Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 10, 2020

During this stage, B2B reps may also have to communicate with gatekeepers to reach the individual who can make the final purchasing decision. After you make your initial outreach to the contact or gatekeeper, your goal is to establish a meeting or call to keep the conversation going. Customer Service.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And the result is a lack of seasoned leaders to train, coach, and inspire young and learning-hungry SDRs. You can try to bypass the gatekeepers by chatting directly with a customer service representative and gathering information on your prospects. Train your SDRs to be creative and relevant in their outreach.

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

A quote from respected sales research and consulting firm CSO Insights sums up the problem that SalesDialers is built to resolve: ” 96 percent of a sales reps time when making outbound calls is spent dialing, leaving voice mails, navigation phone trees, and talking with gatekeepers.” Voice mail recordings.

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Lessonly

JANUARY 27, 2020

Customer service roles are rarely systematic or simple. Rarely does anyone reach out to customer support if they’re not confused, stuck, or upset. If you’re a customer service agent, you’re on the frontlines of your business, and you see people at their best and their worst. You’re the first line of defense.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

You need to have stellar customer service, be able to ask for referrals, take good care of your base, and keep your competitors from your clients. Salespeople are having a difficult time getting past the gatekeeper and making contact with the decision-maker. Another secret to success is becoming an account manager.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 12, 2023

EAs need to be diplomatic with good communication while remaining a firm and decisive gatekeeper for the executive. Why it matters : Many executives look for direct experience in an area that’s important to them because they simply don’t have the time to do a lot of training — that's why they need an assistant.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Complex Sale is a type of sale common in B2B markets involving multiple decision makers, custom service or purchase agreements, and relatively longer sales cycles. Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is a person (e.g., Sales Training. Sandler Training. SaaS is an acronym for Software as a Service. General Manager.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2018

It’s becoming more and more difficult to reach decision makers as gatekeepers and decision-makers receive hundreds of emails and dozens of calls each day. And why are sales leaders not training their reps to execute a first conversation? During the conversation, train your reps to find an emotional anchor point in the conversation.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 7, 2010

However, the more links you include, the greater the odds that your email will not make its way into the prospect’s inbox due to the virtual gatekeepers of email: firewalls and spam filters. If you’re going to include a link, try to limit it to one at the most. 3: Email Etiquette – Bulk Emailing and Blind Copy.

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Sales Training Advice

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Training – many believe that training is the best method to alter selling patterns but have found little return on investment. Customers – many selling professionals and managers believe that customers buying patterns have not changed. Treat your customers correctly by becoming engaged. It wastes time.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You’re easily replaceable, and most of them haven’t figured out how to properly support and train new salespeople yet. 2) A modern training program where you will learn how to sell effectively. CEO of JBarrows Sales Training. Customer services – who your customers will often talk to. Aaron Ross.

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Sales Training Advice

AUGUST 17, 2012

The sales training industry, like many industries, was hit hard by the recent economy. Eric Slife is president of Slife Sales Training, Inc. They specialize in providing a comprehensive online sales training program that can be customized to fit a sales team’s specific needs regardless of size.

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ExecVision

APRIL 20, 2018

It can be eye-opening to see what information you can get from gatekeepers and admins during a cold call by asking the right questions. In our sales training days, we would demonstrate this phenomenon by doing live cold calls on speakerphone. Sales or customer service lines. IT help desk.

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 24, 2011

More importantly the short game focuses on “true buyers” not gatekeepers. So what are some methods to developing your short game and focusing on a customer sweet spot? Sellers should develop “scripted” questions to heighten intellectual dialogue that develop customer needs.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 18, 2012

If you still view gatekeepers as annoying, low-level, annoying pawns whose mission in life is to do nothing but waste your time, cost you money and make your life miserable, then I have news for you. Here are three important things you need to realize and keep in mind about today’s gatekeepers (GK). #1 MTD Sales Training.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Here are the 8 exercises that are most effective for sales training. These can be executed by 1) Role-playing a scenario with the customer as if you were on the phone and had to answer their objections2) Have each person in your team create 3 objections of what they think might happen when trying to sell something.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Is an individual stakeholder a decision-maker, a key recommender, a champion, an organizer, an evaluator, an influencer, a user or a gatekeeper? However, for different solutions delivering different customer benefits, the relationships between functional roles and buying roles vary. Gatekeepers. Too good to be true? Organizers.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A gatekeeper is usually a person who has to procure products or services for others in their organization, but they dont actually have ownership over solving that problem themselves. The customer was angry and all parties were destined for failure. Six Reasons to Back Out of a Deal.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! And that is why training has become not only a competitive advantage but the primary driver of corporate excellence. Great Sales Training = The Best Sales Outcomes.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

15) Customers  the only reason selling is not the perfect job. 19) Distributor  a company that distributes catalogs of products and services including the competitors and then uses up all the resources in customer services and aftercare. 26) Gatekeeper  a person whose boss is never in.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

When your customer has reached this stage, they should be delighted with a painless onboarding process and friendly customer service options. After that, your customer should ideally turn into a promoter. They bring you more customers, keeping the flywheel going and enabling you to grow better.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Your attendees should be people who can sell (don’t waste these meetings on Marketing, Customer Service, or Administrative employees!). SDR Training. There are several steps for SDR training: 0. Focus on the goals and challenges of your leads and explain how your product/service can help with them.

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Sales Training Advice

AUGUST 7, 2012

Yet, you know they’ve been trained …and so do they. At some point you were probably trained in how to do it right. You learned how to create relationships with gatekeepers so they’d schedule appointments for you. These speed demons are just avoiding accidents. They know they should come to a complete stop and look both ways.

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