Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

In the movie he’s required to make 100s of cold calls daily to prospective clients. The opportunity cost as a sales rep of doing things that add no value to our performance can be an expensive luxury. . For example, as sales reps we know our manager is tracking our closing rate, our deal size, and revenue generated.

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Engineering Lead Rank Lead Scoring Maximizer 62

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2022

If you’re ready to become a customer-centric salesperson, then read on to discover how consultative selling works. . Consultative selling definition: What is consultative selling? Sales reps act more like a consultant than a salesperson. Consultative selling helps you meet the desires of buyers, too.

Consultative Selling 62

Consultative Selling ACT Cold Calling Buyer 62

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. What is Prospecting?

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

A lot of learning programs also fail because there’s no way to reinforce the knowledge sales reps need to retain on the job. Sales managers will train and certify sellers on new selling skills, yet find that these skills aren’t being used when engaging with customers. Make it easy to understand.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

A lot of learning programs also fail because there’s no way to reinforce the knowledge sales reps need to retain on the job. Sales managers will train and certify reps on new selling skills, yet find that these skills aren’t being used when engaging with customers. Make it easy to understand.

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Training Scale How To Hiring 52

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? However, most sales methodologies and most sales teams do not subscribe to a sales method that covers prospecting. What is a Sales Methodology?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Courses or certifications can specialize in sales skills such as sales presentations, sales methodology, social selling, or sales coaching. When choosing a sales training program, consider things like length of program, focus, location, and price. Getting comfortable breaking up with prospects.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. 1. Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy). Go check it out!

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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2020

This includes measuring prospecting activity, calls, talk-time ratio, new product mentions, or use of up-to-date messaging. . You can also set alerts to be notified automatically when these phrases (like product messaging, sales methodology, or new product rollouts) get brought up on calls. . #7 7 Over-Communicate.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. It should be the very basis for any sales training program looking to increase sales efficiency. phone sales tips.

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Mindtickle

MAY 26, 2016

According to SiriusDecisions, most onboarding programs are 60-90 days long, however, regardless of the length of the program the determination of whether a sales rep is “ready” is often done by the sales manager without any help of indicators or metrics to rely on. Typical Skills to Master: Core selling skills.

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Mindtickle

MAY 26, 2016

According to SiriusDecisions, most onboarding programs are 60-90 days long, however, regardless of the length of the program the determination of whether a sales rep is “ready” is often done by the sales manager without any help of indicators or metrics to rely on. Typical Skills to Master: Core selling skills.

Hiring 52

Hiring Buyer Persona Sales Enablement Lead Rank 52

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. His focus is to accelerate peak performance fast.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Yes, prospects can be frustratingly unresponsive.

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Ideal Customer Profile Cold Calling Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 86

BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Brainshark, on the other hand, makes it easy for anyone to create training content in less than 10 minutes, without any advanced technical skills. region-specific or product-specific sales teams). This makes it hard to accurately evaluate reps’ readiness to sell and ability to close deals. What topics are unique to this team?

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Training Hiring How To Course 71

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales professionals won’t be working from home all the time. However, outside sales teams will not be in the field as much as they used to be. What is Remote Selling? The first thing you need to know is how remote selling is different from traditional selling or otherwise known as field sales.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 111

BrainShark

MAY 2, 2022

Pre-made virtual training programs will only cover topics like objection handling, popular sales methodologies, LinkedIn prospecting, shortening sales cycles, and other general topics. These company-specific topics are arguably the most important part of a comprehensive sales training program.

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Training How To ROI Course 71

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Improving sales skills is one of the main reasons people use Gong.io. Think of your sales methodology as a race car — it’s the vehicle that brings you from first call to close. . Think of your sales skills fuel for that sales process.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

But, as Mike suggests, there are a number of responsibilities that fall square in managements lap and if they aren’t addressed it doesn’t matter how good the sales people are. New Sales Simplified goes beyond sales management, actually spending the majority of the writing targeting sales people and prospecting.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find. Why is there a knowledge gap for sales leaders? sales guidance. sales guidance.

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Training Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. At the start of my sales career my manager set targets for me for how many calls per week to make, how many proposals per month to issue, the number of cold prospecting calls that should be made each week, etc.

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Pipeline Buying Cycle Quota Call-back 64

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Pricing that was too high and/or lack of some particular feature or function are often the reasons given by prospects to salespeople after having competed for and lost a potential piece of business. That information is then relayed back to sales management either via a formal Loss Report or through a post sales ‘autopsy’ discussion.

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Analysis Channels Sales Up-Sell 58

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is solution selling? Solution selling isn’t exactly a new concept. The solution sales methodology was developed back in the 1970s. As the name suggests, solution selling is a sales methodology in which sellers present solutions to prospective customers, rather than products.

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Solutions Selling Ideal Customer Profile Sales Methodology Consultative Selling 59

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They hate to enter volumes of data for unqualified prospects. Sellers less than YTD against quota want their managers to believe they’ll catch up in the coming months. In extreme cases they wait until the business is won before entering it, defeating the purpose of allowing sales managers visibility so they can coach sellers.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

At this point I asked him: Phil, do your sellers tell prospects they’ll have similar forecast accuracy rates? In my next article I’ll discuss how first level sales managers should be grading opportunities based upon buyer actions rather than seller opinions. He was proud to show me his approach. He asked what I meant.

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Hiring Forecasting Pipeline Discount 63

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 16, 2017

Sales Tips: How to Establish Urgency with Your Prospects and Accelerate Buying Decisions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Buyer Sales Prospecting Sales Forecasts 69

Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

In this article, I will go over the most important elements of B2B sales that both sales leaders and individual sales professionals need to know about, and how B2B sales work. We’re going to help you also understand the B2B sales processes, strategies, and more. B2B Sales Cycle.

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B2B Top of Funnel Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 134

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

On-Site Sales Training Programs. Focus: Prospecting, negotiating and closing, social selling, and sales management. Intended audience: Sales reps and managers. Jeff Hoffman’s workshops span the entire sales cycle, from getting your prospect’s attention to successfully winning their business.

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Training Vendor Top of Funnel Workbooks 145

Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’ll also share some best practices for putting consultative selling into practice at your organization to start seeing results ASAP. What is consultative selling? First things first, what is consultative selling? Consultative selling can take place in person, but increasingly, it happens virtually.

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Consultative Selling Closing Collateral Buyer 59

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 1, 2017

Courage to anticipate a prospect's questions and plan how you will deal with them logically and professionally. Courage to stay the course when your prospect pushes back on what you are attempting to do. Courage to set aside sacred time to practice your new sales process, skills, methods, and tactics on a weekly basis.

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Call-back Sales Channels Training 40

Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

In the world of sales, effective communication is the cornerstone of success. Whether you’re a seasoned sales pro or just starting your journey, understanding and speaking the language of sales is essential to connect with prospects, build relationships, and close deals.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 52

InsightSquared

JULY 21, 2020

It prepares reps for every question, objection, or speculative comment a prospect makes. Strategic Prospecting Skills. Reps may know the product like the back of their hand, but without prospects to sell to, it’s of little use. . All of these options are fair game for quota-carrying ISRs to begin their prospecting.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Face-to-face Cancellation 62

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Can You Make It Through the “Dip?”. By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer of CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Sales Sales Forecasts Forecasting Sales Cycle 63

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This book is particularly well-designed for sales leaders, managers, and even founder/CEOs — really anyone who owns the responsibility of building a sales organization. It’s definitely not a selling skills book. It’s more of a sales management book (and one of the best ones out there, in my opinion).

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Negotiation Tour de Force Influencer Lead Rank 111

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Lack of Trustworthy Sales Forecasts Costs Billions. This guest post was created by MIT Sloan School of Management, courtesy of SellingPower.com.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Sales Sales Cycle 40

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Uncover the True Value of Financial Benefits. By Jim Naro, CustomerCentric Selling® Certified Business Partner.

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