Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

But lately, when I talk with the Kurlan & Associates team, the topic is consistently about salespeople who push back when our sales training and coaching is specific to RFPs. When training and coaching salespeople, the theory of how to sell to companies that buy via the RFP process is not enough. But there’s a problem.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The moment a customer voices a sales objection, it’s tempting to do two things. Hearing sales objections make a rep want to: Say these words: “I’ve got the perfect solution for you!”. Handling sales objections well is a skill that separates good reps from their top-performing peers. Smokescreen Objections.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2024

Set Clear Goals and Objectives Setting clear goals and objectives is the first step toward small business success. By setting clear goals and objectives, you provide yourself and your team with a sense of purpose and direction, laying the foundation for long-term success. Seven Small Business Success Tips 1.

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Mindtickle

MAY 14, 2018

Strategic sales onboarding, regardless of team size or role, should be a non-negotiable priority for any company. What’s a sales onboarding program just for sales engineers? So, what should a sales engineers onboarding include? They need to be able to test and put into practice what they’ve learned.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

Objection handling is tough. Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 104

SalesforLife

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They asked me what makes us at Sales For Life bold and different? Here at Sales For Life, we rarely encounter alternatives to modern, digital selling because our competition has always been the status quo, or alternative training programs. What makes a training system unique? It’s the people.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Get certified.

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Increase Sales

APRIL 22, 2013

How many times do sales professionals leave or fail to meet performance goals because of poor sales managers? I just came across some research highlighted by Top Sales World (source: Chally) that suggested “80% of sales managers fail within eighteen months of being promoted.” Share on Facebook.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), It’s important to have a system or “engine” for rapid content creation?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

How do I handle objections… ?” I’ve become relatively agile in prompt engineering, so I keep tweaking them, trying to find that “Aha” revelation. Some of the interest is a “shiny object” reaction. We should know the key metrics, goal/objectives of those organizations.

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Highspot

JULY 5, 2022

Since B2B sales reps have a lot on their plate, it’s not surprising to see that they forget 87% of sales training within a month. Meanwhile, enablement teams are facing added pressure to support sellers with adequate training all while staying agile enough to support the strategic initiatives of the business.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Helen Fanucci , a sales leader with 25+ years in the high-tech industry and author of “Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World.” discusses the importance of trust in sales, effective targeting strategies, and the role of collaboration in team selling. Collaboration is key to success in sales.

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BrainShark

JULY 1, 2022

When it comes to measuring sales training ROI, most advice is either self-explanatory or ambiguous, such as “decide what success looks like” or “set expectations for your training.” Then, we’ll discuss the specific metrics you can track, as well as several best practices for calculating sales training ROI.

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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. Helps you track sales reps’ learning progress. How long will your training materials be?

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LeadFuze

MARCH 9, 2021

Here is a fact, your sales reps learn by doing, not by listening. Sales role play scenarios are among the classic approaches you can use to: Prepare your new hires for real-world buyer-seller interactions. You need ideas for sales role play that upgrades your sales reps’ skills? What to sell during a sales role play.

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Hiring Training Sales Qualified Lead Exercises 105

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Objection handling is tough. Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and a quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

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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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2024

Any reader who was trained as an engineer or anyone with experience in assembling machines (or Ikea furniture) will recognize the Tolerance Stack Up Error. Engineers have all sorts of ways to try to minimize this but too often, while each part fits it’s specs, the assembled parts fail.

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Allego

JANUARY 9, 2018

Sales engineers bridge the gap. Sales engineering, also known as technical sales or solutions consulting, serves as the foundation of technical knowledge for a sales organization. A few ways a sales learning platform can immediately impact SE teams: Sales Engineer Onboarding.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

Business objectives can be complex and often political, end customer expectations are even more demanding in the digital age, and enterprise regulatory and compliance needs have increased. . Since business objectives and outcomes vary across your customers, the service offering should be personalized to the customer’s requirements.

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Allego

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Granted, the software has only been trained on information up to 2021, so there are knowledge gaps. A Blog Post About Using ChatGPT for Sales. I signed up and—because I write blog posts for salespeople—entered this query: “Write a blog post about how to use ChatGPT for sales.”. And those are just the initial asks.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Online Training. To encourage your people, buy everyone a copy of The Little Engine That Could. If you are the one driving the train and making big things happen, you will become a hero to those who respect your ethics and accomplishments. Get Sales Blog Updates. Overcoming Objections. Sales Management.

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SBI

JANUARY 6, 2022

5 Reasons Sales Enablement is Critical for 2022. Over the past few years, we are witnessing a rapid digitalization of all sales processes. It is best exemplified in sales departments, where until recently many activities were carried out in a traditional way using paper documents and faxes, and, in later years, Excel.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 29, 2021

When I ask that question at a sales conference, the majority say no, they can’t. In 1998, this Texas software engineer woke up with numbness in his legs. You can achieve superstar performance in sales—others have, and you have the same ability to as well. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

Business objectives can be complex and often political. From many years of experience in customer-facing roles with large software companies, I’ve learned there are many factors that can break a customer relationship after the sale. Managing the technology, however, is just the first hurdle. Create white-glove service.

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Allego

MAY 2, 2023

In the sales world, the customer insight and product knowledge that representatives possess offer valuable information sources to enhance sales enablement programs and prepare new reps for the job at hand. Your veteran reps are deep sources of sales wisdom and, more than likely, your top performers.

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Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tapping into the Power of Sales Enablement. Equipping sellers with the content, tools, knowledge, skills and coaching required to optimize buyer interactions—known as sales enablement —is essential. 5 Transformative Sales Enablement Priorities. 5 Transformative Sales Enablement Priorities. 1 Sales Content Management.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. The Rise of Cross-Functional Teams.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2024

Generative AI has changed the game in sales. Increasingly, sales teams use it to personalize content, enhance sales training , improve onboarding, conduct competitive analysis, streamline sales communication, and more. Not so fast, says AI expert Sam Richter. Listen to the interview or read the Q&A.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

All sales organizations are masters of sales tactics. . We know how to lock down next steps or overcome the next objection. And while tactics are important, a sound sales strategy is critical to improving your closed/won ratio. Here is the 7-step framework for crafting a bullet-proof sales strategy in 2021.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 2, 2019

How can this be applied to us as individuals in the sales world? 2) What drives your economic engines? But remember one thing: achieving your BHAG should help you, not only ACHIEVE your goals and objectives, but also BECOME the person you always knew you could. Imagine setting all your energies and focus on that one thing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 20, 2020

Author: Kris Belau Is there anything more quaint in sales and marketing than the door-to-door salesperson? As was common at the time, the main sales channel was an on-the-ground sales force. So what now for companies, perhaps yours, that rely even in some part on offline sales? Train them.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 29, 2022

They may also be responsible for partnering with product and engineering teams to prioritize the company’s data roadmap. When needed, they will recommend changes and explain how things can be implemented into the system, provide necessary training, utilize ideal data quality tools, and recommend techniques to regularly manage data quality.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Search Engine Optimization is an effective tactic that has become a game-changer (SEO). SEO for real estate is more than just a catchphrase; it’s a dynamic, comprehensive strategy that can help you stand out from the competition, increase the number of high-quality leads you receive, and convert those leads into actual closed sales.

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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Salespeople know that objections are a big part of sales. In this episode, Brandon Bornancin talks about how to effectively handle objections during discovery. Brandon became obsessed with sales objections and sales objection scripts. Some salespeople believe that they shouldn’t overcome objections.

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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Salespeople know that objections are a big part of sales. In this episode, Brandon Bornancin talks about how to effectively handle objections during discovery. Brandon became obsessed with sales objections and sales objection scripts. Some salespeople believe that they shouldn’t overcome objections.

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