Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #5 - Proposals Sell. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Of all the closing techniques I’m aware of, the least effective is issuing proposals to non-decision makers who will then distribute it to members of the buying committee.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. So, how do you make your training a success , not a flop? Top Reasons Your Sales Training Will Fail. Some are neutral.

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Braveheart Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Often, they simply write a proposal. Somehow the salesperson thinks that if they put the information in writing the prospect will buy. The truth is that a proposal should really be a confirmation of what has already been agreed to, or has been determined that the prospect wants, needs, and is interested in buying.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2011

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 136

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

But for the most part, a rep doesn’t want to rock the boat with a prospect. In all of my sales manager workshops, I ask, “How many of you have a performance problem with a sales rep that is just unacceptable, and you know you need to address the situation?” Does the rep need more training? What does that mean? How do I know?

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Forecasting Proposal 260

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. I designed a one-day workshop, which I offered in live public sessions for many years. We wrote the proposal first. It’s changed how we prospect, but it hasn’t changed how deals get done. They get meetings they couldn’t land before, and they convert their prospects to clients at unparalleled rates.

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation? It’s easy to have tunnel vision and get wrapped up in your proposal.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 6, 2024

In diverse and inclusive environments, sales professionals are more likely to: Think outside the box Propose novel solutions Adapt strategies to meet the evolving needs of a diverse clientele Of course, all salespeople rely on their range of experience. These challenge conventional thinking and foster creativity.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

To succeed in the current marketplace, sellers have to use every tool at their disposal to understand their prospects and what drives them. Then they must craft an effective approach that will quickly convey value and lead to conversion. The results are unmistakable. Contact us at info@emissary.io

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 24, 2013

Sales Training Article: 8 Types of Customers to Avoid. Most of the time, customers (and prospective customers) are great. Your best defense: In your initial meeting, determine the prospect''s financial result of NOT buying. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance.

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Training Customer Proposal Decision Maker 49

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Cost per Acquisition Proposal 138

Julie Hanson

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Each day your prospect navigates through a steady stream of vendor e-mails, voice mails, proposals, presentations and demos. Your prospect is like a busy casting director sifting through a parade of well-qualified actors all competing for the same role, all reading from the same script. Why you need an X Factor.

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Decision Maker Proposal Vendor Sales Qualified Lead 112

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. If there’s a fit proposals are presented to Key Players who decide whether or not to buy. If sellers can’t reach higher levels, Key Players’ first exposure to their offerings will likely be in proposals.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 1, 2014

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. For example, picture this: You engage with a prospect that simply says, “Prepare a proposal with pricing and have it to me by Monday. Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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Commission Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guarantee 79

SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

We are all facing similar challenges and they gave me a lot to think about – from reducing time in the hiring process to how we can train managers differently. . If I’m fortunate enough to get some time with a prospect during a sales cycle, I need to be sure I can add real value and that they will remember this interaction.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Lead Rank Scale 105

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sales Training Article: Who''s Your Competition? John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net For many years there has been a common way that sellers added opportunities to their pipelines. The bad news is that they were going to lose.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 6, 2013

Sales Training Article: Penny Wise or Pound Foolish? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII series. Some can quickly qualify (or disqualify) prospects. Not all sellers are created equal.

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Training Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 49

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2012

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Conference Sales Qualified Lead 192

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2015

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. To avoid starting 2015 with unqualified pipelines, consider taking a hard look at quotes or proposals more than 60 days old. Proposals, like radioactive material, have half-lives. Remove that proposal from your pipeline.

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Proposal How To Face-to-face Vendor 40

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 17, 2011

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Up-Sell 137

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. The year is coming to an end for both you and your prospects. Request for resources from prospects that aren’t real. Pressure for excessive fourth quarter discounts by prospects, etc.? Are you prepared?

Decision Maker 40

Decision Maker Negotiation Forecasting Proposal 40

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Banking Webinar Metrics 168

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In advance of going to a meeting with a buyer, send in an agenda in advance , and include your proposed next step as part of that agenda. After all, would you rather not know in advance that the buyer will not agree to your proposed step, while you can still make adjustments based on their feedback. Prospecting. Sales Training.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Demand Generation 218

Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: "It's Deja Vu All Over Again" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Yogi Berra's quote brings to mind the obligatory pipeline review managers do with their salespeople toward the end of the month. It will just fill and waste air time.

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Pipeline Training Face-to-face Quota 45

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 13, 2013

Sales Training Article: How to Revive a Cold Opportunity By Geoffrey James, INC - Sales Source Even if you''ve dropped the ball, you can still win the game. Perhaps the prospect was supposed to get back to you and didn''t. Mention the prior situation, but in terms of an "opportunity missed" for both you and the prospect.

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Opportunity Training How To Discount 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The research clearly indicates that the issues are not around sales having enough leads, more sales training, improved social selling ability or increased product knowledge. Understanding buyers better and correlating the financial benefits that can be delivered with proposed solutions is key.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Proposal Buyer 86

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics eBook 169

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Sales Training Article: 2014 Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti at FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2013 winds down, people think about prospects for the New Year. View our updated calendar of 2014 sales training workshops.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. The year is coming to an end for both you and your prospects. Withdraw any outstanding proposals that have been out for over fourteen (14) days. Image courtesy of Nokhoog Buchachon at FreeDigitaPhotos.net.

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Decision Maker Negotiation Forecasting Proposal 40

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 15, 2015

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A Sales Benchmark Index survey found sellers win 24% of proposals issued and lose 24% to other vendors. Most sellers are unaware of the internal competition for funding initiatives within prospect organizations. Save yours now!

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Sales Hacker

JULY 12, 2021

We’d encourage you to take this opportunity to write and review answers to each of these questions so that when you see them, your proposal is mostly ready. Inevitably, during the sales process, the prospect will have specific questions about onboarding, implementation, customer use cases and so on.

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Revenue Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 83

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). sales prospecting (34).

Hiring 120

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 120

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Buying Cycle Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? Prospects either decided not to move ahead with any of the vendors they talked to or tried to address their issues with internal initiatives. For large opportunities, negotiating a Sequence of Events with the buying committee that shows the necessary steps leading up to a proposal.

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Training Buying Cycle Hiring Vendor 45

The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Ideally in your line of questioning during uncovering these you should try and get the prospect to attach a monetary value to the compelling reasons. This made me think of a prospect of mine where I believed I had two separate compelling reasons but when I looked at them I didn’t have the monetary value associated with the issue.

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Pipeline Conference Cold Calling Hiring 255