Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems Consider the following questions to help you get into your prospects’ shoes and see how you can serve them. Your prospect decides to do?

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2013

or their prospecting conversion rates (how many decision makers do I need to talk to in order to set up a next meeting / demo / conversation)? The post 9 Steps to Boost Sales in 2014 Part 3 Execution appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Make a change in 2014. Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Ramping new sales reps.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Couple that with preparing for 2014 and you are maxed out. Schedule a review of your 2014 plan at your office here. To make matters worse, everybody in the planning sessions (finance, product, training, HR) has never made a number. How You Avoid Losing the 2014 Battle. You are sprinting to finish the current year.

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SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

CMO’s can help sales make the number in 2014. Understanding how the prospect thinks is part of the CMO’s DNA. But for the most part needs-based selling has been used as a technique to better ‘tell’ the prospect what they need. They ‘smooth’ the friction between a prospect and your company’s stone-age sales process.

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SBI Growth

JULY 23, 2013

The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. Sign up for the onsite session for your leadership team: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Understanding the drivers of Sales Force Effectiveness in 2014. Angry customers and prospects identify themselves as in the market.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Most companies are in the heart of their planning process for 2014. Today’s post provides recommendations for revising your approach for 2014. Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially. Are your territories designed to maximize time with customers and prospects? Get LinkedIn upgrades. Author: Patrick Seidell.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Social Selling Emphasis : Social Selling is a modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities. Training your sales team how to social sell will immediately improve your sales pipeline.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

By the end of 2014, 60% of CMOs will have formal recruiting process for people with data skills. Only 20% of marketers will receive formal training on analytics and customer data management. Success of content should be measured by how well it pulls prospects through the buying process.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

They reach new prospects with social media. Video training modules are completed on a smartphone. Development: How can your training programs help top performers? Next Steps: Prepare for 2014 now. Make the Number in 2014. Best practices are just a launch pad for more innovation. What This Means for Top Sales Reps.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As you plan for 2014, are you investing enough in both? Performance culture is studied in depth in our 2014 Research Tour. A majority of reps focused on margin, and gave up prospecting for new accounts. Continually develop and train on new strategies. Your people will need new capabilities to thrive in a changing market.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 2, 2014

As you’re planning for 2014, forget resolutions. As you’re planning for 2014 , don’t just give your sales team an annual quota and expect them to make it rain. What referral-selling goals have you set for your team in 2014? Set manageable goals instead. The media is flooded with articles about resolutions right now.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Get a copy of our 6 Sales VP Essential Skills Scorecard when you register for this event: How To Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. He is getting in front of prospects and valued customers. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2013

This is the time of year when leaders start mapping out 2014. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Tip Number 3: Ensure alignment around training. Marketing needs to generate onboarding and training content in line with the organization’s messaging.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Teach new prospecting techniques. It is difficult to find reps that are great at prospecting. Sales organizations have made prospecting difficult. Sales people equate prospecting to non-strategic grunt work. Sales people equate prospecting to non-strategic grunt work. Training on defining the problem.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Amazed, you watch him visit with the prospect. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. You and your team left the training event to find 500 e-mails waiting. Performing discovery.

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Maybe the initiative generated positive comments from customers and prospects. Hank''s DLA experience: Hank’s team was trained on the use of the onboarding process and tools. That is a big piece of success to claim.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 9, 2014

The author wrote that since most prospects today know what they want, they won''t rehash all of the needs and decisions that got them to this point, and as a result, a salesperson won''t be able to back them up to an earlier stage of the sales process to implement SPIN or any other questioning strategy. Prospects will not tolerate that.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

Training organized in “sprints”. Training happens in the field, not in the class room. Call to Action: Prospects are taking meetings again. Your 2014 quota is going up. Learning activities completed is useless. Start to finish in 13 weeks. Content is video based. No printed material. Reps engage with customers day 1.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Go see a prospect. You’ll be training. Whatever happens in 2014, it’s a safe bet it will hold some surprises. Instead, get in the car with a rep. Visit a customer. Ask then how your company is doing. Watch the rep work – is he using your sales process? Did he do pre-call planning, or is he winging it?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

A modern prospecting methodology that fills the lead generation funnel with opportunities. Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects. Marketing’s Role in Social Selling: Training and quick reference guidance on social selling best practices. Social Selling Guidance.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 19, 2013

Many of you are building your 2014 sales goals as you read this, and if you’re not, you need to start. Blog Professional Selling Skills Prospecting Sales Development Training Sales Motivation sales goals sales motivation' Reason is simple: Things don’t always go as planned. Aim higher!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Analysis - the candidate studies the data provided, does independent research and determines the prospect''s needs. You can decide if the gap between what you see and what you need can be trained. Sales can learn a lesson here. The Proving Ground. You need both.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

People get disappointed with sales training events. They satisfy a box checking exercise around providing training. New Capability Required - Modern prospecting methodology that sales reps can consistently execute. You can start to prioritize what capabilities you drive in 2014. Hard projects are those you should do.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 14, 2014

2014-15: How will you stand out in the marketplace? From a sales perspective, we also stress that your sales team is trained to execute more effectively within a Thought Leadership philosophy. In our Cloud Business Builder program we stressed Acumen’s Business Guidance sales training program. About the Author.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. The newly-released “ 2014 10th annual Lead Management & Social Engagement ” report uncovered an emerging trend in B2B sales this year: social engagement. How to Get Prospects to Call You Back. I see you.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Social Prospecting Guidance. A modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities. Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects. Role of Marketing: Training and quick reference guidance on social selling best practices. Author: Vince Koehler. Vince Koehler on Google+.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 21, 2014

Prospecting is a very interesting situation. What is interesting is I notice how women are able to get out of prospects information that men can’t get. If I have a product or service that requires a huge amount of prospecting both on the phone and in person, I would lean toward using female salespeople.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Can they be trained to do things more effectively or, if necessary, in a completely different way?

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling leadership Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation Sales Training sales leadership sales motivation' ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As you finalise your 2014 sales plans, it is good idea to review and commit to some of the basics. One is the result of the type of prospects you pursue; if you are selling stuff measured in units, the larger the target company, the more units they will require. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Volume of Sales.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2013

It is sales methodology agnostic, meaning that we are not pushing any one sales training program when we offer a tool like this – it simply allows you to print out a form you can immediately use to help organize your thoughts and make every sales minute count. We like those kinds of tools, don’t you? What videos or blogs?

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their sales people. The purpose obviously is to get everyone on the same page with expectations of performance for the coming year.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

When commercial airlines made flying affordable enough for everyone, it didn''t eliminate buses, trains and cars. Yeah, once they have a prospect, they still have to sell. Social sellers get found, find prospects and connect using a myriad of social selling tools. It simply became a better choice for long-distance trips.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2014

It happens to salespeople when they aren''t able to stay in the moment, maintain complete focus on what their prospects are saying, and respond without thinking several moves ahead or, more typically, about what they want to talk. September 10 - 11 | Boston Area | 2 Days of intense sales leadership training. It''s just 3 weeks away.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Simon Hares set up SerialTrainer7 Ltd in 2014 with a view to getting people where they need to be quicker and leaving them there better. With over 25 years experience training sales and management the training is described as more than different, it is relevant. Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. It’s changed how we prospect, but it hasn’t changed how deals get done. So, in 2014, I published Pick Up the Damn Phone! They get meetings they couldn’t land before, and they convert their prospects to clients at unparalleled rates. Here’s how it went: Do you like to get referrals? But I had to ask.).

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