The Sales Hunter

MARCH 21, 2013

I’ve heard sales people say, “I don’t have the time to research a prospect.” What you can learn about a prospect on Linkedin is invaluable! Google – As you know, Google has a wealth of information and my favorite tool that I use daily is the Google alerts. Their performance record.

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Relationals Prospecting Google Ideal Customer Profile 182

BuzzBoard

MAY 29, 2024

Conquering the SMB Market: How Generative AI Software Can Supercharge Your Digital Agency’s Sales There’s no denying AI is transforming the sales technology landscape, with an influx of sophisticated tools for CRMs, marketing automation, forecasting, and more. Well, AI Sales Tools Are Evolving.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Small Business Small Business Software 52

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When sales reps are early in their sales careers, it can be a challenge to connect with the right prospects. You then start tailoring your outreach to those high-value prospects. The Right Tools For the Job. If you want to catch fish, you need some basic tools like bait, hooks, line, and a fishing pole. Create a Plan.

Sales Qualified Lead 118

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Decision Maker 118

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As James Mensforth , Sales Director UKI at Aircall , told me, "As a sales leader, I use AI to get a better sense of how my team is performing, how we can improve our metrics, and even how to freshen up our sales scripts and prospect communications. It’s been a game changer in how my team operates on a day-to-day basis."

Hubspot 109

Hubspot Lead Rank Data Social Media 109

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Active listening is a sales tool, but the good news is that there’s technology to help! For many, there is far too much distraction to really hear what a prospect is saying. Fortunately, new sales technologies can provide reps with tools to improve their ability to actively listen – and therefore their success.

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Sales Tools Tools Sales Technology Analysis 52

Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One must expect a long journey while selling to a large enterprise. Persistence and calmness are two essential traits needed during enterprise sales, as there are chances that the deal might fall apart at any stage of the sales prospect. Large contracts consume more time as the prospect usually don’t have enough time.

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Enterprise Enterprise How To Cold Calling 103

The Pipeline

MARCH 20, 2018

It would be easy to blame the reps, but someone put them up to it; their sales manager or marketing team told them these questions drive results. Questions that allow the prospect to let go of the here and now, and focus on their desired future state. ” Nothing about product, solutions, pain, or any of that boring stuff.

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Face-to-face Buyer Quota Objections 205

BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Towards that, they are making smarter business decisions of acquiring deep intelligence about their prospects by investing in data vendors and sales assistants—the purpose being aligning their offerings with prospect needs to maximize engagement. 5+1 Winning Factors Adding Up to Soaring BuzzBoard Reviews: A Brief Analysis 1.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Customer 52

Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Tools don’t make the carpenter. He uses tools, both hand tools and some of the newest power tools to accomplish results. He knows which tool to use to accomplish his goal. Using sales & social tools without core sales training kills more sales than anything else. Of course selling has changed.

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Tools Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale 48

Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Essential Software Tools for SaaS Sales. SaaS sales is the process of selling software that customers access through an online portal or website and use to solve a business problem. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush. What’s the Length of a SaaS Sales Cycle?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Commission Lead Scoring 127

Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Tools don’t make the carpenter. He uses tools, both hand tools and some of the newest power tools to accomplish results. He knows which tool to use to accomplish his goal. Using sales and social tools at the wrong time or stage without core sales training kills more sales than anything else.

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Tools Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale 48

criteria for success

MAY 13, 2020

Whether you’re a sales manager or a salesperson, it’s likely you’ve experience one or all of the following thoughts: “I’m not prepared.”. I don’t feel like selling today.”. Driving Consultative Selling with Problem Solving & Storytelling. Not having a consistent, powerful process for following up after a meeting.

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Face-to-face Follow-up Buyer Up-Sell 105

Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Improved conversion rates: Structured sales tactics often result in better conversion rates as teams are more equipped to lead prospective customers through the buying process. Each step is integral to a successful sale, guiding sales managers and salespeople from prospecting to closure. What are your goals?

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Real Estate 52

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

Slow down to speed up Before working for a Fortune 500 company, Jim Norton (AOL’s former EVP Global Head of Media Sales) worked “an old-school sales job.” Norton, who helped AOL drive 30% YoY growth, got their start in sales selling office equipment for Pitney Bowes. And the only way to get really good at selling is to sell.”

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 105

Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For dyed-in-the-wool, traditional sales reps, consultative selling can sometimes seem intimidating at first. This should come as no surprise, especially when you consider consultative selling takes the “normal” sales process and, for all intents and purposes, turns it on its head. What Is Consultative Selling?

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Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Consultative Selling is dead!” – Oh no it isn’t! There are those who would suggest that “consultative selling” or its successor “collaborative selling” is dead. No matter how brilliant, a sales process will only be effective to the extent it is followed and used by frontline sales staff. Let me explain ….

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Consultative Selling Sales Process Follow-up CRM 35

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. 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.

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B2B Training Top of Funnel B2C 52

Highspot

JULY 29, 2024

You’ll typically find sales reps in B2B sales using solution sales techniques to dig into what the prospect truly needs and offer a unique package, often involving a combination of products. Rather than bombarding prospects with product specs, it shows the real value and ROI they can gain from your offer.

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Solutions Selling Face-to-face Decision Maker Buyer Persona 52

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sandler vs. Traditional Sales Traditional sales involves cold-calling a prospect and diving straight into a product-centric sales pitch. Each consultative selling stage is captured in the seven compartments of the Sandler Submarine. You can use the following questions as a starting point: Can you tell me more about that?

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Sales Methodology Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 52

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. Does a remote selling world mean that more of that process is completed without engaging a salesperson?

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Face-to-face Apparel Chemicals Call-back 94

Nutshell

AUGUST 15, 2018

Consultative selling is often regarded as one of the most effective sales strategies. A 2015 study of more than 350,000 salespeople from over 200 countries showed that the average consultative seller skill set was exhibited by only 48% of salespeople —a mere one percentage point higher than it was four years prior.

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Customer Consultative Selling Hiring Face-to-face 48

Sales Hacker

JUNE 19, 2019

Transactional selling. Solution selling. Consultative selling. Provocative selling. Here’s just a taste of what’s possible when you use chatbots for lead gen … At their most basic, you can automate chatbots to interact with prospects and qualify them as leads. Product upsells and cross-sells.

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Campaigns Top of Funnel Lead Gen Scale 94

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Depending on their role within the team, inside sales reps engage in research, prospecting, email and social media outreach, cold calling, lead nurturing, qualification, demonstration, and negotiation conversations.

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 62

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

That is because it empowers sales professionals to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and tailor their pitches according to each prospect’s unique pain points. Key Value Selling Strategies To truly connect with prospects, you must marry sales strategy and genuine pain point understanding with the ability to communicate.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Methodology Decision Maker 59

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For dyed-in-the-wool, traditional sales reps , consultative selling can sometimes seem intimidating at first. This should come as no surprise, especially when you consider consultative selling takes the “normal” sales process and turns it on its head. WHAT IS CONSULTATIVE SELLING ? First things first.

Consultative Selling 52

Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

With the rise of social selling , everyone is vying for a spot among the thought leaders. More and more people in sales are finding that rigorous follow-ups, a solid pitch, and great objection handling skills just aren’t cutting it anymore (at least not on their own). When do you decide a prospect isn’t the right fit?

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Hiring Top of Funnel Quota Lead Rank 76

Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

There’s SPIN Selling, The Challenger Sale, SNAP Selling, Conceptual Selling, Consultative Selling… The list goes on. Conceptual Selling. Consultative Selling. Customer-Centric Selling. Inbound Selling. NEAT Selling. SNAP Selling. Solution Selling.

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Sales Methodology Inbound Lead Rank Consultative Selling 78

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

This includes teaching them how to best engage with prospects, build relationships with customers, close deals, upsell and cross-sell, and much more. The market is evolving faster than ever, and sales reps need high-quality ongoing training to keep up. Why Sales Training Is Important. or a 353% ROI.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

These customers represent a disproportionate percentage of your revenue, refer new prospects to your company, give you credibility in their space -- or all of the above. These accounts make up the majority of the business' income. Before you go all-in on a key account strategy, consider the following points. Let's dig in.

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Hiring Account Analytics Sales Qualified Lead 135

Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Modern technology: Implement tech tools that simplify tasks and enhance sales team efforts. Sales Management Techniques Sales strategies and techniques are the tools sales managers use to drive sales volume and increase lead generation. Consultative Selling : Train your sales team to ask questions and actively listen to customer needs.

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Sales Management Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 59

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. More importantly, they blow up several of the myths most people have come to believe regarding sales. high profit selling. prospecting. selling a price increase. selling skills. prospecting.

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Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 163

Klozers

APRIL 22, 2019

I’m sure everyone is familiar with the mantra “ when you try to sell to everyone you end up selling to no one “ Well although this is easy to say it can be difficult to do. The personas were never shared with sales and if they were, sales never knew how to use them to sell more and… 2.

Ideal Customer Profile 22

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Face-to-face Networking 22

Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If it takes too much effort to keep your program up to date, materials can become stale and irrelevant. I always like to start with the end in mind, whether it’s a training program or any kind of enablement program,” Michelle Cox, revenue enablement tools and technology manager at Sailpoint, said.

Training 52

Training Scale How To Hiring 52

Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

If it takes too much effort to keep your program up to date, materials can become stale and irrelevant. I always like to start with the end in mind, whether it’s a training program or any kind of enablement program,” Michelle Cox, revenue enablement tools and technology manager at Sailpoint, said.

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Training Scale How To Hiring 52

BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ll find the do’s, do nots, customer examples, and actionable tools and templates for implementing and improving sales coaching in this guide. The challenges in the latter category are also a symptom of the following problem. That means making coaching tools available when and where they work.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is a selling strategy that is frequently founded on a particular understanding of client psychology. It establishes the manner in which you should engage prospects and the language you should use with them. Once they are disclosed, sales representatives can determine if the solution is a good fit for the prospect.

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Sales Methodology Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 52

The Brooks Group

MAY 16, 2018

Also known as sales engineers, these technical sales reps are extremely knowledgeable on the details of a product or solution, but they’re not always the best at converting prospects into customers. To help your technical sales reps become more business-minded and generally successful on sales calls, follow these 3 steps: 1.

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How To Engineering Case Study Face-to-face 40