Janek Performance Group

MAY 9, 2022

Recruiting and hiring future sales reps for your organization requires a different criterion than it did in the past. Do you believe in the mantra, “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill?” But with the right attitude, employees can be trained to develop the sales skills they need to be successful.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Here’s another case where sales people need to take a concept further than their marketing colleagues (last time as we going on about using Sales 2.0 This post is about knowing about your prospect. Marketing types have actually formalized a methodology around knowing your prospect and call it “persona marketing”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Author: Charles Brennan One of the fastest-growing sports in America is pickleball. However, many people are not familiar with the sport. Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis. Planning Versus Strategy. Tendencies. You can pick up on individual’s tendencies.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Despite booming times, there seems to be a cloud over B2B sales. I often see it in a different form while training, people who put in just enough. What’s in their core, amore importantly, what’s at the core for the prospect. Succeeding in sales take more effort than many are willing to give. By Tibor Shanto.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 12, 2020

Are you using online sales meetings throughout your sales process? Do it wrong and it can completely ruin the sale! See if you can bunk off work early and say you’ve got a sales meeting somewhere”. When I work from home I work out of my home office and there’s lots of movie and sport memorabilia on the wall.

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SalesProInsider

APRIL 30, 2024

You see, each of those questions can be a powerful STARTER to a fuller sales conversation…if you guide the conversation in that direction. That’s why the initial questions in any conversation, especially in a prospective client conversation, need to be SMART! Here’s how to make Smart Talk in your sales conversations: 1.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I grew up playing sports. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school. I’ll explain what all this has to do with sales in a moment. Tennis and Sales? Don’t worry. A Very Long Wait.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Do you manage a sales team or an organization that has a sales team? If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. Simply put, small tweaks have an outsized impact in sales. That way, your sales team is starting with an advantage.

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criteria for success

APRIL 15, 2020

Ongoing sales training is key to developing your team, but it can be hard to think of topics to cover. Here are 5 creative sales training topics to use when you’re training your team. Building rapport is obviously a key sales skill, but many people think it’s something that can’t be trained.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The answer lies with training. Whether you’re a musician training for a solo performance, an athlete on the verge of setting a record, or a salesperson about to land a major deal, training is core to how we as humans achieve our goals — and become our best selves. “To be a corporate athlete, you have to train.”

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Why Relationships Matter in Sales: Think about your current customers, past customers and even solid prospects. Now, go back and look at your list of customers and prospects again. If you’re serious about relationships and their value in sales and business, repeat this exercise with everyone that you work with in your company.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. Sometimes, this works.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Athletes and sports teams often talk about reviewing the game tape. In sales, this is called a win-loss analysis. Recently, Janek Performance Group hosted the webinar Reviewing Game Tape—Optimizing Sales Performance Through Win-Loss Analysi s. This important collaboration combines the expertise of two sales leaders.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2015

How much of a premium would you pay to bet on a sporting event where the odds favoured your team over the other by 6000 to 100? But I see sales people do this very thing on a regular basis, but instead of a five dollar bet, what is on the line is their income. Yet one of the hardest things is to get sales to practice and prepare.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Some sales leaders immediately disregard the principles, claiming it is just another buzzword. Others are caught in the constant grind of achieving quota and cannot fathom trying to implement a new sales plan. They engage less frequently with sellers and when they do, it is much later in the sales cycle.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 30, 2012

If you are in sales, you’ll have your opinions about that. Before you think you’re sure, pick up a copy of Mike Weinberg’s new book, New Sales Simplified. People hear that proactive selling is dead, thanks to the Sales 2.0 Mike actually offers 16 reasons why salespeople fail at prospecting.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching. What is Sales Coaching?

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

There’s a good reason why athletes in contact sports wear protective pads. If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. Sales credibility is the #1 reason you’re customers buy.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Recently, I worked with a very capable salesperson who had a great sales plan and great leads; yet, she failed miserably in at hitting her number. How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are no secrets or shortcuts to becoming a high-performing sales professional. And, as a manager of salespeople, to create high-performing sales teams you need to establish clear sales competencies. If they fail to perform the fundamentals consistently, sales performance will suffer. .

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

How do you transform someone who has no cold calling experience whatsoever into a fully competent and confident prospecting superstar? How to Create Cold Calling Confidence in 10 Steps For sales reps to succeed at cold calling, companies must have a structured process for training them.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hey, do you remember that training you went through last week? Chances are you ask anyone that question — whether they’re in sales or any other function — and the answer will be no. 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.

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SalesProInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

You see, each of those questions can be a powerful STARTER to a fuller sales conversation…if you guide the conversation in that direction. That’s why the initial questions in any conversation, especially in a prospective client conversation, need to be SMART! Here’s how to make Smart Talk in your sales conversations: 1.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 30, 2012

If you are in sales, you’ll have your opinions about that. Before you think you’re sure, pick up a copy of Mike Weinberg’s new book, New Sales Simplified. People hear that proactive selling is dead, thanks to the Sales 2.0 Mike actually offers 16 reasons why salespeople fail at prospecting.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 22, 2018

When sales managers have opportunities to develop their sales team, it’s something they should throw their whole time and attention at, as they seldom have the chance to get out of the fire-fighting mode and spend time working on. So what are some ways to ensure success in this important part of the sales manager role?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sales teams must rise to greatness to thrive in the competitive market of today. The key to achieving this lies in comprehensive support and development, a realm uniquely addressed by sales enablement. Even as budgets tighten, sales leaders recognize the indispensable nature of enablement.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 26, 2019

Many of you reading this blog post are aware of one of the largest sales event that I have the honor to co-host each year called OutBound. Leadership and sales have a lot in common, and it begins with compounding impact. This is another reason why I see sales and leadership as very similar: both cannot survive merely on assumptions.

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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. Any takers?

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture, Lack of Coaching Too Product-Centric Not enough sales people understand the game/rules of sales Too much reliance on selling tools. Not enough training in the industry/space Too much activity management Little respect for prospects and buyers time Not enough humility.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2020

The speed of change raised the bar for training and ongoing productivity. Companies find it’s more important than ever for sales reps to collaborate and share best practices with one another. Yet in-person training and face-to-face communications are two things we cannot do right now. What are you hearing from training managers?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Every lost sale starts with good intentions. While selling, the best intentions cannot counteract sales mistakes. No matter how great the product or service is, sales mistakes prevent reps from reaching their potential. This article reviews five costly sales mistakes and how sales reps can avoid them.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Whether you need to hire dozens of sales reps in the next few months or you’re a scrappy startup and need your first three sales hires, building a business will nearly always involve hiring for sales. Although hiring is the hardest job we have to do as sales leaders, it’s certainly one of the most important tasks to get right.

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 Jorge, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 My prospecting approach at that time was going through lead lists and sending blind emails. This week is one of those weeks.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As more and more sales people are recognising cold calling is less fruitful than they would like, attention is being focused on what you can do to improve your overall sales success rate. 5) When creating sales emails, write them so they include helpful information to the recipient. Record it and send the link out to prospects.

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Vengreso

MAY 11, 2020

Consider this metaphor for your B2B sales team. If you follow sports, you know that there are games played during the regular season and then there’s the offseason. Many athletes however, use the offseason to do strength training, stay healthy, and work on specific skills development to improve their game.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 10, 2015

Of course my focus is on sales, sales leadership, executives and business. Your firm is growing and needs a competent, energetic sales manager to increase revenue and direct sales operations on the frontline. Here are my Top 10 Reasons Why New Sales Managers Fail.

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