Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2017

The bad news: Messaging content and skills training approaches are not always present. of the marketing messaging and sales training content — i.e. Maybe you’re the outsider, and your reps need to tell a story that helps them build pipeline, convincing prospects to leave their current situation and choose you (why change?/why

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Training Face-to-face Research Proposal 214

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. This question is simple and helps the prospect understand that what you have just proposed is, at worst, reasonable.

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Closing Proposal Negotiation Benefit 300

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

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 67

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 22, 2013

Are you feeling overwhelmed with the amount of sales calls to make, prospecting to do, admin to catch up on, proposals to complete? Join the club! There are many people out there who are in despair, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Proposal How To Prospecting Sales 306

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2013

Telling a prospect what your value proposition is, does not build value. Here are a few random thoughts accumulated through the combined efforts of evaluating more than 650,000 salespeople and training tens of thousands of others. Most of your salespeople have very little capability to build value in the first place.

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Negotiation Proposal Competition Positioning 304

SBI Growth

JANUARY 8, 2014

We’d been hired by the client to implement true Social Prospecting. Social Prospecting gets sales reps net new sales appointments inside their dream prospects. Download the SBI Social Prospecting Implementation Comparison Guide here. Now when I prospect, I look at the connections of my connections.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Comparison Webinar Metrics 288

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 22, 2014

As the saying goes, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ Well, just as each person has their own individual idea of what constitutes beauty, each prospect will have their own concept. [[ This is a content summary only. Presell & Positioning increasing ROI increasing value personalising value proposing value'

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Proposal ROI Positioning Prospecting 252

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

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Failure to close is just a symptom of a larger prospecting problem. Trying to teach reps how to close without addressing the broken links in your prospecting system will not yield sustainable results. Trying to teach reps how to close without addressing the broken links in your prospecting system will not yield sustainable results.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Scale Referrals 267

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 23, 2019

So, do we often come up with emotional selling points in our proposals? Unique Selling Proposition – well, these are the benefits that your prospects and clients can look forward to receiving when they purchase your wares. So your emotional selling points can often take centre-stage for your prospects. Feel valued. Feel whole.

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Call-back Up-Sell Proposal Benefit 243

SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. They achieve this goal by maintaining a high win rate on their proposals.

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Training Hiring How To Proposal 116

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Can they be trained to do things more effectively or, if necessary, in a completely different way?

Top of Funnel 252

Top of Funnel Proposal Coaching Networking 252

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. He knew how to write a proposal that sold, and it did. We ask for an introduction to our ideal prospect. Why I made referral selling my life’s work.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inbound Webinar Metrics 385

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a best-case scenario, a salesperson would turn this into 50 questions that a prospect will not want to answer because the prospects don''t have the slightest reason to spend their time answering all of these qualifying questions! Let''s discuss a few possibilities. Qualification. Current Services Provided. Current Fees Paid.

Sales Methodology 271

Sales Methodology Negotiation Proposal Analysis 271

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Very often, our prospects will explain their needs in the form of a solution they have already thought of. How many times have you been approached by a prospect who request a certain solution, and you know for a certainty it won’t be the BEST solution for their specific needs or circumstances? Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Proposal Face-to-face Motivation Analysis 218

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Analysis - the candidate studies the data provided, does independent research and determines the prospect''s needs. It follows the format of your typical sales proposal. Presentation - the candidate presents the proposal to a Review Panel that consists of the hiring manager, HR and an objective 3rd party. You need both.

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Hiring Proposal Exercises Lead Scoring 300

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 11, 2014

of opportunities that get demos, proposals, quotes.and you know what to look for, you can discover what and/or who needs to be fixed. Unqualified Proposals or Quotes. The only time closing skills should come into play is when a properly qualified, closable prospect isn''t able to make a decision at closing time. Lack Effort.

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Data Decision Maker Proposal Trends 243

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Get the sales team trained on how to sell socially. Align Your Sales Process to the Buyer : Does your sales process have stages titled “Qualify”, “Propose” and “Close”? Are your territories designed to maximize time with customers and prospects? Are your quotas based on your ideal customer spend and ideal prospect opportunity?

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Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2014

Fred was saying that he often felt unprepared for the negotiations phase and having some solid training and a process to manage that part of the sale could only help. And the battle was on. They kept on for a bit, I got off before it ended, I am sure they negotiated an amicable outcome.

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Negotiation Proposal Course Objections 296

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Use a sales training template.

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Hiring Training Exercises Hubspot 144

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 27, 2020

The following list of ideas about training salespeople is for those in B2B sales training or who aspire to train others. Many ideas come from my experience as a person being trained to sell, with a few coming from watching others, and more from my own experiences. Respect the people in your sessions.

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B2B Training How To Proposal 121

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling gives a prospect a compelling reason to hear you out. Early stage prospects often gravitate toward videos and short, educational demonstrations. Closing the deal.

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Real Estate Construction Scale Hiring 243

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 21, 2014

Benchmarking can be useful when it comes to training your salespeople. If you have two regions that are performing similarly, selling the exact same products or services to the exact same types of customers, against the exact same competitors, you can benchmark the training. win rate.

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Hiring Groups Exact Face-to-face 261

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

And that drives us to look at our prospecting and activity metrics. How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. We become obsessed with forecasts, pipelines, and their health.

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Segment Maximizer Margin Up-Sell 122

Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 18, 2024

But sadly, those who aren’t trained in sales are left in the dark on how to get past the overwhelming number of ‘No’s!’ Moreover, they sarcastically laughed at my conversations with prospective clients while I was on the phone. The ‘numbers game’ is only to be in the sales arena, not with prospective clients.

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Strategy Hiring Networking Follow-up 88

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Go to your manger and get the training / coaching that you need and deserve. Employ the old Give-Get strategy to negotiate more coaching, training and metric-based analytics. It’s to “get better at discovering prospect needs” – which in turn leads to more sales. Are you among this 66%? Don’t wait for your manager to come to you.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Lead Rank Analysis 300

The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2015

What I am talking about specifically is prospecting, especially for buyers in the deep sea of Status Quo. No the buyers I am talking about did not expect your call or e-mail, these buyers would swear up and down that they don’t Need whatever value you are proposing. Buyer: Sure you do that, thanks! back to work). Absolutely not!

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Prospecting Call-back Sports Proposal 120

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sales trainer Mark Hunter thinks he knows why — poor prospecting. “We We wind up with prospects in our pipeline that aren’t prospects,” Hunter said. A sales prospect may be someone who works for a decision-maker who is browsing the market for their boss. Key Differences Between Suspects and Prospects.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead 138

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It mapped to a proposal generating tool. A majority of reps focused on margin, and gave up prospecting for new accounts. Continually develop and train on new strategies. Systems Enhancement. The tools and resources in your organization play a large part in future success. But it was slow and boxy, and was despised by the team.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Face-to-face 293

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 4, 2019

It’s one of the most-frequently asked questions on our sales courses – ‘how do we overcome objections to our proposals?’. First, though, we have to understand that an objection isn’t always caused by the prospect trying to get you to lower your price or make you change your offer in some other way. Or they may have only one.

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Objections How To Fashion Proposal 161

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Other skills are needed to get to the stage where the prospect will trust you enough to say ‘yes’. Summarise everything the prospect has said to you. What this does is prove you have been listening and understand the real needs of the prospect as they have been describing them. Give them reasons to trust you. . Happy Selling!

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Proposal Objections Closing Buyer 196

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Here are five reasons you should.

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Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 110

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the years, I have seen many salespeople and business owners taking big risks with important deals by talking to only one person in the prospect company. A common outcome of this kind of “single threading” is “radio silence” after a proposal is submitted—no returned calls or emails, and ultimately no deal. There can be many users.

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Opportunity Gatekeeper Coaching Buyer 195

MTD Sales Training

JULY 10, 2017

So you’ve arrived 30 minutes early and you’re sitting in your car ready to go in and visit a prospect and you’ve made the cardinal sin and have not done any sales preparation for this meeting! Is it to qualify the prospect for a proposal? MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Decision Maker Commission 169

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), client and prospect meetings, and industry tradeshows getting postponed and canceled, how can sales teams pivot quickly to drive productivity in a new (predominantly virtual) environment? Should my online training and events be live or asynchronous?

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Sales Enablement Scale Policies Distribution 227