SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Here are 5 key takeaways that made this training a success.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On a scale of 1-10, how critical are referrals to your business? The Facts About Referrals: The average business spends 5x more on trying to acquire new business than on generating referrals from existing clients. Does this data change your perspective on how critical referrals are to your business?

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Steven Rosen

JULY 28, 2012

Sales Summer School is the biggest most comprehensive Sales and Sales Management training event of 2012! Attention Sales Managers! Admit it, summer is the slowest sales time of the year your sales reps are and customers are on vacation. 30+ CLASSES / 16 INSTRUCTORS / 30 DAYS!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2013

It’s up to you to lead the referral-selling charge. Whether you are CEO, vice president, or a sales manager , you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition to referral selling—the only business-development strategy proven to convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

What excites me is working with prospects and clients on referral selling and experiencing together the dramatic results they achieve. That said, I’ve committed to getting out of my sales comfort zone this year, and that means confronting my technology aversion head on. Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Do sales reps demonstrate product features, or do they discuss the benefits for buyers? What is their sales plan for following up? Don’t even think about training your sales team on closing the deal. They’re not closing sales because your prospecting system is broken. And that’s referral leads.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Rather, it’s a step, an action, a conversation missed earlier in the sales process. If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. By asking for referrals from friends, colleagues, and (best of all) current customers. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 30, 2017

What in the heck is sales enablement? It’s not technology, it’s not content, it’s not training, it’s not process, and it’s not culture. The goal is to equip sales teams with the tools they need to sell. So, what can sales leaders learn from America’s favorite pastime? Revenue can be measured but not managed.

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Score More Sales

MAY 1, 2017

I saw a question this week in a sales community on LinkedIn. A member was looking for a referral for sales management training. What struck me hard was that he said he’d reached out to four companies who offer sales management training services.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

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…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 4, 2013

Is training your sales team a waste of time and money? Sales training is not an event; it’s a behavioral change. Many sales leaders schedule training sessions, pat themselves on the back for investing in their teams, and consider their mission accomplished. Is Your Training DOA? Quite possibly.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 20, 2014

Think sales training is unnecessary? Sales execs expect to hire the best, brightest, and most connected salespeople they can find—reps who will hit the ground running and bring in big deals in record time. The idea is that companies can increase sales effectiveness by simply hiring the right people in the first place.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 21, 2016

Referral selling not working for your team? Think you can just tell sales reps to go ask for referrals? Your Referral Sales Strategies Are Missing Something. Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. Why do you need disciplined referral sales strategies ? Here’s what you’re missing!

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 7, 2011

Online Training. Why Can’t You Get More Referrals? Tweet Share The definition of “referral” will surprise you, and at the same time make you understand why you don’t get as many as you expect or ask for. The definition of “referral” is: Risk. Do you ask for referrals?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 3, 2012

Online Training. Referrals – Best Way To Get Is To Give. Tweet Share You don’t ask for referrals, you earn referrals: Looking for more tips like this? Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey?

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 26, 2015

Do you know what it takes to build a business based on referrals? Do you know how to ask for referrals in a way that gets results? Or how to nurture your network so referrals keep pouring in? I’m doing some referral research and need your help. Please take my 14-question Referral I.Q. Take the Referral I.Q.

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Braveheart Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

Gaining referrals can seem harder than cold calling. There are many salespeople who would rather talk with relative strangers in the form of prospects than to ask current clients for referrals. This makes it hard to ask for referrals. We have all been exposed to bad referral asking. It’s something I’ve recently noticed.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 18, 2015

Enter the world of referral selling. You’ll discover how to get more referrals—and seal more deals—all while working less. Once you experience the success of a referral-prospecting strategy, there’s no turning back. Once you experience the success of a referral-prospecting strategy, there’s no turning back.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 28, 2018

Why don’t account based selling teams ask for referrals? Why is asking for referrals ad hoc and not a discipline? It makes no sense at all because every sales leader and account based sales rep knows that referrals are their hottest leads and best business. Sales leaders, here’s what you’re up against: 1.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned sales manager or a frontline rep hustling for results, we get it – the struggle is real. Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2015

If you’ve let things slide, it’s time to take a look at your referral sales strategy and see how it can boost your batting average and help you deliver a few homeruns. Are you telling your team to ask for referrals? Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. That app is referral selling.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 14, 2015

The problem was that sales management had their heads in the sand. So, they neglected the strategies, sales metrics , and processes that could have kept their businesses strong, or at least afloat, when the going got rough. How about a general session keynote at a conference on management excellence? We need both.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

Training dollars are being misallocated. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. The Need-Payoff that she had been trained on was thrown out the window. Budget has been invested in Training and Development in the past year. Your CRM supports the sales process.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting. It means using every sales strategy, every tool and every channel to engage and connect with prospects. The sales prospecting template, queue or categories we built are: Call.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. I asked my client how the sales reps prepared. ” Was their sales manager clueless, or what? You are now a true sales manager.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Online Training. Relationships and Referrals | Top Sales Trainer | Best Sales Trainer | Top Leadership Trainer. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Gitomer | February 18, 2011 | 1 Comment.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2015

Referral selling is a disciplined process sales leaders need to learn. Are you “all in” with referral selling, or just trying it on? Are you telling your team to ask for referrals? Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. Address any concerns from your team with referral-selling data.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Online Training. Tweet Share Most salespeople think that their quota is set too high, that their sales plan has been set at an unrealistic level. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Is Your Quota Set Too High?

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 11, 2012

We were recently talking with some sales managers about helping their teams build their book of business. While the managers noted that some prospects come from corporate marketing campaigns, several remarked their sales people were not personally doing a good job developing referrals and they needed to.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 10, 2011

Online Training. Tweet Share You go through your ENTIRE one-hour, amazing sales presentation. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? It’s not about RESPONSE. It’s about PREVENTION. You nailed it.

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criteria for success

MARCH 17, 2021

Thinking of building a sales training program? Regardless of the size of your team (or your budget), it’s important to have a sales training program. But in the long term, a sales training program can save you time, make the most of your resources, and strengthen your sales team. Learn More.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 15, 2011

Online Training. Filed Under: Attitude , Sales , Success Tagged With: attitude training , book on attitude , building trust , business social media , corporate sales training , customer service , customer service training , gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , sales blog , selling skills. Generating Referrals.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 3, 2011

Online Training. Filed Under: Attitude , Customer Loyalty , Generating Referrals , Sales Tagged With: attitude training , building trust , establishing trust , gitomer , how to sell , Jeffrey gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , sales leadership , sales skills. . -->. Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others. TS: Many of today’s inside sales managers were promoted out of the cubicle into management.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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