SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2013

This post is for small business CEOs struggling to hire top sales talent. I’m conducting a workshop on SBI’s Topgrading for Sales methodology. The goal is to help CEOs find better sales people. Topgrading for Sales takes the guesswork out of hiring. This phase is about defining ‘A’ player sales talent.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 13, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan CEO's are much more likely than Sales Leaders to pay companies in the sales development space for help yet Sales Leaders are much more likely than CEO's to attend workshops, seminars, and briefings. Why is that? It increases the value of the company. (c)

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MEDDIC

MAY 6, 2021

Yes, I wrote “process” MEDDIC is NOT a Sales Process. During the course “ Introduction to MEDDIC ” at MEDDIC Academy , I explain that there is no such thing as the MEDDIC sales process (or the MEDDPICC Sales process ). Also, it may make sense when there’s no existing sales process.

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Product Management University

MARCH 21, 2023

The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is shorter sales cycles where your products and services are the clear choice. What is a Sales Playbook?

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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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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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SalesLoft

JANUARY 15, 2019

This year, the sales engagement conference is going to be bigger and better than ever. This opportunity to learn and exchange ideas is like drinking from a sales firehose – there is a lot to take in. We’re here to help you network your way through 2000 sales professionals and select your best track among 44 sessions.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

In sales, every day is a new opportunity to contact leads, close deals, and move closer to your target. However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. What is a sales audit? Sales Audit Checklist.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . Another aspect is how to make sales enablement the engine of your digital transformation efforts. .

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales readiness is the enablement domain that connects the dots to engage and empower your sales force. This domain covers impactful knowledge transfer and effective skill development, and is supported by targeted coaching across the entire sales cycle. This domain should also be closely connected to sales effectiveness.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In 2012 our consultants attended 438 live sales calls. Two weeks ago, we participated in the worst sales call of the year. The story begins with the EVP of Sales of a large technology company. The purpose of the engagement was to understand why The Challenger Sale was not working. I hope to help you avoid some mistakes.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 31, 2022

At MEDDIC Academy, our mission is to make Enterprise Sales easy and accessible to all. If you are a Sales Leader who wants to make their sellers intelligent, we got your back. The post AI Produced Wine, Château MEDDIC™, Helps Sellers Learn MEDDPICC® Faster appeared first on MEDDIC ACADEMY: MEDDPICC Sales courses and Training.

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Mindtickle

MAY 8, 2020

For sales enablement leaders, a remote workforce can be difficult to navigate. Their daily mandate is to keep customer-facing teams actively engaged through sales training and coaching, which can be challenging to conduct primarily or entirely remotely — or are they? Don’t overlook coaching delivered remotely.

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MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A MEDDIC Sales kickoff should be inspirational, short and valuable. Time is your sales force’s most valuable asset. That’s $2M indirect cost for a sales force with 100 quota-carrying AEs. What your sales force needs instead is learning something practical to get inspired, which brings us to the importance of the how.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2018

Forty years ago, Strategic Selling® changed the sales industry forever, giving organizations a powerful and proven methodology to win complex deals and create stronger customer relationships. Now, we’re changing the sales industry again by introducing an update to our core methodology to meet the challenges of today’s sales industry.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Solution selling is a basic sales methodology that has long been the norm in enterprise B2B. When you adopt an aspirational approach to selling, here’s what you’re communicating to buyers throughout the sales process. If you’re the account executive or sales engineer, those are the obstacles you want to attack.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is a shorter sales process where you’re the clear choice. Sales Playbook: Less is More! The Playbook: 1.

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Mindtickle

MAY 8, 2020

For sales enablement leaders, a remote workforce can be difficult to navigate. Their daily mandate is to keep customer-facing teams actively engaged through sales training and coaching, which can be challenging to conduct primarily or entirely remotely — or are they? Don’t overlook coaching delivered remotely.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Better Handle Buyer Objections. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In our workshops we don’t spend a great deal of time on objection handling. Need some help to increase sales? Executives prefer to understand usage and business outcomes.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I just finished reading a chapter from the book – Harvard Business Review on Strategic Sales Management. The chapter is “Understanding What Your Sales Manager Is Up Against” by Barry Trailer and Jim Dickie. The various contributors always get me thinking and re-thinking about what I think I know about sales and sales management.

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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. In enterprise sales, the context is different. It makes sense. The budget is a crucial qualifier. What are your thoughts? If you like it, share it!

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance,” he said. Morning sessions set-up workshops in the afternoon. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 19, 2020

A remote workforce can be difficult to navigate especially for sales enablement leaders. Regardless of location, sales enablement leaders must keep customer-facing teams actively engaged. It needs to be closely aligned with the steps and activities sales reps execute as part of the process.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sales Tips: No More Excuses for Coming Up Short. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. "I That information is then relayed back to sales management either via a formal Loss Report or through a post sales ‘autopsy’ discussion. I could have won that business. And what happens?

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Last month, Miller Heiman Group CEO Byron Matthews kicked off our webinar series, The Future of Sales Is Now , by sharing marketplace trends that challenge sales teams across all industries: Sales performance is faltering. Talent gaps are derailing sales organizations. Investing in Sales Effectiveness.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 12, 2016

Sales Tips: Behavior Follows Belief. Back in the 1970’s, IBM was the gold standard of sales training. When I got into sales in the late 1980’s, companies were still, for the most part, willing to invest heavily in training their salespeople on the best practices of the day. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sales Tips: How Deep Is Your Sales Bench? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In looking at enterprise revenue generation, a defined sales process can allow companies to emulate the Patriot approach of getting higher production from each member of the team.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 2. Sales Hacker.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 10, 2016

Sales Tips: Can "A" Players Improve? A common perception is that extraordinary salespeople don’t need and won’t benefit from learning new sales process approaches. A few years ago I was teaching a workshop for new hires of a long-term client. Need some help to increase sales? Your Roadmap to Revenue Growth® awaits!

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 24, 2016

Sales Tips: Avoid A La Carte Training. That may seem to be an odd way to start a sales blog, but I find many companies that go to the trouble and expense of training their salespeople make it an a la carte affair. This is a major factor in doing “drive by” sales training that doesn’t stick. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Sales Tips: Which Language Are You Using - Your Key Player's or Yours ? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. As a new hire sales trainee at IBM it was confusing and discouraging to attend the monthly Branch Office Meetings that were held. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 4, 2017

Sales Tips: Which Type of Questions Are Best to Use with Buyers? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. For example, when calling on a CSO the question could be: How do your sales managers assess and develop their sales staff? Need some help to increase sales?

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Call-back Buyer Research Training 61

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Sales Tips: Grading Opportunities - Garbage In, Garbage Out. The major reason Sales Force Automation (SFA) failed was that technology absent process merely speeds up the mess. During a workshop I was teaching I asked the VP Sales (Phil) if he was using their offering to forecast. At that time I worked with a CRM vendor.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Sales Tips: Has Senior Management Given Up on Sales? By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. They have bought too far into how much of an impact the Internet has had on the sales process.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Moving the needle” in terms of overall sales force performance is no mean feat. Sales Enablement – yes, big S, big E – is becoming an increasingly important function of many sales organizations, charged with increasing productivity, typically through the effective application of investments in people, technology, process and content.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sales Tips: Tread Carefully with ROI Calculators. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. However, I have some concerns about existing "ROI tools" and how they are used by salespeople in the sales process. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 1, 2017

Sales Tips: Sales Requires Courage. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. The same thing can be said about attending sales training. The same thing can be said about attending sales training. Courage to ask your sales trainer, manager or coworker for help.

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