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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

In the face of all this, for the most part we are training our sales people in the same skills I learned many decades ago, and my predecessors learned decades before that. To be fair, the training programs have advanced somewhat in their current implementation, though much of it seems cosmetic.

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In the Age of AI, Training Is More Critical Than Ever

Sales and Marketing Management

And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. Before that happens, though, the AI has to be trained?—? Selling skills still matter. This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including

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WARNING! Do You Suffer from Sales Prevention Syndrome?

The Sales Hunter

You blame your lack of success on your territory and how you would be more successful if you had a better territory. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price. Do you feel the market is just not right and that must be the reason customers aren’t buying from you?

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Missing on the "Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers"

Understanding the Sales Force

Here's why: He said to hire for characteristics and train for competencies. And when we train for competencies, that should be fine-tuning, not wholesale development. Selling skills! I thought that the second half was as bad as the first half was good. So, what are the correct competencies?

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Do You Really Have the Best Sales Team Possible?

SBI Growth

Build out a plan for training them and turning them into ‘A’ Players ASAP. ‘A’ Are they in the right territories? Examples include: Selling skills, selling knowledge, intelligence, and people skills. 5) Reallocate the C player territory to your A players. Put them into the absolute best territory.

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Are You Learning Yesterday’s Skills For Tomorrow’s Buyers?

Partners in Excellence

Every time I meet sales enablement and sales executives, I ask, “What are the critical skills you are focusing on training and developing your people on? But they are yesterday’s skills and insufficient in working with tomorrow’s buyers. Look beyond these and start learning the skills critical to your success.

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Medical device sales success – an urgent need to do something different

Sales Training Connection

Before we examine some of the advantages, it is important to note that KAMs are not just territory sales reps with another label. And, they are able to translate all that expertise in to powerful customer interactions because they also posses a high level of selling skills. How do you train KAMs? . ©2013 Sales Momentum ®.