Marc Wayshak

JULY 16, 2021

Years ago, a term came along that has since become a ubiquitous buzzword in the world of sales : solution selling. I can’t tell you how many salespeople tell me, “I use solution selling” or “My focus is on being a solution salesperson.” This is central to solution selling.

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The Pipeline

JULY 12, 2013

Everyone is familiar with ROI – Return On Investment, sales people love to talk about, buyers (and their CFO’s), love to hear about it, and even more, love to achieve and validate a return on their investment. Perhaps a better measure of return, would be to measure the Return On Objectives – ROO. That is the work in sales.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. It’s not that you can actually execute hundreds of tasks in a day’s agenda, but if sales is your passion and profession, you are undeniably an expert at managing the precise allocation of time and resources across that number of tasks.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 29, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Sometimes, the insight you get can help you shape more sound, thoughtful sales efforts — giving you a framework to help you better understand your prospects and how to cater to them. And you're in sales?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

In this post we will discuss Agile Sales. Agile sales is an approach that can help you keep pace with your customers. A few months back I wrote a post about becoming an Agile Sales Leader. Now it is time to make the entire sales organization agile. Let’s start with the definition of agile sales.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

So, my GO BIG is to bring something fresh, different and new to the sales conversation – and not just rehash solution selling, or provide new hacks for getting appointments, or for it to be ‘same girl, different dress’ (hang on, let me rephrase that in case it is perceived as UnPC – same horse, different jockey!).

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Alice Heiman

JANUARY 6, 2023

As Anthony Iannarino points out, it’s time to unlearn much of the sales methodology that worked 10 years ago. This reading list will help you modernize your sales strategies and achieve your growth objectives. The Sales Innovation Paradox by Dr. Howard Dover. Andy is another member of my ‘modern sales’ club.

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Pointclear

JUNE 20, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Will Google Glass Revolutionize Buying and Selling? Via Selling Power Blog. Via Score More Sales.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. What is Solution Selling?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 6, 2018

What is a sales process? Sales process” most often refers to a repeatable set of steps your sales team takes with a prospect to move them from early stage to a closed customer. A good sales process helps your reps consistently close deals by giving them a framework to follow. What are the steps of a sales process?

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CloserIQ

AUGUST 19, 2019

Many sales representatives only start to think about closing the deal later in the sales process. The best way to do this is to exercise control over sales conversations. If you can do this, you can successfully deploy a solution-selling approach. This should guide the rest of your approach in sales conversations.

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Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

Mastering new skills in sales is challenging, even for top sellers — to say nothing of the core selling techniques that reps need to be successful. How to improve sales skills and techniques. Ten sales techniques for top sellers?. What Are the Different Approaches to Sales? Ten Sales Techniques for Top Sellers.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2013

You’ve trained the entire sales organization. The sales process is finally out in the field. Rolling out a new sales process is tough work. For Sales Operations, it’s one of the most important projects you’re responsible for. Download the Sales Process Evaluation Guide here. You’ve invested in the technology.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All too often, sales reps accidentally adopt a “one size fits all” approach to selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. What is solution selling? The result?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 1, 2019

The term, "sales", encompasses all activities involved in selling a product or service to a consumer or business. But "sales" means so much more for businesses. Companies have entire sales organizations comprised of employees that are dedicated to selling their products and services. What is sales?

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What are Sales Methodologies? Sales methodologies are guidelines that govern how your goods or services are sold to consumers. It is a selling strategy that is frequently founded on a particular understanding of client psychology. 15 Sales Methodologies Examples Necessary For Every Business. 1 Sandler Selling System.

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Apptivo

MAY 30, 2022

Define Sales. Sales’ is the term used to describe all activities involved in selling a product or service to a consumer or business. Why is Sales important? Why is Sales important? The sales department’s reason for existence is to bring in money to the organization. Sales is responsible for just that.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 20, 2013

Today I received a forwarded email which discussed in detail a multiple week e-course focused on sales training for small businesses. As I looked reviewed the learning objectives, 90% of them I had addressed numerous times through this blog as well as the over 5,000 plus articles I have written during last almost 10 years.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

The sales methodology is like a set of rules for how you sell your products or services to customers. You need to define your methodology before anything else, including the sales process. Otherwise, your sales process will be applied differently by each rep on the team. What is a Sales Methodology? NEAT Selling.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

The best sales methodology for your situation will change; it’s not static. Your company needs different sales methodologies at different stages of its maturity. The sales methodology that works in one stage of your company’s growth may actually harm it at a different stage. The Top 10 Sales Methodologies.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

As a sales leader, you know the impact of effective sales coaching — it’s the key to maximizing your team’s potential. The problem is that for too long, sales managers have relied on a one-size-fits-all coaching playbook and hoped for the best. But with sellers entering more competitive markets, it’s time to hit reset.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 11, 2020

The universal lament of sales people is, “Why aren’t my customers buying? I’m busting my ass selling to them?” ” We know how to handle every objection, we’ve mastered closing techniques. A common strength of sales people is our compelling need to sell!

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2013

The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. Inside Sales” Brooks , and Mark Organ. SPIFs (Sales Performance Incentive Funds) are commonly used to incentivize salespeople to sell more of a particular product in a given period of time.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

Are you dependent on the top 20% of your sales force to ensure that you hit quota? 78% of the Sales VPs we speak with are worried about the disparity of their team’s talent. At SBI, we often see Sales Talent disparaged as the result of an ineffective Sales Training program. Sales Skills Overview/Best Practices.

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criteria for success

JUNE 27, 2019

Are you a sales leader looking to help your team solve problems in sales? I find that a personal approach works well in sales. Forget pitching, overturning objections, and all of the logistics you have learned about. Focus on enabling them to master the art of conversation.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In this series, we ask tech executives to describe the why and how of their solution. We call it Sales Tech Simplified. Nancy: Why does the industry need your solution? It is the primary objective for CEO’s and for Sales and Marketing executives. Russ: Enterprises today are focused on profitable growth.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 6, 2022

I had not noticed it in common sales vernacular. Then it dawned on me, with consultative selling, solution selling, and value selling, and a plethora of others, why hadn’t anyone developed “Perspicacious Selling?” Perspicacious Selling vs All Other. A perspicacious sales approach would be different.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2018

Forty years ago, Strategic Selling® changed the sales industry forever, giving organizations a powerful and proven methodology to win complex deals and create stronger customer relationships. Now, we’re changing the sales industry again by introducing an update to our core methodology to meet the challenges of today’s sales industry.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

As a sales leader, you know the impact of effective sales coaching — it’s the key to maximizing your team’s potential. The problem is that for too long, sales managers have relied on a one-size-fits-all coaching playbook and hoped for the best. But with sellers entering more competitive markets, it’s time to hit reset.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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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SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

What are your social selling goals, objectives, and strategies? But I have reviewed some very interesting online tools for sales pros. I used to help teach Solution Selling at an ERP software company. Today’s B2B buyers are impressed by sales people who have done their homework, but turned off by those who haven’t.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Sales techniques training courses are about improving a salespersons selling skills across a broad range of activities from sales prospecting to closing to social selling. Sales Techniques Training Courses. Close More Sales by Opening More Conversations with Buyers. Even with the advent of the Sales 3.0

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I often hear from our customers how challenging it is to manage distributed field sales teams. While every sales rep will learn their baseline knowledge and have their message calibrated when they are onboarded, there is still a need to constantly keep them primed on multiple topics. Knowledge Baselining.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I often hear from our customers how challenging it is to manage distributed field sales teams. While every sales rep will learn their baseline knowledge and have their message calibrated when they are onboarded, there is still a need to constantly keep them primed on multiple topics. Knowledge Baselining.

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Tony Hughes

JUNE 4, 2019

Definition - Transactional Relationship Selling: Building relationships of genuine rapport and trust for the purpose of gaining information and support for a buying decision that is in the best interests of all concerned. The product is you and the outcome that is achieved when buying the product, service or solution.

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