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3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice

No More Cold Calling

Yes, finally a statement I understood and could promote! Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills? Here’s how B2B sales professionals can keep their referral skills sharp: 1. There’s no such thing. Then one of my clients said, “Practice makes permanent.”

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Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps

Steven Rosen

While useful, these data points and metrics inadvertently promote a culture of reaction rather than being proactive. Yet, it fails to recognize or nurture the proactive elements—selling skills and the subtle cues that build rapport or understanding of the client’s concerns—that can only be gleaned through direct observation.

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Amp Up Your Sales Career with Terrific Relationship Management

SalesFuel

This is in addition to your core responsibilities of prospecting, upselling, data management, and continuous improvement of your selling skills. Net Promoter Score (NPS) – “How likely would you be to recommend (organization) to a friend?” They are satisfied with your service but not happy enough to be considered promoters.

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Creating a Leader versus Promoting a Seller

Engage Selling

To meet that challenge, not only must selling skills change, leadership skills must evolve, too. I talk often about a new performance-management culture taking hold in the today’s B2All marketplace. Your sales manager’s number-one job now is to teach and … Read More »

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Promoting a Seller Does Not Make a Leader

Engage Selling

To meet that challenge, not only must selling skills change, leadership skills must evolve too. I talk often about a new performance-management culture taking hold in today’s B2All marketplace. Your sales manager’s number-one job now is to teach and refine … Read More »

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The 21 New Sales Core Competencies for Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

The biggest changes since our original set of 21 Core Competencies in 1994 are the inclusion of categories that compliment our dashboards as well as the inclusion of Sales Posturing and Social Selling.

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Great Sales Team Know When To Stop Selling

Apptivo

Client A is a promoter of your business where he is impressed with your products and services. This has made him promote your products to his colleagues. This in turn makes it easy for your sales teams to upsell or cross-sell other products and services. Promote Listening. Promote Listening. Be Prepared.