SalesLoft

AUGUST 4, 2020

Ahhhh, objections. For sales teams, there’s simply nothing worse than progressing a deal through the pipeline only to have a no-go objection come up at the 11th hour. For sales teams, there’s simply nothing worse than progressing a deal through the pipeline only to have a no-go objection come up at the 11th hour.

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Objections Scale Call-back Coaching 105

Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2024

In the competitive world of SaaS sales, 40% of salespeople cite prospecting as the most challenging part of the sales process, ranking it more daunting than closing or qualifying stages. 1- Increase Accountability Accountability is key to ensuring that individual sales reps are meeting their goals.

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Pipeline Coaching Revenue Sales Qualified Lead 120

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? Yes, it should.

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Trends 288

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 142

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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Prospecting Hiring Objections Sales 161

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

Conversational intelligence tools — programs that use artificial intelligence to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze hours of sales calls — are becoming a staple of a growing number of sales organizations' tech stacks. Conversational intelligence lets you expedite the process. The short answer?

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Conversion Sales Management Scale Call-back 102

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? Let me explain: If you’re like most sales reps, then you hate making calls because you’re either afraid of being rejected, or you’re are afraid you’re going to mishandle a call and so lose a good lead. Imagine that….

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Face-to-face Cold Calling Gatekeeper Licensing 313

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. They set the organization up to hit their objectives now. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. Gamify the training.

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Training Sales Management Hiring Social Selling 300

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. Sales enablement, and sales enablement tools, help them do just that. It’s no wonder that Gartner expects sales enablement budgets to increase 50% by 2027. Shayne Jackson, Sr.

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Sales Enablement Tools Customer Hiring 52

Selling Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Creating and maintaining an Objections Archive™ is just as important as creating and maintaining a Success Story Archive™. These are indispensable items to have at your disposal when you’re discussing potential solutions with a prospect. Every sales manager should encourage their people to embrace both of these tools.

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Objections Tools Sales Management Prospecting 53

Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. The sales coach’s goal is to help each salesperson develop the skills needed to succeed. What does a sales coach do? First, sales coaches are not sales managers.

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Coaching Sales Management Company Hiring 93

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Settling for mediocrity to fill the vacancy.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

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Sales Management Scale Top of Funnel Hiring 136

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

While that still could be true today, it''s also possible that inside sales might replace the need for hunting, and a good consultative seller could add enough value to the prospect, his/her business, and the buying process so that great closing skills aren''t required. June 5 11:00 AM Eastern Register here.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Decision Maker Webinar Metrics 240

Nutshell

MARCH 7, 2023

Table of Contents What are KPIs in sales? Why should sales managers track KPIs? How to track and report on KPIs KPIs for Sales Managers What are KPIs in sales? Examples of sales KPIs include customer lifetime value, conversion rate, and number of new leads. Why should sales managers track KPIs?

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Sales Management Churn Retention Lead Rank 62

SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

The primary differentiator of today''s top Sales Rep is the ability to prospect. This could be prospecting for new business or different buying centers within existing customers. Managing a relationship or taking orders from existing customers are table-stakes. He couldn’t articulate their prospecting strategy.

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Buyer Prospecting Face-to-face How To 317

Sales Gravy

AUGUST 16, 2020

On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) and Anthony Iannarino (Eat Their Lunch) get down and dirty about why salespeople need to adopt a phone first approach to outbound prospecting sequences. Ignorance of the Power of the Phone in Outbound Prospecting In other circumstances, it is a case of ignorance.

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Outbound Prospecting Pipeline Channels 89

criteria for success

MARCH 11, 2020

Handling objections at the close is a common hurdle salespeople must overcome when finalizing a deal. These delays are usually related to the prospect still needing to get buy-in either from stakeholders and/or decision makers. Objections are Opportunities. Objections are Opportunities. Handling Objections.

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Objections Closing Decision Maker Lead Rank 69

Braveheart Sales

MARCH 21, 2023

To sell consultatively, the salesperson must have a deep understanding of the challenges their prospects and clients face and their impact on the organization and them personally. As you approach Sales Management training, your philosophy should be the same. Coaching Versus Management Managers tell.

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Sales Management Training Face-to-face Consultative Selling 52

Emissary

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sales enablement functions can serve organizations in multiple ways, from helping to craft the content sales teams need at each point in the funnel to training and coaching individuals. Depending on your objectives, there are some excellent tools and services to help you get there. 1 – Highspot . 2 – Seismic

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Sales Enablement Tools Top of Funnel Hiring 52

LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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SalesManager Sales Management Strategy How To 52

The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

She is also the author of two books on inside sales, Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results , and her most recent, and a complement to the first book: Smart Sales Manager: The Ultimate Playbook for Building and Running a High-Performance Inside Sales Team. Be observant.

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Sales Management Hiring Inside Sales Cold Calling 257

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 13, 2016

People talk about prospecting as though it is open to interpretation, it should not be. Prospecting is the act of engaging with someone with the purpose of initiating a sales cycle. There is a singular purpose to prospecting, that is to engage. The only ones who say things like that are people who do not prospect.

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cold Calling 120

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. If you get this objection—while closing or qualifying—then the worst thing you can do is try to answer or overcome it. And your team can too. Sign up here!

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Closing Training Gatekeeper Face-to-face 156

Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

By 2025 0 % of B2B sales interactions will happen via digital channels When it comes to inside sales, you may have questions like: What is inside sales? How is it different from outside sales? What skills and tools do reps need for success? What is inside sales? What do inside sales reps do?

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Inside Sales Face-to-face Hiring Outside Sales 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations.

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B2B Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Prospecting 100

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Finding and hiring good inside sales reps has always been a challenge, and it’s gotten even tougher since the pandemic. Recruiters, HR departments, and sales managers are working harder than ever, and they all ask me the same thing: “Where has everyone gone?”. Overcoming blow off objections like, “Just email me something”.

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Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 156

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 30, 2022

How well does your sales team respond to the objection given at the end of the demo: “Can you send me those slides and let me share this with a colleague?”. Measuring your team’s response to these crucial selling situations is what drives everything else , especially your bottom line: Sales. Get Access Today.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Inside Sales 156

Crunchbase

APRIL 12, 2024

Sales teams are already seeing AI streamline workflows, coach reps, optimize prospecting strategies and more. Businesses are in the process of determining how to use these capabilities for maximizing sales team productivity, making intelligent business decisions and growing their revenue. What is AI in sales?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 64

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). dealing with objections (7). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11). performance management (3). Sales (34).

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Sales Management Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back 159

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The regular price for this proven program is $249 + $49 for the script book (previous sale price for both $149), but for this sale, you can get both of these invaluable resources for just $79 ! . How’s that for a Black Friday sale? Note: This sale begins now through Sunday, December 1st, Midnight. . Order Now .

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker B2C 159

Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

Perhaps only music-sharing site Napster created as much of a frenzy when it arrived on the scene in 1999 as gen AI tool ChatGPT did 23 years later. Millions of people flocked to each of those tools when they launched. To help you out, I did the work for you and found some of the top GPTs for sales professionals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Social Media Negotiation 71

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 16, 2021

This quote sums up my management philosophy: A leader isn’t afraid of jumping into the trenches and showing their team exactly how to succeed in their job. In sales, this means leading by example. What’s interesting in my training these days is that there are a good number of sales managers who resist this idea.

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How To Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 195

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). dealing with objections (7). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11). performance management (3). Sales (34).

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Hiring Sales Management Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 174

SalesFuel

MARCH 7, 2024

Try to help your prospect understand your solutions and how these steps will improve overall performance. Allow Your Client to Focus on THEIR Core Competencies Your client wants to offload routine IT tasks, such as infrastructure management, help desk support and cybersecurity.

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Hiring Negotiation Resources B2B 113

Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

You’ll learn what the sales cycle looks like, how to manage it, and how to shorten it. What is a sales cycle? A sales cycle is a series of well-defined events, from when a salesperson engages a prospect until they make the sale. . Sales cycles are often confused with sales processes.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 118