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Sales Process vs. Sales Methodology: Why You Need Both

Hubspot Sales

Prospects can be unpredictable. For example, the "Challenger" methodology — a strategy rooted in teaching prospects, tailoring communication to suit those prospects individually, and taking control of conversations — is often applied specifically to the front-end of a sales process. There's no denying that sales can be chaotic.

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B2B Sales Training Techniques and Best Practices

Highspot

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution.

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Sales Strategy: What’s Most Effective? A Great Message! (Updated May 2019)

Corporate Visions

Even if you sell a truly remarkable product, prospects aren’t likely to recognize the full value you offer. In fact, most prospects either don’t recognize or can’t articulate the root of the challenges they struggle with on a daily basis. They talk about “why us?” — why the prospect should choose them over their competitors.

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Why Your Focus on Quota is Killing Revenue Growth

SBI

The more elaborate “magical” tricks make use of smoke and mirrors not unlike how some people construct forecasts. Understanding why the answer is no— or more precisely, what’s keeping your team from selling as much as they could be selling—is the key to radically increasing revenue in the future. hours a month.

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Marketing, Sales, and the Power of the OOCH

SBI

As I read both books, I asked myself what they tell us about how and what our prospects go through when they make decisions (either to believe in an idea, or to make a change). Consider asking a prospect to buy your product, in this example, an expense reporting tool. What if instead, we helped prospects widen their options?

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

Pointclear

Quality conversations and personal engagement with prospects. All the time we’re having unscripted conversation with our clients’ prospects. They all have college degrees, they’ve been through sales training (Miller Heiman, SPIN ® Selling, Solution Selling ® ) and they’re PointClear certified, so they have the skills to sell.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

All the same guiding principles apply to social selling so it's been my personal mandate as of late, to advance social selling into something elevated that I've dubbed Advanced Strategic B2B Social Selling. Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! What's not to love about that?!