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Sales Training Programs That Fail And Why

The Digital Sales Institute

Sales training programs fail due to not understanding the pitfalls in selling to todays connected buyer and the solutions they expect, which go way beyond the product. Read on to why many sales training programs fail and why. One of the reasons sales training programs fail is the lack of relevant (and updated) content.

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“How Are You?” Ask It—Or Not?

Mr. Inside Sales

Here’s why: Selling over the phone is challenging because you don’t have all the visual cues an outside sales rep has—and uses. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. You just can’t read their expressions and so react to those physical cues. Ask It—Or Not?

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How to transition from outside sales to inside sales

Nutshell

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

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How Coaching Transforms Sales Performance and Culture (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

Much like elite athletes, sales professionals need ongoing input to fine-tune their mechanics, recharge their motivation, and keep small errors from turning into big problems. Research shows that simply sending people to training without one-on-one follow-up leads to a big dip in retention and performance.

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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

Score More Sales

But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. What has always motivated me are activity goals. If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are).

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[Sales Alchemy]: Turning a “No” into a “Yes”

No More Cold Calling

He challenges sales professionals to ditch the rote responses, get real, and face buyer objections as soon as possible. While preparing for a recent client training session, I listened in on some of the sales team’s calls. Here’s his take: “How do you overcome that objection prospects always give? Beat them to the punch.

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Onboarding and 11 Reasons Why Salespeople are Failing

Understanding the Sales Force

Regular readers know that most of my life experiences pass through a sales filter, meaning that there is always an analogy to sales and while sales onboarding has many similarities to RCIA, there are many differences as well. At the time, most people didn’t realize how difficult it would be to achieve success in sales.

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