Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A sales strategy is an actionable plan for the growth of existing accounts and the acquisition of new accounts for your business. It’s fundamental to driving revenue, and giving sales reps information that’s key to targeting the right customers and closing deals. There are two common types of sales strategies.

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Autoklose

MAY 6, 2024

It’s your customer, and what you should do is shine a spotlight on them. Talk about problems in order to build rapport with your customers – depict them as the hero who is faced with an obstacle. Your guidance is only a catalyst that will give your customers insight into their own potential to solve the problem.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales readiness is the enablement domain that connects the dots to engage and empower your sales force. This domain covers impactful knowledge transfer and effective skill development, and is supported by targeted coaching across the entire sales cycle. Ideally at the same time.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

It was with this lesson in mind that I had to laugh at a blog post I read earlier this week lamenting the extremely low number of sales organizations having a formal approach for engagement through social media. Copiers as an example, you may refer to document management at one end, and sell copiers to the other end.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 20, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. open ended sales questions (11). Sales (34).

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The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

Our job as salespeople is to move as many qualified prospects through the sales funnel as quickly as possible—leading to more sales, better clients, and more income. The traditional sales funnel to attract new business has maintained the same structure for years. Your sales time shortens.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. open ended sales questions (11). Sales (34).

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. open ended sales questions (11). Sales (34).

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. open ended sales questions (11). Sales (34).

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers. Remember, it can take 7-10 or more touches to move the client to making a buying decision. This is done in many places.

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Act!

JANUARY 30, 2024

But the single greatest challenge that can stifle your SMB or startup is getting clients. Unlike established global corporations, you may not be able to afford fancy, high-budget marketing strategies and campaigns to reach target markets and potential customers or create brand awareness.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. Part of the Customer 2.0

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 6, 2016

Pre-Internet, it was common for mid-level managers to work with a seller from a vendor to get far enough into the sales cycle to generate a bid or proposal. The benefits of starting at Key Player levels are significant: Sellers have the ability to target companies that fit desirable profiles. Need some help to increase sales?

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

To be fair, 9/10 sales training companies refused to deliver virtual sales training too prior to the pandemic. In fact, sales training companies considered delivering a training program let alone a customized sales training program near impossible over video conferencing. Choosing a Virtual Sales Training Course.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 3, 2012

Recently I spoke at a major software vendor’s partner and client conference and a few weeks later I received an email from one of the attendee’s suggesting I should comment in a future blog on the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2012) paper titled: The End of Solution Sales. Can the customer act quickly and decisively?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When sellers proactively initiate buying cycles with Key Players: Sales cycles can be shorter. Rowing out” is more challenging but the ability to target companies that fit ideal profiles and Key Player titles should yield higher close rates and transactions sizes. Need some help to increase sales?

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 25, 2015

This point coincides with being able to understand and building out the perfect employee profile. Have a structured sales process. A really interesting statistic from the article points out that out of the companies surveyed, 50% consider themselves to highly functional as a result of having a very structured sales process.

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 27, 2019

When stories engage customers and members, it’s because they hear their own, familiar voices in the story. Traditionally, storytelling is a marketing, sales or PR function. Put yourself in your customers’ shoes. First, the purpose of business cases is to drive customer acquisition. Me neither.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Get your reps to analyze their top customers and develop prospect profiles based on those customer characteristics. This exercise will put your salespeople in your customers’ shoes and allow them to tailor their messaging to be the most effective. Leverage the Power of LinkedIn.

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Rob Jolles

MARCH 20, 2023

Listen Here On Apple Podcasts It’s been suggested that an overwhelming amount of customers don’t do any kind of a win/loss analysis. Why so few enterprise sales reps make their quota in their first year. Thoughts about growing your sales pipeline and why doing so is so crucial. Are there common themes for both?

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Solution Selling is a customer-centric sales methodology. Sales professionals following the Solution Selling methodology would start by asking a potential customer a series of open-ended questions to understand what they’re looking for. Do your customers require a custom solution? What is Solution Selling?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Over the past 18 months, the survey results indicate that CFOs have assumed significant additional responsibilities for several key groups, including: information technology (43%), human resources (39%), production (38%), customer service (37%), and even marketing / sales (33%).

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

Your SalesMBA™ Workshops. Focus: Prospecting, negotiating and closing, social selling, and sales management. Intended audience: Sales reps and managers. Price: $395-$595 per attendee (depending on the workshop). The right story, presented in the right way, can change the course of a sale. Vendor: Jeff Hoffman.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

Sales Terms A - D F - M N - R S - Z Account-based selling A strategic approach to sales that focuses on targeting and engaging specific high-value accounts with personalized and tailored messaging. It involves the sale of products, services, or information directly to end-users or customers for their personal use or consumption.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. open ended sales questions (11). Sales (34).

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MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But before you hire the first person with a ‘sales coach’ title, be aware that not all coaches are equal, so choose wisely. While a good coach can help you to build a team of sales superstars, a bad one can lower your revenue, drag out the sales cycle and increase the time it takes to close deals. Have comments?

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

In high-performing organizations, marketing teams cast a wide net of outreach through campaigns and content to increase awareness among potential customers. Grab a free copy of our book on customer acquisition for B2B software companies! Companies assign leads a numerical score to rank their sales-readiness.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Internet Fueled Buying Cycles on the Rise – In the B2C space, the Internet has fundamentally changed how books, apparel, electronics, music, cars and other goods are bought and sold. IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales E. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The Challenger Customer. Sales Differentiation. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. It may be hard to imagine, but something as counterintuitive as leading with your flaws can result in faster sales cycles, increased win rates, and makes competing with you almost impossible. Smart Calling.

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Mereo

APRIL 16, 2020

Are the sales resources your marketing department creates simply going unused by sales? According to research conducted by the CMO Council, salespeople invest upwards of 40% of their time creating presentations and other sales cycle content. This is a major inefficiency an effective sales enablement program can address.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 1, 2019

This hyper-personalized approach is typically too high-touch for B2C products, but it can be ideal for organizations selling to enterprises. Read on for a deep dive into account-based sales. How to Define Your Ideal Customer Profile. How to Structure Your ABS Sales Team. Criteria for Account-Based Sales.

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LeadBoxer

JULY 31, 2021

Who is your average customer? Understanding your customers can help you decide if ABS is the ideal approach. Unfortunately, the picture is a little unclear for mid-market customers. How long does your sales cycle last? That said, this approach is better suited for longer sales cycles.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

Through interesting and informative content, Leah’s goal is to spread the word about modern sales. The Gist: WoodPecker has a “ mission is to enable all B2B companies to connect with their ideal customers. ” This goal is seen thoroughly in their products and best sales blogs content. WoodPecker.

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