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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.).

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In the Age of AI, Training Is More Critical Than Ever

Sales and Marketing Management

For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data?—?from from CRM, sales performance management solutions, sales enablement, CPQ and other sales-related applications. Selling skills still matter. percent, and it’s clear that data by itself is not the key to sales success.

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Are You Learning Yesterday’s Skills For Tomorrow’s Buyers?

Partners in Excellence

Every time I meet sales enablement and sales executives, I ask, “What are the critical skills you are focusing on training and developing your people on? These skills are important, in fact they are table stakes for all professional sales people.

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5 Best Practices for Sales Success in a Hybrid World

Allego

And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries are encountering the same challenges: Onboarding and training sales reps virtually.

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Sales Management Training: 7 Skills to Lead a High-Impact Sales Team

Highspot

Even more alarming, recent Sales Xceleration research uncovered only 20% of companies allocate funds for critical sales leadership training. While selling skills may be impressive, they often don’t crossover to managing several sellers and helping them produce sales results.

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6 Steps for Successfully Onboarding New Sales Reps

The Brooks Group

Research from The Sales Management Association reveals that these firms have 10% greater sales growth rates, and 14% better sales and profit objective achievement. Start the Sales Enablement Process Before Day One. The most successful sales teams have a mindset of continuous improvement.

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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

It may not reflect immediately on top line figures, but their follow through moves the needle on other metrics — productivity, discovery of new tools or techniques, and sharpened selling skills — any one of which will eventually translate to higher performance and attained goals. My territory / opportunities are too small.