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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Coaching

Highspot

In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence. Why is sales coaching important? How do you coach and develop a sales team? Top sales coaching techniques. What makes a sales coach great?

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GTM 82: Use These Sales Negotiation Tactics to Win with Richard Harris

Sales Hacker

The importance of sales coaching and role playing. 21:47) The art of negotiation: offering discounts. (25:31) 25:31) The future of sales in the age of AI. (31:26) 36:44) The importance of training and role playing in sales. (34:55) As sales professionals and operators ourselves, we needed more.

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KPIs to Focus on Customer Value in 2021

Pipeliner

Price Premiums Achieved or Discounts Avoided. Tracking price premiums achieved measures how your sales team is at building and selling value. Most companies don’t even analyze their discounting behavior; even fewer measure price premiums achieved – they completely avoid KPIs around the most important lever to profitability.

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Executive Interview with John Moore of @Bigtincan

SBI

Deal Discounts Customers will always push to get a discount on pricing. Are you seeing areas of your business struggling with discounting? Poor coaching leads to misunderstanding customers’ needs, resulting in losing deals you should have won and sometimes winning contracts you should have lost.

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6 Sales Role Play Exercises to Try with Your Reps

BrainShark

Sales readiness platforms with video coaching capabilities , as well as video conferencing and collaboration tools , can ensure there’s no interruption to facilitating effective role plays. A video coaching tool like the one pictured here makes it easy to scale role play exercises to multiple reps or even your whole sales team.

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Tech Trends to Take Your Sales Tech Stack to the Next Level: The Startup Sales Stack Report 2020

Sales Hacker

That’s why, every year, since 2014, we at Bowery Capital have published a Startup Sales Stack Report as a guiding framework for founders and sales leaders evaluating their sales stack. This year in collaboration with G2, we investigated hundreds of tools in a variety of categories. The Effect of Work From Home.

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Should Your Salespeople Have Pricing Authority?

The Brooks Group

Once your salespeople are out in the field trying to sell your offering, should they have pricing authority (aka the ability to freely give discounts)? Let’s walk through a few of the pros and cons of allowing salespeople to have pricing authority: Pros of Giving Sales Reps Pricing Authority . Discounts set up a precedence.