Sales Evangelist

APRIL 26, 2024

Meet Our Guest: Dayna Williams Dayna brings 20 years of experience as a white-label consultant for top provider firms in the sales training and enablement sector. Her vast exposure to heads of sales, sales managers, co-founders, and CEOs has given her a unique perspective on widespread issues in the industry.

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criteria for success

MAY 4, 2022

Looking for ways to sell more? Many senior executives in sales and marketing don’t know who their buyers are, and don’t know how to position a selling conversation. So, let’s explore this and discover how to sell more. Sell More by Understanding Who Your Buyers Are. You’ve come to the right place!

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, they must be equipped to address the needs of large buying committees throughout the (often lengthy) sales cycle. Enterprise sales isn’t for the faint of heart. And just because a sales rep is skilled at closing SMB or mid-market deals, it doesn’t mean they have what it takes for enterprise sales.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Explore a range of sales process examples and learn how to align with the customer’s journey for better buyer engagement , relationships, and sales success. What is a Sales Process? A sales process is a structured set of steps that guides salespeople through the sales cycle. What are your goals?

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Increases sales capacity and productivity Sales coaching is integral to increasing your sales capacity (what your sales team is actually capable of achieving within a given period) and making quota consistently despite fluctuating headcount or market conditions. Problems with sales coaching aka what NOT to do 1.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

Sales Management has only one goal, which is improving sales effectiveness within the organization. Although there is only one goal, there are many different areas a sales manager can help increase sales performance and choosing the right ones and prioritizing is obviously important.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

Sales training program expert tips for anyone involved in sales management or sales enablement some insight into planning any form of sales training. It sounds simplistic to say that sales training is the act of training salespeople or the sales team on the product and sales process.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution. For example, if the budget is a concern, the sales rep will highlight the long-term value and ROI of the solution.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. Example: Total business from your major accounts last year was 70% of your total. Sales managers reading this — try it! ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Image Source ).

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Change, for the win: Consultative Selling Habits. Top-performing consultative sales professionals, too, tend to spend time counting their hoard, and at times struggle to find the motivation to expand their consultative selling horizons to add new clients, and to conquer larger frontiers.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A sales playbook is a powerful tool. However, sales organizations must deliver training and ongoing learning opportunities to ensure sellers master the strategies outlined in the playbook. What is included in a sales playbook? There’s no single sales playbook that works for all companies. Markets evolve.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 15, 2019

In other words, customers don’t like a sale pushed on them. It only feels like the sales rep is interested in making a commission rather than actually caring about needs. Consultative selling helps to avoid this problem. Specific page visits and time visited (ask your marketing department for this information).

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Now that more sales teams are working remotely, more sales conversations are happening online via video chat, email, and social media. The market is evolving faster than ever, and sales reps need high-quality ongoing training to keep up. The Different Types of Sales Training Programs.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 11, 2020

This is why some organizations started to refer to consultative selling as “commercial teaching.” For example, my clients at the time would base their decision on what to pay an employee based on what they deemed to be fair, some number in line with how much they believed the job should pay. You need to make sales.

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Showpad

JUNE 22, 2020

Digital transformation must begin with the customer, not with your current processes — and this is where sales enablement comes into play . What’s missing in that definition — and what’s crucial for sales, marketing and customer experience — is the need to begin any kind of digital transformation effort with the customer at the center.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Maintaining a healthy profit margin is (of course) important to the overall success of your sales team and organization. Those in the organization in charge with business strategy should set a price based on market research. Your salespeople are closest to your customers and the market. Sales Performance Improvement

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I still run into salespeople and business leaders who continue to believe their market is a very tight geographical area or a very targeted list of customers. Understanding your customer base and targeting your sales efforts is essential. I become more adept at opening up new markets for my business. Do you think big?

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Most sales leaders don’t realize their sales system is actually a collection of multiple processes. These executives may think it’s as straightforward as making a product, marketing it , and then selling it to different market segments. Types of Sales Methodology. Seven Steps for Sales Process Mapping.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 29, 2011

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors.   Sales Management Style. Sales Organization Stage.

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SBI

MARCH 1, 2021

Many are in complex industries like manufacturing, machinery, chemicals, and healthcare where reps are accustomed to in-person meetings where they can engage in the dialog necessary for effective consultative selling. StorySlab is the tool for that kind of rep and that kind of sale. That has all been upended now.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

No single technique is suitable for all scenarios in sales training; it relies on elements such as business size, sector, product or service type. The Need for Sales Training In a fiercely competitive market, just relying on the quality of your products or pricing is not enough.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

The SaaS industry has different selling techniques , key metrics , and sales process activities compared to the ones you’d encouter while selling a tangible physical product or a more traditional service like a marketing consultation package.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

First, let’s look at common sections that are important to any sales job description and how they need to be written. Whether for sales, marketing, finance, or support, job descriptions typically have the same structure: Company info. Learn from best-in-class examples. Why Zendesk Sell? About Zendesk Sell.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 24, 2019

They also began giving their people value-based selling training to help them become proficient at it. How to Start Selling Value. Adding value for better sales. A lot of people know about consultative selling or solution selling. The concept of value selling, however, is still not as explored.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But what if there’s a sales methodology that forces them to sell the solution? Enter concept selling. Concept selling, or conceptual selling, uses the premise that customers buy the concept of a solution and not the solution itself. Conceptual selling does the same thing for B2B products.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Selling Skills (528). Outside Sales (81). An example might be an analysis or testing process. Check out the below video to better understand what I mean: Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

To help you find the right ones, I invested a few hundred hours over the last few months sifting through dozens of these channels to create what I think is the first-ever guide to sales training video channels on YouTube. For a more thorough look at maximizing your sales productivity, watch “ Tips to Structure Your Day.".

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

SPIN Selling. Solution Selling. Miller Heiman’s Conceptual Selling. Miller Heiman’s Strategic Selling. Miller Heiman’s LAMP (Large Account Management Practices). Consultative Selling. SNAP Selling. Customer Centric Selling. Agile Sales Methodology. Strategic Selling.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. Sales Training Consultants who can genuinely meet all these needs will be only too happy to share examples of each role with you. B2B Sales Insights Delivered Straight To Your Inbox We don''t send out canned marketing emails every day or week asking you to buy something. If they cannot, think again.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

. After years of talking to Sales People, Managers and Business Owners Ive created a list Top Ten Reasons they fail as set out below. 1) Values  when the sales persons, personal Values are not congruent with the values of the Organization the relationship will rarely either last, or be productive for either party.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2023

For example: For decades, I could not drive for much longer than two to two and a half hours before my eyes would get so heavy that I risked falling asleep at the wheel. There are simple, easy, fast and powerful solutions for sales problems too. See my examples below. If they are part of your future, get them sales training.

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LeveragePoint

JANUARY 12, 2018

Getting better performance out of the middle 80% of the sales force is an obvious way to meet target sales growth in 2018. To improve average rep performance, sales management and their sales enablement team call in the experts. Here are 6 examples. This means that 43% didn’t meet goal. Address the Problem.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. These 25 solutions form the bedrock to proven sustainable results with advanced social selling injected as a force multiplier: Move from push to pull marketing.

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The Sales Association

MARCH 17, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. I recently received a call from a company selling network solutions. It just so happens that I am in the market for those services so I scheduled an appointment for a technician to diagnose my problem. Join The Sales Association.

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OnePageCRM

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

All the market and product knowledge in the world is useless if you cannot explain it simply for a prospect to understand. Great sales people take complex strategies and simplify them into key messages and action items, that a prospect can follow and feel in control of. Perhaps the last product they sold or the market they sold to.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

Intended audience: Are you in the relevant industry, market, or role? On-Site Sales Training Programs. Focus: Prospecting, negotiating and closing, social selling, and sales management. Intended audience: Sales reps and managers. Richardson’s Consultative Selling Skills. Inbound Sales.

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