Lessonly

MARCH 1, 2021

Due to increased technology improvements, video solutions, streaming capabilities, and courseware development—the benefits to virtual selling training sure are compelling. Here are some key ways virtual selling skills training can expand and improve your team: 1. It enhances sales skills. Fact: Confidence sells.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Especially as you work with medium and large size companies, B2B sales can mean large transactions and more opportunity to showcase advanced selling skills. But B2B selling, especially to large corporations has evolved into a complicated process. We’ll use enterprise software as an example to make our points.

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Alice Heiman

MAY 13, 2020

Let’s examine how well your team is practicing basic, effective selling skills. . You might assume salespeople are already practicing these skills, but in uncertain times, salespeople sometimes fall back on bad habits (price discounting and following poorly qualified leads would be two examples). Need more sales?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

The training program, called "Professional Selling Skills," took a then-new consultative approach to sales. Make contact, arrange a meeting, and/or conduct a presentation. For the sake of example, we're going to follow the sales process of a rep from an educational curriculum and scheduling software company. Preparation.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations must adapt their sales strategies post COVID-19 to meet customer expectations. In this guide, we’ll look at what remote selling is and why it’s replacing traditional sales models. Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. What is remote sales?

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Using SMP, you could create this analysis in less than five minutes before your next sales meeting. And in doing so, you’d create many opportunities to improve your team’s effectiveness in that one meeting. This gap can highlight differences in selling skills or the ability to upsell and cross-sell effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders ranked video conferencing software as the most important tool for their teams, followed by their CRM. 63% of sales leaders believe virtual meetings are as effective as in-person meetings. Selling skills is the number one area of focus for 38% of sales managers when coaching their reps.

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Apptivo

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hence, the sales team has to implement effective selling skills to convert this customer into a promoter of their business. Before this, it is recommended to have a detailed perspective of their sales strategy and take measures to improve the social selling skills. Document Everything. Promote Listening. Be Prepared.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. This entails reviewing everything from staff, software, to strategy. Are there recurring workshops to strengthen your reps’ selling skills? ??

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Allego

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. Coaching reps becomes much more difficult when sales managers must coordinate meetings that work for salespeople in multiple locations. Great sales reps aren’t born. They’re made.

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Allego

MARCH 23, 2023

Using data from conversation intelligence software , sales managers can identify sales reps’ skill gaps, pinpoint where revenue is won or lost, prescribe training to fix specific behaviors that lose deals, extract best practices for their entire team and keep deals moving through the pipeline.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

Call on people individually, but be aware you may need to control the meeting with the use of your mute button. If you sell complex enterprise software, a show-and-tell format may not be useful or persuasive enough to demonstrate your solution. Selling software is a highly collaborative process.

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Anne Miller

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Request a second meeting at a specific time and date to meet other decision makers (Necessary when there are multiple decision-makers). Schedule a time and date for a demo (Essential before someone buys, say, a software product). Check out the strength of your current selling skills. Close business faster.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 18, 2012

Ken makes several valuable points in this post, so don’t miss the opportunity to strengthen your selling skills. Here are the steps I recommend that all salespeople follow before meeting with prospects or customers: Know the objective. Be able to answer questions such as: What outcome do I want? Prepare questions.

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Mereo

MARCH 1, 2023

3) TRAINING SALESPEOPLE WITH ROLE-PLAYS AND SIMULATIONS Sellers despise them, but it is better to put value selling skills into practice and work the nervousness and adjustments out before engaging a buyer. Leading organizations, though, leverage the CI information to enhance revenue performance.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

or activity-based (number of deals in your pipeline, number of meetings booked, etc.). This method doesn’t work for many B2B companies, especially ones that sell software to corporations primarily based on either the East or West Coast. . Most sales territory mapping solutions come as standalone software platforms.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, say you’re building software. This may work in an Economics 101 course, but is hardly relevant for real-world software businesses. In the software world, we implement a small subset of new product features and iterate based on customer feedback. The problem? In the real world, the numbers are meaningless.

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

We’ll also look at how technology can aid in managing your sales targets efficiently with tools like ClickUp’s Goals software and lead management systems. Investing in the right software can streamline your processes and boost productivity. Gotta keep those selling skills sharp. Remember, communication is key.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Business to Business , or B2B, sales occur between companies that sell products or services to other companies. This could look like a technology company selling marketing software to other companies and wholesalers selling products to supermarkets. Industrial Selling Skills. Be Consultative.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. For example, maybe your best accounts operate in the software industry and generate $5 million in annual revenue. Tools like Crunchbase let you peek into the software products a company uses. Image Source ).

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

A well-designed program, paired with a robust training software , will empower your sales reps with the knowledge they need to deliver value and close more deals. The B2B sales process is a structured yet flexible journey tailored to meet the unique needs of customers. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 3, 2014

From our experience the key to the code is not another coaching training program or motivational speech at the national sales meeting. Reason – the problem is not primarily a deficiency of skill or a lack of motivation. Based on proven best sales practices built into the customized software. It is about dedicated priority.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to implement a successful coaching culture for a virtual workforce, as well as the tools and techniques leaders should leverage to boost reps’ selling skills, knowledge and overall performance. Sales coaching involves providing ongoing instruction and advice to develop sales skills.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 9, 2014

Most companies have purchased some sales training – especially around basic selling skills. A better approach is to help the sales team to a dapt their sales existing sales skills to new sales challenges. Software is now available to help in the performance effort. How buyers buy has really changed.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

In 2015 and beyond your sales team will need to be able to sell consultatively at a very high level of competency in order meet customer expectations and to differentiate you from the other guys who have gotten the message. This means you have to be very good at the following: Consultative Selling Skills.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 11, 2023

Employees can concentrate more fully on their work by fostering effective communication and conflict resolution skills, yielding better results and higher job satisfaction. For example, imagine an employee who was previously hesitant to speak up during team meetings due to a fear of conflict.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 4, 2021

Next step, meeting booked. more successful in getting a meeting booked. on a cold call has the lowest (yes, you read that right) correlation with meetings booked of any line: 40% BELOW the baseline. It’s a new approach to prospecting that consists in “selling the conversation, not the meeting.”. DON’T HANG UP.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2020

He produces medium and short length pieces that you can easily listen to while traveling for a meeting or waiting for a prospect. They’ve shared actionable tips on what works in B2B sales and how to brush up selling skills for improving the win rate. Sales podcast 3 – Catalyst Sale Podcast. Average Duration: 31 minutes.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A prospect is considered viable if they meet at least three of the four criteria. However, if a prospect doesn’t meet the criteria, the sales rep can follow up later. Whether you’re the head of sales for a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup or an enterprise, you can adapt the framework and continue to refine it over time.

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eGrabber

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They generate leads, call prospects, follow up emails, take part in sales meetings, do prospect research, update CRM, and other administrative tasks. 1 Automated Lead Generation Software for Sales Reps to Improve Sales Performance & Increase Sales Try for Free. However, salespeople find it difficult to improve sales performance.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

An advanced sales training software can provide insights, strategies, and analytics that can help shape successful interactions and elevate your sales team’s productivity. It starts with understanding the customer’s needs and demonstrating how your product or service can meet those needs. How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And because salespeople are so focused on meeting their number, it can be hard to spot burnout in your team before it’s too late. If your salespeople don’t have the right tools to do their jobs or streamline their non-selling tasks, it can be an early indicator that burnout is inevitable. Meetings scheduled. Meetings held.

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Gong.io

APRIL 23, 2021

Sales call recording software provides real, authentic, best-in-class examples of the best customer conversations: actual calls. In addition to market insights, sales call recording software helps reps understand the best ways to handle objections. Sales Call Recording Tip #2: Create the ultimate sales playlist. Those days are gone.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2015

Thanks for helping out another team member, thanks for asking insightful questions, thanks for scoring a meeting with a prime prospect, thanks for representing our company well, and thanks for bringing in a new deal. Teaching selling skills requires a clear and repeatable process. Yes, thanks.

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Gong.io

MAY 20, 2021

For example, a Gong demo sounds something like this: “<Buyer name>, you mentioned that you need to understand how your salespeople can convert more deals from discovery to demo when selling to CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Marketing Directors. Here’s exactly how you use our software to see the relevant data and barriers.”.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 6, 2012

Hard to imagine Bill Gates in his dorm room cooking mac and cheese on a hotplate as he struggles with his 128k computer to create the future of software. Yes, I’m somewhat successful now, BUT I didn’t start with nine best-selling books. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! But they all did. Speak Your Mind Cancel reply.

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Mereo

JUNE 9, 2022

Even while restrictions are easing and budgets are growing, some B2B leadership might be tempted to continue holding tight on budgets around travel for an internal meeting. Lisa McQueen serves as the head of sales for Sandata , a leading software service company for Medicaid providers and payers that is a portfolio company of Accel-KKR.

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