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How to Optimize Your Sales Team’s Professional Selling Skills

Contact Monkey

In order to do this, however, leaders within the business need to work with individual salespeople, helping them develop the kind of professional selling skills that lead to long-term success. Optimize Your Sales Team’s Professional Selling Skills. Are you using Salesforce for team success for your sales team?

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Outbound Prospecting: Thinking Above The Sales Funnel

The Sales Developers

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. Some of these results of that wasted effort might sound familiar to you: “You integrate with Salesforce? We aren’t on Salesforce.” = poor targeting. If they’re distracted by the 80% of the funnel, reps don’t have as much time to work on their selling skills.

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9 Things Terribly Wrong With Sales Today: The Sales Tools

A Sales Guy

Too much reliance on selling tools. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. That was selling in 1996. There was no Salesforce. Salesforce came on the scene. Email became prevalent, websites were showing up, but selling was still a job of grind. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales.

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Perseverance, Resiliency and Revenues

Women Sales Pros

One reason is that the new selling environment is more difficult than the salesperson’s previous one. Many years ago, a prospect, now a client, told her story of a bad hire. The salesperson’s prior successful sales experience was selling for a well-branded company. Prospect doors opened up easily because of name recognition.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Gary Greenberger of @Qstream

SBI

Sales professionals don’t have to spend time trying to find the course that they need to take to gain the knowledge and skills to be a successful remote seller. Many Qstream customers didn’t have a strong sense of their salesforces’ capabilities to sell in a completely new remote model.

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Is it Time to “Argo” Your Sales Team?

Women Sales Pros

How many sales managers have watched a salesperson conduct a role play, one where he or she did a really great job of executing the right selling skills? And how many sales managers have watched this same salesperson conduct a sales conversation with a tough prospect in which none of those selling skills showed up?

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7 Virtual Selling Strategies to Help Your Team Thrive in the Digital Age

Allego

With 92% of buyers preferring virtual sales interactions, according to Bain and Company, it’s imperative that your sellers perfect their virtual selling skills. Research backs this up: 84% of buyers say being treated like a person, not a number or a sales target, is critical to winning them over, according to Salesforce Research.