Braveheart Sales

MARCH 30, 2021

Salespeople who are easily able to reach decision-makers are infinitely more effective at closing business. If we know that more business will be closed, tons more business, but only slightly more than a quarter of salespeople are skilled at reaching decision-makers, it seems to me that there is a pretty big opportunity for impact.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 30, 2021

Salespeople who are easily able to reach decision-makers are infinitely more effective at closing business. If we know that more business will be closed, tons more business, but only slightly more than a quarter of salespeople are skilled at reaching decision-makers, it seems to me that there is a pretty big opportunity for impact.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I’m talking about Decision Makers. If you’ve been in sales for longer than 30 seconds, you’re probably been told, You have to get to the decision maker! Front-line managers could coach better and create actions plans. The post Here’s how selling to decision makers affects your win rates.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Salespeople should use opportunities to meet with multiple decision-makers and stakeholders in client organizations. By being there, salespeople can observe the dynamics of the organization, understand the culture, and identify key decision-makers.

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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. Technical decision makers are just as skeptical with each other as they are with the sales, marketing and non-technical types reading this article. As a result, these decision makers continuously validate the technical and scientific truth underpinning What They Know.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2023

That means not only putting a referral system in place, but also ensuring reps have the skills and coaching needed to ask every client for referrals. While your competition is still playing around on social media, sending cold emails, and trying to identify decision-makers, your sales team can be in the conference room sealing deals.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

High-Level, Hard-to-Reach Decision Makers You’re trying to contact that high-level decision maker. Chances are, while everyone else is off for the weekend, mowing the lawn, having fun — that high-level, hard-to-reach decision maker is working, planning, strategizing and more. But I have a better idea.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

This begins with training and coaching Sales Leadership to support such an organization. How can sales organizations, sales enablement, sales cultures, and sales leadership make the paradigm shift to move from “Belief That” to “Belief In?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2024

Not just any sales training, but results-focused sales training with role-plays, and with your sales leaders becoming effective coaches. That means there are few experienced recession-proof salespeople, but there are plenty who didn’t figure out how to succeed at recessionary selling back then. What are the twelve biggest challenges?

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

High-Level, Hard-to-Reach Decision Makers You’re trying to contact that high-level decision maker. Chances are, while everyone else is off for the weekend, mowing the lawn, having fun — that high level, hard-to-reach decision maker is in the office — planning, strategizing and more. But I have a better idea.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Take a step back and reply… “Before I supply a quote, let me ask you… ‘Who else should we get involved in this important decision?’ The post Discover the Decision-Makers Before Making a Deal appeared first on Paul Cherry Sales Training and Coaching. I would love Read More.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. These solutions record, transcribe and score customer calls, serving them back to sales managers to use as fuel for more effective coaching conversations.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

But lately, when I talk with the Kurlan & Associates team, the topic is consistently about salespeople who push back on our sales training and coaching when it comes to dealing with RFPs. ” When training and coaching salespeople, theory is not enough. He started strong which you can see here.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

You can look at sales process any way you want but if what you want are more consistent, predictable results, in a framework that supports sales coaching, then you want a customized, formal, milestone-centric, customer-focused sales process and scorecard!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 7, 2023

Don Shula – the famous Miami Dolphin coach – once said that his players practiced, drilled and rehearsed their plays and techniques over and over again so they could internalize them and act automatically when they needed to. Identifying decision makers. You know you should do this, but have you? If not, do it this week!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Sales Management must spend 50% of their time coaching salespeople like this: An enormous part of developing salespeople these days is helping them to differentiate themselves from your competitors. Executed correctly, the salesperson has a conversation with a decision maker that is unlike any conversation the competition has had.

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Awarathon

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

An influential coach can have a huge influence on the life of an athlete. When athletes excel, they frequently attribute at least some of their success to their coach. The same may be stated for a sales coach who employs effective coaching for sales approaches. What does sales coaching entail and how does it work?

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 30, 2019

But you also need a coach—someone who wants to see you win, because when you win, they win too. While you may be thinking of a coach in the traditional sense—as a personal mentor—you also need a different type of coach to build your book of business. the other decision-makers on the buying team view the coach as credible.

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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This past week I was asked to take a survey from a national firm regarding the state of coaching. What was interesting was how this firm defined these two roles or solutions: Executive Coach – Changing behaviors. Business Coach – Providing strategies. The decision maker is the small business owner.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. He complained that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. I had heard enough.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

This is the fourth year in a row we have been awarded with this valuable award that acknowledges our inside sales training, scripting, and coaching services as being the best of the best! As a gift to all of my readers, I would like to offer a free download sample of my best-selling book: “Power Phone Scripts.”. See it here. Get Access Today.

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Allego

DECEMBER 22, 2021

During the pandemic, sales managers in all industries have faced time constraints, reduced visibility into seller activity, and hybrid work environments that make personalized coaching even more difficult than it was before. This had an immediate impact on increasing the effectiveness of coaching sessions. For Arco’s coach speci?cally,

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They need to improve their ability to reach and build stronger relationships with decision makers. If you want to achieve greater sales or sales leadership success, the very best thing you can do is to invest in training and coaching. It won’t be nearly as powerful as training and coaching but it won’t hurt either.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 24, 2023

Throughout my inside sales career, as both a sales rep and as a sales coach, I have always stressed the importance of those two words, “Thank you” and “Please.” I still think back to that interaction, and it reminds me of how important it is to greet and treat others the way I’d like to be treated.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Are they coachable, and do they implement the coaching? Are you speaking to decision makers or gatekeepers or influencers? For example, how many calls your sellers make each day is important, but won’t tell you how many of those dials led to decision-maker conversations. Are they disciplined and responsive?

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

By analyzing sales reports and identifying potential obstacles, sales directors can engage in coaching conversations with individual sales reps. Enablement & Coaching You’ve created your sales strategy and identified the tools and tactics you’ll be using. Enabling reps is also all about proper coaching.

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Revegy

MARCH 18, 2024

According to John Arnold, Principal Analyst at Forrester, technology and business decision-makers in sales are almost twice as likely as their marketing counterparts to say that marketing teams work independently of other internal functions.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. These solutions record, transcribe and score customer calls, serving them back to sales managers to use as fuel for more effective coaching conversations.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

If the prospect says, "I don’t know" to any of those questions, they're either not serious or not a decision-maker. Somewhere during the approval process, the real decision-maker will ask them those same questions. You’ll likely be working with a lower-level employee, rather than the decision-maker.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Not involving the decision-maker. Recent research indicates that at smaller sales organizations, the inability to identify decision-makers is still a major deal killer. Deals are 80% less likely to close when a decision-maker isn’t directly involved in the experience.?So How to prep and empower your team.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Effective communication and collaboration across the buying team are necessary in large organizations, where multiple stakeholders are involved in decision-making. This mobilization requires active involvement from various departments, with a particular emphasis on engaging decision-makers.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Managers lack the experience, coaching skills, or prowess to lead their teams to learn and do new uncomfortable things. The three must-have elements: Efficiency – Generating more conversations with a Decision Maker – More At-Bats. Data-driven decisions and coaching – Leadership. No, there is a lot of leaks.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Our feeds are filled with hacks, prompts, “cheat sheets” offering things like, “What are key decision maker roles for this… ? I start thinking, perhaps we are failing our people in training, supporting, coaching, and reinforcing things they should know to be effective and efficient in doing their jobs.

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Babette Ten Haken

JANUARY 28, 2020

As I worked with one of my clients yesterday, he complained that decision makers were not taking action after his presentations. If you want decision makers to make a decision, then tell stories which make solid strategic business sense. He just could not understand why. ” He looked back at me, puzzled.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

MARCH 28, 2010

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 25, 2022

I have listened to thousands of sales calls over the years, and I spend the majority of my coaching and training hours listening to sales calls even today. And I still hear the same mistakes…. Get Access Today. The post 3 Things You Should Stop Saying in Sales appeared first on Mr.

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