Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. Pitfall 1: Focus on the training vs. the learning. I even made it myself back in the day. I was elated.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 20, 2017

This blog post is not going to cover how to handle objections, instead we are going to cover the underlying reasons why prospects don’t buy from you. Objections are, after all, just reasons and points that your salespeople need answer to satisfy the prospect that your product does the job. I mean, come on! Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Face-to-face Case Study 120

Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. This equips them with vital skills to engage with prospects on their preferred social media platforms, building meaningful relationships that lead to increased revenue. Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. I sometime refer to “muscle memory.”

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Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2021

To create an effective and efficient sales funnel, your sales and customer support teams need to be well trained and in sync with each other. Second, data like testimonials, reviews, and customer satisfaction surveys can be helpful elements to include in the sales prospecting content. Train customer support reps in the sales process.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The ask goes something like this: Salesperson: “Hi Mrs. Prospect, I hate to bother you, but I was just wondering if you could give me a referral to anyone you know who might be interested in our solution.”. Mrs. Prospect: “Hmmm… maybe…let me think about that and get back to you.”. I don’t want to embarrass myself.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Most of us in selling do not spend enough talk time with prospective buyers. The studies we have seen show that sellers spend, on average, 35% of their time actually selling – having conversations with prospective buyers. Ask anyone who has regular prospecting hours in their calendar because it really works.

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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement refers to a set of processes and tools that are designed to help salespeople sell more effectively. It includes training, coaching, content creation, and technology solutions that are tailored to the needs of the sales team. What is Sales Enablement?

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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? So, remember to allow the prospect to jump in, otherwise you can’t address their concerns effectively.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

This eye-opening observation exposes a hidden opportunity for sales professionals—the transformative power of vocal training. A well-trained voice possesses the potential to captivate attention, instill confidence, and establish trust. Connecting with prospects genuinely but without compromising credibility or assertiveness is crucial.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A pipeline refers to the set of opportunities that a sales team is working on with the intent to convert those opportunities to sales. Happy customers refer vendors they are working with to other potential clients. Know your best prospects. Use customer testimonials to win over prospects.

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales training topics that actually get results can be challenging to nail down. When planning out sales training, consider what customers are looking for, what they are trying to avoid, and what tips the scale in favor of the winning supplier. Training that gets salespeople to effectively solve the customers challenge at hand.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 4, 2021

What are sales skills training and techniques as they apply in the modern sales process? The important thing to note is that with sales skills training and techniques you can be learn and developed a whole range of selling ability. Sales Skills Training and Techniques – Listening Skills. Self-Motivation Skills.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hey, do you remember that training you went through last week? And more recent research by Gartner finds that B2B sales reps forget 70% of information within one week of training, and 87% within one month. Sellers aren’t using all the awesome training you’ve delivered. Your sales training content isn’t practiced.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

Author: Greg Flynn Imagine a marathon runner starting a race without having trained or even stretched beforehand. With agile onboarding, sales enablement works closely with sales leaders to map the sequence of training with upcoming skills and milestones that reps must perform in their roles. 3 – Treating Onboarding as One-and-Done.

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

The onboarding phase that begins when a new employee in their first 30 days should focus on essential aspects of sales — identifying prospective customers’ needs, communicating effectively, understanding and overcoming objections and so on — through the lens of your unique organization. Case studies will be perfect for this purpose.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. No, this isn't an infomercial.

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ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar? The real problem : .

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SalesHandy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So to keep you productive high throughout the year, we have curated the latest and credible sales statistics from different research reports, analytical articles, and case studies of top-notch industries that can help you in building the best data-driven sales strategies for your business. Sales prospecting statistics. About 89.9%

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SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A 2017 study by LinkedIn said “Trust” is the number one factor in purchase decisions. Matching CRM opportunity record information to available references and content to “spoon feed” the best, most relevant assets (whether ‘live’ reference calls or ‘static’ like a written case study) for salespeople to utilize when and where they need them.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

To ensure the right people are involved in the conversation at the correct times, you need to provide your employees with the right materials, training, and guidance. It’s crucial to train reps to build out the buying team from the start of each deal to ensure that deals are multi-threaded. Did they miss important cues from a prospect?

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I am not referring to those who do a little selling as part of their overall job function. I am referring to those people who choose to make their living purely by selling products or services, and most often to strangers. A skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation. MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling.

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Autoklose

MARCH 25, 2024

Your prospects will likely fall into many different categories, and you should be drawing lines where they matter to you. Michael’s pro tip: If you haven’t heard back from your prospect in a few days, reply to your previously sent email and say something like, “What did you think of this?” rather than simply linking to content. “If

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked with thousands of sales leaders who run large sales teams and we’ve found that there are seven highly-effective techniques that are responsible for consistent and effective sales strategy development: Break training down into bite-sized chunks to help reps retain more product knowledge.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Various studies of buyer behavior show now that buyers are much further along their buying process when they engage with potential vendors. The clearer you are in explaining who it is that you serve and how, the quicker people will refer to you and reach out to you. Build Sales with these LinkedIn Resources.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

People will purchase from you and refer you and your products or services if they trust you. By showing yourself to be a trustworthy and authentic person, you’ll find your clients will refer their friends and acquaintances to you because you’ve made them loyal to your brand. Be a problem solver.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 23, 2018

It is a place for networking, research, and engaging audiences, not for pitching prospects. I don’t like it—and your prospects don’t like it. In doing so, you become a trusted resource —exactly the kind of salesperson people want to work with, and want to refer. The prospect doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Between ebooks, case studies, data sheets, proposals, and contracts, you probably send email attachments on a daily -- if not hourly -- basis. You want to strike a conversational, natural tone with your prospect -- not write like a nineteenth-century lawyer. Like “thanks in advance,” that can make prospects bristle.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Doing so will enable you to get to a conversation faster, with a lot less sales prospecting effort. Research shows that 73% of executives prefer to work with salespeople referred by someone they know. From onboarding your customers to providing support and training – ensure you make every touchpoint as exceptional as possible.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Doing so will enable you to get to a conversation faster, with a lot less sales prospecting effort. Research shows that 73% of executives prefer to work with salespeople referred by someone they know. From onboarding your customers to providing support and training – ensure you make every touchpoint as exceptional as possible.

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Referrals Strategy Buyer Persona LinkedIn 78

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2018

A win/loss analysis is the process of studying past business deals in order to generate valuable insights about your company’s selling practices. Lost prospects and new customers will be more comfortable sharing their unfiltered opinions with a third-party. The interviewer will be a well-trained professional.

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SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Understanding how the prospect thinks is part of the CMO’s DNA. But for the most part needs-based selling has been used as a technique to better ‘tell’ the prospect what they need. They ‘smooth’ the friction between a prospect and your company’s stone-age sales process. The evolution to needs-based solution selling helped.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For now, there are a number of skills computers can't learn, and one of those is our human ability to create empathetic connections with prospects and customers. All of them are driven by sales professionals' ability to create a bridge with their prospects. You don't have to take special classes or training seminars.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

People will purchase from you and refer you and your products or services if they trust you. By showing yourself to be a trustworthy and authentic person, you’ll find your clients will refer their friends and acquaintances to you because you’ve made them loyal to your brand. Be a problem solver.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

He loves responding to the worst possible prospecting emails possible. After a few years, it became clear that at some not-too-distant point, I would have to start selling – a prospect that did not thrill me. I tried my hand at the bloodless side of the business, writing reports and letters to prospects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2022

It creates a better culture “Opportunities to learn and grow” is the strongest driver of work culture, according to a recent Glint study. Compare that to the average of $1,678 per employee that midsize companies spent on training in 2020. It’s a great soft launch for employees, and an easy way to measure their success from the get-go.

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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

In the highly competitive financial services industry, effective sales training is a game-changer. To achieve success in this field, a well-trained salesforce that can communicate the value and benefits of the products they represent is essential.

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