The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Essential selling skills to master whether you are starting out on your sales career, maybe you have just completed your onboarding sales training or you are already an experienced salesperson in reaching out to customers. You can begin by listing out all the skills you need in your current sales role.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 11, 2023

Selling skills for new salespeople usually have some differentiators from the sales skills that a more experienced salesperson has due to learning about the sales process and understanding all the steps in the sale alongside product knowledge. Selling today can range from the uncomplicated to the deeply complex.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 24, 2014

It’s not something you can do separate from your core selling activities and process. Social selling isn’t a distraction or addition to your sales strategy and process, it’s part of it. Sure, the channels are different. But the relationship selling foundation is the same. It’s not social selling.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 18, 2012

Customers that are loyal and give repeat business without a bid or quote. How many of your customers fit into that category? Customers who give referrals without you asking for them. Prospective customers who call and want to buy. Customers who post positive things on your business Facebook page. Not enough!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 14, 2021

Solid social selling skills are transitioning from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have for sales professionals, but developing that kind of expertise is much easier said than done. We like to post videos of the specific type of prospect and customers we are looking for (and in what time frame). Be yourself, and be sincere.

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs. Understanding the modern buying process is essential as customer behaviors continue to evolve. Here are the essential sales skills that sales training programs provide.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The other day, I published a post, “ Are Traditional Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore? If you take the quality/continuous/agile principles, everyone in the organization has customers they need to support. Procurement, customer service, HR are all easily understood. Most are internal, some may be external.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 3, 2024

of buyers say reps don't understand their goals 0 % Now, more than ever, revenue enablement teams must equip sellers with the right tools, training, and information to meet customers’ expectations and earn their trust. #2: Products, markets, and customer preferences are constantly in flux.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Channel selling is a different breed of selling from direct sales. Whether it’s direct or indirect selling, sales is all about building relationships, and that’s a message that needs to come from the top. Here are three ways sales managers can better support their channel sellers by cultivating better relationships.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 9, 2025

Sales training programs are critical to a business seeking to acquire new customers and deepen relationships with existing customers. They say the stated aim of any business is to acquire, develop, and maintain customers at a profit. Read on to why many sales training programs fail and why.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Have you ever spent a day with your channel partners and joined them on a few sales calls? customer service. high profit selling. selling a price increase. selling skills. customer service. high profit selling. selling a price increase. selling skills. Don’t Fly Solo!

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 6, 2019

For Part 1 of the Essential Selling Skills Bootcamp, click here. Learn how to strategically balance prospecting across the various prospecting channels to give you a competitive advantage when connecting with prospects in the cluttered and competitive marketplace. Lack of research and customization. Jeb Blount .

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

68% of B2B customers are lost because of indifference, not mistakes. 78% of customers expect a consistent customer experience across departments and digital channels. And 86% of buyers say they are willing to pay more for a product if the company offers a great customer experience. What this means for you.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2022

While we focus on developing our virtual selling skills; do you have the right camera/lighting, an appropriate background, are you dressed appropriately–at least from the waist up, are you looking at the camera, not the person’s image on screen…… our customers are doing something different.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We continue to organize our sales and marketing initiatives around what makes us more efficient or old views of how customers buy. The overall marketing/sales assembly line takes customers through this linear process, all oriented to moving the customer through a buying decision. we caught ’em, you skin ’em.”

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 1, 2019

Almost half of organizations report having a weak relationship between their sales and customer success teams; and a third report that service plays no role in generating sales. Investing in a strong customer experience strategy now is crucial as more than 70% of revenues come from existing customers. Here’s how to get started.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Meeting sales targets virtually is possible, but it does require specific skills and techniques that help you build relationships and make value propositions without ever meeting your customers face-to-face. In this post, we’ll cover everything you need to know to excel at virtual sales, including: What is virtual selling?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 10, 2025

With an effective framework, organizations can empower their sales teams to close more deals, increase productivity , and enhance customer engagement. When effectively implemented, a sales enablement strategy can significantly elevate the customer experience, boost sales productivity, and drive revenue growth.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

From mastering the art of cold calling to leveraging AI for better customer insights, sales training blogs cover a wide range of topics that are crucial for professional growth. By regularly engaging with these resources, you can stay ahead of the curve and continuously refine your approach to selling.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Potential customers are trying to understand key differences between your solution and others and between their needs and all of the potential solutions available to them. How To Build a B2B Sales Team.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Consisting of how-to training videos and advancing to a one-day instructor led workshop and certification program, the Value Expert Sales Training is designed to help sales reps improve their customer conversations, evolving from a typical company / product-focused pitch to a more collaborative and effective challenge / value-focused approach. “A

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Build or customize canned reports to highlight the metrics you want your team to meet, and place them on a dashboard that everyone can see. If your reps are so focused on making their number that they’ve stopped learning new sales technology or techniques or honing their core selling skills, they may be burned out or fast approaching it.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 19, 2020

Regardless of location, sales enablement leaders must keep customer-facing teams actively engaged. Personalizing and adapting two-way communication, enabling new and upgraded remote selling skills while enabling visibility and the ability to intervene with proactive coaching (even at a distance) is a North Star for the emerging normal.

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 23, 2019

You know, that insatiable desire to take a picture of yourself–regardless of what you’re doing–and immediately post it on all the social media channels. In working with some of the top salespeople in the world, I’ve noticed they are obsessive about others, their prospects and customers. Sales success? Sales success?

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. The impact is an increasingly competitive market, meaning that every business has to fight their corner to avoid revenue decline, customer churn and competitor moves. Sales Training Programs Online.

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Pipeliner

MAY 1, 2019

They need to transition from one selling skill to another when engaging the twisting path of the buyer’s journey. Moreover, after a sales professional begins a dialogue with a customer they also face challenges in maintaining a consistent cadence of contact across multiple channels and getting to the right stakeholder.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Check out these free sales training videos if you are considering taking a sales training course or just looking to refresh your selling skills. Ultimately, it’s about helping you acquire the core sales skills so you can speed up revenue and customer growth. Sales Training Improves Sales Effectiveness.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 15, 2022

We design it to be a relatively linear progression of activities we undertake with the customer. Despite knowing the customer buying process is very squishy and wandering, we design our processes to be relatively rigid, rigid to the point of being highly scripted. But the reality is very far from this. As a result, they get lost.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 20, 2018

Sales Skills Training. Sales skills training should empower the salesperson to reach a higher level of sales performance when selling to customers and prospects. We know that the role of a salesperson is evolving at a faster pace since sales skills were codified over 100 years ago. Sales Skills Training.

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Ideal Customer Profile Training Social Media Buyer Persona 61

The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Implementing sales best practices for successful selling should not only lead to higher levels of sales performance but also in more loyal customers. We all accept that the digital era has demanded a shift in the way salespeople sell. We all accept that the digital era has demanded a shift in the way salespeople sell.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 98

Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Modern selling combines new tools and modern sales techniques, such as digital selling and virtual selling in order to find, engage, and connect with potential customers and achieve modern sales success. What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

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The Digital Sales Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Taking a sales skills course is the most purposeful route in enhancing a wide range of selling skills including cold calling, telephone sales, business development, closing, social selling, sales prospecting and sales presentations amongst others. Is comfortable at engaging prospects or customers at their level.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 15, 2017

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. Sales Tips: 4 Reasons Why You Lose to "No Decision".

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 23, 2019

One of the many benefits around sales training online is that salespeople can learn new sales skills at their own pace, wherever they are and at a time that suits them. This channel for sales training fits perfect for inside sales, time restricted sales people, remote or dispersed sales teams and in the field sales professionals.

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Training Decision Maker Social Media Selling Skills 61

Vengreso

JANUARY 21, 2020

Thus, sales organizations need to implement strategies that leverage digital channels to find, engage and connect with target buyers. KurtShaver Click To Tweet How Social Selling Works Social selling is a technique to find your ideal buyers and develop long-term relationships built on trust.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 18, 2024

Revenue teams, it’s time to ditch a disjointed workflow and start working more efficiently to deliver relevant buying experiences across the full customer lifecycle. Integrations with Linkedin and Drift solve this problem by bridging gaps between Salesloft and third-party channels.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 7, 2020

Poor customer service is costly: many customers stop doing business with a company if they have a single poor experience. Bad customer service costs businesses more than $41 billion a year, according to Bain & Company. Why Customer Service Best Practices Matter in Industry and Life Sciences.

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