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Show, Don’t Tell: 5 Effective Ways to Coach Your Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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The Art of Sales Negotiation: Close More Deals

Highspot

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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What a Basic Sales Process Looks Like [Visual Template]

Hubspot Sales

Without an outline, writers sometimes forget to include a crucial argument, or construct their paper in an illogical manner. Think of a defined sales process as the outline of selling. Sales managers can't glean team-wide data. Sales managers can't glean team-wide data. Start with a sales process template.

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Convince IT Management that Modernizing Your Customer Communications System Is a Top Priority

Cincom Smart Selling

For many insurers, the approach toward IT budget construction and the measurement of IT value remains rooted in a traditional approach of centrally planned budgets and top-down portfolio metrics that can mask where IT value is really being delivered. Customer communication solutions can have a significant impact on key business outcomes.

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The Best Way to Sell Is With a Story

Sales and Marketing Management

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. They needed the imagery to represent both “leaf-on” and “lead-off” imagery for precise calculations and proposal development.

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Emissary’s Sales Intelligence Platform Accelerates Success

Emissary

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. Even the best computers still can’t beat the transformative power of human intelligence.

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8 Ways to Respond to the Objection "I Want to Think It Over"

Hubspot Sales

Use any of these five questions to identify your prospect’s reservations and propose a mutually beneficial agreement. Ironically, posing this question usually gives you the information you need to rescue the sale. It's not constructive for them to do this on their own. Neither party benefits. That’s totally understandable.