Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

Finding the right prospective buyers and then actually having conversations with them are the top two challenges most sellers are facing now. If assigned a vertical territory of financial services I would do several things right away: look at who my existing and past customers in financial services are. Look Socially. Close More Deals.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I think you can get AI to figure out what the likely outcomes are based on all risk factors and the market you’re selling into etc. and free up time for managers to coach the reps on how to add more value in their territory for better outcomes.” There were a hundred million actions in my territory every year.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

The average ramp-up time for salespeople is between six and nine months. Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). Pre-week training. This gives your sales reps context around their roles and what they’ll learn during training.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Training can take place in a classroom setting, via LMS, mobile applications, etc.

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Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

Do you have a strategic prospecting plan or will you just “wing it” again, like you often do? You need to start planning during your prior work day for upcoming prospecting you’ll be doing on the next business day. You think this just comes up naturally in your thought process? When will you follow-up, and how?

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Prospecting Education Territories B2B 222

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. Unlock the Full Conversation with Integrated Sales Tech In a Forrester survey, 58% of respondents agreed that customer, prospect, and account data comes from too many sources.

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Analysis Territories Scale SalesForce 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Navigate these waters with ease – join us as we chart out a course through the vast ocean of best sales training podcasts. Welcome aboard as we chart out a course through the vast ocean of best sails training podcasts. What is the podcast about sales prospecting? How do I start a sales podcast? With over 55% of the U.S

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They’re trained to sell to anyone who wants to buy and facilitate a quick buying process — but as inbound salespeople, we know who our products are made for, and we should only be selling to customers who are going to leverage value over time. The prospect is not in your sales territory. Their vertical market (i.e.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some think great sellers are born , but more often than not, they’re made through virtual sales training, teaching, practice, and support. Below we outline 10 skills your sales team can develop with help from a virtual sales training platform. Top skills for virtual selling success. Time management. Technology use. Storytelling.

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Top of Funnel Training Negotiation Buyer 52

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A lot of the conversation focuses on “freeing up time.” ” But as I think about it, is the issue really about freeing up time or is it about using our time more effectively? Looking at prospecting and conducting sales calls–sellers are spending 33% of their time engaging with customers/prospects.

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Territories Examples Negotiation Meeting 81

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Think of it as being multilingual, they only speak one of the three languages spoken in their territory. Everyone gets trained; buyers know what to say to shunt also-rans and reward the 20% they want to deal with. The 20% who are recognized as eagles continue to sell the future, but future is not singular.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

If your B2B company has been slow to get more involved in what some call the Social Selling movement, you can still do some very simple things right away while your company debates how, when and why to jump in. A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying.

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InsideView Research Prospecting Eloqua 249

The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2019

Selective Training. When you ask them straight up, they always have a reason or excuse. The skinny legs for many sellers are prospecting. Not much new in that, sales people have always preferred almost any other sales activity to prospecting. This leads to their success standing on twiggy legs. Only The Shell Has Changed.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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CRM Proposal Maximizer Up-Sell 129

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

These are the characteristics that companies should hire and train for in order to drive consistent, strong sales growth in their organizations. As a result, they often retain weaker performers, believing it is better than having an open territory. They constantly reassess sales territories to optimize results.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Free Resources.

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criteria for success

APRIL 7, 2021

If you're in the market for some DIY sales management training, you've come to the right place. We often talk about the importance of process in selling, but good sales management is a process too. It's important to remember that everyone could use some training from time to time, even once they have advanced to a leadership position.

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Sales Management Training Journal Forecasting 85

The Brooks Group

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your sales team’s success depends on effective prospecting, and effective prospecting depends on effective prospect planning. Help your salespeople fill their pipelines with qualified prospects that lead to more sales, using these 8 steps. Define Your Ideal Prospect and Qualification Criteria. Clarify Messaging .

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Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Territories 69

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. January 2012.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Some examples are: ‘Friends’ within the customer/prospect.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Territories 120

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

A prospective client had a 3×5 card, generally with their business card stapled to it, and this was used to keep track of activities. It was also used to ensure that follow-up tasks were completed when due. Of course, things can get complicated when you are juggling 100’s of clients, prospects, and active deals.

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CRM Revenue Company Hiring 71

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

We’re all in unchartered territory now. Anyway, how do you handle this objection when you’re prospecting? Second: It’s important to stress to prospects and clients that what we’re going through now is temporary. Let your prospect or client vent. If they haven’t joined my blog yet, they can sign up here.

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Objections Face-to-face Inside Sales Gatekeeper 169

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

You can think of training and enablement programs as similar waves along a continuum. As you move up the y-axis, those programs gain more executive altitude , becoming more strategic and immediately impactful to the company’s growth agenda. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. The First Wave: Learning Paths.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Territories Top of Funnel 105

The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. Wim @ Sales Sells.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2018

Author: Tim Riesterer Most training and learning efforts are based on clusters of competencies, supported by a curriculum or catalog that gets scheduled on interest and availability. Just think about all the situations that might crop up suddenly, presenting challenges that you need to address right away. Limiting, right?

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Territories Margin Training Pipeline 185

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. On her right is another person who is developing a successful career in manufacturing, selling hydraulic components and next to him… I think.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. Unless you invest in a good training program (and your people). A full 58% of business managers claim they received no management training at all ahead of their start date. What are the benefits of sales management training? sales guidance.

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Training Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Now everybody was scrambling, with a lot of pressure on those remaining to make up the difference. The Situation. Why it Matters.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 21, 2013

He gets protective of “gray area prospects” who stretch across several regions. Every time there’s a territory rezoning he bellyaches. Or If you chop up my territory, I’ll look somewhere else. Because of this, prospects and existing customers don’t get the same level of service. He mostly gets his way.

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Territories Quota Engineering Resources 303

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Free Resources.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Your company may have pivoted to virtual selling overnight this spring, but now you realize that working and closing deals when you can’t be there in person is the new normal. For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. Virtual selling isn’t as personal. Challenge 7: Picking Up Company Culture.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Conversely, we’ve come across teams that throw their hands up in despair. All your data is rolled-up to a common definition of the customer. IT needs to step up here. Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Acuity enables B2B sales teams “to improve sales productivity in implementing prospecting and customer growth strategies using flexible process technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI).” New traffic pattern data enabled model training to reduce time-to-destination. But the data doesn’t exist yet. Call that… “Just add AI.”

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Data Intent Signal 195

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Some aspects of sales training are easy to measure others not so, but it is a fair question when I am asked what they can expect from an ROI standpoint. Companies have shown selectivity with other training or development programs.

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