Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here, let’s examine five sales stereotypes, where they come from, and how to overcome them. Before this, we must first understand how a changing sales environment affected sellers. For that, let’s briefly look at the shift from transactional to consultative selling. Today, sellers not only sell products.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

Here are eight ways to gain and maintain close relationships with prospects , even during a pandemic. In your rush to make sales, it’s important to keep in mind that your prospects are more than just a number to meet quota or another email address to reach out to. Tips for Gaining Connection. Keep it old-school. Here’s how.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For agencies targeting SMBs, it’s vital to adopt the best practices in managing the SMB sales pipeline. This strategy ensures a more efficient process, clearer visibility into sales prospects, and improved conversion rates. Since these elements can fluctuate, SMB sales pipeline management needs to be dynamic and flexible.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Developed by David Sandler in 1967, this sales model has withstood the test of time and continues to be a go-to training program for many sales reps and organizations. Sandler vs. Traditional Sales Traditional sales involves cold-calling a prospect and diving straight into a product-centric sales pitch.

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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. First things first.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

There’s SPIN Selling, The Challenger Sale, SNAP Selling, Conceptual Selling, Consultative Selling… The list goes on. But before we dive into how to choose the right one for your business, I think it makes sense to first start by defining what a sales methodology is. Command of the Sale.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2023

This is called having a Supportive Buy Cycle and while 64% of the top salespeople in the world have it, only 10% of the bottom half of all salespeople and 1% of the bottom 10% have it as a strength. There is a 100% correlation between how salespeople make major purchases and the behavior they’ll tolerate from their prospects.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

By the end, you should have a clear roadmap for reaching your or your company’s sales goals. Skip ahead: What Is SaaS Sales? What Is the Average SaaS Sales Rep’s Salary? What’s the Length of a SaaS Sales Cycle? The Unique Challenges of SaaS Sales. The Most Important Metrics for SaaS Sales.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson developed the Challenger Sales Methodology. It relies on sales training to empower sales reps to teach, tailor, and take control of conversations. Instead of echoing what prospects want to hear, this approach challenges customers’ existing viewpoints to add actual value.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sales Methodology Sales Process Examples Sales Process Mistakes to Avoid Mastering Your Sales Process With Highspot What is a Sales Process? A sales process is a structured set of steps that guides salespeople through the sales cycle.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 19, 2015

The company’s sales messaging focused on how it could help prospects plan and budget faster. However, Adaptive’s field reps were struggling when they asked prospects to take the next step. Since prospects couldn’t see Adaptive’s economic benefits, they weren’t moving forward. Acceleration 2.

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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 ?

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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. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 30, 2012

OMG and Caliper failed to agree on these 8: Desire (Caliper measures Ego Drive and OMG measures Desire for success in sales. Consultative Selling Skills (Caliper calls this "Gathers and Analyzes Information" and scored the candidate at 48%. A very short sales cycle. Selling 5, 6 and 7 figure deals and accounts.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

The B2B sales process is a structured yet flexible journey tailored to meet the unique needs of customers. 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. What is B2B Sales Training?

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LeveragePoint

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These concerns are consistent with 2017’s results and are problems for B2B sales teams working their way through all stages of their sales cycles. But there is a point early in the sales cycle when the second problem, combatting the status quo, is the dominant problem for sales. Is a buyer willing to engage?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the comments, by Jason Kanigan, said: Traditional selling revolves around the demo/presentation. The result is we end up giving many presentations to unqualified prospects. Only show how you do what you do to fully qualified prospects. Hit a lot of rejection. Spin our wheels.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 20, 2012

"The End of Traditional Solution Selling" - The ineffective selling model described by the authors is more aligned with transactional selling than solution selling. I wrote an article about this around 4 years ago and believe it's a much better approach to utilizing people inside the prospect's organization.

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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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Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A consultative selling approach is key to running a well-oiled sales team. To me, the difference between a traditional sales process and a consultative one looks a bit like the difference between a doctor and a therapist. What Is Consultative Selling? The #1 Trait of Effective Consultative Selling.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Challenger Sale—popularized in 2011 by the book of the same name—posits that consultative selling is dead. Consultative selling is not dead, as Challenger argues. Instead, it recommends that sellers use friction to aggressively take control of buyer conversations and drive results. It’s evolved.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. Prospecting. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings.

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LeveragePoint

MARCH 23, 2018

As highlighted in our last blog, the biggest sales challenge early in the sales cycle is usually combatting the status quo and getting a buyer to evaluate your solution with the active involvement of your sales team. Sales Breakthrough – the Evaluation Stage. Effective Team Selling as Customers Evaluate.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 19, 2020

If those meetings find you inside the four walls of your prospective client’s building, your showing up is an indication that you believe they are important enough to command your time and attention, differentiating you from anyone who takes a more transactional view. Learn how to sell without a sales manager.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

OCTOBER 11, 2016

So if you are selling a product or service that fits the four criteria above, start looking for a new gig. Complexity and Long Sales Cycles. The other end of the spectrum, with its big price tags and long sales cycles, is still a world where salespeople can thrive. The Balance Point for the Evolved Sales Rep.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Robert Miller and Stephen Heiman created the idea of conceptual selling as a more effective way to close the high-value, complex deals that are common in enterprise sales. The basis for this sales methodology is that prospects buy the concept a product is based on. They’re not selling facts or figures.

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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. And StorySlab is an end-to-end solution for outside selling. That has all been upended now. Likely not.

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Emissary

AUGUST 16, 2022

The tool puts content in the context of each sales play and measures results so pieces can be refined for better conversion. . The Seismic Enablement Cloud makes it easy to maintain a content library and send relevant media to clients and prospects. Sprint-based offerings cover selling, prospecting, negotiations, and coaching.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When a sales team is prepared from the onset, the behavior change that occurs to drive sales productivity from the equip, train, and coach stages stays with them throughout the sales cycle. Sales readiness: Ensure reps aren’t just trained but are also ready to sell.

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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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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. You are teaching the prospective customer how to make an educated decision.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

When you book a demo with one of the team, you’re speaking with an insides sales representative. 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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The Sales Hunter

JULY 17, 2012

Not long ago, I gave you the six secrets for sales prospecting success , and gave you a break down of the first one, CONFIDENCE. Unless you’re selling a lower-priced item that has a short sales cycle where most sales are closed on the first call, then you must become good at not just following-up but following-through.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sales methodologies are guidelines that govern how your goods or services are sold to consumers. 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. 4 Challenger Approach.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While the Challenger model understands that buyers favor sellers who provide them with useful insights, it diverges markedly from solution selling—which has evolved over the years into perspective selling—a consultative selling approach that we emphasize in our training methodologies, including Strategic Selling with Perspective.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Help your salespeople overcome risk aversion and shorten the sales cycle by coaching them with these 6 tips. Coach your salespeople with these 6 tips and enable them to turn risk-averse prospects into profitable, long-term customers. Tip #1 - Recognize Risk-Aversion Early in the Process. Conclusion. 13 Winning Questions.

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