SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2025

Amy Lummus, SBI's SVP of Marketing led the group through the Toughest Table exercise , a powerful framework for opening up about high-stakes conversations and learning from shared experiences.

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Influencer Conversion Negotiation Exercises 156

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Manual onboarding exercises: Require new hires to take meeting notes, draft follow-ups, or conduct outreach manually before transitioning to automation. Reflection exercises: After every call, have reps summarize the conversation and identify key takeaways without relying solely on AI-generated notes.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Scale Hiring 110

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 11, 2019

We want to spend more time with our families, to exercise more, to be happy … really happy. Our pace is too frenetic. We take shortcuts when we know we shouldn’t. We’re conflicted whether to stay in a job we don’t like or jump ship.

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Cold Calling Exercises Study Research 328

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Sales operation needs to be in lock-step with your sales leader on your coverage plan exercise? Many sales operations leaders are stuck in tactical and daily activities. How can you elevate your sales operations team to think strategically? Sales operations.

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Sales Operations Exercises Ideal Customer Profile Sales 256

Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2025

Role-Playing Exercises: Use role-playing exercises to simulate sales scenarios and evaluate candidates’ problem-solving and negotiation skills. Actionable Advice: Challenge Candidates: During interviews, challenge candidates and assess their reactions to pushback.

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Hiring Sales Talent Video Lead Rank 104

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 15, 2022

When my son was home for winter break, I asked him to rank all of his baseball coaches, an exercise that he found quite interesting. Speaking of baseball and bringing sales into the discussion, let's talk about coaching. First the baseball.

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Coaching Sales Management Pivotal Travel 314

The Pipeline

JANUARY 26, 2021

I will not comment on how things come to pass here, but there is merit to the exercise. Actively trading out lower margin or otherwise weaker quality revenue accounts with better attributes is part of the job. We should all seek higher-margin, less resource consuming accounts that have other pluses.

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Churn Quota Margin Exercises 310

SalesFuel

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Discover practical exercises like 'The Agreement' and 'Fake You' to enhance your communication skills. Practical Exercises for Enhancing Communication Skills Grace shares simple exercises like 'The Agreement' and identifying 'Fake You' that can help individuals improve their communication skills.

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Conversion Exercises Hiring Twitter 59

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

If you’re a manager, this is a great exercise for a sales meeting. If you found these questions helpful, then it’s time to write some of your own. Make them specific to your product or service and write them so you’d be comfortable asking them. You could do two: one for prospecting and one for the close.

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Closing Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 334

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This exercise, completed in advance, allows you to cope more effectively in real time under pressure. This exercise prepares you for those tension-filled moments, and it allows you to consider your own limitations. We recommend scripting the negotiation in advance. How might you respond to one offer or another?

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Negotiation Exercises Discount Proposal 270

Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Focused Sales Coaching virtual training course provides you with all the skills, exercises, and sales coaching tools you need to become a STAR Sales Coach. For Sales Managers That Are Struggling. Do you want to coach like a pro and drive more sales? Learn More. The post SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING appeared first on STAR Results.

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Sales Management Exercises Quota Coaching 291

The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2019

Almost everyone and most of all the fashionable bloggers refer to the same exercise in different ways, by different names, and that disconnect ripples through each sale, and if you look around, it shapes how we as sellers act, and how we encourage our buyers to act.

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Fashion Exercises ACT Vendor 270

The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2019

While some may want to debate that, few will argue that prospecting is a Numbers driven exercise. As a regular reader of this blog, you know I am a card-carrying member of the Sales Is About Number. I’m not here to defend the view but to introduce a number you need to focus on for successful prospecting. Prospect By The Numbers.

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Prospecting Exercises Objections Video 48

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So, today I share three simple exercises you can do, tech-free, to help you create focus and results. Well, here we are, the end of 2020, some way to kick-off My Decade Of Decluttering. While COVID changed everything, it also brought focus. And focus is crucial for decluttering and getting things done.

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Quota Exercises Video Tools 228

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Prioritizing regular exercise, proper nutrition, and adequate sleep equips sales professionals to handle the demands of their role, leading to increased productivity and success. Its Not About YouIts About Them The moment you realize sales isnt about you is the moment you start winning.

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Conversion Call-back Exercises Energy 95

Bernadette McClelland

JULY 11, 2022

The IV is only inserted for about 10 minutes and that is repeated the following day’ Each scan follows exercises in a resting state and a concentration state so that changes in brain blood flow patterns can be seen and compared. Why did I do this? a) To see if I had a brain – which I do ??.

Chemicals 397

Chemicals Hiring Exact Follow-up 397

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The study found that employees in wellness programs are 12 percent less likely to experience health issues caused by work-related stress and nearly 10 percent less likely to find professional obligations interfering with their ability to make healthy choices regarding nutrition and exercise.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 19, 2017

It’s like exercise if you want to become more fit you need to commit to daily changes. Being focused is about executing on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. It means doing those things that are most important to achieving your critical FOCUS factors every day. Most people fall off the wagon, and it’s hard to get back on.

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Call-back Exercises Energy Facebook 332

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 5, 2025

The way I activate mindfulness is through a simple mental exercise in which I answer the question: Do I want this or do I want that? The way I activate mindfulness is through a simple mental exercise in which I answer the question: Do I want this or do I want that?

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Face-to-face Exercises Course Opportunity 93

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

This exercise will be hard for those who are already lying to themselves by proclaiming “sales is not a numbers game”. Given that quotas and conversions are numbers, and you’ll need those inputs to plan your success.

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Wireless Face-to-face Quota Territories 303

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Strategic planning can be a fickle exercise. In any fast-moving industry or rapidly evolving market, its natural to suspect your goals and measures will be outdated or off-target by the time it comes to assess your performance.

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Revenue Strategy Maximizer Ideal Customer Profile 130

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2025

Role-play exercises and real-world scenarios that can help them develop these skills. A predictable referral system includes: Learning and Development: Provide targeted learning sessions to teach your team how to ask for referrals effectively and with confidence.

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Referrals Scale GoldMine Sales Qualified Lead 156

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We need to exercise. He couldn’t resist the temptation to ensure he wouldn’t miss something important. That’s not healthy. We need breaks. We need vacation. We need to make time to be with our kids and our friends. I’ve been on the phone at odd hours with global clients, but those calls were planned. And vacation is MY time.

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Referrals Cold Calling Exercises Call-back 284

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Exercises for role-playing Gallimore offers some examples to try when role-playing in sales. In this role-play exercise, the seller and two other participants split into groups of three: a sales rep, a client and an observer. Another exercise he recommends is called the “niche customer role-play.”

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Journal Exercises 52

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Great exercise, more companies should follow their lead. By Tibor Shanto. I had the opportunity to dissect a recorded Discovery call with a team last week. A chance to help some great sellers evolve, and a chance to take some learning away for yourself as well.

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Data Objections ACT Lead Rank 368

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

With AI, coaches can engage in role-playing exercises at any time, allowing for continuous practice and development. Encourage Client Participation: Allow clients to use AI for role-playing exercises to build their skills. Review and Reflect: Analyze AI-generated role-playing sessions to identify areas for improvement.

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Coaching Video Social Media Exercises 94

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 3, 2022

When you next run a sales meeting or Sales Training session, it’s a good idea to begin with a warm-up exercise, or icebreaker. Rather, the exercises we’ll describe below are ways of flexing those cognitive muscles so that your meeting can proceed with full focus and creativity.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Top of Funnel Exercises 156

Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Whilst I was breathing heavily (exercise wise, trust me!) We started out at 8am and up … and up… and up… we climbed. It was stunning! Not only were my legs getting their regular workout but as we climbed another few hundred feet so were my lungs. I was determined to keep going and complete this 2.5

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Everest Call-back Sales Leadership Outbound 370

SBI Growth

APRIL 13, 2022

Pipeline Management is a critical exercise with which many organizations struggle. But those high-growth companies with consistent and disciplined pipeline management outperform their competition by 1.5x.

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Pipeline Exercises Competition Marketing 177

Steven Rosen

MARCH 2, 2023

Exercise and eat well – A dose of healthy living, including regular exercise and diet, help recharge your batteries and is a proven stress buster. Take one day for yourself and reflect on your priorities and personal goals. Getting perspective helps you stay focused and inspired.

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Hiring Face-to-face SAP Energy 227

Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You can have more new thoughts and ideas if you will exercise this discipline: Write down EVERYTHING that’s on your mind at the end of each day. Then follow that new thought or idea until you believe you’ve exhausted it, but write down (or record) other new thoughts as they pop into your mind in a separate place or you will lose them, too.

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Positioning Banking Exercises Intent 259

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2019

While it might seem intuitive, a great exercise is to reverse engineer your sales process to uncover all the stakeholders. There is more to “Look Alike” customers than just corporate data – look for people with the same title as your buyers, spending habits, and most importantly competitors. Second Step.

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Account Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Exercises 251

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Which interesting since many of these buyer, and certainly all the people who sell these tools point to data, but as with many things, leveraging data for success is a subjective exercise, allowing people to ignore those data points that don’t support their current opinion. Sorry to confuse the issue with facts.

Fashion 291

Fashion Case Study Exercises Buyer 291

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 31, 2020

Make sure you have a routine, take time for exercise. Some might prefer the phone so don’t ram video conferencing down their throat just because everyone is virtual working. Working Remotely. If you’re not used to it, it can be tough to start with. Have a proper break for lunch. Have a “virtual coffee” over video or a call with a colleague.

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Skype Webinar Metrics Call-back Exercises 250

Partners in Excellence

MAY 12, 2025

While it seems like we may not be in control of these things, we actually have much more control than we think–or exercise. And not only are we not getting things done, but we carry the emotional burden/guilt of that with us. What do we do about this? We have to change our mindsets from trying hard to actually meeting commitments.

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Meeting Lead Rank Exercises Intent 107

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, you can hold a quick seminar covering eye care practices, like eating foods with vision-friendly nutrients, exercising to lower ocular pressure, quitting smoking to reduce their likelihood of developing conditions like cataracts, and following the 20-20-20 rule to prevent eye strain.

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Resources Insurance Insurance Lead Rank 96

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Following this approach, reps acquire knowledge in chunks, engage in exercises, and review examples before moving on to a new concept. Better peer examples – Watching your peers in a live or virtual classroom can be a painful exercise. Best of all, this model doesn’t interfere with their day-to-day workflow.

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Training Exercises Decision Maker Survey 214