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Letting Your Prospects Train You

The Pipeline

Over the years, I have found that some of my best prospect interviews have come as a result of something another prospect asked me. As a bonus, your prospects/customers will help you sell your next deal without them even knowing or caring. Refining how they prospect and conduct discovery. Train The Prospect.

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A Critical Mistake In Handle Prospecting Objections

The Pipeline

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. Look at it as an opportunity to educate the prospect or correct a misunderstanding they have, or highlight a blind spot they hadn’t considered. By Tibor Shanto. Best Defence Is a Good Offence.

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Pack Your Prospecting Call With Things to Unpack During Discovery

The Pipeline

While it is true that the only reason for a prospecting call is to set up the first formal interaction, there is so much more that can be accomplished. One thing that many fail to do in prospecting calls is set the momentum for the Discovery and beyond. Most are focused on and working on getting that primary directive right.

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Stop Selling Like You’re In Stockholm

The Pipeline

Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. But as Mike Tyson said, the best made plans are laid out by the first punch or prospect objection. Doing a much better job selling the manager on the discount than selling the value to the prospect.

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2 Ways Time-Starved Organizations Can Kick Virtual Sales Training Into High Gear

Allego

At the same time, few can afford to interrupt their busy schedules to attend sales training classes or read stacks of books, manuals and articles. On top of this, travel restrictions during the pandemic have made training even more difficult—both for trainers and for learners. 2 Ways to Kick Your Training Content Into High Gear.

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How to Build a Sales Training Program & Evaluate Its Impact

BrainShark

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy. Lets you evaluate your training program’s impact on sales KPIs. How long will your training materials be?

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5 Sales Enablement Priorities for Transformational CMOs

Allego

Sales enablement is an emerging function that serves as the glue to unite previously siloed activities including sales content management, onboarding and training, product launches, coaching, and virtual selling. 2 Seller Training. 5 Transformative Sales Enablement Priorities. 1 Sales Content Management.