Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

According to research firm Gartner , 75% of B2B sales organizations will augment their traditional sales methods with guided selling solutions by 2025 to better connect with customers and drive conversion. But what exactly is guided selling, and how does it benefit your business? How Does Guided Selling Work?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 18, 2013

As a VP of Sales, you keep asking yourself “how do I get more leads for my team?” As a sales leader, you need a richer pipeline. During the mid-90’s solution selling was all the rage. Forward thinking companies decided that they needed a sales methodology. The white shows where sales is typically engaged.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All too often, sales reps accidentally adopt a “one size fits all” approach to selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. Increasingly, top sellers are adopting a more effective approach: solution selling. What is solution selling? The result?

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. What is Solution Selling?

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Allego

JANUARY 7, 2025

The difference between hitting your sales goals and falling short often comes down to one crucial factor: having the right sales methodology. A sales methodology isn’t just a set of steps or a simple sales process. But heres the catch: Not all approaches work for every sales team. Lets dive in.

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SBI

AUGUST 12, 2011

If you pitch a solution – you will not succeed. If you pitch to a problem, you will fill a need and when you fill a need, you will make a sale. Problem vs Solution Selling. Problem, then solution, then why “your” solution. Think about what you’re selling. A diamond ring ain’t no big thing.

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Highspot

JULY 29, 2024

A trusted sales advisor isn’t just knowledgeable—they genuinely care about their clients. B2B buyers and sellers agree that sales teams must move beyond hitting numbers and create personalized, strategic connections. What Is Solution Selling? When Should You Use Solution Selling?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Probably the most popular approach to complex B2B sales, solution selling has been around for decades. It is still being taught to many sales reps around the world, and there are compelling reasons to do so. Solution selling methodology in a nutshell. Pros and cons of solution selling.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Navigating the complexities of B2B sales, especially with high-value enterprise deals and multiple stakeholders, can be challenging. The Miller Heiman Sales Process is designed to tackle these difficulties and guide you through the sales process. Table of Contents What is the Miller Heiman sales process?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Ready to enhance your sales skills? Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. These blogs provide insights and strategies tailored specifically for sales managers , focusing on leadership, productivity , team motivation, and effective sales strategies.

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SBI

JULY 16, 2013

We rely on quotas as a method for measuring sales rep performance. The real magic to driving radical revenue growth resides in understanding sales productivity and how our reps spend their limited sales capacity. These are sales productivity issues. Salespeople have 215 selling days or 1720 hours a year to sell.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

What's the difference between sales and marketing? Sales, on the other hand, works directly with prospects to reinforce the value of the company's solution to convert prospects into customers. Let's demystify the difference between sales and marketing, and learn how to align the two. Sales and Marketing.

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Salesmate

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

What do you do when a manager provides negative feedback about your sales performance? If you continue using your old sales approaches, you’ll keep getting the same disappointing results. If you continue using your old sales approaches, you’ll keep getting the same disappointing results. The network sales approach.

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2013

The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. Inside Sales” Brooks , and Mark Organ. SPIFs (Sales Performance Incentive Funds) are commonly used to incentivize salespeople to sell more of a particular product in a given period of time.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2013

Colleen is the SVP of Sales and Service for OneSource. Her blog was entitled, “ Are you selling or searching.”. It has to be done because they can’t be effective in their sales conversations unless they’ve done the research. First off, if you have a sales team, your revenue is derived from the prospects they interact with.

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SBI

JANUARY 22, 2013

Sales Energy Audits: How to Increase Revenue by Shifting Your Sales-Energy Use. In this case, I’m referring to its use of Sales Energy. Each salesperson has a limited amount of sales energy (or sales capacity) to use throughout the year. Preparing post sales-call follow-up. Scheduling sales calls.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It doesn’t matter if you are a Formula 1 engineer, an Olympic sprinter, or a sales manager; everyone is striving for efficiency. . More efficient race cars are lighter and require less fuel, more efficient sprinters can run faster with less effort, and more efficient sales teams can close more and higher-value deals with fewer resources. .

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Nothing comes easy in sales -- it’s always earned. But I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon: even the most seasoned and confident account executives can flinch when it comes to securing budget from their head of sales. However, with 850+ sales tools and 5000+ marketing technologies, it’s easy to get distracted by the new and shiny.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2013

In February, I posted the first of a 2-part Sales Leaders’ pledge. It’s not sales goals or quotas I’m referring to (although a CSO study revealed that 37% of reps did not hit their plan last year — so we are falling short on those as well.) Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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Artesian Solutions

MARCH 11, 2019

Tech Sales – The shift from product selling, through solution selling, to customer needs selling. It can drive significant improvements in how they connect and engage with customers, deliver sales strategies, improve business development and guarantee long term customer success. Identification.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 10, 2012

One of the most important things I learned from one of my mentors at the time was, “What We Sell Is Different Than What We Install.” ” It’s a simple notion that is important for every sales person today–whether you sell cars, complex computer systems, complex services.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Imagine having a sales team that hits or exceeds their targets without fail. It might sound like a lofty goal, but there’s a proven way to get there with sales enablement training. 54% of enablement teams that manage sales training programs report a six-percentage-point increase in customer retention.

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SBI

MARCH 26, 2013

The subjects of both books are decidedly applicable to the field of Sales and Marketing. No one understands this better than a Sales Professional. Asking a prospect to trial your software is much like asking for a decision to buy. Selling in today’s world involves more than relaying value to your buyer.

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SBI

APRIL 17, 2013

DemandCon’s purpose is to offer education and insight into the art of aligning and accelerating the sales and marketing funnel. On a relevant side-note, be sure to attend the upcoming webinar I’m moderating on April 24th “Be More Interesting: Get More Sales.” You do have an end-goal defined, right?

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SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.

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SBI

JUNE 11, 2013

Fast growing companies need to hire more people, open new offices, and acquire additional hardware, software and services. Of course you won’t want to simply add all 5,000 accounts into your sales database and set about contacting each one. Note: IncView has agreed to offer a special 20% off discount for Smart Selling Tools readers.

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SBI

APRIL 30, 2013

No matter how intensely interested your prospect professes to be and no matter how far down the sales process they have endeavored to go, every opportunity is at risk of falling victim to time. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools. Remember, time isn’t a friend or a foe.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You can network across a growing array of social and business platforms and talk to your fellow sales leaders. It is all too clear that there are specific, fundamental elements of sales leadership that seem forever unresolved, no matter which ‘linkage’ attracts the greatest number of ‘followers’. . Marketing is Selling.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SBI

MAY 28, 2013

Meeting after sales meeting, you’re able to spark the prospect’s imagination and excitement and your opportunity momentum takes off. If they cannot articulate – much less remember – the main sales proposition then they cannot sell themselves, or their colleagues, on why action must be taken.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Sales Lead Management Association (SLMA) is an online resource for answering these questions and more. It was founded 4 years ago by James Oberhausen, Susan Campanale and Mark Friedman who had a vision for serving the sales lead management community with valuable information and resources.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In the dynamic and high-demand world of selling, the evolution of tools has had a significant impact on our ability to perform our jobs, present our ever-expanding array of solutions, service our customers, and generate revenue—the life-blood of our companies. The biggest advancement in the development of sales tools was the telephone.

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Lessonly

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I had read a few sales books, but that was about it. . Fast forward to my final interview, I was asked, “Why do you think you’ll be successful in sales?” If that’s true in life, surely it must be true in sales. the opposite of turn-and-burn sales from a catalog. . Sales is about solving a problem, not pushing a product.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2013

That post, along with the one you’re reading now, is aimed at complex sales. The characteristics of a complex sale are typically wider and deeper business challenges that require longer sales-cycles and result in larger average deal sizes. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

Focusing on enterprise sales can be a great way to grow your revenue. After all, enterprise sales drive a lot of value. Adding those big logos to your customer roster is a great way to build credibility and grow sales. Sales reps going after enterprise deals must be ready to navigate complex selling scenarios.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 17, 2016

I believe that these are all share-worthy and apply to sales and sales leadership as well, and perhaps even better than they apply to those graduating from universities. While all were good, Biden had one great takeaway, and the General shared 3 tips and an action step.

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SBI

JUNE 26, 2012

Tweet In this month’s issue of Top Sales Associates Magazine , I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Linda Richardson. You may recognize her name as the Founder and Chairwoman of Richardson , the global sales performance company. The first sales tool I used (other than a rolodex) was the GRiD Systems laptop.

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