Lead411

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Cold Call Objections: Before diving into strategies for overcoming objections, it’s crucial to understand why prospects raise objections in the first place. Building Rapport and Trust: One of the most powerful ways to overcome objections is by building rapport and trust with your prospects.

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Cold Calling Objections Case Study Call-back 97

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Whether your team plans to re-focus training efforts, take on new tools, or play a bigger role in helping sales align with other areas of the organization, here are some strategies for effective sales enablement to drive results and revenue in 2023. . Train Early, Often, and in Small Doses. Customize Training for Individuals.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Face-to-face 130

Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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Benefit Training Retention Ideal Customer Profile 59

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There’s no shortage of valuable information about prospects and customers — as long as you know how to access and apply it. One example of an outbound sales tactic is the triple touch process , where reps work to connect with prospects through a series of personalized messages. That’s OK, everyone has to start somewhere.

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Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 130

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To become a "trusted advisor" — as so many thought leaders advocate — a rep must first gain their prospects' trust. Prospects coming to you cold might warm up to you a bit after reading a few glowing endorsements (especially if they know or share common connections with your referrer). The call ends only when the prospect hangs up.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Cold Calling 129

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 20, 2018

You’ve made hundreds if not thousands of prospecting calls in your career, and regardless of how well you prepared or how perfect the prospect was for your offering, some of those dials resulted in hang-ups. Here are the top reasons prospects hang up on salespeople. Prospect : “Well, now’s not really a good time.”.

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Prospecting Gatekeeper Decision Maker Follow-up 142

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. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. Fortunately, there are proven tactics to transform a traditional meeting or training session into a virtual one. What are you hearing from training managers?

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Cancellation Training Hiring Face-to-face 71

Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

Right now, we’re helping CEOs make sales pivots to turn pandemonium into a path to sustainable sales growth. . But rest assured there are answers, but you might have to pivot and pivot again or more dramatically to see growth.? Keep Prospecting . Your customers and prospects are depending on you.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Leads 134

Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2023

Prospect and Lead Management A steady stream of leads keeps businesses afloat. Even if one customer leaves, there are more prospects who can replace them. Naturally, this will only happen if you have an effective prospect and lead management strategy. Scheduling calls and sending follow-up messages to prospects.

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Sales Enablement Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 72

The Brooks Group

APRIL 22, 2020

For those who are missing the sense of immediacy that comes with selling a customer or prospect face-to-face, now is a golden opportunity to turn your focus to a level of fulfillment that can restore your sales team’s sense of purpose in the world. That’s why training that keeps apace with the times is critical to restoring your sales mojo.

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Training Face-to-face Scale Government 52

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. He soon realized I wasn't seeing results by mimicking him, so he pivoted. All I had to do to be successful was guide prospects through how to improve their marketing efforts.

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Hiring Training Hubspot How To 102

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

Even though our company is scaling quickly and getting close to the point of full capacity, it’s not the right time to hire salespeople — because a pivot to something more sustainable could be in the works. Pivot quickly When you’re in charge of the sales process, you have full control over the technology and other business aspects.

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Hiring Outsourcing Services Pivotal Ideal Customer Profile 85

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

We then (hopefully) invest time training those reps before turning them loose on the phones … only to ask them to do several different roles. . Separate prospecting and closing roles. Let inbound SDRs pivot and respond quickly. For example: When prospecting to a new company, require certain elements of their tech stack.

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Video Outbound Inbound Hiring 136

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

An interview for example, could be highly predictable. Let’s transition to sales, if an interview is highly predictable, the same could be suggested for a sales call or customer/prospect interaction. Charles Brennan is president of the Brennan Sales Institute , a provider of advanced sales skills training.

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Sports Call-back Pivotal Intent 184

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How Sales Readiness and Sales Training Go Hand in Hand Why Does Sales Readiness Matter? Sales readiness goes beyond training to prepare sales professionals for real-world customer interactions. Sales enablement and sales readiness are pivotal for sales teams to thrive. How Does Sales Readiness Differ From Sales Enablement?

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Hiring Sales Enablement Pivotal Training 59

Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

But calling might not be the issue–it’s what you say to the prospect next. Businesses, including financial firms, invest in a CRM for lead generation to analyze customer insights, create cold calling prospect lists, and segment them according to targeted demographics. Sounds good, right?

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Cold Calling Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

Q: How can you know it’s time to take measures against recession, such as pivot toward deal efficiency? It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. For example, your best, most active customers may pull back on expansion talks or inquire about term or price adjustments.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 91

Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation? Why is Sales Negotiation Important?

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Negotiation Closing Case Study Buyer Persona 52

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Buyer behavior: Many buyers are trained to buy at the end of the quarter or year. It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year.

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Data Discount How To Quota 119

Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 71

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

” These missed opportunities leave sales reps wondering if the prospect was even listening during the presentation. When prospects don’t listen, it’s not their ears that are closed, but their subconscious mind. For example, a buyer will ask about a specific feature or capability during a presentation.

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Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer 62

Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

Research has found that a successful salesperson has to do at least 8 outreach attempts before a prospect will book a sales call. In addition, the right mindset will also keep you agile, open-minded to change, and ready to pivot when things don’t go as planned. Why Is it Good To Have A Positive Mindset in #Sales?

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Positioning Coaching Up-Sell Sales Coaching 105

criteria for success

MARCH 2, 2022

And what about your prospects and customers—are they reporting inconsistencies or issues with your salespeople? Here are a few areas to consider: Prospecting – Is your team prospecting at all? Are they developing and monitoring prospecting plans? Is said prospecting plan working? Prospects never call me back.”.

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Sales Management Insurance Insurance Pivotal 104

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Conversation Intelligence: Patterns, trends, and insights from conversations between reps, prospects, and customers. As noted above, conversation insights could include words used by prospects or sales reps, the length of conversations, or other verbal themes that solutions – such as Gong's – can pick up on.

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Analytics Enterprise Enterprise Pivotal 135

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, 84 percent of CSOs are satisfied with gender diversity. For example, buyers in Shanghai differ from those in Tokyo. This drives everything from prospecting emails to content creation and discovery questions. Diversity and inclusion play a pivotal role in fostering authentic connections.

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Hiring Demographics Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Highspot

MAY 7, 2021

As the global economy was upended, the pandemic forced a shift to both virtual selling and virtual sales training. To explore how remote salesforces were able to navigate a global crisis, ValueSelling Associates and Training Industry, Inc. Did sales training have an impact? Some companies floundered while others flourished.

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Pivotal Survey Decision Maker Face-to-face 59

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth. Many avoid prospecting.

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Territories Maximizer Buying Cycle Pivotal 73

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model. The pandemic hasn’t just caused pivots — it’s also caused permanent change. For example: Across the board, video conferencing tools were ranked as the most influential tool for success. Offices have gone virtual.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Lead Scoring 125

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 26, 2021

If you've done your pre-call prep work, you probably put together a list of sales questions to ask your prospect an hour or two before your appointment. Here's an example. Sometimes reps can be so worried about getting through all the questions on their list that they fail to truly listen to their prospects. can do the trick.

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Follow-up Call-back Face-to-face Pivotal 107

Corporate Visions

JULY 16, 2020

For example, do you remember the last time you had to change a flat tire? Training and enablement that’s inflexible and event-based won’t be of much help when you need to respond to an urgent situation right away. Research shows these different situations call for dramatically different messaging, content, and skills training.

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Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Enablement Pivotal 83

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. Then I asked the pivotal question: Do you have a referral system, a methodology, a programmatic, written strategy, with metrics, KPIs, skills, and accountability for results? The examples are dated, but the methodology is the same—because it works. But I had to ask.). The Answer: Absolutely. Glad you asked.

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The tool they built ended up being such a huge success that the founders pivoted the agency to focus on the platform. Eventually, they hired sales leaders from enterprise backgrounds, and their approach was to give people a little training, throw them in, and start selling. So, they decided to build one.

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Hiring Hubspot Forecasting Up-Sell 109

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

This eye-opening observation exposes a hidden opportunity for sales professionals—the transformative power of vocal training. Most salespeople need to recognize their voice’s pivotal role in the sales success. A well-trained voice possesses the potential to captivate attention, instill confidence, and establish trust.

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Telemarketing Intent Infusion Pivotal 62

Highspot

JULY 20, 2023

Managers juggle many duties, from taking care of current business to training new sales reps. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing the game, using predictions and decisions to automate tasks based on what customers and prospects need. What Is an Example of Conversation Intelligence?

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Conversion Hiring Software Software 52

Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sellers become teachers as you capture and curate examples of what good selling looks like, best practices, win/loss reports, competitive intelligence, objection handling, and more—all accessible in sellers’ moment of need. Marketing creates better content, and sales managers coach and train their sellers in a much more impactful way.

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