Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 24, 2025

I asked Bob why he thought negotiations would be required and he told me that his prospect said they didn’t want to spend more than $50,000. Bob’s prospect might have been bluffing, lying, testing, hoping, or making a first offer. You read that right. And 92% of the bottom half of salespeople need to be liked.

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Negotiation Strategy Proposal Hiring 282

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

They cut advertising, travel, training, marketing, and discretionary expense line items. Granted, it will be more difficult to find new prospects or even to get clients to take (virtual) meetings. Granted, it’s even tougher for your team to find prospects with this pandemic, as everyone and everything is uncertain.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 414

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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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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System Prospecting Quota Decision Maker 316

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. The people without needs or problems, which is most of the market, will think and answer no.

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Objections Prospecting Fashion Face-to-face 339

The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

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Buyer Prospecting Travel Call-back 272

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The sales and marketing go-to-market frameworks weve relied on for decades staples like the funnel, the flywheel, and the buyers journey are fast becoming obsolete or are out the door already. Buyers Demand Relevance and Timing Prospecting thats irrelevant or poorly timed can harm deals more than help them. Sell Smarter.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Intent Signal B2B 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After 18 years in B2B marketing, Ive seen this song and dance before. And lets face it, most B2B marketing teams didnt exactly have a foolproof plan to ensure ROI. If youre not actively working to move those prospects through the pipeline, you might as well not have bothered. Early in my career, events terrified me.

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B2B Marketing Strategy Lead Rank 130

Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs.

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Training Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 68

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. But there are only a few milestones in ZoomInfo’s history that have had a game-changing impact on our trajectory and transformed how businesses everywhere go to market. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

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. You can throw in tactical skills like effective messaging, multi-threading, persuasive cold-calling, and much more.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Scale Hiring 130

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2022

Do your lenders provide your prospects and clients with the consultative financial and business advice that establishes value and makes you rate-resistant? One of the areas where we are spending a significant amount of training time in 2022 is on sales negotiation strategies, value-based selling, as well as sales negotiation techniques.

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Negotiation Marketing Strategy Training 270

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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Prospecting Hiring Lead Rank Decision Maker 78

Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. Introduction to Sales Training Blogs Sales training blogs are an essential resource for sales professionals looking to improve their skills, stay up-to-date with industry trends, and learn from experienced sales leaders.

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Training Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile SalesForce 75

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers. What Is Outbound Sales Prospecting?

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Outbound Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 52

Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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Prospecting Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 78

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. The Rise of Cross-Functional Teams.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

(No, not those blokes in marketing that never have time to help you, your own team.). Train Your team. Your team does need training. You need to train them. In order to train someone, you need to know how to do something yourself first. This applies especially to computer-based tasks. So if you’re an AE, congrats!,

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Account Social Media Scale Small Business 385

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. Training and Support: Invest in training for end-users and ensure ongoing support for seamless adoption.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. Markets shift overnight, competitors launch new products in a flash, and buyer expectations evolve at breakneck speed. This groundbreaking technology is transforming how enablement teams create, update, and personalize sales training content atunprecedented speed.

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Training Scale Hiring Lead Rank 62

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Be sure to master the four Ps of marketingproduct, price, promotion, and placementthrough GTM training. Take Google Glass, a product with incredible technology but no clear product-market fit. It launched to hype but fizzled because the market just wasn’t ready for it. Youll save time, resources, and a lot of frustration.

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Course Training Strategy Marketing 52

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. If you don’t get the meeting, Part Two doesn’t matter.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. Making a social call. Back to the math.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company that provides us with cyber-insurance required that our entire team watch a series of 21 training videos to make us more aware of how hackers operate, how easy it is to be hacked, and what we must do differently in order to protect our data, privacy and accounts.

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Insurance Insurance Outbound Video 327

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 15, 2025

Since one size does not fit all, we are now offering three tiers of Nimble CRM training and implementation packages! I havent used CRM for over 25 years because it keeps me better organized, on-track, and better able to build relationships with clients and prospects. Invest in one or even in all three! We have you covered!

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CRM Training Hiring Fashion 62

Allego

JANUARY 9, 2025

A robust certification process empowers reps to embrace new technologies, connect with informed buyers, and exceed expectations in a competitive market. Whether its improving patient outcomes or delivering cost savings, certifications should align with overarching goals to ensure every conversation with a prospect delivers value.

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Hiring Marketing Exercises Scale 62

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It might sound like a lofty goal, but there’s a proven way to get there with sales enablement training. 54% of enablement teams that manage sales training programs report a six-percentage-point increase in customer retention. What is Sales Enablement Training? What Does Sales Enablement Training Include?

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Sales Enablement Training Top of Funnel How To 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

From refining your teams techniques to reinforcing best practices, coaching tools are essential to how modern teams train, grow, and win. Why Businesses Need Sales Coaching Software Today, customer expectations are higher than ever, and market conditions can change in the blink of an eye. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Sales Coaching Software Software Coaching 130

Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. In many mid-market organizations, sales teams find themselves in a balancing act.

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Pipeline Face-to-face Compensation Sales Qualified Lead 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2024

David Knight is the Co-founder and CEO of Avarra, an AI-powered platform that simulates human-to-human interactions to accelerate sales onboarding and training. Designing products backwards from the go-to-market motion. The future of AI in sales training and enablement. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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Scale Top of Funnel Funnel Report 115

SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Training the existing workforce to fill these roles can be beneficial. Communication and Training Shortfalls In addition to a lack of communication, many first-line managers have not received the kind of training they need. However, only 37% have been trained to handle change management.

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Training Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Travel 59

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. That momentum helps them stick with the grind of more complex training.

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Cold Calling Hiring Guidelines GoldMine 82

SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Webinar Metrics 219

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Soft skills training programs help bridge this gap by providing reps with interactive techniques for excelling, driving consistent results, and building stronger client relationships. What is Soft Skills Training? Soft skills training helps sales teams learn to work well with colleagues and customers. Did you know?

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Training Negotiation Exercises Proposal 52

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We have trained them in our products and solutions. We have trained them to give the answers. So how are we to become relevant and interesting to prospects and customers? Are their markets shifting, requiring them to shift? This pretty much summarizes what I see from most sellers.

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Face-to-face Training Prospecting Coaching 127

Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In the past, I have lightly experimented with email marketing, first with Mailchimp and later with Mailerlite. While Nimble has always synced email with my Google Workspace accounts, their introduction of the ability to send group, one-off, messages was a huge step towards email marketing. I am not a marketer or an email marketer.

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Email Marketing Marketing Hiring Segment 62