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.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #22 – Guest Jeff Goldstein. Jeff is an engineer by training, he has spent his entire career grinding out a sales number as VP and GM of the Canadian subsidiaries of Data General/EMC, NetApp and Veeam Software. Take the Hippo Video & Renbor Sales Solutions, Prospecting Survey.

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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 on our sales training and coaching when it comes to dealing with RFPs. ” When training and coaching salespeople, theory is not enough. He started strong which you can see here.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 16, 2020

How To Build A Sales Engine That Will Land Massive Deals – Repeatedly Every sales person wants to build a sales engine that will land them improve their business, earn massive deals, and generate future sales. All the stages in the prospecting process are important.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 9, 2018

Understanding Sales Engineers and their Role in the Sales Force. 40 years ago, sales engineers were a rarity. However, I know the last decade there are a lot more sales engineers than there used to be. Lastly, it’s not a secret, women in sales and tech, are very few. Now they’re a dime a dozen.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But recruitment is not the only service LinkedIn can provide and as a business owner or sales professional you should now realise what a fantastic tool LinkedIn can be…if you know how to use it. The way I view LinkedIn is as the biggest and best DECISION MAKER SEARCH ENGINE the world has ever seen! Prospecting On LinkedIn.

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Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

The platform has quickly become a vitally important resource for B2B sales professionals too! Yet many sellers still don’t know how to take full advantage of their LinkedIn account’s potential to book more business, grow their sales pipeline and close more deals. Can LinkedIn Support Your Sales Goals for Your Team?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Do you believe all sales jobs are created equal? Sales roles can vary greatly depending on the types of goods and services being sold. Who can sales reps call on to better understand the technical aspects of the products they are selling to help them close the deal? A well-trained sales engineer.

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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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Allego

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

AI tools such as ChatGPT have many potential applications in sales , from creating marketing content to predicting customer behavior. But every new article raises more questions: What does this mean for sales teams? Salespeople can use chatbots to automate their sales processes and provide instant responses to customer queries.

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MEDDIC

APRIL 1, 2022

Why a MEDDPICC Training now? Sales leaders are usually conscious of the continuous need for training for their teams. They tell you the prospect has the choice between two possible vendors and that the other vendor has made an attractive offer. You haven’t been meeting with your prospects’ CxOs in a while.

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SalesforLife

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I was recently on a call with a prospective customer working on a global project scope, and they asked me a question that made me stop and think. They asked me what makes us at Sales For Life bold and different? What makes a training system unique? It was a unique question that quite frankly, I wasn’t used to answering.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

In prospecting, the only thing worse than not setting a prospecting appointment is setting an appointment with the wrong prospect. Meeting with an unqualified prospect is a huge waste of time and can clog up your sales pipeline with bad opportunities.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Sales training 101 teaches that you must always maintain eye contact with the prospect during a sales interaction. In fact, there are three times during the sale when you do NOT want to look the prospect in the eyes. You need to focus on the prize and that will direct the prospect to do the same.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 5, 2022

In a perfect world, prospects would immediately recognize the value your product or solution delivers and take the required actions to secure the solution for themselves. Therefore, value can be proposed but until prospects recognize value, they will remain hesitant to move forward in the sales process.

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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

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. “The You must humanize your communication.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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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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Showpad

JUNE 27, 2022

So you’ve hired a killer sales team. You’ve given them all the training you possibly can, and now it’s time to release them into the wild. Have you heard of this thing called sales readiness? If you read that and thought, “surely a highly-trained team is ready for anything?” Welcome to the world of sales readiness.

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Smart Calling

JUNE 29, 2020

I had a blast with Jason Bay , kicking off the free “Think Outside the Script” prospecting training summer tour last week. It was great to have heard from so many sales pros who attended, saying they already changed the way they viewed, and placed their calls.

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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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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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MTD Sales Training

JULY 23, 2019

With that kind of exposure, sales consultants are missing out big time if they aren’t using the medium effectively. If it’s in the top five, it may be one of the first sites your prospect clicks on when they search you. A custom URL increases your external visibility on search engines. It’s a simple no-brainer. Happy Selling!

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 26, 2020

How to build a sales engine that will land massive deals – repeatedly A sales engine is a great strategy to increase your number of closed deals. Nigel Green works with executive investors and sales leaders of companies to help them scale up faster and smarter. Most sales people don’t have a plan.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I asked my question because I believe being really interested in selling is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to be successful in SALES. One can be interested in selling but for the wrong reasons, which then becomes a hindrance for sales success. To answer even your first question:” Are you interested in Sales?”

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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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MTD Sales Training

JULY 17, 2017

If ever there was a key skill that you need to study and improve upon it’s asking the right sales questions. You need to unearth the pain, the desire and the motivations that will get your prospect to take action. Then, you need to reverse engineer those benefits. We now need to reverse engineer that benefit.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” ” It’s a follow on to many of the discussions about “Do sales managers need sales experience?” Or whether it’s providing the right training, tools, content, programs or processes.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It's easy to sell to prospects who are already interested in your product. But the best salespeople are distinguished from the average ones when it comes to uninterested prospects. But the best salespeople are distinguished from the average ones when it comes to uninterested prospects. How to Earn Your Prospect's Interest.

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Allego

JUNE 29, 2021

2020 was a transformational year for sales organizations. The challenges caused by COVID-19 launched a boom in virtual selling and an estimated 90% of B2B sales are now virtual. > > Watch Now: How to Use Rep-Centric Sales Enablement to Future-Proof Your Revenue Engine. This data reveals the impact of the pandemic.

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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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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. 5 ways to tell when you should use lead generation or sales prospecting. What is sales prospecting?

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As a long time Twitter user and fan, I have directly seen how more than 100 companies – mostly B2B find prospects and even close business through their Twitter account. This means that regularly we get new sales opportunities through a combination of Twitter and LinkedIn. Our results have exceeded even my optimistic expectations.

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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.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The way I view LinkedIn is as the biggest and best DECISION MAKER SEARCH ENGINE the world has ever seen! So the real question then is how do you use LinkedIn to prospect and connect to potential leads? Prospecting On LinkedIn. Keyword Searches. You can search on keywords related to an industry or job titles.

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