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. Our decisions are colored by the history and experiences that shape our perspective.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Does it require different skills to present the value of this, perhaps differentiating it from an on premise implementation? Sure it may require a consultative/solution selling approach, it requires deep product knowledge, but there is nothing about the technology implementation that necessarily requires specialized selling skills.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

One particular post that has captured significant attention is Solution Selling vs Challenger Selling: Which is Best for Your Team? The blog serves as a repository of practical tools such as templates, playbooks, checklists, and guides designed to bolster the performance of sales professionals.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They can also use this software to deliver continuous learning to ensure reps have the skills they need – whether their sales interactions are in the field or virtual. While the benefits are many (we’ll cover some of those benefits later on), it can be a huge shift in mindset for sellers accustomed to traditional, product-focused selling.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This is one of the major ways that value selling differs from solution selling. Value selling and solution both acknowledge that buyers are trying to solve a problem. While value-added selling focuses on the buyer’s needs, solution selling focuses on your product’s features.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2018

To quash the competition, Xerox developed Professional Selling Skills (PSS), a formal sales methodology the company used to train its own sales reps that was later sold to other organizations (and eventually acquired by Miller Heiman Group). Strategic Selling pioneered solution selling as we know it today.

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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.

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Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 2, 2012

These trendy new approaches over the years have included, but certainly are not limited to Consultative Sales, Solution Selling, Strategic Sales, Sales Role Segmentation (Hunters -vs- Farmers, Inside -vs- Outside and/or Generalist. -vs- vs- Specialist).

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Mindtickle

JUNE 28, 2021

Selling behavior : Evaluate how articulate and enthusiastic a rep is on a call, voicemail or presentation as well as the tone. This will gauge their overall confidence in selling your solution. . You can also keep track of how many filler words are used.

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Sell Integrity

MAY 13, 2020

What’s next – in how we’ll serve customers, lead teams, and collaborate with each other? Originally Published As a Guest Blog on SellingPower.com By Mike Fisher. In the mere months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, much has been written about the need to adjust to a new normal in how we’re doing business – and from where.

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Klozers

MAY 28, 2014

This form of GAP ANALYSIS obviously requires great product knowledge, experience and Consultative Selling Skills. For complex Solution Selling with multiple decision makers and influencers, you can drill down into each of the areas in real detail. You will notice we use the phrase verbally acknowledge often.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. Again only 2 out of 10 were proficient at aligning solutions with their customers needs. Given the decline in Companies investing in their own Professional Sales Academies where are sales people going to learn Solution Selling ?  4. 4 out of 10 Sales people struggle to sell value versus price.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. When training B2B sales professionals, it’s important to focus on a skill set that aligns with its unique nature. This includes market understanding, solution selling, and long-term relationship building.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And though this method is perhaps more nuanced than the usual cut-and-dried sales practices, some market trends indicate consultative selling skills are 100% worth the extra effort. In fact, as far back as 2016, buyers were already expressing a preference for collaborative sales experiences without the standard “hard sell” tactics.

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Sales Readiness Group

DECEMBER 7, 2018

On this Q&A episode: "What's the best way to follow-up with a demo? Even though m y demos go really well, the prospect seems to go silent after we meet".

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You may have heard the rumors: Solution selling is dead. Solution selling is far from dead; it’s simply evolving based on changes in the sales environment and consumer mindset. We’ll go over what solution selling is, when to use it, and the psychology of today’s buyer. Image Source.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s definitely not a selling skills book. This is another sales book that’s less a book about selling skills and more a book about both product marketing and sales management. This book teaches you how to make the leap from generic product pitch to consultative, solution-driven conversation. Solution Selling.

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. High end consulting firms such as Bain & Company who use a Consultative Sales Methodology , could not function using a Transactional Sales Methodology, no more than your local cable company, who use Transactional selling, could operate using Solution Selling methodologies.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

SPIN Selling. Solution Selling. Miller Heiman’s Conceptual Selling. Miller Heiman’s Strategic Selling. Consultative Selling. SNAP Selling. There are many popular sales methodologies out there, focusing on different stages of the sales process. These include: Inbound sales methodology.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We know that buyer’s want a consultative / outcome focused engagement, pushing salespeople to advance their methodology, skills and tools over the past 3 decades, from product selling to value selling: Product Selling: The sales organization sold products based on "feeds and speeds". Customers bought "products."

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2025

Some popular sales methodologies include: Consultative selling Solution selling Challenger sales Be sure to choose the sales methodology that aligns best with your business. Other organizations use AI role-plays , which enable their reps to practice their selling skills with an adaptive AI bot.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2025

Some popular sales methodologies include: Consultative selling Solution selling Challenger sales Be sure to choose the sales methodology that aligns best with your business. Other organizations use AI role-plays , which enable their reps to practice their selling skills with an adaptive AI bot.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

In fact, this sales technique is so important, that the Solution Selling methodology dedicates three of its nine types of discovery questions to summarizing confirmations: If you get this right, it might be the first time in their lives that many of your buyers feel truly understood by another person.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 12, 2019

Obituaries for product selling and solution selling have been written many times. They expect sellers to be explicit about, and accountable for, the delivery of results from their solution. Richardson’s top 5 skills: Delivering a Compelling Value Proposition. The Role of B2B Sales Teams.

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