Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, organizations need sales training software to ensure their reps have the training required to be consultative sellers. 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.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

As starters, Mark Hanan established the branding this term in his brilliantly written book Consultative Selling – an early and extremely important work about selling consultatively. Because of the branding, Consultative Selling has become one of the “ings” in our field like: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling and Solution Selling?

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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. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools? Why is continuous training and coaching so valuable?

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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. . Technology skills : How well do your reps use sales tools? Why is continuous training and coaching so valuable?

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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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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

podcast host Andy Paul has spent decades as one of the foremost experts on sales strategy, process, and training. 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. The New Solution 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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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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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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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

. It is a series of common and shared beliefs on selling, which will influence everything from sales recruitment, to sales tactics and strategy. Sales Leaders will use the methodology to coach, train and manage the Sales Force and when implemented correctly, will be vigorously self-policed on the sales floor.

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

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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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LeveragePoint

APRIL 12, 2019

Obituaries for product selling and solution selling have been written many times. A 2012 Harvard Business Review article , by the Challenger sales team, declared that solution selling has become obsolete with Forbes highlighting the same theme in 2018. Sales training firms are thriving.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In order to “fight” Frugalnomics and maintain sales effectiveness, sales needs to be armed with a new value-oriented, consultative methodology, training and tools. How do sales enablement solutions reflect the “people, process, technology” mantra to help sales do their job more efficiently? Customers bought "products."

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Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

In our sales training course Sales 101, we teach sales people that the value of all sales people is not the information they give out, but the information they gather. When two products appear the same, why pay more? . Again only 2 out of 10 were proficient at aligning solutions with their customers needs.

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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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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Most sales training companies and sales teams subscribe to a sales method but generally, it covers from “hello to close” That’s the phase from the moment you say hello, begin building rapport and trust, all the way to learning how to effectively negotiate a contract and close. . SPIN Selling. Solution Selling.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The folks at Sandler Sales Training invented the upfront contract. But you can learn all about how to sell to the C-suite here. And to get a university-level education on selling to the C-suite, watch this FREE training video – Selling to the C-Suite: 18. That’s how you sell to the C-suite.

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