Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’ll do wonders for the sales pipeline and the results will show in your product revenue numbers. Be a Positive Person That Salespeople Love To Work With There’s a lot to unpack here, but DO NOT interpret this as “do whatever sales asks.” I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales. Our sales numbers backed it up!

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. One profession that stands to benefit most from these apps is sales. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007.

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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. Perhaps most importantly, they also agree that sales playbooks creates a better customer experience!

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s fair to say sales is an art as well as a science. However, that inherent talent isn’t the norm since most skilled sales agents started as novices and honed their talents over time. Contrarily, a subpar platform can actively detract from the operational efficiency and performance of the sales department.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge. Sales Knowledge Management to the rescue! Efficiency.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Customer Hot Potato – Sales eXchange – 117. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Customer Care , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. A variation on the familiar “oh no, it is not the hardware, it’s a software issue” ya right. Sales eXchange.

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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. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #3 - "I Just Compete with Vendors". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Listen to Social Selling evangelist, Jill Rowley, in Episode 20 of Sales Rehab! Image courtesy of Stock Images at FreeDigitialPhotos.net.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Part of your job as a sales leader is to stay connected to your sales team’s daily habits. As a sales leader, you must coach your sellers to quickly and objectively evaluate whether a prospect is truly qualified, so no time is wasted chasing a deal that will never happen. They spend too much time chasing unqualified prospects.

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LeadBoxer

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We all know that making a sale is the act of exchanging a product or service in return for cash, but there is far more to selling than what meets the eye. With B2B e-commerce sales predicted to exceed B2C e-commerce sales by 2020, B2B selling is constantly growing. How are B2B sales different from B2C sales?

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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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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 4, 2016

Sales Tips: WHY Do Your Salespeople Hate CRMs? Decades ago, while selling clients their first business computer systems, I learned a valuable lesson: Software is only as good as the data that’s entered. CEO, CFO, VP of Marketing and VP of Sales realize high benefit with minimal disruption from implementing CRM.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 3, 2016

Sales Tips: Do Your Buyers Have a Sense of Urgency? When trying to get to the end of sales cycles, sellers always seem to be in a hurry. I’m consulting with a client and recently was discussing a $500,000 software opportunity in a seller’s pipeline that he hopes to close by year-end. Need some help to increase sales?

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LeadFuze

APRIL 2, 2019

This can be because salespeople lack the technical ability and are still following ineffective sales methodologies. This is where sales enablement enters the scene! Sales enablement is a powerful tool for increasing sales performance. What exactly is Sales Enablement? 2 Understand your sales reps.

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Success , Sales Tip , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales! We expect newer salespeople to be sales challenged, that is, not very effective when it comes to listening and questioning.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 30, 2013

Sales Training Article: Why A Rising Win Rate Could be a Bad Sign. By Drew Zarges, Sales Benchmark Index The software company''s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? The Sales team hadn''t vastly improved. Each year we''ve improved."

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Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face. We’ll get to individual sales objections in time.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 18, 2016

Sales Tips: Is It Time to Update Your Sales Process and Align Your CRM? It prompted me to wonder if companies have modified their sales process milestones developed in the 90’s and imbedded them into their CRM software? They vary from the prescribed approach defined in a sales process.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 3, 2012

The End of Solution Sales. The Role of Sales Leadership & Management. I put it in my to read file and as I fly to Hong Kong (16 hours) to lead a clients sales leadership workshop I pulled it out to read and contemplate. Now what does that title mean to you? At 35,000 feet it woke me up.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Turn a "No Decision" into a WIN. When a software client grew frustrated with their dismal results from efforts to improve sales, they knew they needed to find out exactly what their buyers wanted. The client’s top executives and sales manager told us that they wanted to learn how to improve sales practices.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and a quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face. We’ll get to individual sales objections in time.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. Conclusion.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 17, 2013

Sales Training Article: How to Leverage the War Room to Win the Big Deal. By Dan Bernoske, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Sales Reps who are behind in Q2 risk missing their number for the year. Often it’s the major opportunities that determine Sales Rep success or failure. They require longer, 6-12 month sales cycles.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. There are an unlimited number of angles from which you can attack a sales strategy. What is a sales strategy?

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 27, 2019

Traditionally, storytelling is a marketing, sales or PR function. And, traditionally, marketing, sales and PR focus on justifying, to customers, their investment in your products and services in anticipation of a benefit received from said products and services. Do you know who they are? As a result, they become skeptical.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Over the past 18 months, the survey results indicate that CFOs have assumed significant additional responsibilities for several key groups, including: information technology (43%), human resources (39%), production (38%), customer service (37%), and even marketing / sales (33%). now finds herself at marketing meetings.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

Sales being the hyper-competitive place that it is, a business can potentially live or die by its ability to bring sales professionals up to speed. As a result, coaching and the steady production of fresh, new sales training ideas can be major stressors for sales managers, particularly on SaaS sales teams.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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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. To which type of sales does MEDDPICC® apply best? Steve : Yeah.

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