The 5% Institute

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the most common sales objections you’ll come across, is the I need to talk to my spouse objection. So how do you handle the I need to talk to my spouse objection in a way that’s not pushy or in a way that lacks empathy? The I Need To Talk To My Spouse Objection – Why It Comes Up. This is by qualifying.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 9, 2021

Closing sales training is crucial for not only new Sales Professionals, but also for seasoned Sales Pro’s and Business Owners who want to refresh their sales process , and even learn new skills and ideas. The various aspects of closing sales training, to ensure you’re successful in your field. Consistently deliver results.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This leads to higher levels of trust and rapport, and ultimately more closed deals. What's the difference between open ended and close ended questions? Close ended questions are questions that can be answered with a “yes” or “no,” or with a specific piece of information.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

In selling, there is no end to the tools that claim to provide coaching, performance reporting tools, conversational intelligence, role play tools, social selling, prospecting/customer engagement, negotiation, objection handling, closing, time management. As a result, it seems everything is “coaching.”

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2012

You’ve prepared your questions, you’ve anticipated objections the customer might have and believe you have nailed them. You’ve done everything well, so how do you magnify the impact and results you create in the call? Write down 3-5 key topics you want to discuss in the meeting. You’re all ready!

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Cerebral Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As a result, they suffer with low close rates and poor forecast accuracy. “We spoke to the customer a number of times and identified their key issues. We forecasted the deal to close but after ALL that work, they STILL didn’t move forward with us!” the real reason they buy). Does this narrative sound familiar?

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The 5% Institute

MAY 18, 2021

Making a great first impression in your sales conversations is key, and in this article, we’ll look at ten sales questions to ask customers to help you with this. Objection handling. This objection handling question makes this a great addition to your sales questions to ask customers. Qualification.

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criteria for success

MARCH 11, 2020

Handling objections at the close is a common hurdle salespeople must overcome when finalizing a deal. Different buyer personas may also pose final objections to confirm they're making the right decision by purchasing your product or service. Objections are Opportunities. Objections are Opportunities.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Missing key points or failing to handle objections effectively can result in missed opportunities. Monitor Performance : Track metrics like talk-to-listen ratios and objection handling with AI tools. Compare the result with a previous call where AI was not used. Track the time saved over a week.

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Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

Key Takeaways Traditional sales role play often feels forced and anxiety-inducing, limiting a reps ability to build genuine sales confidence. Then, you will receive a summary of the results by the end of the session. What it looks like: Two sales reps argue over lead ownership, harming productivity and slowing progress on key accounts.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The key is to create a negotiation strategy in advance, which helps you talk about price and other important elements of the deal. If you’d like to go into a sales negotiation with a constructive mindset and achieve the optimum result for your company, follow these tips in developing your own negotiation strategy.

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Highspot

MARCH 6, 2025

Key Takeaways Tailoring evaluations to specific sales roles ensures feedback fits the job, enhancing sales team performance where it counts. A sales performance evaluation is a structured review of a salespersons results, skills, and areas for improvement. Each type brings its strengths, tailored to your sales objectives.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Sales coaching is one of the many key responsibilities of a sales leader and is one of the most effective ways to increase sales performance across your team. Traditional sales coaching focuses on tactical issues and deal reviews – leaving little time for the kind of coaching that actually gets the desired results.

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Gong.io

APRIL 27, 2018

Objection handling techniques, tips, and tricks for sales are all over the Internet. So what makes this the BEST post about objection handling you’ll ever read? But, the way successful salespeople were handling sales objections were golden and we wanted to share them as well. Our team at Gong.io Then reply.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These methodologies are designed to ensure consistency, improve efficiency, and ultimately drive better sales results. These methodologies often include steps like prospecting, needs analysis, presentation, handling objections, and closing the deal. This ensures that no crucial step is missed during the interaction.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 6, 2020

Knowing how to consistently close a deal is one of the most important things to learn in sales. The way in which we teach how to close a deal, is by using a consistent system; or framework. In this article, you’ll learn how to close a deal with ease, by using a framework we call The 5% Sales Blueprint. Handle objections.

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Highspot

APRIL 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Microlearning delivers targeted knowledge in bite-sized, engaging formats. Your GTM team must understand product details and perfect messaging to overcome competitive objections, influence prospective buyer decisions, and drive real results. Review the gaps in sales calls, win/loss data, and campaign results.

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Highspot

MAY 18, 2025

Key takeaways ABM and sales enablement help teams focus on the right accounts and equip reps with the tools to convert prospects into customers. Organizations have realized that certain key accounts drive the highest lifetime value (LTV) with lower customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2021

Since software developers must work in close collaboration, adopting a commonly understood language, and even process/techniques, enables developers to communicate efficiently and get work done. This language, as well as understanding key processes, problems, challenges is all part of what we call “business acumen.”

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Objectives and Key Results Technique Manufacturing Objection handling 145

The 5% Institute

APRIL 14, 2021

Sales training for Executives is crucial for your closing rate success, because nothing happens until a sale is made. In this article, you’ll learn the various sales training for Executives topics required for learning, so you can close more sales, and serve more people in an elegant and non-pushy fashion. Assumptive close questions.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Making a great first impression in your sales conversations is key, and in this article, we’ll look at ten questions to ask a potential client to help you with this. Objection handling. This objection handling question makes this a great addition to your questions to ask a potential client. Qualification.

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The 5% Institute

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn the various sales training for Small Business Owners topics required for learning, so you can close more sales, and serve more people in an elegant and non-pushy fashion. Using a sales process has several key benefits. Assumptive close questions. Close ended questions. Open ended questions.

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Highspot

MAY 15, 2025

Key takeaways Partner enablement extends your sales force with skilled external teams who can represent your brand, reach new markets, and close deals with the same confidence and consistency as your internal reps. Theyll be empowered to close deals, expand your reach, and stay aligned with your go-to-market goals.

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The 5% Institute

MARCH 3, 2020

In this article, you’ll learn what a complex sales process is, as well as all the key ingredients you need to include to ensure your complex sales process works wonders for you time and time again. This means many Sales Professionals wing it with their sales, which gives them inconsistent results. And what steps should it include?

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The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In this article, you’ll learn what a B2B sales process, as well as all the key ingredients you need to include to ensure your B2B sales process works wonders for you time and time again. This means many Sales Professionals wing it with their sales, which gives them inconsistent results. But what exactly is a B2B sales process?

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This is a result of being too heavy on product training and not heavy enough on sales training. Your close rates will bump up if you do it right. And there’s one other part of the discussion you’ll want to steer with a strong arm: objection handling. Hearing buyers’ objections can throw some people off their game.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

In this article, well explore the challenges of complex sales and the strategies your team can use to close deals more efficiently. Complex sales cycle stages The lengthier sales cycle for complex sales is a direct result of higher costs and greater decision-maker involvement. What is considered a complex sale?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2022

Every closed deal requires two parts: the right buyer and the right seller. We ran a survey of more than 900 sales organizations and found that 93% have spent the time identifying and documenting their ideal customer profile (ICP) , which outlines the key qualities that make a buyer a great fit for a seller’s solutions.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So you want to learn what skills the best-of-the-best sales pros use to close more deals, crush their goals, and make boatloads of cash? In this prospecting call, that’s your only objective: Land the meeting and move the buyer down the funnel. . Here is what the data told us: Deals that close use 9.1-minute Of course, you do.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 25, 2021

There are a number of key things you’ll need to focus on to ensure you’re successful. Consistently deliver results. Objection handling, and then again – ask for the sale. Handling objections. This does two key things: It positions you as a Specialist, rather than just another eager salesperson.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

You’re not selling tools or closing contracts; you’re offering solutions and building partnerships. Drive pipe faster with a single source of truth Discover how Sales Cloud uses data and AI to help you manage your pipeline, build relationships, and close deals fast. Learn more What you’ll learn: What are sales terms?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You’d have fewer lost deals right now and you’d be heading for the long-term results you want (like an accurate forecast and a President’s Club-level sales team). That’s why we created a key-metrics-only sales report template in Excel. Not getting great results? Not getting great results? Not getting great results?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2023

Without foundational knowledge, we have no ability to assess what we might get, as a result may be doing things that can produce tragic results. In selling, what key elements of foundational knowledge and why are they important? We become more skilled in handling differing points of view/opinions and objections.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Close more deals. It leads your sales reps through various scenarios: how to prospect, when to sell what product or service, how to overcome common objections, what to negotiate for (and how ) to name a few. Objection handling. Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. Increase revenue.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

seconds on successful cold calls and for eight seconds on unsuccessful cold calls: The key takeaway: polish your pitch and get them hooked. They jump around a lot less than their low-performing peers who are all over the place: The key takeaway for reps? The result? The results may surprise you. (We You guessed it.

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Veloxy

MAY 24, 2023

Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. Understanding Sales Velocity To harness the power of sales velocity, it’s crucial to grasp its fundamental concept and its key components. What is it?

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2019

SALES MISTAKE #4 : “Steamrolling” objections. Here’s what most salespeople do with an objection: They immediately address it with a wordy answer, almost interrupting their buyer. In a word, they steamroll the objection. When you steamroll objections, a few bad things happen: The customer doesn’t feel understood.

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