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The 7 Most Critical Selling Skills in Wholesale Distribution

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Most Critical Skill Gaps. Let’s start with how distributors ranked urgency to improve seven critical selling skills. That requires superior discovery skills. Field Sales vs. Inside Sales.

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Building Up With Sales Training

Janek Performance Group

As such, they publish blogs, white papers, case studies, and other collateral. This demonstrates their commitment to studying, understanding, and expanding the accumulated knowledge of their industry. And they must expertly demonstrate the value of their solutions—skills developed through training.

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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. His results proved soft skills do produce hard sales results. Turnover decreased and sales increased because Met Life focused on hiring for optimism, not just hard selling skills. 2) Choose your friends wisely.

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Research: Differentiating Your “Virtual” Sales Meetings

Corporate Visions

But get this: today, outside reps spend 45% of their time selling remotely, an 89% increase from 2013. That’s how widespread meetings conducted by phone or web conference app have become today. Clearly, this is a selling forum where you must outperform your competition if you hope to have success today.

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You Can Lead A Sales Person To Water, But You Can?t Make Him Think!

Partners in Excellence

Most studies show the impact of training last less than 90 days, unless there is constant reinforcement and coaching. If they were, we wouldn’t talk about things like CRM compliance, or many of the other things that dominate blog posts and discussions at conferences. The problem is, the customer doesn’t care about these.

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Five Essential Steps to Building Rapport in Complex Sales Cycles

Miller Heiman Group

“How can I make the best use of my selling time with a prospect to build rapport?”. In the 2018 Buyer Preferences Study , CSO Insights found that 70.2 Learn more about our Professional Selling Skills® research-based training program designed for every seller — regardless of position or tenure.

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How to Spot Burnout in Your Salespeople (and What to Do About It)

Hubspot Sales

According to a Bridge Group study , the annual turnover rate for sales professionals is 34.7%. If your reps are so focused on making their number that they’ve stopped learning new sales technology or techniques or honing their core selling skills, they may be burned out or fast approaching it.

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