SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

He is getting in front of prospects and valued customers. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills. She recommends reading the latest books or product training. He studies the skills needed to execute in the field. Reps that fail are re-trained.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

The Pipeline

JUNE 11, 2019

.” Something that can also be used to describe sales and prospecting. Making any growth or development we achieve, as something to have “lived through,” nowhere more so than in prospecting. People are paralyzed by the thought of being rejected when prospecting. Rejection Hurts. It’s Not Just in Your Head.

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Quota Prospecting Exact Study 295

SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Understanding how the prospect thinks is part of the CMO’s DNA. But for the most part needs-based selling has been used as a technique to better ‘tell’ the prospect what they need. They ‘smooth’ the friction between a prospect and your company’s stone-age sales process. The evolution to needs-based solution selling helped.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Decision Maker Infusion 335

Alice Heiman

JULY 18, 2023

Before starting SuccessKit, he learned to use case studies to sell and realized that his company didn’t have a way to produce these. Knowing that all salespeople need case studies throughout the sales cycle, SuccessKit was born. It paid off. He started his career in tech sales, moved to management, and then founded SuccessKit in 2016.

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Case Study Study Closing Hiring 116

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. Remember that detail as you reengineer your sales training program.

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Training Hiring How To Proposal 116

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. For sellers, this makes access to prospective buyers the first chokepoint. How do you get access to your prime prospects? Referrals can transfer earned trust from a customer to a prospect.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Referrals Face-to-face 287

Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

Sales enablement refers to the process of providing a sales team with the information and content they need to nurture prospects and close deals more efficiently. A sales enablement content strategy involves a structured process for sales teams to access and deliver relevant content to the prospects in their sales pipeline. .

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing Case Study 241

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2023

3) Invest in, study, and use the scripts in this book. Whether it’s my material, or someone else’s, do yourself a favor and study and learn how to get better. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If you don’t change the inside , then the outside won’t change. #3) Remember, if nothing changes, then nothing changes.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker Licensing 233

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

Study these 3 interviewing mistakes and make sure YOU don’t make them the next time you’re trying to land your next sales position. What this tells the hiring manager is that you’re likely to “talk past the close” when on the phone with a prospect! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Too many sales reps like to talk.

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Hiring Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker 241

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

This requires going beyond one-size-fits-all training and development programs that are measured by simple pass/fail certifications or completion rates. In fact, just one-third (34 percent) of organizations surveyed for CSO Insights’ 2017 Sales Enablement Optimization Study reported achieving the majority or all of their objectives.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Here is a quick “cheat sheet” of five scripts/responses you need to print out, study, memorize, and use when you get in the following situations: “I need to think about it.”. And then hit your mute button and let your prospect tell you how to sell them. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! We’re not interested.”.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Objections Decision Maker 240

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2018

What’s more, a Bain & Company study found that increasing customer retention rates by a mere 5% boosts profits by 25% to 95%. Implement a robust order-tracking system, in addition to a CRM or within your CRM, and train your whole company on it. How you do it is less important than that you train everyone to use it.

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Customer Service Retention Hiring Account 286

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to a the Forrester Consulting Q3 2019 Global Content Preferences study, 87% of technology buyers said that they want vendors to understand their business, industry or market conditions, and 83% want vendors to understand what’s most important to their job.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 289

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

Author: Tim Riesterer Have you ever had a service problem with a customer and worried about the damage it could do to your relationship and long-term revenue prospects? And, worse, maybe they will spread the word throughout their network and negatively influence other prospect or customer decisions. Maybe they won’t renew.

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Loyalty Remedy Journal Study 234

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey.

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Data Hiring Compensation Quota 227

Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Once AI is implemented, she says, “The question then becomes, ‘do sales organizations that use technologies like this shift their time to higher value activities, like training, researching prospects and strategy, so that when they do get face-to-face time to sell, they show up prepared and better trained?’”

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Face-to-face CRM Forecasting Cold Calling 312

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

A new research study unlocks the key to using social media for sales. By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. But by now everyone knows that coaching and training are what turn salespeople into top performers. Social engagement. Not really.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296

Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2021

Hitting an early impasse with a prospect is an age-old sales dilemma. “I If a cold call results in a prospect taking a meeting, I always ask: Who on your team would feel left out if they weren’t a part of this meeting? Incorporate Multi-Threading Into Sales Training. So I said, ‘All right, what’s his number?’

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Hiring How To Inbound Outbound 264

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect. If you’re heads-down on your projects and don’t prospect, you’ll have no pipeline when you surface. Why didn’t he think to ask for referrals?

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Referrals Lead Gen Social Media Cold Calling 233

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Access to high-quality contact data, market trends, and emerging predictive analytics tools allow for rapid segmentation of high-quality accounts and prospects. Get the prospect out of their own way.

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Conversion Decision Maker Outbound Top of Funnel 224

Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

It provides insight into where your leads are coming from and what channels are providing you with the most sales-ready prospects. If so, great – make sure you show them plenty of case studies. For more information, check out: 3 Ways to Set Prospect Expectations During the Sales Process. This is helpful for a few reasons.

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B2B Closing Guarantee Scale 252

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

With decreasing prospects and the cost of doing business increasing, a squeeze on profits is inevitable. It’s easy to cut back on salespeople, promotion, and training. Studies show that effectual coaching can impact sales performance by as much as 19%! Train your farmers to cultivate more business with their existing customers.

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Sales Management Hiring ROI Maximizer 194

Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Are your sales reps relying on headquarter phone numbers every time they reach out to a prospect? A sales rep using a direct dial is 46% likelier to reach a prospect at the director level than a rep who is not using a direct dial. Studies show that sales reps forget 84% of all sales training content after 90 days ( source ).

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Sales Qualified Lead Penetration B2B Face-to-face 207

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Because of this belief, CEOs invest more money in beer Fridays and office supplies than training their salespeople, sales managers, or any other department that interfaces with the customer. . Development Philosophy: You subscribe to “one and done” training. The training is conducted and you check the box on training and development.

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Hiring Account SalesForce Quota 214

Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

Other selling tasks include prospecting, administrative work, data entry, market research, etc. The most popular sales tools include CRM, social prospecting, data and list services, email engagement, phone, and sales cadence ( source ). Training and onboarding. But, sadly, this isn’t often the case. Technology and Process.

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Hiring Referrals Cold Calling B2B 197

Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 10, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Keith Daw , VP of GSD and Trainer at McDonell Consulting Group , where he ‘Gets Stuff Done’ and teaches the Sandler Training methodology. Know why you’re training your team before you start. Training during the last 15+ months [10:43]. powered by Sounder. Sam’s Corner [28:12].

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Training Scale Webinar Metrics Face-to-face 119

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2020

As such, why not study, learn, and become a Zoom Expert! Download customized backgrounds; study proper presentation techniques; practice with friends—record yourself and study your performance and improve. Plus, watch YouTube videos on this, study the Zoom site, and more. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

Strategy 159

Strategy Face-to-face Call-back Cold Calling 159

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

Author: Greg Flynn Imagine a marathon runner starting a race without having trained or even stretched beforehand. With agile onboarding, sales enablement works closely with sales leaders to map the sequence of training with upcoming skills and milestones that reps must perform in their roles. 3 – Treating Onboarding as One-and-Done.

Hiring 221

Hiring Retention Case Study Maximizer 221

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ellis said, “Early in my career, Bill called me into his office, and we sat there, for a long time, studying game film. I kept a notebook with all my prospects in it and every time they didn’t buy, I’d put in red ink the reason why not. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! I got better. but you can never go up.

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Closing Film Face-to-face Inside Sales 195

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2018

A win/loss analysis is the process of studying past business deals in order to generate valuable insights about your company’s selling practices. Lost prospects and new customers will be more comfortable sharing their unfiltered opinions with a third-party. The interviewer will be a well-trained professional.

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Analysis B2B Hiring How To 223

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It also made me curious: Why is it that posts about lead generation for account based sales never mention referrals , but tout emails, phone calls, videos, custom content, direct mail, social media, ads, webinars, events, testimonials, case studies, etc.? They need to be trained in how to ask for referrals successfully. It’s from me.

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Referrals Top of Funnel Account Scale 279

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Make smart buying decisions, strive for a solid integration, involve end users in the process and provide adequate training. Social Selling: Track and analyze customer and prospects’ social media habits – where they spend the most time, the kind of content they like, share and download and more. Use Your Data.

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Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

According to one study, eight out of ten people say they’re stressed from work ( source ). It’s also reported that, when a person suffers from stress, they’re unable to access previous knowledge or training and instead resort to an automatic response—typically shutting down, quitting, or losing confidence. Look into prospecting tools.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Dr Dan Short of Arizona, USA, conducted a series of research studies that were intriguing as much as they were. [[ This is a content summary only. I came across some interesting research about ‘emotional drivers’ the other day. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Study Research Sales Prospecting 251

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. Sales engineering, customer success, and support teams all require content and training.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Scale Hiring 130

MTD Sales Training

JULY 23, 2019

In a HubSpot study, LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3x higher than Twitter at 0.69% and Facebook at 0.77%. If it’s in the top five, it may be one of the first sites your prospect clicks on when they search you. This can open up your prospect opportunities by thousands of per cent.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Google How To 161