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10 Essential Selling Skills Every Sales Rep Needs in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills. Below are the 10 essential selling skills you need to succeed in sales today -- all extracted from the study's findings. These selling skills are what buyers indicated were the top factors that separated sales winners from runners up. Educate prospects with new ideas and perspectives.

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Are You Telling the Truth About Asking for Referrals? [Q3 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

Referrals are how most people prefer to do business, whether they’re looking for a good restaurant or a new software vendor. 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice. Referral selling skills aren’t built overnight. Read “ 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice ”).

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The Complexities of Selling Technology to Business

The Pipeline

Especially as you work with medium and large size companies, B2B sales can mean large transactions and more opportunity to showcase advanced selling skills. But B2B selling, especially to large corporations has evolved into a complicated process. We’ll use enterprise software as an example to make our points.

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Why Selling Product Features Doesn’t Work

The Sales Hunter

We’ve all been told that selling product features is not the way to sell, but even knowing that, it seems it still is what happens, not only by salespeople, but also by marketing. Case in point: I recently was prompted to change a password for some software I have. Sorry, but I don’t! In fact, I hate it!

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Why Are You Trying to Sell Me? Quit Sending Me Stupid Emails. You Don’t Know How to Sell.

The Sales Hunter

This is garbage, and what makes this one even worse is the person is trying to get me to buy some sort of sales prospecting software. I crack up over this, because clearly this person hasn’t even used their own software to determine who to prospect. Click on the below book cover for more info on boosting your profits! .

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5 Reasons You Don’t Want to be a Sales Manager

The Sales Hunter

In the age of technology, there is not one process that can’t be monitored and tracked by way of a computer and a software program. Blog Consultative Selling leadership Professional Selling Skills management sales leader sales manager' Let me share with you 5 reasons why you don’t want to be a sales manager.

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Can You Improve a Kick-Ass Sales Force?

Understanding the Sales Force

Mark Roberge, Sales VP at Hubspot , is responsible for building one of those kick-ass sales forces and he contributed a guest post to Software Advice on Building a Sales Team the Hubspot Way. The problem with the 5 that Mark identified is that none of them speak to either sales DNA, Commitment, Desire or selling skills.

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