Braveheart Sales

MARCH 30, 2021

Salespeople who are easily able to reach decision-makers are infinitely more effective at closing business. If we know that more business will be closed, tons more business, but only slightly more than a quarter of salespeople are skilled at reaching decision-makers, it seems to me that there is a pretty big opportunity for impact.

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Mereo

JULY 14, 2022

B2B decision makers have often been akin to the Viking warriors centered behind a shield wall. According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers.

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Topline Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A common complaint I hear from sales managers is that their sales reps are stuck selling to low-level decision makers: supervisors, purchasing agents, clerks. Coaching sales reps to reach higher-level decision makers will make closing the sale more attainable.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders, be honest — you're curious about what your peers are up to. If you don’t have the time or resources to commission your own data, you’re in luck because we’ve compiled a list of important data points sales leaders need to know. Sales Leadership Stats. Sales Performance. is invaluable. Remote Selling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bookmark this article so that over time, if you want to improve your sales effectiveness, you can read more of the topics below: To shorten your sales process, differentiate, uncover compelling reasons to buy and create urgency, read articles on taking more of a consultative approach.

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Hiring Decision Maker Forecasting Face-to-face 156

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bookmark this article so that over time, if you want to improve your sales effectiveness, you can read more of the topics below: To shorten your sales process, differentiate, uncover compelling reasons to buy and create urgency, read articles on taking more of a consultative approach.

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Hiring Decision Maker Forecasting Face-to-face 156

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite how important new salespeople are to the future of a company, Sales Leadership attempts to get recruiting over with as quickly as possible, often prioritizing speed to hire over cost to hire, talent and capabilities. Let’s take recruiting, selecting and hiring salespeople. For HR, that’s part of their job.

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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

LinkedIn is one of the best channels for discovering leaders especially if your decision makers are in sales leadership roles. ” There does continue to be this fatal sales leadership presumption by many LinkedIn Members. Sales Buying Rule #1 – People buy from people they know and trust.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

As someone who for thirty-eight years has led a global sales consultancy specializing in sales, sales management and sales leadership training, I can use the same words to describe people “who belong” to the sales profession. They should be reading about sales.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 25, 2013

What is interesting is how some really good to top sales performers fail to appreciate this talent sales leadership talent of leading others. Dan Pink in his book, To Sell Is Human , talks about sales as being movement. So is leading others a non-talent for salespeople? I truly do not believe so. Share on Facebook.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Helen Fanucci, a sales veteran with over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry and author of “Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World,” talks about the importance of collaboration in sales. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 28, 2014

Being skeptical is probably a good behavior especially in sales. How many times have good sales people been led to believe they are sitting with the actual decision maker? Sales people who demonstrate this temperament may have a “cautious resistance to involvement with the immediate external environment.”

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Sales Leadership Decision Maker Facebook System 129

Increase Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Desiring to increase sales leadership truly begins with asking internal questions regarding your own beliefs and behaviors. This next question follows the first increase sales leadership question asked on 12/4/2017: How do you know you are doing something differently? . 4 Points for earning the sale (closed sale).

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Sales Leadership Decision Maker Sales Goal Follow-up 78

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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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The 5 type of “customer personalities” you may face on your next sales call: 1. Decision Maker The decision maker (DM) is the person who must sign off for the deal to go through. Many people will call themselves the decision maker, but ultimately they really submit to someone else. Be careful.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I used to think it was just sales newbies who struggled with referral reluctance. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof).

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

Alice Heiman

JUNE 10, 2021

When it comes to sales, nothing seems to happen fast enough. But how do we speed up the sales process so we see quicker results? Let’s look at four distinct areas that CEOs can focus on to speed up sales in their organization. So much of the sales success in your organization revolves around the mindset of your sales team.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

Rachel, a sales VP at a large technology company, was frustrated with her sales team. She knew they relied almost exclusively on technology for generating sales leads. They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. Technology doesn’t close deals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. studying sales methodologies, you know that you are obsessed. Are you obsessed about getting that key decision maker live even if they tell you “no.” If hesitation, don't work there - that's an anti-sales culture. is more cowbell!

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B2B Banking Conference Decision Maker 319

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He is a sales stalker—someone who blasts out dozens of invites and then lies in wait, ready to pounce with an unwelcome sales pitch the moment anyone responds. Like Mark, many sales stalkers are too lazy to even personalize their invitations and just use the automated verbiage: “Please join my professional network.”

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 177

SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

The sales field is suffering. Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. When will Sales catch up with Marketing? Sales field alignment with the modern day buyer requires more than lip service. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. Customers are suffering.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 28, 2018

I’m here this week presenting at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Leadership Summit. If you’re in sales leadership or in a direct sales management role, you’ll learn a ton of useful strategies and tools to help your team produce more and be more confident.

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Sales Management Decision Maker Top of Funnel Gatekeeper 120

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. Even more intriguing is the fact that the current economic conditions have flipped the sales candidate market on its head. The data also shows that 92% of salespeople who are recommended and hired rise to the top half of their sales teams within one year.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Many organizations have created specialized sales roles that require a specific skill set because selling, in general, has become more complex. Organizations have copied the Henry Ford assembly line model and applied it to their sales process. However, as buyers evolve, sales organizations must as well. And for a while, it was.

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Lead Rank Outbound Decision Maker Scale 62

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We work with companies in more than 200 industries, from startups to multi-billion dollar corporations, that call on every possible vertical and decision maker, in nearly every geography across the globe. I still conduct a limited amount of training with some of my personal clients.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 5, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan During the past 9 years I have written the occasional Top 5, Top 10 and Top 20 Articles and we have now put them into a series of their own. In no particular order they are: Top 10 Sales Competencies. Top 10 Sales Management Functions. 10 Sales Coaching Examples.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Also, I did not include the article that was awarded a Gold Medal for Top Sales & Marketing Article of 2013 earlier this week. Here they are in no particular order - My Top 10 Articles of 2013: SALES. Top Four Reasons Why Salespeople Struggle to Reach Decision Makers.

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Decision Maker Compensation Consultative Selling Call-back 204

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You are not going to close an entire enterprise deal without a roller coaster of a decision maker, trial by fire in a committee, group think, emotion or crisis mode. And the greatest fear of all in sales that separates the titans from the also rans: walking on the deal. This sales thing violates a lot of psychology.

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Call-back Negotiation Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead 329

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers. Why Sales Managers Fail. Onboarding.

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Hiring Strategy Handbook Face-to-face 305

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. You Say “Tomatoes”.

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Conversion Decision Maker Outbound Top of Funnel 224

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the many things that hold salespeople back, prevents them from reaching their potential, stops them from crashing through quotas, doesn''t allow them to exceed expectations and never has them succeeding beyond everyone''s wildest dreams is their fear of failing. Pushing back on put-offs.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

In sales, every day is a new opportunity to contact leads, close deals, and move closer to your target. However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. What is a sales audit? Sales Audit Checklist.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 29, 2013

Leadership is the key to success in senior roles. Most leadership articles refer to the top qualities of successful leaders. Yet some new sales leaders start new leadership roles and everything wrong! Walter White is your new VP of sales. Here are some easy to recognise clues that he is on a bad leadership path.

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Decision Maker Salary Report Sales Leadership 286

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? It''s all about potential. Findings Related to Potential.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In movies, sales is the ideal career for anyone who would rather play golf. Afterall, sales and golf have much in common. But most importantly, sales is about relationships. With that, let’s examine how some famous golf quotes can improve your sales game. In sales, concentration starts with preparation.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s one of the biggest challenges you face with a new customer: scouting out the landscape of their organization and determining who the decision makers are (and aren’t).

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Conversion Customer 113

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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