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The Bob Chronicles - The Difference Between Selling Skills and Effectiveness

Understanding the Sales Force

it's the same with sales teams. I receive calls and emails that begin with things like "My salespeople are complacent" or "My salespeople need some training on closing" or "My salespeople aren't bringing in enough new business" or "My salespeople need help with negotiating" or "Our team has a lot of stalled opportunities."

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Essential Selling Skills Easily Mastered

The Digital Sales Institute

Essential selling skills to master whether you are starting out on your sales career, maybe you have just completed your onboarding sales training or you are already an experienced salesperson in reaching out to customers. You can begin by listing out all the skills you need in your current sales role.

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The Science of Basic Selling Skills

Bernadette McClelland

4. Make your key objective to help the customer, not to close a sale. Whilst these are skills that every salesperson must have and is typically the focus traditional sales training provides, I don’t believe they are the basics , nor do I believe they are the focus for the future sales professional that business wants and needs.

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Selling Skills

Partners in Excellence

Here’s a pop quiz for sellers and sales enablement folks. If you are a sales enablement person, Does your sales training/learning program included formal training and development on change and change management? Our sales training programs spend a lot of time helping us develop skills around what we sell and how we sell.

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What the Best Sales Negotiators Do Differently

RAIN Group

Sales negotiation is a critical part of the sales process. However, many sellers and organizations struggle with negotiating successfully. That means that less than one in three sellers does well in their virtual negotiations.

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#1 Reason People Can’t Negotiate

The Sales Hunter

Negotiating with someone doesn’t have to create fear and trepidation in your mind. There is zero reason to go into a negotiation feeling that way unless you are committing the number one sin when it comes to negotiating. Here it is… the #1 reason people can’t negotiate: They lack confidence because they don’t have […].

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High-Profit Negotiating: Tips for Success

The Sales Hunter

Ready for a few quick tips to ensure you’re successful when you negotiate? I recently did a 40-minute high-profit negotiating webinar for Salesforce which you can view now at this link. Here are a couple of the things I shared: First, the level of confidence you have going into a negotiation is going to determine […].