Sales Training Advice

MAY 29, 2017

Whatever the reason, sales managers are only as successful as their ability to train reps to be successful. Many years ago I managed a B2B telemarketing staff and ran into serious training issues. I realized if something didn’t change quickly, the whole telemarketing program would be shut down. Why It Works.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 14, 2013

After a quick conversation, we found he was committing 3 of the sales myths below. Despite this, two VPs told me they planned to increase telemarketing headcount. This 2 day training event will produce real results": You hire the expert from a fancy Sales Enablement firm. Don’t let training be an isolated incident.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

In the old(er) days, companies used cold calling as a part of business-to-customer telemarketing to sell their products to a broader audience. A cold calling script properly prepares you to handle questions, removes ambiguity from the conversation, and improves your chances of capturing the customer’s interest.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Six months into the situation three new reps had been hired; two were in the field only a month and one was finishing training. Training took about four weeks even with experienced salespeople. The sales manager went from new territory to new territory, training and trying to boost the new reps’ closing rates.

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Costello

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

In this conversation, Dionne shared the lessons she’s learned from helping transition SDR teams from inbound to outbound. When she told him she builds inside sales teams, he replied, “Oh, like telemarketers?”. Making the call about awareness — rather than a conversion — can help build a better relationship down the line.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

Norton attributes his “rock-solid foundation of training and experience” in sales to his early years in D2D. And then immerse yourself in their training rather than worrying “so much about the pace of your career advancement.” You can apply that knowledge to your next D2D conversation. And use them again.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2021

A calling campaign is a structured plan of contacting these individuals for one-on-one conversations. These campaigns can be executed for a number of reasons — including telemarketing, audience research, and customer support. Your approach may need tweaking, your agents may need more training, or your lists may need to be re-evaluated.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

Every deal starts with a conversation. dials to a cold prospect to achieve a meaningful conversion. To complicate matters even more, it also takes an average of three conversations to secure just one sales appointment or product demo. Rather than beginning the conversation by apologizing, consider saying “can you help me?”

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

This eye-opening observation exposes a hidden opportunity for sales professionals—the transformative power of vocal training. A well-trained voice possesses the potential to captivate attention, instill confidence, and establish trust. High-performing sales reps are aware of acoustic cues and utilize them in every sales conversation.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

That big smile projects the image of the stereotypical telemarketer and puts the prospect on the immediate defence. Normal, real-life telephone conversations contain many small mistakes, stutters and broken chains of thought. MTD Sales Training. However, it seems easier said than done. Happy Selling, Sean. Sean McPheat.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2021

Gopkiran “Gop” Rao, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Mindtickle, recently joined Matt Benelli, Managing Director at Sandler Training, on the ACTivation Nation podcast. In this engaging conversation, Gop and Matt discuss the criticality of a seller’s skills, behaviors, and attitude when engaging with the buyer.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. Their training should focus on making them a consistently productive and sustainable extension of the selling effort.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). They become part of the conversation building credibility and precious trust. This Social 3.0

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

I like numbers when I want to look at quantitative data from a sales manager role, but the power of storytelling is way underrated,” says Carter Young, director of sales training and operations at SaleScout Data Solutions, a B2B sales intelligence provider. The goal is to get into the natural flow of conversation.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Over the last 20 years since we began Anthony Cole Training Group , it's been a combination of learning of new stuff, old stuff and old stuff taught a new way. How long does your first conversation last? Yesterday, Jeni (our CMO), and I met with long-time friend and Mortgage officer, Rich Ambrose.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Assuming for a second, which is always dangerous that you are dealing with the lead situation either by hiring hunters or hiring telemarketers lets move on to the next Must Have strand - Qualifier. Knows the decision making process - Qualifiers do not assume to know the decision making process.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Commenting on the complete alignment across the organization, he notes, “Never once did we start the conversation with how are we going to get you guys to get along. He describes a recent conversation with a client: “She said, ‘I’ve got to develop how I’m going to approach inbound vs. outbound.’

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Join us for a visionary conversation about getting rid of the SDR role and doing away with commission — and what should replace them. It’s a great conversation. Prospecting is a type of marketing that basically entails telemarketing and what I consider email spam and LinkedIn spam because it is 99% of the time, a sales pitch.

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Pointclear

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Apptivo

MAY 4, 2022

Organizations mostly use call centers for gathering information, telemarketing , and paying off debt. The organizations can use speech analytics in order to track, monitor, evaluate and train the employees of the contact center. The contact center helps to enhance the customer experience through its flexible services.

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OutboundView

JUNE 30, 2019

OR they might be using your competitors, or give you the wrong contact information on purpose (you know, to avoid those pesky telemarketers). Cold calling still works, although it’s changed a bit since the old days of telemarketing. Recording calls for compliance or training purposes. Manual Dialing. Contact Guessers.

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Sales Training Advice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Through active listening, a salesperson can build a relationship faster, prod the customer to expand on what they are saying, show empathy, and gain greater memory recall after the conversation, if they listen. For a quick sales training course we are going to share two similar techniques named parroting or paraphrasing. Keep it easy.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

There was a hilarious article in the New York Times, A Robot That Has Fun At Telemarketing’s Expense. We’ve got scripts for every situation, we know the key piece of content to send, based on the analytics, so we don’t have to think about the conversation. What are you doing to train your people on critical thinking?

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Start off by working in telemarketing , and learn how to handle rejection — hearing “no” over and over again, and turning it into a “yes.” Challenge yourself to have entire conversations where you only ask questions. 2) A modern training program where you will learn how to sell effectively. CEO of JBarrows Sales Training.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There’s a common misconception that’s finally starting to fade that inside sales is essentially just telemarketing. The difference lies in the fact that telemarketing is scripted. Coaching and training. Inside sales may be used by any sales team, but it’s one of the top sales models in B2B, especially for SaaS and tech.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 14, 2021

This means you don’t have to search, interview, hire or train to get a higher number of appointments set. Scheduling appointments will be extra convenient for potential customers because they can now do it straight from the conversation. Need to save time, money and resources. You would want your text message to be easy to read.

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 12, 2010

In fact, when a telemarketer calls me up at home and says those words that immediately identify them as a sales person, the “How are you today?” So, what can you do to enter this conversation? Here’s how to enter into that conversation: “ if you’re like me you’re probably busy doing a million things so I’ll make this brief.

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The Sales Association

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

You can call it cold calling, warm calling, or quasi-cold calling, but in the end, it is up to you to have the skill, ability, and savvy to take the first conversation and use it to advance the sales cycle—while your VP stands on his soapbox and or on a Webinar proclaiming cold calling is dead. Lead into the conversation like a pro.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Telemarketing. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. Telemarketing. Cold calling and telemarketing terms are often considered interchangeable. Table of Contents. What Is Cold Calling? Is Cold Calling Dead? Warm Calling.

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Marc Wayshak

JUNE 7, 2023

Check out the following conversation to learn how top performers think, and why your mindset is key to selling more. And they get value just by having a conversation with you—because you get to talk to so many different people that are just like them. I feel like my prospects feel the same way about those conversations as well.

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve spent 25 years in the industry, starting at the age of 19 years old when I got my first big break as a telemarketer (now called SDR) at a software organization. Within 6 months, I was promoted from a Telemarketer into a Jr. Selling roles can be highly rewarding with the right support and training. Account Executive.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this post, you’ll explore the best lead distribution software that can help you optimize your sales process and improve lead conversion. HubSpot features an advanced lead scoring system, which allows you to assign contacts to the most suitable salesperson and boost conversion. What is lead distribution software? Chili Piper.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

To manage all of it, to be efficient in conducting outbound prospecting and have conversions, Sales Development teams should have a plan and a proven process. It was called telemarketing at the time. However, in most companies, it’s an SDR organization that they start to look at once they have conversion problems. Of course!

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 14, 2010

Do you sound like a radio ad or a telemarketer? The other 97% came from a range of sources, including client referrals, web inquiries, whitepaper/trial downloads or live chat conversations. Do this regularly. Using a poorly executed script for sales calls. Be objective. Are you using “salesy” sounding language in your script?

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Inbound marketing can provide quick, cost-effective wins for your business, especially when you’re just starting out, whereas if you were to hire a traditional sales team, it takes a lot of time and capital to hire, train, and supply them with leads. I can’t believe how many times I’ve witnessed a sales conversation that went really well.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Sales Gravy is the most visited sales specific website and the destination sales training resource for sales professionals across the globe. CustomerCentric Selling Sales Training Blog. CCS® is annually named to Training Industry’s Top Sales Training Companies list. Sandler Training. Sales Gravy. Heinz Marketing.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An analysis by the Corporate Executive Board revealed that B2B customers completed nearly 60% of their purchasing decisions before even having a conversation with a supplier. For the past years, sales conversations were about data, particularly big data. However, with the right training and perspective, this can get easier.

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