Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 10, 2015

Sales Tips: Are Your Sales Cycle Activities Planned or Random? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sellers run the risk of having long sales cycles that fall under their own weight because they are done “bottom up.”. S ave your seat now!

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

On Thursday October 18, The Proactive Prospecting Workshop is coming to Houston, specifically to Four Points by Sheraton Houston Southwest, at 2828 Southwest Freeway, Houston. If you are in B2B sales, and need to engage with more new prospects, mark this date on your calendar, then sign up for this full day interactive prospecting program.

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Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Objections 257

Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 2, 2014

Sales Training Article: 2014 - So Far, So Good? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Now would be a good time to attend a sales training workshop to learn how you can save the year and make your number. Here''s Your Post-Q1 Wakeup Call.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

Three top sales leaders in EMEA recently joined me to chat about these topics. We are all facing similar challenges and they gave me a lot to think about – from reducing time in the hiring process to how we can train managers differently. . Natalie Barrie , Head of Sales at Mention Me. That means sales cycles are shrinking.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Lead Rank Scale 105

HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 30, 2014

Sales Strategy is a comprehensive guide for penetrating new accounts, differentiating your solution during the sales cycle, and closing large deals. It is based on extensive research and interviews with more than 1,000 key information technology decision makers, top technology salespeople, and vice presidents of sales.

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Competition Decision Maker Penetration Study 97

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Sales Tips: Know the Difference Between Buyers - and Researchers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Recent studies would have you believe as much as 80% of buying activities are complete before salespeople are involved.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

Sales Knowledge Management gives your sales team productivity superpowers by enabling them to focus on selling instead of hunting for information. Time Management for Sales study conducted by InsideSales.com Labs shows that sales reps spend 63% of their time on non-revenue generating tasks.

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MEDDIC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In transactional sales with a short sales cycle and low value-added sales, it’s been prevalent to use the customer’s budget to qualify a sales opportunity. We go through this in many parts of the Advanced MEDDPICC® course at MEDDIC Academy and our workshops. It makes sense.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

Sales Training Article: How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? Studies show that buyers are anywhere from 50-80% through their buying cycles before contacting sellers. A survey by Sales Benchmark Index showed 52% of sales cycles driven by sellers result in no decision. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Buying Cycle Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The length of your sales cycle will vary, and so will the number of touchpoints necessary to close a deal. But sometimes the process is dragged out longer than necessary simply because your salesperson lacks the confidence to ask for the sale. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Sales Cycle CRM 63

The Pipeline

JANUARY 16, 2012

For that fact neither you or I are that different when looked at specifically from a sales standpoint, what you might sell can be a little different from the alternatives, but studies have shown that most products in the market place share many of the same features and attributes. Sales eXchange , Sales Success , Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Hiring Cold Calling Lead Rank 214

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sales Tips: The Potential Benefits to an "Enterprise" View. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) study showed over 50% of sales cycles that end with sellers involved, result in buyers making “no decision.”

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Top Sales Tool for 2014. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of FrameAngel at FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. The sales team quickly altered course. Need some help with your sales performance?

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LeadFuze

APRIL 2, 2019

Here comes the role of B2B sales leaders who need to ensure proper sales training and the sales management infrastructure. 2 Understand your sales reps. Just having a sales enablement team is not sufficient as you need to find out whether your team member really understands the company set goals.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Revenue Motivation 55

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Get Your 2015 Started Right. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A Sales Benchmark Index study found 52% of sales cycles end in “no decision”. I hope 2014 was a good year. No access to power.

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Proposal How To Face-to-face Vendor 40

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In fact studies have shown that next to referrals, it is the most effective, time and cost efficient way to engage with potential buyers, especially those who have not declared themselves as being in the market. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

When you know what issues are likely to be on the minds of buyers, when you know where you have been able to deliver specific measurable and documented value to those buyers, (this is why you should always be collecting testimonials and case studies); you can start building a set of better questions. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Cycle.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 267

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Developing an AI strategy should involve identifying pain points, setting goals, assessing infrastructure, calculating ROI, researching solutions, piloting tools, training staff, and tracking performance. Improved sales coaching and training Rely on AI reviewing sales calls and interactions to identify areas of improvement and best practices.

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Lead Rank Sales Process Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 52

Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

It will include elements of social proof—for example, case studies or testimonials—and also outline the implementation process, including other stakeholders who need to be involved in a decision. Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have?

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 104

Costello

APRIL 16, 2019

In our latest research done in partnership with Databox , marketers and sales managers agree that playbooks improve the effectiveness and efficiency of calls, help train new salespeople and ensure product and services are correctly positioned. Sales scripts and objection handling are the core of my sales playbooks,” says Meah.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling Lead Rank 111

Pipeliner

JULY 19, 2018

Hansen leads the sales industry in presentations, helping salespeople to create and deliver the perfect sales presentation. She founded Performance Sales and Training , an organization that helps teach sales presentations, and offers workshops on mastering the craft.

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ACT Construction Industry Maximizer 61

The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

Sales 2.0 , Sales Process , Sales Skills , Sales Success , Social Selling , Tibor Shanto. As a salesperson and respectful human-being I feel it is my duty to share the Gartner Study with my competitors. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 267

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It will include elements of social proof—for example, case studies or testimonials—and also outline the implementation process, including other stakeholders who need to be involved in a decision. Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have?

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2011

Good ideas need a home and you’ve built a great sales library with an abundance of study rooms. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Sales Tips: 5 Ways You Could MISS Your Number This Year. The Office Of Financial Research recently studied companies whose stock had tripled over the last six years. Train wrecks occur a month at a time. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a much better chance of making their numbers.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Sage Sales Qualified Lead 40

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

Sales training programs help salespeople learn and/or improve their selling technique, skills, and processes. According to CSO Insights, salespeople who complete highly rated sales training programs have 10% higher win rates. Length: How will you fit training into your and/or your sales team’s schedule?

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Training Vendor Top of Funnel Workbooks 145

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

If you don’t create proper sales and marketing tools for your staff, you will make their jobs much more difficult. Arm them with well-thought-out selling tools and train them to use the tools effectively. Train your staff well and equip them with the most up-to-date information. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Marketing 253

The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

Sales training program expert tips for anyone involved in sales management or sales enablement some insight into planning any form of sales training. It sounds simplistic to say that sales training is the act of training salespeople or the sales team on the product and sales process.

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Training Top of Funnel Sales Methodology Lead Rank 52

OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 19, 2016

Likeability is a key attribute to success because the more comfortable a buyer feels with the sales rep the better chance they will want to pursue the sales relationship – and, down the road, sign a deal. Evolving Sales Behaviors. Self-perception. Incent to Drive Success.

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Cience

AUGUST 31, 2020

In fact, according to a Census Bureau study, as of 2017, 3% of full-time workers in the United States said they worked “primarily” out of their home office. If you have additional questions about how CIENCE has helped more than 950 industrious B2B companies create more certainty in their pipeline, schedule your 1-on-1 workshop.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Outbound Top of Funnel 52

Sales Training Advice

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The personality tests were given to high-technology and business services salespeople as part of sales strategy workshops I conducted. Conversely, top salespeople take command of the sales cycle process in order to control their own destiny. Achievement Orientation. Selling Style Impact: Political Orientation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy Decision Maker 47

MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Steve is an experienced leader in CRM and Sales Force Automation with a strong sales background obviously. Our chat gave me the opportunity to share publicly, for the first time, some of the nuggets I usually only share in my private workshops. Of course, the sales rep needs to be good at execution, being able to ask questions).

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Sales Qualified Lead Sales Methodology Forecasting Hiring 52

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Tools 45

Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

Marketers and sales teams focus on providing detailed product information, addressing specific objections, and offering tailored solutions. Tactics employed include personalized demos, free trials, case studies, pricing discussions, and contract negotiations.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 52

MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Sales coaching has become very popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Studies have shown that companies with sales coaching programs boost their win rates by almost 30%. What’s more, statistics show that businesses that use effective sales coaches report annual revenue growth of up to 7%! Let’s take a look.

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