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3 Exercises to Hone Your Team’s Consultative Selling Skills

criteria for success

As a sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? These tactics may improve salesperson productivity if they’re already doing the right things, but selling requires deliberate practice. If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. Let's Talk Sales!

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The Virtual Selling Skills You Need [Research + Tools]

RAIN Group

Note: You can download this article as a PDF to save it for later! Developing relationships, collaborating online, leading virtual sales conversations, gaining and keeping attention, leveraging technology, making the ROI case, delivering value—these are hard to do regardless of the sales and economic environment.

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This Ex-Salesforce Veteran Reveals How He Transformed His Team’s Selling Skills

Gong.io

Having spent his career running sales teams at Salesforce.com, Paul Snelson now found himself leading the 70-rep sales organization at TouchBistro. Like many SaaS sales teams, Paul has a specialized sales model. But the rate of converting these leads into sales meetings was low. Booming Leads, Busting Close Rates.

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New Allego Research: Sales Reps Unprepared for Buyer Product Questions

Allego

On average, sales reps don’t know the answer to 40% of product questions asked by customers. That’s just one of the many surprising findings from new Allego research on the current state of sales enablement for companies nationwide. The report, Who Owns Sales Enablement? Top Pain Points of Sales Enablement Teams.

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How to Build Future Sales Leaders

SBI Growth

This post is about developing Sales Leadership. In particular, the front-line Sales Manager - a critical role responsible for marshaling a team of revenue makers. This post includes a downloadable Sales Leader Curriculum. This tool is perfect for HR Business Partners who serve the Sales function. Sales Leadership.

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Consultative Selling Using a Common Problems Approach

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In my world of sales and sales training , I hear the term “consultative selling” thrown around quite a bit. Consultative Selling Step 1: Establishing Comfort and Trust. One of the most foundational consultative selling skills happens at the very beginning of an opportunity. Where to Begin. Active Listening.

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5 Steps for HR to Develop 2013 Sales Leaders

SBI Growth

Our 2012 sales leader research finds it is still a big fear for 2013. If your company isn’t looking for sales leadership today, just wait. The average tenure of a Sales VP is 19 months! This post explores what HR leaders can do to develop top internal sales leaders. Managing multi-generational sales forces.