Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2023

A Sales Kickoff is a massive commitment of time, energy, and resources. Join these experts LIVE to workshop an SKO “do’s and don’ts” list for your keeping. Guests: Leslie Venetz – Founder of Sales Team Builder LLC. Examples of activities and agendas from SKOs that drive revenue. Peter Mollins – CMO at SetSail.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the fast-paced world of sales, where every deal counts and every opportunity is a potential game-changer, mastering the art of effective sales training is non-negotiable. A successful sales training can have a huge impact in revenue. Participation in the workshop, whether in-person or virtual, is equally vital.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. What if he could help his sales team leave effective voicemails that got more callbacks? Voicemails are new again in sales!

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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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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 28, 2022

After eight years of trial and error, Daveed feels he has finally figured out the sales model for, Valens Global. He heard about the rainmaker sales model from a very successful law firm. Is the rainmaker sales model right for your company? We love to solve problems and when we are focused on doing that the sale comes naturally.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. For example, a minimum number of maintenance technicians would be critical if you sell a field service app. Example job titles. Persona insights and intelligence.

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SalesProInsider

AUGUST 18, 2023

Stop, Drop, and Roll through Sales Concerns and Objections When someone shares information that is a concern, objection, or unfavorable decision, the strategy that keeps the conversation moving and increases your probability of a good outcome is to: Stop – Stop our mind from thinking ahead and stop our mouth from talking. That’s it.

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SalesFolk

MARCH 2, 2021

In other words, how do you define your target audience or ideal customer when doing sales outreach? Too often I see sales and marketing leaders defining their buyer personas as “Marketing” or “C-Suite.” How to build solid “Buyer Personas” for more effective sales campaigns. More free Cold Email treats from my sold-out workshop

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Author: Charlotte Powell You don’t need a big sales team to make a lot of money. Small sales teams can perform incredibly well if you get the right balance of skills, motivation, and resources. How can you inspire your sales team to go above and beyond? Even small sales teams need a sales toolkit.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps still look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. It’s not hard to see why — after all, only 24% of sales emails are opened ( source ). Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? Cold Email Template Examples. Keep reading!

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SalesFolk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Do you attach or embed images in your sales prospecting emails? I’m not talking about sales emails with qualified leads you already had a phone call with, but “ cold emails ” to people you’ve never met or spoken with before. Treats from my sold-out Cold Email Copywriting Workshop.

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SalesProInsider

JULY 22, 2020

In this episode of Virtual Selling Concrete Results, I’m covering a very important topic in our sales conversations: the information exchange that needs to happen. For example you may have notes taped to your monitor reminding you to “Slow down!” Free Training Workshop. or “Pause and Listen.” Or even just “Shut up!”

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Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

You might be wondering, can you use AI for sales? Sales is a field that relies heavily on human interaction, but technology has always played a significant role in enhancing its efficiency and effectiveness. AI is one of the latest technologies that’s making a big impact on the world of sales. How can sales teams use AI?

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Further, these not only help shape the culture of sales teams but also the outcomes they achieve. In a LinkedIn/Forrester study, 60 percent said their sales team’s diversity contributed to their success. For example, 84 percent of CSOs are satisfied with gender diversity. These statistics may surprise you: B2B sales is 72.5

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the context of sales enablement, change and change management can be especially challenging today. For example, field sales teams have already had to pivot to the new reality of resorting to emailing, calling and web-conferencing instead of the traditional face-to-face selling where they can rely on establishing a connection in person.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Group Cooking Or DIY Workshops Getting hands-on can always be a fun activity for all, and it helps to get out of the “we need to bond” office mindset. Group cooking lessons can be a great place to begin, and DIY workshops or pottery crafting sessions can be fun, too. You might enjoy a wonderful time together in that space.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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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. And I think it’s going to change the game in sales. Sam Richter: Certainly.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2018

Author: Glenton Davis Today’s consumer has access to more knowledge than ever before, adding a burden to businesses to provide truly innovative products and services — and for sales teams to understand their companies’ offerings in a deep and informed way. More than ever, understanding one’s field is critical to sales success.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 15, 2013

This post answers the most persistent question facing HR leaders who support Sales organizations. “ How can HR help Sales Make the Number? ”. It’s a convenient tool to assess HR’s support for sales. How Sales Support Becomes Agile. Partnering with Sales presents unique challenges. In a word, become more Agile.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2023

The “new” sales mantra seems to be all about activity. Sales people and managers are overwhelmed with the data around activities we are held accountable to perform. For example, an open, a response, a click-through, a conversation are examples of outputs. The more activities we do, the better.

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SalesLatitude

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With so much time and money spent to get your sales team together, as the sales leader, shouldn’t you set the standard by engaging with your team and being present? I often facilitate a variety of meetings, team building programs and workshops. Sales management should set the standard for their teams. Follow the Leader?

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Increase Sales

JULY 26, 2017

Social selling appears to have taken the spray and pray sales approach to tsunami proportions. Clueless or lazy salespeople now drown people with emails to postings with sales pitches. The idea of actually knowing your ideal customer , your target market to the sales leads never enters the minds of these individuals.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. I contribute my fair share to the clutter.)

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While it’s great to see a motivated sales team working hard day in and day out, it’s important for them to take a step back and regroup every once in a while. Sales professionals thrive when given the opportunity to learn, develop new skills, and interact with one another. How to Create a Great Sales Kickoff.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We want them to feel so comfortable, and at home, with us during the sales conversation that they make that decision to work with us. Take the processes we use for example. Genuine Sales teaches the fundamentals for sales success that allow you to be genuine, ethical, and successful! How do we do that? We right-size.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps constantly look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. Opening A Cold Email Template Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? For example: Japan. Example 1: Selling B2B Software Hi (First Name), I noticed you’re using (competing software tool).

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SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2013

This post is for small business CEOs struggling to hire top sales talent. I’m conducting a workshop on SBI’s Topgrading for Sales methodology. The goal is to help CEOs find better sales people. Topgrading for Sales takes the guesswork out of hiring. If you’re a small business with 1 sales role, this is the fix.

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SalesProInsider

JANUARY 22, 2020

That’s why, when I heard a speaker at a conference tell the audience they should have a long list of specific components and features for ALL the potential services they offer and not only show the list to the prospect – but to use the list after the sale to remind the client of all that is available to them, I cringed. Let’s change that.

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SalesProInsider

MAY 20, 2020

It’s estimated that 90% of sales conversations are happening virtually these days and that though skepticism remains, many people, more than 50% believe that this mode of selling is as effective as our old practices. A New Mindset for a Proven Sales Mode. How Is Your Mindset Affecting Your Virtual Sales? Free Training Workshop.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. The Sales Leader Problem #1: Denial of Complexity.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Somewhere between the stuffy boardroom of a local Best Western , and a weekend of company-sanctioned debauchery in the woods is the perfect Sales Kickoff (SKO). How to create a great sales kickoff: Identify specific goals and a focus of the SKO. improve our sales team’s knowledge of our product and space; and 3.) Operations.

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? Here’s what I can tell you now that I train product marketing managers and sales/pre-salespeople. Sales presentations and demos are nothing more than verbal positioning! It’s Simple It’s so simple and it works like a charm!

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Not only do you need a unified sales enablement platform to equip, train, and coach your sales reps on making effective use of this content—you also need to consciously structure your site to be intuitive and aligned with your business objectives. Surface key sales processes, methodologies, and channels Where is our market opportunity?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 15, 2014

Every sales leader has a fresh list of HR projects to accomplish. Today’s post will help align HR projects with Sales goals. It’s the story of Tracy, the business partner for sales at a B2B technology company. She shared her ideas for success as the business partner to Sales. Tracy’s approach was remarkably powerful.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. A few recent examples: Selling to the C Suite. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. How can you help your sales managers execute? Why Sales Managers Fail.

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