Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Some are written by sales experts. I am concerned about the subjects being curated for sales and sales leadership professionals. One or two are sales enablement topics.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 29, 2020

People often confuse the sales culture and the sales methodology used within a given culture. Sales culture is a set of habits and behaviors of a sales team in a consistent way. Internally the culture is defined through the relationship among sales people, as well as those between sellers and their VPs.

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criteria for success

MAY 17, 2022

If you’re in the process of building a winning sales training program for your team, you've come to the right place. Here at Criteria for Success, we help companies strengthen their sales teams and build out training processes that ensure sales best practices are being put to use. Acceleration. Breakthrough.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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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. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

The best sales methodology for your situation will change; it’s not static. Your company needs different sales methodologies at different stages of its maturity. The sales methodology that works in one stage of your company’s growth may actually harm it at a different stage.

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Costello

AUGUST 6, 2018

At Costello, we’ve interviewed some of the smartest and most forward-thinking sales leaders in the industry. In that article, he explained his focus on process, emphasized the importance of communication, and began to unpack his sales qualification methodology. Defining a Sales Methodology. The Respect Contract.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Virtual training has often become the default. Sales is a famously extroverted job. So, what type of training makes sense? Let’s review what virtual training is, the best practices, and how to run a virtual training program. Table of Contents What is virtual training? Virtual Training Best Practices 1.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 25, 2018

How to balance the expectations of buyers with the demands of sales leaders. Sales research confirms what salespeople already know: It’s tough out there. Sales consultants are accountable to sales leadership not only for closing deals but also for reliable input on the status of all the deals in play.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

As a sales leader, you know the impact of effective sales coaching — it’s the key to maximizing your team’s potential. In fact, it probably isn’t surprising that companies that provide quality coaching can reach 7% greater annual revenue growth. Why coaching conversations must change.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And that, somehow, leads me to sales performance. If they haven’t been exposed to professional selling methodologies and sales processes, and had those demonstrated to them via expert, unscripted role-plays, then they would have no clue that the presenting and proposing they have been doing is woefully inadequate.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key.

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

I’ve often used the analogy that B2B enterprise sales professionals are the Olympic athletes of the corporate world. That said, try putting them in a front line B2B sales role focused on the complex sale at the enterprise level and see how that works out for you. Oh, sure, we throw money at the sales department.

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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. Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The average sales cycle for closed-won deals is 96 days. Even closed-lost deals average 20 days of a sales rep’s time. With so much time dedicated to closing, it’s more important than ever to organize your team’s efforts around a central sales methodology. Think of a sales methodology as the control in an experiment.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. Pitfall 1: Focus on the training vs. the learning. I even made it myself back in the day.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. They train the best way for them rather than how their salespeople learn. I was elated.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And many have turned to sales enablement. Related: What Is Sales Enablement? At Mindtickle, we recently commissioned a survey of 500+ sales leaders , sales reps, and sales-adjacent professionals to find out how they’re approaching sales enablement – and how that might change in the midst of a potential recession.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. The Problem With Mini-Me's: Coaching Lessons From an Atypical Career. I didn't always want to go into sales. Sometimes, this works.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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SalesforLife

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They asked me what makes us at Sales For Life bold and different? Here at Sales For Life, we rarely encounter alternatives to modern, digital selling because our competition has always been the status quo, or alternative training programs. What makes a training system unique? It’s the people.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably heard of the Challenger Sales methodology. Before you decide that, though, you need to ask yourself a few questions — such as “What is challenger sales?” Here’s our in-depth look at Challenger Sales methodology and how to leverage it. What is the Challenger Sales model?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

As a sales leader, you know the impact of effective sales coaching — it’s the key to maximizing your team’s potential. In fact, it probably isn’t surprising that companies that provide quality coaching can reach 7% greater annual revenue growth. Why coaching conversations must change.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In July, I wrote about Dinger tearing his ACL , and how well the doctor executed her sales process. And that is a great analogy for what happens when salespeople are uncomfortable with certain aspects of the sales process. But when Sales DNA appears as a weakness, it serves to sabotage rather than support the salesperson.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Define a Sales Methodology. A sales methodology is a framework that explains how your sellers should approach each phase of the sales process. The replication of top performers throughout the sales organization.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This makes two movie posts in a row as I used Sound of Freedom to illustrate that companies don’t know what they don’t know about sales. Commonality with Sales While I thought it had a lot in common with selling, the twelve central figures: Were not professional investors although they did invest in GameStop.

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Showpad

MAY 6, 2019

What are your sales representatives’ goals? A combination of content, training, and ongoing sales coaching is needed to drive reps’ success. As a crucial part of sales enablement , coaching must be done the right way in order to have the greatest impact. What is sales coaching?

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 5, 2020

The senior sales leader said, “When I have the right team, I will train them.” The words he used betrayed his feelings about his sales team, that he didn’t feel that they were competent in their roles. First, this sales leader is withholding. Increasing B2B Sales Competencies. Slowing Down the Game.

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If the sales process is WHAT to do, a sales methodology is HOW to do it. And in today’s modern sales organization, this investment is no longer nice to have, rather it is table stakes. And yet, if you assume that training is enough, you are doing what everyone else is doing. How will you get more sellers to goal?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Believe it or not, most people still believe that sales success boils down to getting a lot of people to agree to watch a demo. Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction' I''m sure I''ve missed a few but you get the gist.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

She has been a very willing coach, helping me think and execute at higher levels. Why I Love Sales Sales was never a career option I aspired to. I had to quickly immerse myself in my client’s new offering, ideal clients, what mattered to their buyers, and even their sales methodology. It was always great fun!

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

People in all industries use generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to create content, analyze data, write software, create sales strategies, develop employee training, manage teams, and more. Say Hello to Custom GPTs for Sales Gen AI creators aren’t resting on their laurels. Want a GPT for sales content?

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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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