MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sales is a complicated, never-ending process of building relationships with prospects, building trust, answering questions, and moving the whole procedure through to the commitment stage. Your sales process is the formula that keeps you ahead of the game and allows your customers to make decisions that are in line with their concepts of success. Your sales processes need to be updated regularly, because your customers will always be changing their expectations of what quality of service and prod

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Talking about price with a new business prospect can be tricky. If you do it too soon, you might scare away a prospect. If you wait too long, the sticker shock might blow your proposal out of the water because it exceeds reality. Here’s a list of recommendations and things to consider about the topic of price along with three effective ways to prompt the conversation (including some easy to use ROI formulas).

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BrainShark

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Companies spend thousands—even millions—of dollars every year training their salespeople and sales channels on the minutia of their products and services. In fact, many companies use the term “sales training” when what they really mean is “product training.” And that’s a mistake. Because product knowledge is not enough. If product knowledge was all that mattered, [.].

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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. While it has been near 40 years that voicemail has been the constant companion to sales professionals, it still seems to challenge many, especially when it comes to connecting with unknown buyers. “How do you get them to call you back and still hold your own?” Most salespeople I speak to, opt out and don’t leave a message the first time to an unknown prospect.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. The executive was enough of a regular at the store that he knew the store manager’s name and swapped pleasantries with him on most visits.

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Insurance Insurance Commission Lead Rank 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Cat Meme Queen, CEO at Catmom3.com : That’s a potential title and email domain that could be entered into your web form fill to get that ebook or whitepaper you promised. THEY get a free ebook. And YOU get bad CRM data, killing email deliverability, wasting your reps’ time, skewing your analytics, and costing you money. We’ve all done it. We didn’t want our names on someone’s email list, so we typed in a favorite video game character, a poop joke, or threw our cat under the bus.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

My hands were sweating again. Of all the things I expected from this sales meeting, an “easy win” was not one of them. I spent six months working on a deal with four tough senior managers. Each of them voiced a flurry of objections at every turn. And now I had my shot with the decision maker — an executive in her early 50’s with a reputation for relentless questions.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s clear that customers struggle to buy. The majority of complex B2B buying journeys end in no decision made. What we traditionally thought of as a relatively linear journey is now depicted as shown below. It turns out the challenge in B2B buying is not what we have traditionally thought, or what we have trained our people do to: Help the customer select a solution (Ideally ours).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Here’s the scene: you’ve worked hard (really hard) to get a deal to the “verbal yes” stage. Then, your prospect drops this on you: “We like you, but you need to do something about that price.”. Or this: “We’re ready to go, but I just need to make little revision to the contract…”. Think about how you’d respond. What would you say that could help you win at this point in a negotiation?

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: It never ceases to amaze me when businesspeople are unaware of what their communications convey. The generic approach usually reveals the person knows nothing about those on the receiving end. Entrepreneurs and salespeople who make similar assumptions will face many more difficulties than need be. My Story. One of the best strategies for successful sales is to evaluate how the approach of others come across.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Supercharging Your Sales Process with Online Appointment Schedulings. REGISTER NOW. WHEN: THURSDAY, 3/14 AT 11AM PT. Regroup’s growing Business Development team is responsible for generating new prospect meetings, as well as converting inbound leads coming from its web site. But their engagement process was far from optimal. Without an easy way to view real-time calendar availability across multiple team members, conflicting or overlapping appointments often resulted, causing frustration for bot

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Leading Results Rambings

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We explained the benefits of creating a business podcast ; this blog tackles what goes into creating a podcast. Hosting a podcast isn’t easy – in addition to equipment (another blog for another time), it requires practice, smart planning, knowledge about your intended audience, and a strong sense of self. After you’ve chosen your podcast’s topic and direction (which could also be its own blog), consider these six things as you plan each episode.

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Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study , only 54 percent of salespeople are making or exceeding quota. With organizations generally targeting a 70 percent quota attainment goal, this represents a major challenge to sales effectiveness. There are two lenses in which to view that statistic: Sellers have a performance issue. Organizations aren’t setting quotas effectively.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Seismic Surpasses 70 Technology Integrations Available to Customers. Seismic, the recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, today announced that the company now boasts more than 70 integrations across the technology ecosystem found among sales and marketing teams. For enterprises to truly align their sales and marketing teams today, their technologies need to be aligned as well.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Although a wise old saying tells us not to judge the book by its cover, quite often people judge the emails solely by the subject line. Usually, the prospects you target are the key decision-makers in the company. They receive hundreds of emails a day and don’t have time to go through all of them. Vague, random or irrelevant subject line makes them delete an email without even opening it.

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SalesforLife

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I recently read an excellent book called The Excellence Dividend by Tom Peters—an ex-McKinsey consultant whose consulting practice now focuses on customer experience and customer excellence. In his book, Peters talks about the importance of cross-functional alignment. And I whole-heartedly agree!

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Nimble - Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We all use Skype for instant messages and conference video calls. However, you may be surprised to know that many companies use this program for business communication. In fact, there is a special version of Skype aimed at businesses. You may ask: what is Skype for Business? Why is it better than regular Skype? We […]. The post 5 Reasons Why Teams Should be Using Skype for Business appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Before finally inventing the lightbulb, Thomas Edison once said, “I’ve not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”. Sales trainers were in a similar boat until recently. After all, many ways exist for a learning program to fail—about as many as the number of individual learners in that program, itself. Even a brilliantly designed and executed one isn’t foolproof.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Partners to showcase solution for Sales Readiness at 12th Annual Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training and Development event. SAN FRANCISCO — February 26th, 2019— Mindtickle , the leader in Sales Readiness technology, today announced a partnership with Healthcare Sales Performance (HSP) to help medical device, diagnostic and life science companies increase gross sales, improve team productivity and reduce onboarding and training costs.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Chorus.ai Wins Six Stevie® Awards, Including Two Gold in 2019 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Chorus.ai , creator of the number one conversation intelligence platform for high-growth sales teams, was presented with six Stevie® Awards in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. All of the Stevie Award winners should be very proud of their achievements.

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Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Victor Hugo astutely observed: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” The CFS mission — Enabling Buying in a World of Selling —is just such an idea. Let me explain. Enabling buying demands that you stop selling and participate in the discovery that something is worth buying. [ ] The post A New Paradigm: Enabling Buying in a World of Selling appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Partners to showcase solution for Sales Readiness at 12th Annual Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training and Development event. SAN FRANCISCO — February 26th, 2019— MindTickle , the leader in Sales Readiness technology, today announced a partnership with Healthcare Sales Performance (HSP) to help medical device, diagnostic and life science companies increase gross sales, improve team productivity and reduce onboarding and training costs.

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Industry Hiring Coaching Sales Methodology 53

Showpad

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yosr Melki Barro is the Marketing Director for Western Europe at Knauf Insulation , a manufacturer of building materials operating in 38 countries. Over a year ago, she recognized that the marketing team lacked the resources and processes to measure its impact on sales activities. Additionally, a survey revealed that 63% of sales reps said they didn’t have access to updated and relevant content to present to customers.

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ROI Sales Enablement Survey Lead Rank 49

Closer's Coffee

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As a sales leader, I can assure you that selling is a profession that is constantly changing. Some would even say that the profession is harder these days than in the past. Still, there will always be top-notch performers. I have spent many years trying to learn their secrets. Here are some of my observations. Before we look for their secret sauce, I think it’s a good idea to look at the various types of sales professionals.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yosr Melki Barro is the Marketing Director for Western Europe at Knauf Insulation , a manufacturer of building materials operating in 38 countries. Over a year ago, she recognized that the marketing team lacked the resources and processes to measure its impact on sales activities. Additionally, a survey revealed that 63% of sales reps said they didn’t have access to updated and relevant content to present to customers.

ROI 49

ROI Sales Enablement Survey Lead Rank 49

LeadFuze

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s common for departments to have a full team for sales operations, cross-functioning with a traditional team of sales reps. So, what do Sales Operations entail? Sales operations in a B2B environment include quality lead management, strategic territory planning, contract and proposal management, forecasting, reporting, CRM management, and more.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yosr Melki Barro is the Marketing Director for Western Europe at Knauf Insulation , a manufacturer of building materials operating in 38 countries. Over a year ago, she recognized that the marketing team lacked the resources and processes to measure its impact on sales activities. Additionally, a survey revealed that 63% of sales reps said they didn’t have access to updated and relevant content to present to customers.

ROI 49

ROI Sales Enablement Survey Lead Rank 49