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4 new ways to engage your sales force

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Is HR telling you your millennial sales reps don’t like their incentive plans? Are you really going to have a different incentive for the 26-year-old white female than the one for the 45-year-old Asian male? and it is a common foundation for incentive plans. Give them an opportunity to define themselves.

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Unlock Sales Potential with a Sales Training Strategy

Highspot

Needs Evaluation Evaluate the selling skills and competencies your sales team currently has versus what they need to excel. This process ensures the training program is laser-focused on bridging these skill gaps. Encourage participation in webinars and online forums for broader learning opportunities.

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Money Monday – Are You a Sales CLOSER?

Score More Sales

Skill is the training piece – how you prospect, message, engage, follow-up, track and help clients buy. Basic selling skills can be taught. You can increase sales just in this one area alone – being motivated enough with great contacts to make and incentive to do so. Increase Opportunities.

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The 5 Requirements to Maximize ROI on Sales Training

Braveheart Sales

By integrating them into the qualifying process, the opportunity stages, and the selling process within the CRM, it will lessen the time it takes to make the newly trained elements second-nature. Create one that incents the behavior you desire and eliminates subjectivity and ambiguity. Is the compensation plan workable?

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

An opportunity to review what worked and what didn’t in the prior year while also creating the positive momentum needed to achieve sales goals for the year ahead. That doesn’t even account for event planning costs, or the lost opportunity cost due to non-selling time while salespeople attend the event.

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A Guide To Closing Sales Stress Free

The Digital Sales Institute

The urgency close only works where the customer already sees the value, and this is an incentive to decide now. The Opportunity Cost Closing Technique As mentioned before, there is a cost of inaction or the opportunity cost of passing up on something.

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Managing Change when Implementing Sales Readiness Tools: a Four-Step Approach

Mindtickle

At the same time, the company was tasked with improving their time to sale, the number of opportunities they generated and their win rate. The Champions completed missions on Mindtickle – they practiced their selling skills on the platform and were measured on how they learned and what they had learned.

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