BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy. Lets you evaluate your training program’s impact on sales KPIs. How long will your training materials be?

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2022

Virtual sales training is any synchronous or asynchronous learning provided online or via a digitalized experience. This means training can be delivered across multiple locations simultaneously and, in the case of asynchronous learning, at any time that’s convenient for the trainee. Assessing whether reps are ready to sell.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 16, 2017

One of the most common questions that our customers ask us is how to measure the impact of their sales training. is a benchmark framework that has been used for over 60 years across many disciplines to measure the impact of sales training. In this post, I’ll outline the Kirkpatrick Model and how it applies to sales training.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 16, 2017

One of the most common questions that our customers ask us is how to measure the impact of their sales training. is a benchmark framework that has been used for over 60 years across many disciplines to measure the impact of sales training. In this post, I’ll outline the Kirkpatrick Model and how it applies to sales training.

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Allego

JANUARY 12, 2022

That means you must get serious about virtual selling and help your team develop and sharpen their virtual selling skills. Here are four things you can do to improve your reps’ virtual selling: Make sure sellers have up-to-date selling skills. And remember to train your reps on how to use the tools.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

“I’m running out of sales training ideas ,” the director of sales told me, a bit embarrassed. “My But keeping a calendar of sales training topics has been tough to juggle with everything else I have to do.”. If you’re on the hook for delivering impactful sales training, but you’re short on time, this post is for you.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Though the “goal” is to set the stage for sales success, SKO agendas are dominated with things that do not help salespeople be better at the craft of selling. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. Lack of training? SKO’s are expensive!

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I made thirty cold calls, I would get five demos. If I did five demos, I’d sell at least one calculator. Ratios and skills, and both are intertwined, were the only way to win. If I could increase my calls to demos ratios, my sales would rise dramatically. If I could increase my demo to close ratios, same result.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Allego

MARCH 10, 2022

On a recent Sales Hacker Panel: Mastering Virtual Selling , three virtual sales experts discussed why virtual selling is a skill, one that needs to be taught as part of an organization’s sales training. Challenges of Virtual Selling. Virtual selling skills are new skills,” says Bob Basilieri.

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Allego

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This article originally appeared in Training Journal. Even the best reps need training and reinforcement to effectively convey value and successfully navigate buyer interactions. For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. They’re made.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 5, 2014

Sales Training Article: Trouble Closing or Selling? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Pakorn at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Unlike other B2B selling skills, closing gets a disproportionate amount of attention.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As my product knowledge increased and selling skills became more polished, I felt I could really own the deals in my pipeline – proving to myself that I could win deals solo. If I was a “true AE,” then I should be able to take a deal full-cycle from demo to close, leaning on subject matter experts only as needed, right?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

Reps can also be assigned role-plays to see if they can demo the product, describe what it does and accurately express the value of the product. This will gauge their overall confidence in selling your solution. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools? Why is continuous training and coaching so valuable?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 28, 2017

This is one of my favorite sayings, and I love to use it during training or during a speaking event. Think about it: If your prospect tells you at the end of your demo that they need to talk to their partner or spouse before they can make a decision, the right response isn’t, “Okay, when do you think I can call you back?”

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Allego

MARCH 23, 2023

Using data from conversation intelligence software , sales managers can identify sales reps’ skill gaps, pinpoint where revenue is won or lost, prescribe training to fix specific behaviors that lose deals, extract best practices for their entire team and keep deals moving through the pipeline.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 2, 2014

This is a very effective way to improve prospecting, messaging, and web demos.]. Skill is the training piece – how you prospect, message, engage, follow-up, track and help clients buy. Basic selling skills can be taught. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Learn more about referral selling in this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice. Building professional skills takes practice—deliberate practice. Read “ 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice.”). Big mistake.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Buyers became accustomed to—and prefer—virtual meetings, demos, and asynchronous communication. Like it or not, virtual selling is here to stay. As you’ve probably experienced, however, the traditional ways of doing business don’t always transfer to a hybrid selling world. Mastering virtual selling skills.

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Allego

APRIL 7, 2022

With 92% of B2B buyers preferring virtual sales interactions, virtual selling is no longer considered a passing trend. As Bain & Company reports, virtual selling has become simply selling. Companies have turned to Allego to help them to enable and train sales reps to navigate the new digital buyer experience.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

.” We spend billions in teaching sellers how to sell, endless training on products, more sales skills training. Sellers are selling as hard as they can! Activity levels are skyrocketing–more emails, more dials, more meetings, more demos, more proposals!

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Go for No!

MAY 14, 2020

Or, cease meetings and demos. If you really want to learn how to implement Go for No in your life and business, take our online training and coaching course. How do we handle the onslaught of rejections sure to be a part of this new reality? Total acceptance. The answer is not, stop making connections or prospecting. Details here.

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

May include: calls, emails, connects, and demos. This involves spending 1:1 time with their people to help them strategize, brainstorm, and develop their communication and selling skills so they can grow your pipeline. Activity metrics like calls, emails, meetings, or demos. Activity metrics. Objective metrics.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

Reps can also be assigned role-plays to see if they can demo the product, describe what it does and accurately express the value of the product. This will gauge their overall confidence in selling your solution. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools? Why is continuous training and coaching so valuable?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2015

Why 74 Percent of Salespeople Are Failing Most new salespeople receive little training, even less coaching, and no real-world experience. Most of these struggling salespeople could improve with training. They’ve never had any training to build those skills. Train them. So they “wing it” and fail.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Bring in outsiders to teach a skill or customer insight. Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. Training and learning is an everyday thing for the best salespeople in the world. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling. Sales Training. Sell Better. Selling to Executives.

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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. The names you give to the stages might be different.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Some organizations use LMSs to enable sellers because they’re inexpensive, sometimes used elsewhere in the organization, and after all, they are built for training. The problem is that LMSs are built for generalized, corporate training like compliance, policies, and procedures, and so on.

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Gong.io

MARCH 27, 2019

So, better selling skills is a big part of that answer. Creating the training material is bringing our enablement department to its knees. Buyer: After they see a product demo. So what should you do when selling to the C-Suite? What’s causing you to prioritize that as an initiative? We’ve got to do more with less.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 12, 2019

If their close rate is lower than other salespeople, it may mean there is a problem in the way they are selling, but that doesn’t make them an inadequate person. It just means they need more training, skills, practice—or a reevaluation on whether the prospect is fully qualified.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% So, how can you improve your sales skills? Attend sales training.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

25% of sales reps believe they have not received enough sales training. Sales operations normally handle administrative functions like recruiting, training, and onboarding new sales reps. Then It Boosted Demos by 5%. The average new sales rep needs at least 10 weeks of training to be successful in their role.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2019

Establish Expectations and Provide Training and Support. A training program that teaches new sales hires a consistent sales process is a must. A quality online sales training program is a great solution if you’re looking to train new hires and get them up to speed with the rest of the team.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2019

Here’s the first one: Your questions didn’t respect your prospect’s stage in the buyer’s journey: Most salespeople are trained to start by diagnosing a buyer’s problems. SALES MISTAKE #6 : “Grand finale” product demos. Most salespeople do ramp-up-style product demos, where they “save the best for last.”.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Some organizations use LMSs to enable sellers because they’re inexpensive, sometimes used elsewhere in the organization, and after all, they are built for training. The problem is that LMSs are built for generalized, corporate training like compliance, policies, and procedures, and so on.

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