Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Meeting Decision Maker Revelation ACT 130

Increase Sales

MAY 19, 2015

Sales training today covers a plethora of sales styles or models. Yet many of these forget this one essential element – authenticity in sales. This revelation only reaffirmed what I learned from my own personal experiences. How many times is the focus on the sales training model or process?

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Training Lead Rank Revelation Ideal Customer Profile 70

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Customers are self educating, they don’t want to see sales people until they have completed the majority of their buying process! We all know this–much to the chagrin of sales. So we get confused, what’s the role of marketing, what’s the role of sales? But the customer is really screwing things up.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 121

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I hope you will also give yourself a bit of a break in the New Year, and also give yourself a career edge by nurturing your most valuable sales relationships: your existing clients. That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. What happened to me is what happens to so many sales teams.

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Referrals Small Business Small Business Cold Calling 194

The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2015

Having trained hundreds of sales people in effective telephone prospecting, I have witnessed a number of recurring patterns which impact success, both negatively and positively. Coming out of the training most will apply what they learned quit literally, almost religiously. Sales Skills Tibor Shanto' Tibor Shanto.

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Cold Calling Revelation Face-to-face Call-back 120

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Are you ready for the unexpected twist in the world of sales coaching ? Stay tuned for the big reveal that will change the way you think about coaching sales teams. Find out the surprising insight that will revolutionize your sales leadership. Don’t miss out on this game-changing revelation!

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Objections Opportunity Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 73

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

I’ve become relatively agile in prompt engineering, so I keep tweaking them, trying to find that “Aha” revelation. I start thinking, perhaps we are failing our people in training, supporting, coaching, and reinforcing things they should know to be effective and efficient in doing their jobs.

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Ideal Customer Profile Revelation Decision Maker Face-to-face 139

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2013

This morning I was having a conversation with a sales person in a healthcare related company. We were discussing his sales strategies, value propositions, and how to get customers to buy. A lot of my early training in sales taught me to focus on “finding the pain.” It has to provide relief or a way out.

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Revelation Customer Face-to-face Engineering 121

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 18, 2014

I had a significant revelation occur about 2 months ago, triggered by one of my consulting clients when he asked me this question: “Why don’t you offer all of the your custom-built web tools and training you give to me as a part of our consulting agreement to the public?” Training Web Tools products training'

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Tools Workbooks Revelation Top of Funnel 115

Fill the Funnel

APRIL 28, 2014

One of the most surprising revelations to me was the quality of the video and audio from one of the participants from an Android smartphone. Marketing Sales News Social Selling Tool tips Training Web Tools audio Conference eBook Skype Slides Video YouTube' The screen sharing worked flawlessly each time.

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Skype Tools Revelation Conference 116

Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2024

” And we are totally bewildered by things we see happening in sales. ” Andy made a comment, “Sales is becoming so performative… ” We started diving into what that means, I won’t discuss it much in this post, Andy’s writing a fantastic book that goes deeply into this.

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Revelation Lead Gen Scale Face-to-face 133

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2020

We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Are you giving them the resources, processes, systems, tools, training, programs, and support critical to their ability to succeed?

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Revelation Ideal Customer Profile Coaching Account 106

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2013

Over the past few days I’ve been at the Forrester Sales Enablement Conference. Scott Santucci has driven a brilliant theme, calling for sales enablement professionals to become Simpletists—a combination scientist and simplifier. We’re educated and trained about complexity. It got me to reflecting.

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Revelation Conference Motivation Sales Enablement 102

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. I’ll also post the recording on the Score More Sales website if you read this post-radio event. We just had such an a-ha revelation about our new business today. Previous post: What’s Your Hair Style and Sales Plan for 2011? 50 DAYS To Build Your Sales – 2nd edition.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revelation 149

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But CRM has been a powerful tool that drives sales productivity and performance. One would think customers would revel in the knowledge that sellers might be able to engage them in more meaningful and relevant ways, providing deep insights to help customers improve their ability to drive their own performance and grow their own businesses.

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Face-to-face Revelation Tools CRM 147

Corporate Visions

JUNE 19, 2019

The post What You Need to Know About the Challenger Sales Model by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. This strategy, as popularized by the Challenger Sales Model, is one of the most recognized sales training methods today. What is the Challenger Sales Model? What The Challenger Sales Model Gets Wrong.

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Lead Rank Revelation Decision Maker Buyer 85

Allego

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In episode 20, SPARXiQ Founder and CEO David Bauders shares how sales organizations can adapt to the new normal, the power of analytics to accelerate sales performance, and why you learn the most from your most demanding customers. Episode 20: Driving Sales Performance | David Bauders. That, to me, has been a revelation.”.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revelation Pivotal 96

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Not fertile ground for sales folk. It was a life-changing experience regarding business – but not regarding sales. The only course I saw on sales (this was back 1974-76) was about strategic selling and sales management; nothing about the personal psychology of selling, which I later came to see as critical.

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Revelation Government Course Referrals 103

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales is the somewhat dark art of convincing people to buy stuff. But the problem is that many people, including a lot of salespeople, do see sales that way. And today we want to show you how you and your colleagues can use it to break that old idea of sales and bring new life into our old profession.

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Face-to-face Lead Scoring Lead Rank Hiring 128

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Part of sales is positioning yourself for a good outcome, whether you’re trading Pokémon cards on the playground or selling an analytics platform to digital marketers that lets them gain insight into campaign performance. To position ourselves for a good outcome, I chose to lead the sales team. 1) Improving Sales Conversations.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Leads 111

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

The majority of our sales engagement strategies involve us in only the very latest stages of our customers’ buying journeys. We train our people in our products and their superiority. We train our people in competitive differentiation and objection handling. ” We revel in this strategy.

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Competition Customer Buying Cycle Vendor 139

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. Those that don’t — won’t.

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Ideal Customer Profile How To Churn Face-to-face 103

Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. Gillum points out, “ They want training…they want to know how to do it right.

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Social Media Media Revenue Top of Funnel 77

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sure there are things that help–training, systems, tools. We tell our sales people to go where the money is, so likewise, if we want to maximize performance, go where the problems are. Recalling that sales call 30 days ago where someone could have done something differently is a waste of everyone’s time.

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Coaching Maximizer Revelation Hiring 105

Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Those accomplishments, honors, certifications, academic degrees in which we revel. Or, the biz card or professional profile on LinkedIn is full of marketing and sales spiel and lingo which appears light-hearted and almost self-deprecating, with pseudo-titles created for what they do. The awards we collect.

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Ideal Customer Profile Positioning Customer Epiphany 131

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The profound implications of this revelation invite us to ponder the untapped potential lying dormant within our subconscious minds. Navigating Sales and the Landscape of Emotions Venturing into the realm of sales often conjures images of aggressive tactics and discomfort.

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Revelation Commence Government Pivotal 59

Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 25, 2019

My response was, the people in charge need negotiation training. . Anyone associated with sales or entrepreneurship quickly recognizes the elements of successful negotiation. In the end, you are far more likely to earn the job or the sale. Many times, revelations appear that are usually kept quiet. Celebrate Success.

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Negotiation Revelation Hiring Inbound 74

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 23, 2018

Once they consummate the sale, and the contract is signed, they hunt up their next deal. Then, post-sales customer support teams often find themselves in fire-fighting mode. Your clients have a revelation for you. They continue to do business with you and your organization based on the value of post-sales support.

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Retention Customer Revelation Loyalty 154

Vengreso

OCTOBER 8, 2024

If you’re feeling lost in a sea of automated sales communication, following generic scripts and hoping for results, then you are not alone! Sales professionals are struggling to stand out and make authentic connections in a world dominated by AI and automation. Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice!

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Face-to-face Influencer Revelation Infusion 58

Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Want to improve sales communication? These are welcome findings to anyone in sales. These are welcome findings to anyone in sales. It is also safe to say that many in sales are not that comfortable or familiar with how to incorporate graphics and video into our communication.

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Video Top of Funnel Skype Revelation 48

Pipeliner

APRIL 8, 2024

Chatting with John Golden from Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM, alongside John Nieuwenburg , a seasoned business coach since 2004, I ventured into the world of small businesses. Like part-time roles, and the necessity of preparing backups for critical positions through cross-training.

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Small Business Small Business Opportunity Hiring 52

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

’ All the jobs require SaaS sales experience.” ” It is puzzling how “SaaS” or “XaaS” seems to have a disproportionate mindshare in the sales world these days. Sales people have been concerned with this ever since the first sale was made.

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Account Based Marketing Revelation Sales Methodology Inbound 57

Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The skill and capability of the customer facing sales team has never been more important. The best new ideas come outfitted with updated labels and catch phrases, suggesting a change in the key ingredients required for sales success in the new age of technology, demanding customers, and competition. And so the question?

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Revelation Face-to-face Competition Segment 44

SalesProInsider

JULY 6, 2017

What do you need to accomplish in your sales efforts? From closing a sale, creating a lead gen campaign, sending a proposal…or even painting a room,; anything you need to get done is easier when you have the right tools…and use them correctly. I know this isn’t a home improvement blog, but this is also true in sales.

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Sales Tools Tools Revelation Lead Gen 52

Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Hitting Sales Targets should be one of the top goals for any Professional Sales person, yet survey after survey every year shows the majority of sales teams in every industry dont hit sales targets. In Sales more than any other job, it is easy to not only to appear to be busy, but actually be busy.

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Revelation Survey Social Media Guarantee 48

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The sales person was asking the customer about their needs. Sales Automation, Marketing Automation, Financial Systems, Machine Tool, New Building] solution? Likewise, our customers have been well trained, they want to leap from needs to solutions and “What can you do for me.”

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Customer Revelation Call-back Sales Cycle 48

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2015

Sales people, we have a PR problem, … it’s Real,…… and we probably deserve it, … and we need to do something about it. I just read this post by Brian de Haaff, CEO of Aha, This CEO Will Never Hire A Sales Person. My initial reaction was, “This guy is clueless about professional sales.”

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Commission Hiring Revelation Compensation 48