No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This broken link is to blame for sales teams’ biggest closing mistakes. “My This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. It’s just a symptom.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned sales manager or a frontline rep hustling for results, we get it – the struggle is real. Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? The Caliper vs OMG Comparison: Which Sales Candidate Assessment is More Predictive? How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 5, 2020

How To Get More Proposals Signed Faster With Pandadoc Have you heard about PandaDoc and how it can help you get more proposals signed faster? This episode will talk about PandaDoc and how you can use it to improve your sales journey. It is their goal to help small businesses increase their sales and revenues.

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BrainShark

MARCH 3, 2024

You know sales enablement is important and choosing the right technology to help power your team is critical. Whether sales enablement technology is a new initiative for your organization, or your current solution isn’t getting the job done, you need key decision makers on board with your vision for success.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. They learned to use the software better.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Visibility is everything in sales. If you can’t see where each deal is in your sales process and how long it’s been there, you’ll struggle to improve it. . That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . It also makes it much easier for you, as a sales manager, to forecast revenue. .

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Enterprise sales” and “fast” are two terms that don’t often go together. Once you start selling into the enterprise world, you’re greeted with more complex processes, more decision-makers, and slower-churning gears. Adjust Your Internal Approach A big factor in a deal’s speed is simply the stance a sales team takes.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 12, 2017

You have been working on that sale for a long time and no one believed that you could close it, but you did. You should maintain a consistent sales activity and work ethic. Simply replace every sales item that you use; put it back. By sales items, I am referring to sales, sales calls, contacts, appointments , etc.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Proposals - Activity or Progress? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company As sellers become competent they start to recognize the difference between sales activity and progress. Proposals don’t sell.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. What are decision makers biased toward or against? What are their styles?

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 8, 2012

You closed a ton of sales, including that big one that you had been working on forever. However, shortly after the euphoria of “Sales Person of the Month” awards and a huge paycheck begin to wear off, a horrible reality sets in. You have little or no fresh leads, no appointments, and no proposals in the mix, nothing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Believe it or not, most people still believe that sales success boils down to getting a lot of people to agree to watch a demo. Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction' I''m sure I''ve missed a few but you get the gist.

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SalesLoft

MAY 13, 2024

We found that when sales reps and buyers discuss timing and objections early on in a deal cycle, those deals tend to accelerate to the next stage faster and are more likely to move to closed won. Salesloft’s data science team recently gathered insights from over 2,000 meeting recordings and transcripts associated with more than 1,200 deals.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 26, 2024

In the world of sales, salespeople are engaging with potential clients to guide them from the top of the sales pipeline, when they first discover a product or a service (level 1) to the bottom of it, the post-purchase stage (the final level). What is a sales pipeline?

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Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

This underscores the influence of sales collateral, ranging from traditional brochures to dynamic digital content like blogs and videos, in steering potential customers through their buying journey. This guide shares the importance of sales collateral, who is responsible, and how to use it to seal the deal. What Is a Sales Collateral?

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 20, 2014

Why Rush to Issue Proposals? Here Are 2 Sales Tips to Consider First. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In my experience, most proposals are issued prematurely. Sellers view issuing proposals as a step toward the ultimate goal of obtaining orders.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I had the pleasure to sit down with Emotional Intelligence (Ei) Sales Expert Colleen Stanley recently and we talked about how sales training – sales skills – can fail because our reps were not aware of their emotional awareness. Not talking to the decision maker (s) – assertiveness and problem solving.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 21, 2019

Decision-makers will only want to talk to you if there’s a problem with their current situation, or opportunities for growth or changes in the future. Is it another meeting to discuss with a mother decision-maker? Is it further meetings to flesh out the proposal and ensure the next steps are taken? Happy Selling!

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Sales Tips: 4 Qualifications for Earning Senior Decision Maker Face Time. Here’s a question: Is the value proposition we want to deliver to our customer’s Senior Decision Makers (SDMs), e.g., buyers at the C-level, different than the one we would deliver to other lower-level managers?

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 10, 2017

So you’ve arrived 30 minutes early and you’re sitting in your car ready to go in and visit a prospect and you’ve made the cardinal sin and have not done any sales preparation for this meeting! Well, here are 5 areas to prepare for the sale now so it will give you more focus: Know Your Objectives. Shame on you!

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Is it something like: “I’m just calling to follow up on our proposal….”. Why not lead your prospect into the sale by referring back to the benefits he or she is going to get by working with you? I know you were meeting with your boss about our proposal, and I know you were recommending this to him. Who Should Attend?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 24, 2024

In B2B sales, autonomy, creativity, and adaptability are essential for success. Therefore, micromanaging your sales team can have detrimental effects on morale, productivity, and outcomes. In research cited by the Center for Sales Strategy , 69% of workers considered changing jobs because of micromanagement.

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

That’s what we’re going to explore in this installment of the Creating Your Roadmap for Sales Success series: The Surprising Hidden Benefits that come along with having a well-defined sales process in place. As a quick recap, in the first article in this series, I shared what a sales process is and why you should have one.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Requests for proposals are a mixed blessing. Completing them can be a tedious, unpleasant task, but they can’t be completely ignored because they can lead to significant sales revenue. Will the company allow you access to the decision-makers and key staff? Separate the RFP from the Sales Process. What Is an RFP?

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

An Overview of the Marketing Agency Sales Process The sales process in a digital marketing agency is a multi-step journey that requires a thorough understanding, strategy, and execution. Lastly, the follow-ups and closing the sale come in. Therefore, understanding and mastering the marketing agency sales process is critical.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #5 - Proposals Sell. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Of all the closing techniques I’m aware of, the least effective is issuing proposals to non-decision makers who will then distribute it to members of the buying committee.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When done right, B2B sales have the potential to be both extremely lucrative and deeply rewarding. As a B2B sales professional, it is important to develop a sales process that works for your business, prospects, and overall goals. Here are key steps you may want to include in your B2B sales process. Qualify leads.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 11, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I read somewhere that data was the key to boosting sales. where opportunities stall in your sales process, why they stall. length of sales cycle by salesperson and opportunity type. % Could it be: Poor Sales selection. Ineffective Sales coaching. Poor Sales DNA.

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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? Sales Methodology Sales Process Examples Sales Process Mistakes to Avoid Mastering Your Sales Process With Highspot What is a Sales Process?

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Alice Heiman

JUNE 12, 2019

Do ing nothing seems to be the most frequent reason for losing a complex sale these days. I was talking to the founder of a company that was concerned about sales. He felt that his salespeople had adequate training in the product and were able to clearly articulate the value proposition, so he couldn’t understand the low close ratio.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Author: Andrea Grodnitzky The sales professional has the job of encouraging the customer to become comfortable with the idea of committing to a product or a service. C-Suite decision makers are under pressure to maintain a short-term focus on achieving the next quarter’s business targets. Risk is present in all buying decisions.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

After all, that’s what they beat into our heads during the intensive five-week training program I’d just completed: Go for the decision-maker. The training program, called "Professional Selling Skills," took a then-new consultative approach to sales. Submit a proposal and win the business. Here they are.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 141

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Deal Hacker: 3 Sales Operations Strategies to Avoid Deals Stagnating at the Closing. Have you noticed that more of your deals are getting stuck in the proposal stage? But closing is a process and can be optimized like other aspects of sales. But closing is a process and can be optimized like other aspects of sales.

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