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Questions: Not Just for Sales Needs Analysis Anymore!

Connect2Sell

As a sales coach and trainer, people occasionally ask me, “Out of all the selling skills, which one is most important?” Hands down, the master skill in selling is knowing how to ask purposeful questions.

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Moneyball: Sales Performance by the Numbers

SBI Growth

If you want to succeed, your 2013 strategy can’t simply be “Sell more,” or “Sell better.” Sabermetrics is a form of analysis made famous by the movie “Moneyball.” It basically defied conventional baseball logic when determining skills levels of individual players. It doesn’t work that way.

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10 Essential Selling Skills Every Sales Rep Needs in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills. Below are the 10 essential selling skills you need to succeed in sales today -- all extracted from the study's findings. These selling skills are what buyers indicated were the top factors that separated sales winners from runners up. Educate prospects with new ideas and perspectives.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). What do you think?

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The Complexities of Selling Technology to Business

The Pipeline

Selling to business can be a great profession for talented sales people who want to work in ‘big time’ sales. Especially as you work with medium and large size companies, B2B sales can mean large transactions and more opportunity to showcase advanced selling skills.

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Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast?

The Sales Hunter

An example might be an analysis or testing process. Blog Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills Prospecting prospect prospecting sales process' Your POE should be something the customer will value and be one that allows for you to get more time with the customer and learn more about them.

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Missing on the "Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers"

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. I suggest that you read it first, returning to this article for the analysis. Selling skills!

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