Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Lead Scoring and Intent Analysis: AI ranks leads and identifies intent signals to prioritize the prospects most likely to convert. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I picture how a company in the high tech chip business could survive when only 1 in 100 of their chips was usable (or 1 in 1,000). Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. You want to deal mostly with the companies that spend a lot of money with you and are easier to deal with.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Sales training can be a significant investment in your sales team. However, despite this, it would be a mistake for organizations to think they can just sign their team up for training and watch them succeed. To be successful, training cannot be a one-off event. What do you want reps to take away from the training?

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Marketing isnt a strategy.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels. Impact on Business Growth Effective lead capture software can significantly impact a company’s bottom line.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

The email came in, “We need training. We’ve seen your programs before, can you talk to us about a training program?” ” I quickly arranged a discussion, “What kind of training do you need?” ” “We need sales training,” came the response. “We provide sales training!

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Tis the season for prospecting, right? Actually, 'tis the season for every sales leader and company to wonder: Are my people reaching out to enough prospects and customers so that we can begin the year strong?

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The Sales Collective

MAY 14, 2025

Sales training has never been more important or difficult to get right. But not all training is created equally. The 17% of sales leaders representing manufacturing may reflect a sector where the need for sales training is just as real, but often more specialized. It’s flexible, scalable, and it works.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

He also explores the practical applications of AI in sales, including prospecting, customer retention, and pre-call planning. By addressing objections, providing training and support, and showcasing success stories, sales leaders can help their teams embrace AI and leverage its benefits.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

They must have the skills to ask the right questions, listen to understand, position their value, and help a prospect self-discover the solution that makes sense. These are not elusive skills; they are identified by our partner and industry-leading sales evaluation company, Objective Management Group (OMG).

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 23, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Use AI Communication Personalization with Prospects and Clients for Business Your customers and prospects expect more than generic messages. When prospects feel seen and understood, they are more likely to engage, stay loyal, and convert faster.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 3, 2025

The information that consumers and businesses used to call or visit companies to attain became readily available at the prospects desk and fingertips. A comparison would be the introduction of the internet and the impact it had on selling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 1, 2025

The 3 -minute video rant below answers the question, “Why don’t more companies follow a systematic, scientific, strategic, tactical, consultative sales process?” We customize Baseline Selling by layering a company’s existing process on top of the Baseline Selling process. Some outbound teams use BANT.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 16, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Business 101: Starting Your Own Company When you’ve decided to start your very own company, you need to know what comes next. Accordingly, our collaborative blog offers insights for Business 101: Starting Your Own Company. Be Inspiring!

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 17, 2025

This blog looks at where AI Sales fit, where it falls short, and why strong sales training is more important than ever to keep people at the centre of the process, not pushed out by it. According to McKinsey & Company , 42 percent of companies will be using AI in their sales processes by 2025. AI does the heavy lifting too.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 25, 2021

Some interesting studies by Dartnell Research estimated that prospects and customers do not verbalise their problems and concerns in around 80% of conversations. This means that you as the salesperson may not be able to ascertain the real challenges the prospect is facing. What’s worked and what hasn’t?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2025

Good salespeople know that the key to a sales process that will result in a sale, is uncovering their prospects compelling reason to buy. Is it compelling to the prospect? We teach them to get the prospect emotional, as in, How does that make you feel? As a result, the salesperson is concerned that the prospect wont buy.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 15, 2023

In our Sales Training Courses we cover how to sell a product to a customer regardless of the channel, but to learn how to sell on LinkedIn correctly can really make you stand out from the crowd! The platform is perfect for B2B selling , where prospects must develop trust in the salesperson who has approached them.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 8, 2023

In a nutshell a sales funnel is a representation of the stages that a prospective new customer needs to progress through in order to become one of your customers. Let me illustrate this with a few examples; A B2B sales funnel example Imagine that you’re selecting some new software on behalf of your company. Let’s dive in!

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 9, 2024

When you prospect over the telephone do you always get stuck with the people who can never make the decision? Qualifying Prospects with MAN Now that we know what MAN stands for, how do you use it to qualify leads when prospecting? Money How do you find out if your prospect holds the purse strings?

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 17, 2023

Sales reps therefore spend much of their time sending follow-up emails with product information, handling prospect queries, or calling back to chase a sale. WORK ASPECT INSIDE SALES OUTSIDE SALES Lead Generation Sales reps may undertake some of this work to feed the high volume and high turnover of leads and prospects.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2025

But I long ago committed to becoming so good at prospecting that it wouldnt take much time, it wouldnt be frustrating or demotivating, and it wouldnt be exhausting and boring. When a salesperson commits to becoming great at prospecting, all of the conversion ratios change for the better. Excellence is a game changer!

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, it still has its benefits, including the following: Learn More About Sales Prospects One of the top reasons why sales teams still use cold calling is that it helps them learn more about prospective customers or clients. Let’s say your company sells air conditioning units. You can learn a lot through online research.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That, of course, was written before the COVID pandemic , but it shows that virtual meetings with clients and prospects were exponentially on the increase before it became the only methodology that we could use to reach prospects. Here are some ideas that will help when you are holding a virtual meeting with a prospect online.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity. Most salespeople who entered sales more than fifteen years ago and had to prospect for new business, have forgotten how to do it and if we are being honest, may not have been very willing or effective at this when they were expected to prospect.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. Here are five specific ways sales enablement can contribute to broader company success.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you know anything about me and the Sales Training we provide, then you know that I do not subscribe to the theory of a canned cold calling sales script as such. In fact, I constantly talk about and train that you must have a telephone sales approach that is well planned but certainly not canned. A framework, yes. But not this time!

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s about weaving a persuasive narrative that resonates with prospects. Many top sales professionals have honed this skill through dedicated storytelling Sales Training, recognizing its potential to connect, engage, and drive results. Stories simplify complex ideas, making them easier for prospects to digest and remember.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 24, 2025

Through years of delivering sales training , we’ve seen how the right tweaks can turn a flat pitch into a conversation that clicks. Why Your Sales Pitch Might Be Missing the Mark Many sales training courses teach you to create a short, to-the-point sales pitch. You talk about what your company is doing. Instead, flip the switch.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When salespeople aren’t hitting quotas, companies need to hire more salespeople, which increases the cost of recruiting, salaries and benefits, not to mention the costs associated with hiring additional sales managers that won’t coach up their salespeople. This is problematic for more than the obvious reason.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When we first made contact there were often other companies who were able to provide quotes that were a little bit cheaper than ours. For example, the customer could say: “We use a local company with an office in the high street.” You ask for the order and you’re trying so hard to close the sale but the prospect does not accept.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 29, 2022

Sales is a complicated, never-ending process of building relationships with prospects, building trust, asking probing sales questions , lots of listening and moving the whole procedure through to the commitment stage and ultimately asking for the sale or order. Why, then, should you process be changed or evolved over time?

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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