Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

Sales being the hyper-competitive place that it is, a business can potentially live or die by its ability to bring sales professionals up to speed. As a result, coaching and the steady production of fresh, new sales training ideas can be major stressors for sales managers, particularly on SaaS sales teams.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Sales Tips: Best Practices for Handling Inbound Opportunities. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In our workshops we try to have sellers understand the concept of qualifying champions. Handling Reactive, Inbound Inquiries.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 21, 2020

On May 6 and 7 and 8, my friends and I will once again host our annual conference, one we believe to be the very best sales conference on Earth. This year will be the fourth year for OutBound , with each year bringing more salespeople, sales managers, and sales leaders. I will offer a ninety-minute seminar. Opportunity to Learn.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 15, 2014

Sales Training Article: Where Have Inbound Column "A" Opportunities Gone? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Pakorn at FreeDigitalPhotos.net It''s amazing how technology has affected our business and personal lives.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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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. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. Persona insights and intelligence. and capture them.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 2. Sales Hacker.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sales Training Article: Motivation Absent Requisite Skills. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net A few years ago I spoke at a sales conference. Lower entry points result in lower win rates.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

So we’ve compiled a list (in chronological order) of the top sales conferences you should attend in 2017 and 2018. The Best Sales Conferences. Digital Sales Engine. Sales Acceleration Technology Summit. AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Sandler Sales & Leadership Summit. TOPO Sales Summit.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Business Development Efforts - Process or Random Activities? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Register for one of our sales training workshops to learn more business development skills to help engage more customers.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 19, 2014

Sales Training Article: Opportunities or Pipe(line) Dreams? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Try a public sales training workshop to learn the proven best practices that will produce better sales results.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Sales Training Article: Are You Cloning Bad Selling Habits? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net My first sales manager''s advice as he put me on quota was: "Call high. Don''t lead with product."

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Sales Training Article: Rethinking the Seller''s Role in Complex Sales. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Extensive product training allowed sellers to "teach" buyers. Given the changes in buying, it may be an opportune time to take a fresh look.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Taking the Path of Least Resistance. Marketing organizations by default now own the top of sales funnels. Bottom-up" selling is a path to long sales cycles and low win rates. I believe the major reasons that sales cycles end in no decision are: No business goals are discovered.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2013

As I sat in a workshop, Get Online Indiana , sponsored by Google and Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, the presenter who worked for Google called out these types of marketing firms. Believe it or not during this workshop, I received two email messages from snake oil salesmen both guaranteeing Page One on Google. Share on Facebook.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Sales Tips: How Patience Can Go a Long Way in Sales and Qualifying Opportunities. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Don''t miss the last public workshop of the year in Denver coming up Dec 2-5!

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Sales Tips: Know the Difference Between Buyers - and Researchers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. I’d like to discuss how sellers initiate opportunities and then revisit inbound inquiries from researchers.

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Marketing, driven largely by traffic goals, developed all sorts of techniques to build inbound interest and send leads pouring in— but this increase in traffic also increased the number of low-quality leads.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 23, 2013

Sales Training Article: Reevaluating Sales & Marketing Roles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company My last blog article discussed the frustration senior executives with the tenuous control they have over their sales organizations.

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Lessonly

AUGUST 6, 2021

Inbound calls are increasing, so teams are eagerly hiring new employees, scheduling them on 90-day onboarding plans, and sending them off to provide the best sales and service to your customers. . Top training programs for employees don’t just build themselves. leave their jobs within the first year because of poor training.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Professional growth is vital to a salesperson’s success, and Sales and Sales enablement conferences are one of the best ways to get a new perspective and learn best practices. As we get ready for 2020, we’ve updated our list of recommendations for Sales enablement conferences and events to attend once again. Conference.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. We strongly recommend you go check it out!

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Sales Tips: Want a Future in Sales? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Companies continue to provide extensive product training to sellers. They analyzed job qualifications for Sales Directors. Become a Business Expert. Old selling habits linger.

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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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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

The sales industry is advancing more quickly than ever before. . These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 16, 2013

Sales Training Article: "It Is What It Is" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The naïve enthusiasm of youth fades as we age. How many CEO's take IIWII attitudes toward their sales organizations? Are some sales issues fixable? Offer the best service.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Roger Davies is founder of McLuhan& Davies, a boutique communication-skills training company that sells its services in over 30 countries. I did some research to find out who delivered writing training, and I couldn’t find anyone. (An Never designed a training course. ‘Avoid the Grand Vision ~ Seek the Opportunity!

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

What does this mean for future generations in the sales industry and workforce for that matter because most parents I know do the same things? Some will argue that if you have members of your sales team who are hesitant to pick up the phone, to get rid of them. Train for Skill. First, we know it’s not that easy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: Marathon vs. Sprints. By John Holland , Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sales can be viewed as a series of races that end December 31 st and start the very next day. As a sales manager, most of my sellers hit the accelerator hard as needed.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: Proactively Call at High Levels, Reap the Benefits. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Inbound contacts usually provide sub-optimal entry points. When sellers proactively initiate buying cycles with Key Players: Sales cycles can be shorter.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sales Prospecting: Is Cold Calling Dead? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. of the sales professionals surveyed could be considered “world class.” Need some help to increase sales? Image courtesy of Pakorn at FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 6, 2016

Sales Tips: The Benefits of Starting As "Column A". 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. Fast forward to today’s market and for inbound inquiries, it is far more complicated. Need some help to increase sales?

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CloserIQ

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Where a career in sales is concerned, on-the-job experience is only part of the equation. Whether you’re a first-time job-seeker looking for a career in sales or a seasoned professional, there’s always something more you can learn. 1) Certified Professional Sales Person (CPSP). 1) Certified Professional Sales Person (CPSP).

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 29, 2015

Sales Tips: No Goal? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. If Marketing and Sales could agree on Targeted Conversation Lists™, part of nurturing inbound inquiries could be trying to make visitors aware of potential value and payback. No Prospect.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Is Your Team Ready for 2014? By George de los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Have you started thinking about 2014? If you cannot run effective campaigns, you will be hard-pressed to generate leads for the sales force.

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Costello

APRIL 16, 2019

In our latest research done in partnership with Databox , marketers and sales managers agree that playbooks improve the effectiveness and efficiency of calls, help train new salespeople and ensure product and services are correctly positioned. Sales scripts and objection handling are the core of my sales playbooks,” says Meah.

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