Sell Integrity

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are three factors that play a pivotal role in healthcare sales reps’ ability to adjust to this virtual selling environment and deliver value that results in more appointments and more closed deals. In all likelihood, the future of healthcare sales will be a blend. Helping Healthcare Sales Reps Adjust to Virtual Selling.

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Face-to-face Pivotal Gatekeeper Energy 82

Sales 2.0

APRIL 27, 2014

That’s how an initial meeting ended recently with a technology sales person. In general, I liked the way this sales person ran the meeting with us. Probably because I’m so keen on helping sales people I tend to be a pretty “open” buyer. Probably because I’m so keen on helping sales people I tend to be a pretty “open” buyer.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Proposal Gatekeeper 268

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In sales, preparation is the steps taken to understand prospects and clients at each stage of the sales process. From prospecting through account management, it’s being informed of their personnel, their processes, their strengths, and weaknesses. It’s a hallmark of “typical” salespeople and sales stereotypes.

Social Media 71

Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Referrals 71

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? Besides many today have their own gatekeepers.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Showpad

JUNE 24, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. What is enterprise sales? The bigger the company, the more gatekeepers reps have to go through to reach key stakeholders and decision makers throughout the sales process.

Enterprise 73

Enterprise Enterprise Scale How To 73

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Along with actionable intelligence, guidelines for cold calls allow both sales managers and SDRs to tailor their sales processes.

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Cold Calling Guidelines Prospecting Face-to-face 100

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification. Now all you need is a cold call script.

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Cold Calling Call-back Inbound Follow-up 98

Fill the Funnel

MARCH 6, 2014

The impact of technology in the sales profession is profound, altering everything from strategy, tactics, process and the buyer expectaions and actions. My focus in this post is on Business-to-Business sales, though many of these apply to the consumer sales arena as well. The Gatekeeper. Preparing Quotes and Proposals.

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Tools Gatekeeper Proposal Decision Maker 129

ExecVision

JUNE 13, 2019

One of the most valuable pieces of data a sales leader can have is call dispositions. To further illustrate what call dispositions might look like, here are three examples from organizations with different sales motions: Outbound Prospecting (Cold Calling). Gatekeeper. Connected – Gatekeeper or Future Follow Up.

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Report Sales Qualified Lead Gatekeeper Outbound 40

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching.

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Hiring Training Hubspot How To 103

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

When unsuccessful, they create excuses for poor sales performance to avoid responsibility for their failure. In this article, we will talk about excuses for poor sales performance. Sales is a tough job. But this balance only works for competent sales professionals. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Hiring 52

Autoklose

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be confused about the best way to reach out to a customer or find yourself struggling to define go-to sales strategies that bring results. Don’t let that frighten you, as many sales tactics are actually hard-rooted in sales management by being extremely effective no matter what year it is. Table of Contents 1.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy Hiring 52

Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2018

In business sales is the most important strategy. Without sales there is nothing else. So, if sales is such a vital business function, if it produces something as great as revenue, why do we struggle to do it? There is just something about the word “sales” that makes people cringe. Interesting question.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Revenue Negotiation 49

Sales Training Connection

MARCH 19, 2012

Let’s assume you’re a sales manager and the VP of Sales has just suggested that something needs to be done about improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your sales team, ending with “seeing some results in 3 or 4 months would be great.”. Often, they are not in a position to say yes, but they can say no.

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Lead Qualification Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 115

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 144

Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

If you were to ask members of the public to describe sales people the adjectives they use are often less than complimentary. After nearly 30 years in sales, selling, managing, coaching, training and consulting, I can honestly say the majority of sales people are nothing like that. Everyones a Liar.

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Gatekeeper Cold Calling Buyer Discount 50

Openview

JANUARY 18, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to close bigger deals. How much would revenue go up if your entire team was closing deals like your best sales rep? Let’s talk about how to become the manager of a sales team where every rep performs at their absolute best. Break your sales process down into skills.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Coaching B2B 104

The Brooks Group

JUNE 9, 2015

Learn to recognize when your sales team has veered off the path, and consider tweaking your sales strategy to get them headed back in the right direction. Here are 6 signs that you may need to rethink your sales strategy: 1. Your Sales and Marketing Departments Are Not Aligned. Your Market Is Too Broad.

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Strategy Decision Maker Segment Territories 40

Showpad

JUNE 23, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. What is enterprise sales? The bigger the company, the more gatekeepers reps have to go through to reach key stakeholders and decision makers throughout the sales process.

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Enterprise Enterprise Scale Gatekeeper 40

Salesmate

JULY 28, 2020

The more you learn, the better you can perform when it comes to nurturing and converting sales deals. In sales, you need to keep learning to excel and surpass competitors. So, take the help of various sales books to enhance your knowledge and brush up your skills. 25 sales books you must-read in 2020. The Modern Seller.

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Lead Rank Buyer Outbound Influencer 103

Sales Training Advice

APRIL 23, 2013

Of all the topics I have written about over the years, none gets more of a reaction than the question of sales personality. Whether it is in my blog , on LinkedIn , or in discussions around my books , no subject around sales and selling seems to be more provocative. To answer the question, you need to look at what sales really is.

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Gatekeeper Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Talent 53

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2018

I work with many salespeople across multiple industries every month in my role of mentoring and data driven sales coaching. But here are 12 common drivers of poor sales performance I see in salespeople that make them worthy of being fired. If you’re an individual sales contributor, address all of these issues now to save your career.

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Ideal Customer Profile Forecasting CRM Sales Qualified Lead 85

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In an outstanding post, Why Sales People Need To Create Value, Not Just Communicate, Bob Apollo cites a data point from Forrester: “Prospects say only 1 in 8 conversations with sales people are useful!” of the conversations customers are having with sales people are a waste of time! The phone rings.

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Customer Call-back Gatekeeper Up-Sell 98

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Collin Cadmus.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Up-Sell Hubspot 79

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Our sales process is broken. Our marketing team sucks.

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Ideal Customer Profile Cold Calling Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 86

ExecVision

DECEMBER 11, 2018

80% of new reps fail and 40% of veteran reps will stop prospecting due to dial dread, according to The Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance. What is Dial Dread AKA Sales Call Reluctance? The mental blocks may also take the form of avoiding sales conversations with specific people such as friends, family, or network connections.

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Call-back Cold Calling Gatekeeper Follow-up 40

HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 1, 2010

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors.

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SAP Jigsaw Cold Calling Top of Funnel 98

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales coaching typically looks one of two ways… Micromanaging the rep’s every step. But coaching salespeople into sales champions doesn’t happen in the extremes. And lucky for you, too much and never aren’t your only options when it comes to sales coaching. RELATED: How To Manage A Sales Team: 12 Expert Tips For Success.

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Coaching Guidelines Call-back Sales Coaching 68

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2019

For years, sales reps have been depicted as ultra-competitive and charismatic workers — leading many to believe that only a certain type of person is suited for the role. Simply put, your sales team needs to be more diverse if you want your team to grow better. The Sales Playing Field. But that's far from the truth.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Customer Hubspot 93

LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Good Value Propositions provide the 3 key ingredients of ABM for differentiated solutions by being helpful, specific and relevant , but the best Value Propositions for ABS are also robust to the challenges of live sales interactions with sophisticated customers. Stakeholders within an Account. Characterizing Stakeholders. Buying roles.

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Account Based Marketing Account Lead Rank Lead Scoring 20

Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2018

Gatekeepers furiously protect decision makers. It’s a similar action to that being taken by today’s sales artificial intelligence: an attempt to blend together and perhaps even eliminate gender, racial, cultural and age differences. Negative emotions are powerful, and can be used in positive ways.

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Google Gatekeeper Decision Maker Examples 40

Sales Training Advice

AUGUST 17, 2012

Sales can be incredibly rewarding. Chances are at some point in your career, you have experienced one or all of the following emotional and physical impacts of a sales slump. You dread going to sales meetings because your low numbers are embarrassing. Focus on what you can control. Get a coach or accountability partner.

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Quota Gatekeeper Coaching Cold Calling 49

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Crunchbase

MARCH 11, 2020

Does that mantra describe your sales floor? When we built our outbound sales engine, we adopted the same approach that larger competitors in our space had implemented. We poached sales reps who were used to making 100+ calls per day, pitching the same script over and over, and held them accountable to that level of activity.

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Outbound Gatekeeper Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead 66

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

The Bridge Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I wanted real practitioners to share advice so I reached out to Kevin Dorsey , Head of Sales Development and Enablement at ServiceTitan, and Natasha Miller Sekkat , VP of Demand Generation at ClickSoftware. Natasha Miller Sekkat: Successful SDR-to-AE transitions are key to making sales development economics work. What’s a gatekeeper?

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Promotion Hiring Gatekeeper Decision Maker 36

Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Similarly, in B2B, buyers ask questions to sales and expect an immediate response. Similar to many sales organizations, all SDRs in CIENCE have a “canned responses” file. Similarly, it’s hard to avoid certain inquiries that your sales team usually answers in the later stages of the purchasing funnel for certain reasons.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank B2B 56