Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities. Where could they be going wrong?

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some of the more forward thinking business leaders continually seek small business sales training to improve their business results. And very few small business sales training programs, seminars, webinars, workshops focus on effective marketing less alone the purpose of marketing that being to: Attract Attention.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A clearly defined sales process: Next-action sales strategies involve a structured and documented sales process. Be specific when creating a task When documenting a sales task, make sure to include all the relevant details. Even if your process hasn’t been documented, your sales reps are taking certain steps to close leads.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Example: Ridding Your Office of Paper in Favor of Digital Documents. Do you have thousands of documents that you or your company wants to convert digitally to be more organized in the coming months? It’s human nature, so don’t dwell so much on how overwhelmed you feel – instead start thinking about how you can break the project down.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here are three ways that we can use to keep them on track with their deals: 1) Provide coaching training in closing skills, 2) Improve resource availability for reps at the bottom of the funnel (e.g., At the close stage, your prospects might be quiet because they haven’t seen all of the documents that reps send.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When a company has clearly defined win rate criteria, calculates its win rate frequently, and takes insight-based action to improve win rate, it is setting itself up to turn a higher percentage of prospects into customers. Price: Your final asking price exceeded what the prospect was willing to pay. Use a Sales Win Rate Calculator.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 8, 2020

At the core of Situational Enablement is the integration of tailored messaging, content assets, and relevant skills training to respond quickly and win at that moment. To make it happen, they needed to train about 6,000 sellers to deliver that price increase message to their customers. Consider the following three examples.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New B2B sales reps quickly learn that sending a DM to prospects with their Calendly link to schedule a demo of the new “game-changing” solution is not a quota achieving strategy. At the most rudimental level, B2B social selling is using a social platform to access prospects’ contact information and initiate a cold outreach.

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Showpad

MARCH 19, 2020

A tire manufacturing company with operations around the world needed to continue training its salesforce, but the coronavirus pandemic eliminated the viability of traditional classroom learning and face-to-face training sessions.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The documentation they provide to the decision maker(s) must show more knowledge. The following steps are up to the representatives to see if they may save the offer or need to seek prospects elsewhere. It’s best to ask if the prospect’s budget is at issue or if something in the proposal needs clarification.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

At its core, it means training your sales team to sell as effectively as possible. Sales enablement techniques include using coaching, relevant content, training, and technology to help sales agents onboard, improve their sales skills, and sell more and faster. It’s their job to head up your approach.

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SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

Inside sales is the process of prospecting, qualifying, nurturing and closing sales deals remotely. Field sales deals in communicating with and closing the prospects on the field, face-to-face. These tools, along with documented processes help facilitate the same tasks over online channels. Sales Hiring & Training.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once you do, document it as a diagram. Therefore, if you reach a decision maker, you should probably stop engaging other folks who may still be in sequence. We can say ‘if the title contains “Director” or “VP”, add them to the “Decision Maker” persona. Prospects added to sequences – Link to report.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a documented sales process is one of the biggest contributor to sales success. As what each company sells to whom is different, you should adjust or add steps as needed to accommodate your business, product, or prospect. What are the characteristics of prospects targeted by my competitors? Not all prospects are equal.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2022

So how do you know if every seller is ready to face your prospects during sales calls? Use it to assess whether your reps are ready or need a little more training, coaching, or practice. Your sales reps need to be an expert on your product, so they can talk with prospects about it authoritatively.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To amplify its impact, many companies integrate the playbook into a collaborative sales training platform that allows SDRs to easily access the playbook’s resources, engage in interactive learning modules, and apply the acquired knowledge in practical scenarios. How Do You Create a Winning Sales Development Playbook?

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Corporate Visions

JULY 9, 2020

At the core of Situational Enablement is the integration of tailored messaging, content assets, and relevant skills training to respond in weeks (not months) and win at that moment. To make it happen, they needed to train about 6,000 sellers to deliver that price increase message to their customers. Consider these three examples.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 7, 2012

Online Training. Meeting with a non-decision-maker. Trying to go over someone’s head to the “real” decision-maker. Blaming the prospect for your issues. Why are you making a “sales presentation” without understanding why the prospect may want to buy? See Jeffrey Live!

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Properly qualifying prospective customers is tough. The MEDDIC sales qualification process is a framework of questions used to qualify prospects and potential buyers. The MEDDIC sales qualification framework helps you properly identify and qualify your prospects. Discover what quantifiable goals your prospect hopes to achieve.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation? So, remember to allow the prospect to jump in, otherwise you can’t address their concerns effectively.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

A sales process is a set of repeatable steps that your sales team takes to convert prospects into customers. This data-driven approach helps you identify bottlenecks, refine strategies, and make informed decisions that create continuous improvement. It is best practice to target your ideal buyer persona throughout prospecting efforts.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Why Virtual Sales Skills Training Matters The shift from in-person to remote work demands new skills. With only 33% of salespeople effective in virtual environments , training in virtual sales skills, emphasizing digital communication and platform proficiency, is crucial to adapting to customer needs in a virtual setting.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2019

When you think about the customer journey, you might recall the stages in a typical buying journey model, like Awareness, Consideration, and Decision. When you label a prospect as being in the “Consideration” stage, for example, what does that really tell you? Nothing about their motivations. Nothing about their needs.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Persona insights: Intelligence on the typical decision-makers, influencers and users of your proposition. Customer business challenges/opportunities: Issues that customers face or opportunities to improve the way they do things that can motivate prospects to engage. Knowledge and flexibility to engage prospects.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2020

One of our core promises at Vengreso is to empower sellers to grow their sales pipeline by leveraging digital tools like LinkedIn ® to create more sales conversations online, building trust with prospects and then taking those conversations offline to build their pipeline. I cover these topics and more in this article.

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Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

You probably have an ideal customer profile to identify when a prospect is a good fit for your product or services. But most companies don’t have an ideal rep profile to map out the skills and competencies that their sales reps need to nurture those prospects, close deals, and convert them into paying customers. Prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

With businesses focused on damage control and decision-makers playing defense, account-based marketing is the key to steady revenue and a consistent pipeline. While brainstorming with your team, address and document the following: The resources that are available to each department for ABM initiatives.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Sales professionals have to spend time with prospective clients on the showroom floor while the customer tests the product (kicks the tires) of the particular car they want to buy. Tire kickers don’t actually make a buying decision. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, the decision-maker never arrives to push the deal forward.

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Carew International

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Consider your sales cycle with new customers and how much time and energy are spent developing the relationship and establishing trust, credibility and rapport with decision makers. It is well documented that acquiring new business costs much more than retaining existing customers. What would that look like?

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Cience

OCTOBER 6, 2020

If tailored well, targeted prospecting starts conversations with ideal accounts, generates qualified leads, provides strong ROI, and grows revenue. Sales research, overlooked by more of us than we’d like to admit at the prospecting stage, has outsize impacts on top-of-funnel velocity. Pretty straightforward, right?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 1, 2023

Table of Contents How Sales Teams Use AI to Save Time Tools to Help You Save Time Tips for Saving Time with AI How Sales Teams Use AI to Save Time Sales teams using AI for prospecting and manual tasks can save up to four hours daily. These tools can help you keep track of prospects and report on your progress. Just ask ChatSpot for it.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked with thousands of sales leaders who run large sales teams and we’ve found that there are seven highly-effective techniques that are responsible for consistent and effective sales strategy development: Break training down into bite-sized chunks to help reps retain more product knowledge.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 25, 2016

over the last several years and couple it with the much touted “research” that has supposedly documented that 60% of the buying cycle is now completed prior to a salesperson being contacted and you get the perfect formula for “inbounditis.”. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance.

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CloserIQ

JANUARY 28, 2019

By introducing your new reps to the right sales tools, you can speed up the training process and set your new team members up for success. We recommend introducing all entry-level sales representatives to the following types of tools: 1) Prospecting tools. LeadFuze (automatically gathers contact information for key decision-makers).

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