Score More Sales

AUGUST 6, 2020

One of the reasons I did some heavy research seven years ago was that as a sales trainer and consultant, I could not show enough ROI for the time and money clients were investing in our work. Selling sales process sales strategyDuring times when business can be happening slower, in a slowed economy, finding any way to speed things up is important. What if there was some science around helping your buyers buy in a better way, or an easier manner?

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Score More Sales

MAY 3, 2019

We know of eleven factors that historically have shortened sales cycles, based on research done by Objective Management Group. Here are a few to think about: sales process sales strategy complex sales

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2019

In Good times and bad, the one thing most sales professionals try to do is shorten the length of their sales cycle. They believe that shorter sales cycles bring several benefits, some indeed materialize, most do not. The complete opposite of what it should be, we need to focus on buying cycles to shorten sales cycles. Having a sales process that was clear and flexible enough not to knock up against the buyer’s process.

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The Pipeline

JULY 17, 2013

Shorter sales cycles are one of those things that come up in many discussions with sales and corporate leaders. When I ask them what specific improvements they would like to see 18 to 24 months out, a shorter cycle is usually one. First, there is little agreement in and across sales organization as to what constitutes a sales cycle. While this sounds straight forward, just go and ask three sales people in your organization.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 7, 2015

It only makes sense that if your goal is to close sales faster, you must be working with prospects who are most likely to buy NOW. Blog Breakthrough Sales University Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Professional Selling Skills cold calling consultative selling sales cycle sales skills selling cycle selling skillsAsk this key question to ask every prospect during the first contact: What is your timeline for making a decision?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I have been doing sales training and consulting for nearly 20 years and I always get a chuckle when salespeople tell me they need to find ways to close business in two calls. It’s not about the number of calls—it’s about the length of the sales cycle. And the sales cycle doesn’t start until the buyer is ready for it to start. inbound marketing sales cycle prospecting

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 23, 2013

Every salesperson would like to think they can handle and would relish in a short sales-cycle, but here’s the problem — most salespeople can’t handle it. The sales cycle is shortening because of one thing, and that is the amount of information available on the internet. Before the internet became as big it is today, customers would have to engage with a salesperson to find out information, regardless of where they were in the buying cycle.

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Selling Energy

AUGUST 19, 2020

I was given an excellent suggestion from one of my students regarding a sales program of his own! sales tips sales professionalism sales performance sales process

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Smart Selling Tools

MAY 17, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? John: Seismic is an enterprise-grade sales and marketing enablement solution. Seismic levels the playing field for sales. Seismic generates larger deals and shortened sales cycles.

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Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

The average B2B sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 to 9 months to close, depending on the complexity of the product or service being sold. How in the world are you supposed to survive as a seller? How can any company truly thrive? It seems impossible. but is it? Join Donald Kelly, The Sales Evangelist, Founder and CEO of The Sales Evangelist Sales Training Firm, as he shares how B2B sellers can shorten their sales cycle, generate more revenue, and get more ROI from their current sales process.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The weakest part of the sales cycle can create havoc in a sales rep’s short-term and long-term sales success. Sales Coaching Millennial Sales Talent optimizing sales Pipeline Management The Sales Leader

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2020

The post Beyond Prospecting: Video Throughout the Sales Cycle appeared first on Sales Hacker. Partner Platinum Prospecting & Sales Development Vidyard Webinars

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 19, 2016

In sales, when we talk about targets, most people immediately think about revenue and profit targets, and sometimes product units and/or shipment targets. Please take a moment to review the image below: Dave Kurlan shorten the sales cycle sales targets win ratesNow that we are nearly 3 weeks into the new year, have you changed anything with regard to goals, strategies or plans? How about targets? A few small tweaks to your targets can have a huge impact on revenue!

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 6, 2019

The same thing can happen to your sales cycle. It could be changes in the economy or something else in the marketplace that is impacting the time required to close a sale. Whatever the reason, a longer sales cycle time is not good for your business. I have seen sales lost that were seemingly won just days earlier because some variable changed during those extra days. It was an exhausting process but we eventually made the sale.

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Speaker: Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce

Now that you've figured out how to connect your products and devices to the cloud, how do you prove that your investment will pay off? Discover the power of Smart CRM, and find out how companies are leveraging the best ideas from Software as a Service to provide Customer Experience as a Service.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This week’s Weekly Briefing featured data on the state of sales cycles and sales velocity in this new normal. Jim Benton was joined by Dan Wardle , VP of Revenue at Vidyard , to discuss the insights behind the data, and what sales cycles and velocity look like on the ground.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2018

What Is a Sales Cycle? Sales Cycle” refers to the specific actions salespeople follow to close a new customer. Sales cycles are often confused with sales methodologies. To understand a sales cycle, you must understand the stages it's comprised of.

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A Sales Guy

MAY 24, 2016

Sales isn’t about taking, or convincing. Sales is about giving, teaching, coaching, educating, sharing and engaging. Sales is about helping, that’s all. The pressure to perform, to get to quota and to win in sales is intense. It’s this pressure that ends up perverting sales. Because of this pressure buyers don’t allow sales people to help, as they don’t trust them. The cycle has begun.

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KO Advantage Group

DECEMBER 9, 2018

In the same vein, you don’t present your proposal to a prospect who isn’t completely sales-ready. It isn’t ideal to propose in the early stages of the sales cycle and when your prospect is still very hesitant. Know all the information possible to help you align where they are with the sales cycle. Grab every opportunity that comes up and nurture your leads until they meet your criteria set—marking them qualified and moving the sales process forward.

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Close.io

AUGUST 6, 2018

Enterprises typically have very long buying cycles. Here are two things you can do to accelerate the sales process. Understand the buying cycle of the enterprise you're selling into. It's a mistake because more often than not, they haven't told you their whole buying cycle yet.

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Frontline Selling

MARCH 6, 2019

No matter what product or service you’re selling, your sales process usually follows the same basic steps. The post What is a Sales Cycle? Process makes perfect. By focusing on each of your phases individually, you can. appeared first on FRONTLINE Selling. Tips & Tricks

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KO Advantage Group

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Pose open-ended questions that roll with the sales cycle: Who? When you meet with a client, do you come prepared with a few questions to ask before, during, and after the meeting? We’re not talking about just simple questions here.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

There I was at the beginning of a new sales cycle, wrapping up the first meeting. Although the deal eventually closed, it was a slog of a sales cycle. ” Key Patterns of a Short Sales Cycle. analyzed the factors that lead to a short sales cycle.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 1, 2020

There often comes a state in Sales, especially for new teams, when almost everything seems to be going haywire. Some of the best performing Sales teams worldwide profoundly understand and master their Sales cycles. In the book Cracking the Sales Management Code , author Jason Jordan’s research shows that companies with Sales processes bring in 18% more revenue. What is a Sales Cycle? What is a Sales Cycle?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Author: Chris Orlob What’s the ultimate, late-stage barrier when you’re trying to push a deal through the sales cycle? As it turns out, including risk reversal language in your sales conversations may be all you need to keep pushing a deal forward.

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Smart Selling Tools

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? RO Innovation’s platform changes the game by: Activating customer advocacy end-to end in sales cycles.

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 1, 2018

In the sales cycle triumvirate of the customer, the sales team and the product, the vital role of salespeople is … Continue reading "Managing the Sales Cycle – the Salespeople". The post Managing the Sales Cycle – the Salespeople appeared first on Cincom Blog.

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SalesforLife

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Does your sales team has 6-18 months sales cycles? Does it feel like your sales team needs to draw from everything they’ve learnt in The Challenger Sale , Customer Centric Selling , and Value Selling … insert sales methodology here?

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Sandler Training

APRIL 17, 2019

Watch Brian Sullivan, Vice President of Sandler Enterprise Selling, describe how the Sandler Enterprise Selling Program addresses one of the most common enterprise sales challenges, extended sales cycles. Sales ProcessWatch Time: 3 Minutes.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. According to MarketingSherpa, 73% of leads are not sales-ready.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 13, 2017

It starts with the question, “Is reducing the time between customer meetings the only way to compress the sales cycle?” ” This focuses on what we call wall/calendar time (look at the clock or calendar on the wall, reduce time between meetings–shorten sales cycle). It is a way to reduce sales cycle, but it’s probably the least controllable way to do this. But reducing sales cycle time (wall-time) is really the wrong issue.

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Gong.io

JUNE 18, 2018

Sales influencers have hypothesized about every phase of the sales cycle. They tell us exactly what works and what doesn’t on sales calls. Our team of data scientists has analyzed more than 1,000,000 recorded sales calls. The top 10-20% of your sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2019

Sales will always be a numbers game. Is It Possible to Shorten the Enterprise Sales Cycle? How most sales reps spend their day may surprise you. of a sales workday for functions directly related to selling. That’s a shame, because time not spent closing the sale isn’t just wasteful, it’s also dangerous. Mistakes and setbacks abound when we don’t proactively manage the close of an important sale. 8 Tactics to Shorten the Sales Cycle.

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Lead411

JULY 9, 2018

In today’s sales world, we are surrounded by time savers. One aspect of sales that has been traditionally slow, however, is the sales cycle. In the past few years, the need for a better sales approach has emerged in the form of the sales trigger.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 26, 2011

If you’re operating from an old school view of the sales cycle, you’re leaving money on the table. Sales will take longer. Sales cycles aren’t linear. Sales people don’t get stuck, they just keep working, putting in a lot of effort (moving up) and wasting time not getting any closer to the sale. I created this video to demonstrate what a real sales cycle looks like.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Studies show that reaching out to leads within an hour of them contacting you makes you seven times likelier to have meaningful conversations, and up to 50% of sales go to the vendor who responded first. Whether it’s from clients, management, or themselves, salespeople are under a lot of pressure to perform faster when it comes to their sales process. Needs Analysis sales process sales accelerator

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

How to stop undermining your performance, and save your sales. Getting caught in the cyclone of a vicious sales cycle is a looming trap. Sales quotas loom, and we neglect the basics of customer interaction, respect, and basic sales behaviors. My colleague, Andy Paul, author of Zero-Time Selling , clearly describes four sales traps that stem from bad habits. Take a quick read and avoid these sales traps at all costs.

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Engage Selling

JUNE 14, 2019

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