaching someone who’s not showing improvement? Is there any value to add through coaching? At CFS, we believe that to be an elite sales manager, you need to learn how to coach people where they are.

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Keith Rosen

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Instead of training salespeople with recycled techniques your competitors are using, developing high performance sales teams requires transforming the traditional salesperson into The Selling Coach. Develop your salespeople into coaches for their customers. ” The Top Performer is The Selling Coach.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2022

But, it’s interesting to look at this as an example of how we “connect” with customers. Some observations: This presentation was intended for initial meetings with prospective customers. In 16 pages, the word “customer” or “client” or “you” appeared 6 times.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the pieces of “insight” was to manage and coach by results versus micromanaging or counting activities. Did we qualify the customer correctly? Did we create value in each interaction, did we understand what the customer was trying to achieve, did we engage the right people on the right things at the right time?

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Add in an emphasis on skills improvement through ongoing coaching, and you’ll see how a sales coach can positively impact a company’s bottom line. A good coach knows how to communicate, motivate and personalize each sales associate’s training, so the sales team repeatedly delivers results. What is a sales coach?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 12, 2023

Your prospects and customers use a similar process for choosing who to buy from. However, your criteria for loving a song is not something that you consciously think about, it just happens and much like song selection, your prospects don’t think about whether or not they love you.

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SBI

JUNE 15, 2021

The 3 Biggest Obstacles Standing in the way of Excellent Sales Coaching. No matter what you’re selling, you need an effective sales team to discover your prospects’ needs, present possible solutions, answer questions, and close deals with new and existing customers. Sales coaching is not without its own challenges.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2023

Answer this question, you have 90 seconds: What does your customer care about? Probably no one answered something to the effect of “Helping my customers succeed.” ” And this is the problem we and our customers face! Managers pay attention to this to improve your coaching.) This is so obvious.

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re trying to maximize sales rep performance and drive results, coaching should be an essential part of your strategy. CSO Insights reported that sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment over the span of five years. Let’s not think that coaching is a natural skill for our managers.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reality is, deal coaching is probably happening pretty regularly at your organization. But, the same can’t typically be said for skill coaching across the board. That’s because skill coaching traditionally takes more prep, data, and tracking to be effective. What is skill coaching?

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SalesLoft

JULY 21, 2023

And the answer is coaching. Coaching is built on a mixture of data, interpersonal skills, and solid leadership. Below, we’ll walk you through an example of a new seller, and how her manager was able to mine data to better coach her. Meet Frankie, your newest seller Frankie recently joined your team.

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