MTD Sales Training

MAY 17, 2016

This week we have launched our new ISM accredited ‘Professional Selling Skills’ award. This means that you can work through it on your way to the sales meeting, at your desk in the workplace or from the comfort of your own sofa! Happy prospecting! Sean McPheat. Managing Director.

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Gatekeeper Selling Skills Resources Prospecting 120

criteria for success

MARCH 17, 2021

This way, new hires need to indicate a certain level of knowledge before they are able to engage with prospects and clients. By this point, your new hire should be actively prospecting and selling, and it’s important to make sure they haven't fallen into any old habits, but are instead sticking to your process. Listen Now.

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Hiring Training Selling Skills Lead Qualification 97

criteria for success

MAY 24, 2022

Having a consistent 30-second commercial allows you to ensure that prospects are hearing the same message, one that is aligned with your company’s ethos. This exercise can be covered in one sales meeting or split into two. Thus, this is an equally powerful sales training idea. Click here to learn how to do so!

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Meeting Training Face-to-face Objections 97

The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I recently watched a very capable salesperson get completely flustered because the sales materials he had weren’t in the order he wanted them. He opened the sales meeting beautifully and then began walking the customers through the materials. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Consultative Selling Face-to-face Motivation Selling Skills 201

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sales Activity Gap = # of opportunities closed by reps with the most activities – # of opportunities closed by reps with the least activities. Using SMP, you could create this analysis in less than five minutes before your next sales meeting. A rep with a higher conversion rate is more effective at closing deals.

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Distribution Retention Sales Cycle Selling Skills 52

Women Sales Pros

OCTOBER 11, 2019

How many sales managers have watched a salesperson conduct a role play, one where he or she did a really great job of executing the right selling skills? And how many sales managers have watched this same salesperson conduct a sales conversation with a tough prospect in which none of those selling skills showed up?

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Film Selling Skills SalesForce Influencer 86

Sales Gravy

JULY 9, 2020

Shifting Initial Sales Meetings From Face to Face to Video Calls One of the most effective points in the sales process to leverage video sales calls and virtual selling skills is the initial meeting. The initial meeting is first step in the sales process.

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Meeting Video Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 59

Allego

JANUARY 16, 2020

Today’s post is by Colleen Stanley, President of SalesLeadership , a sales development firm. She is the creator of the Ei Selling System ®, a powerful sales and management training program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills.

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Strategy Consultative Selling Selling Skills Face-to-face 116

Women Sales Pros

OCTOBER 26, 2018

You finally land an appointment with that coveted, ideal-fit prospect. ” You meet someone and within seconds, you make a decision about their trustworthiness, status, intelligence and who knows what else. Don’t pay attention to your prospect’s preferred mode of communication. Be intense with a low-key prospect.

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SalesForce Consultative Selling ACT Up-Sell 90

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 18, 2012

Ken makes several valuable points in this post, so don’t miss the opportunity to strengthen your selling skills. As a rookie salesperson, I learned that when it comes to making sales calls, it’s best to follow the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Along the way, we talked about sports, our past jobs and life in general.

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Call-back Groups Sports Selling Skills 186

Allego

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Great sales reps aren’t born. For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. According to recent research by Allego , 76% of sales leaders say that not being physically present with their team has made it harder to observe and coach.

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Face-to-face Coaching Scale Video 96

Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 26, 2011

New prospective customer not looking to buy yet. New prospective buyer getting ready to buy. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! Gitomer | July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments. Tweet Share There are 4.5 business lunch categories: 1.Building Building a relationship and trying to make connections. GREAT food. Awesome idea.

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Hiring Social Media Referrals Loyalty 260

Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. Is Online Sales Training Effective? Then something else happens and then there’s a surprise client meeting.

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Benefit Training Retention Selling Skills 55

Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The classic sales methodology is for sales reps to tout their product or service without any real focus on the consumer or their motivations. All of that changed in the ’80s with the advent of solution selling. Unlike traditional sales, solution selling involves: Understanding the prospect’s industry, business and goals.

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Solutions Selling Consumer Ideal Customer Profile How To 52

Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2018

Here’s the issue: Most CEOs and sales managers focus on the wrong end of the problem. If a salesperson is missing quota, the boss tends to focus on coaching and teaching more hard selling skills. Certainly such skills are important. Emotions, rather than effective selling and communication skills, ran the sales meeting.

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Proposal Selling Skills Discount Negotiation 60

eGrabber

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

However, salespeople find it difficult to improve sales performance. Sales development reps are often busy with too many things on their plate. They generate leads, call prospects, follow up emails, take part in sales meetings, do prospect research, update CRM, and other administrative tasks. What’s more?

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Ideal Customer Profile How To Campaigns Lead Generation 52

Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world is causing a massive shift in the medical device sales industry. The days of relying solely on face-to-face sales meetings are over. Digital selling is the game, and you must have a strategy that ensures your team succeeds in medical device digital sales.

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Strategy Face-to-face Buyer Lead Rank 62

Marc Wayshak

AUGUST 24, 2021

So you’ve finally got a prospect who’s interested in what you have to say…and actually wants to hear you present. Actually, no —that’s old-school selling, and it simply doesn’t work anymore. Feature and benefit selling has been around for a really long time. And that’s the last thing any prospect wants to hear.

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Case Study Study Face-to-face Benefit 118

Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 18, 2011

Tweet Share To establish the ultimate long-term relationship and to be memorable in the service you perform, you need to discover personal information about your prospect or customer. And, oh yes, lots of sales.). What do you know about what impacts your best customers and prospects? Dont let your next sales meeting suck!

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Hiring Lead Scoring Lead Rank Leads 265

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What is remote sales? Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. Instead of traditional in-person sales meetings, the salesperson and the prospect are in different places such as their home or work. Sales reps are more productive.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Lead Rank Pipeline 108

SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

Duncan: The buying process has changed dramatically in the last decade and today as much as 70% of the buying cycle happens before a prospect ever reaches out to a vendor. They are reaching out to their friend Google instead.) This gives a very narrow window within which a sales rep must be able to add value for a prospect.

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Up-Sell Revenue Closing Decision Maker 139

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Because consultative selling provides the exact kind of personalized experience modern buyers have come to expect: an experience that requires intense focus, active listening , and – perhaps most importantly – a solid foundation of mutual respect and trust. One way to ensure your sales tactics are able to bend with each prospect?

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Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Sales techniques training courses are about improving a salespersons selling skills across a broad range of activities from sales prospecting to closing to social selling. Apart from the latest in sales methodologies, we also provide plenty of sales tips and guidance to improving your sales success.

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Course Training Cost per Lead Social Media 49

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are the top sales skills… with data to support them. #1 1 Sales Skills for Prospecting: The ideal talk-to-listen ratio. But the top sales reps are great at prospecting. For most sales calls, it’s about listening (we’ll get to that skill a bit later). It’s tough. It’s tricky.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Face-to-face Objections 118

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

CEOs and sales managers have long struggled with ensuring their sales team sells on value, not price. They hold rah-rah sales meetings that tout the benefits of the product and services. They teach negotiation skills, with the goal of salespeople standing firm on the price when meeting with a professional buyer.

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Negotiation Margin Discount Intent 58

Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 3, 2012

You can even bring a friend, co-worker, or even a prospect and I’ll help you close them. If you want real world sales and you want real world leadership gold, I challenge you, come to my seminar and let me help you get to where you need to be in 2012. Get Sales Blog Updates. Dont let your next sales meeting suck!

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Hiring Social Media Hotels Loyalty 171

Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Most sales people stop at the end of the selling process. They go through the same old crapola, of prospect , the point, present, close, follow-up! That sales strategy is going to get you nowhere; oh it will get you somewhere, another job. Get Sales Blog Updates. Dont let your next sales meeting suck!

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Referrals Hiring Social Media Loyalty 206

Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

It never ceases to amaze me, that with all the options salespeople have, they choose to alienate, anger or cause doubt in the mind of the prospect by setting the wrong tone with their questions. And maybe the prospect feels that’s none of your business. It’s a waste of the prospect’s time. Good start.

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Hiring Social Media Loyalty Commission 335

Gong.io

JULY 6, 2018

Sales Call Tip #1: Schedule Your Sales Call for the Right Time. Congrats on landing the sales meeting. There are good and bad times of day for the first sales meeting. If you think a morning-fresh, bright-eyed prospect is your best bet, guess again. Sales Call Tip #2: Structure Your Sales Call.

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Call-back Cold Calling Face-to-face Objections 103

Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Because this type of sales methodology provides the exact kind of personalized experience modern buyers have come to expect: an experience that requires intense focus, active listening, and – perhaps most importantly – a solid foundation of mutual respect and trust. One way to ensure your sales tactics are able to bend with each prospect?

Consultative Selling 52

Consultative Selling Closing Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

For me, the majority of my first sale roles did indeed involve our CEO in the early stage. As my product knowledge increased and selling skills became more polished, I felt I could really own the deals in my pipeline – proving to myself that I could win deals solo. Solution review.

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Energy Up-Sell Call-back Case Study 127

SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Let’s first clear up some myths about the concept of social selling. Myths About Social Selling. They don’t sell for you and never could. The “secret” to improving your prospecting results (i.e. Using social media as an avenue to engage a buyer and get them to agree to a sales meeting is step one.

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Social Selling Social Media Decision Maker Face-to-face 63

Jeffrey Gitomer

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Why on earth would someone listen to your time-worn sales pitch/tricks without a hint of value coming from you? Why on earth would you look for your prospect’s pain when he or she is looking for pleasure? Why on earth would you try to sell your prospect, when all they want to do is buy? Great points Jeff!

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Hiring Cold Calling Closing Social Media 194

SBI

JUNE 3, 2014

Duncan: The buying process has changed dramatically in the last decade and today as much as 70% of the buying cycle happens before a prospect ever reaches out to a vendor. They are reaching out to their friend Google instead.) This gives a very narrow window within which a sales rep must be able to add value for a prospect.

Up-Sell 57

Up-Sell Revenue Closing Buying Cycle 57

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

What is Remote Selling? The first thing you need to know is how remote selling is different from traditional selling or otherwise known as field sales. In simple terms, remote selling is prospecting and engaging buyers and customers from a remote work location, generally, a salespersons home office.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Scoring Lead Rank 104

Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

LinkedIn has become the defacto standard for the professional world, prospective employers to find job seekers and for an account executive to find potential customers. You always want to focus on them (the prospect, the HR director, the client) and how you can help them be more successful. Am I speaking to sales reps?

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Hiring How To 101

Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If you’re in sales for the money, get out now and become a lawyer, or worse, a politician. A big part of selling is thinking that you can, and a positive anticipation of going into a sales meeting. A big part of selling is expecting a positive outcome. Trying to sell instead of getting people to buy.

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