The 5% Institute

MARCH 28, 2022

Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. A sales playbook and sales process will give you consistency and will give you a simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale. It allows you to control the process and conversation.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

Sellers will also better understand customer needs and apply technology like CRM to streamline processes when fully equipped. Sellers must know your company and product, understand the market, give good presentations, handle objections, use tech tools, manage time, and build strong relationships.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Opening a cold call with “Did I catch you at a bad time?” The success rate for cold calls that opened with this line? Open up your next cold call with the following question: . Cold calls that led with this question resulted in a greater than 10% success rate. Note: This is for the first (cold!)

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

This process ensures the training program is laser-focused on bridging these skill gaps. Demo Pitch Calls Demo pitch calls are practice sessions where reps can refine their pitching skills in a controlled setting, receive feedback, and improve their techniques. Conduct role-playing exercises to practice objection-handling.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. The analysis revealed concrete behaviors and patterns across the entire sales process that lead to successful outcomes.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Its benefits contribute to more aligned sales processes and reps that excel in their roles: 1. Streamline the Sales Process The sales development playbook provides a clear roadmap for handling leads, reducing guesswork, and ensuring consistency. A clear process ensures a systematic approach and less confusion.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about inside sales, from team structures and salaries right through to inside sales processes and models. An inside AE ( Account Executive ) takes meetings booked by BDRs or directly by the buyer, presents product demonstrations, and closes contracts. What is inside sales? .

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The playbook also provides guidance and examples to help sales teams navigate through every stage of the sales process effectively. Sales plays are specific strategies or steps that your sales team can follow during different parts of the selling process. It can also help when handling objections from prospects.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Check out our full list of speakers , but here are the top companies & speakers who will be presenting at Revenue Summit. Inbound Lead Routing – Forms vs Chatbots – The Process of Routing, Timing, and Conversion Rate Optimization. Perfecting the SDR Playbook – How to Increase Sales by 800% with a Highly Targeted Outbound Process.

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Gong.io

MAY 12, 2019

They have precise sales tactics , right down to the words you should (and shouldn’t) use at each stage of your sales process. Because the Gong Labs research team used AI to analyze more than 5 million sales calls and pinpoint the words and phrases that close deals. Let’s move from a cold call through to a closed deal.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

This means getting actionable insights that can help guide sales strategy and decision-making processes. ChatGPT is a generative AI tool that uses natural language processing to understand and respond to your queries. So I want to automate this process as much as possible. And it happens a lot. What are their pain points?

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SalesLoft

APRIL 6, 2020

Cultivate playlists of the best calls from your team every week and have the team vote on their favorite and dissect why the call was good. Trust us, we’ve been sending “best” lists to our team every day —best email, best cold call or objection handling—and can say with confidence that it’s keeping morale high. .

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

Demos, objection handling, closing. When the strident discipline of project management meets the hyperactive process of selling, good things happen. But that doesn’t mean reps on the front lines can’t run their sales process like a project manager would. Make the sales process more predictable and pliable.

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Gong.io

JULY 6, 2018

Your sales call is not the time to find out whether you rock at improv. In fact, the top 5-10% of them have an incredibly organized and repeatable sales call process. For starters, they cover more topics than poor or average performers: 15 compared to 12 on a 43-minute call: Their conversations are linear. Now switch !

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Looks like you’re ready to make a sales call. The most successful sales calls include tailored presentations and focus on building trust with prospects by addressing their unique pain points. Ideally, a rep closes a sales call with a verbal agreement from the prospect to make a purchase. Prospects qualified?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

This means getting actionable insights that can help guide sales strategy and decision-making processes. ChatGPT is a generative AI tool that uses natural language processing to understand and respond to your queries. So I want to automate this process as much as possible. And it happens a lot. What are their pain points?

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch Cold Call Sales 52

Gong.io

MAY 27, 2018

They’ve rehearsed their sales call process, and never show up just to “wing it.”. Again, we know this from studying roughly 1 million B2B sales calls recorded on web conferencing platforms like Zoom and GoToMeeting. The top 5-10% of performers use a more organized, repeatable sales process than their peers.

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Gong.io

APRIL 27, 2018

They’ve rehearsed their sales call process , and never show up just to “wing it.”. Again, we know this from studying roughly 2 million B2B sales calls recorded on web conferencing platforms like Zoom and GoToMeeting. The top 5-10% of performers use a more organized, repeatable sales process than their peers.

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Closing Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Price 48

Gong.io

JULY 6, 2018

Your sales call is not the time to find out whether you rock at improv. In fact, the top 5-10% of them have an incredibly organized and repeatable sales call process. For starters, they cover more topics than poor or average performers: 15 compared to 12 on a 43-minute call: Their conversations are linear. Now switch !

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In practice, it looks something like this: For this particular article, we reviewed millions upon millions of web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails to understand what separates the average sales rep from the pros. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. Here’s why: Cold calling isn’t about discovery.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

(PS: Feeling super pumped about improving your sales processes? Sales analytics to improve booked meetings from cold calls. Watch these metrics to understand whether your approach to booking meetings using cold calls works: Calls made. Measure the number of calls your reps make per hour, week, and month.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Objection Handling 6. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. There seems to be a ‘ cold calling is dead’ trend floating around these days. There seems to be a ‘ cold calling is dead’ trend floating around these days.

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Outreach

APRIL 9, 2019

The B2B Sales Process: A Brief Introduction. If your business sells products or services to other businesses, you have a B2B sales process. A single sale of this type typically involves high price points and multiple decision makers, making the process lengthier and more complex compared to engaging individual consumers (B2C).

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In practice, it looks something like this: For this particular article, we reviewed millions upon millions of web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails to understand what separates the average sales rep from the pros. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. Here’s why: Cold calling isn’t about discovery.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 71

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

With all of the advancements in sales and buyer side technology, now is the time to modernize your sales process or risk becoming irrelevant. The top professionals at hyper-growth companies are busy hacking their sales process. What is a Sales Process? In addition to being: 1) Customer-centric, your sales process must also be.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There’s no second-guessing about what they need to do next or where each prospect is in the buying process. Get clarity on your processes. You don’t have a well-defined sales process if you can’t list the stages of your sales cycle. Everything is laid out before them. . Onboard new reps faster. Onboard new reps faster.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Perhaps you’ve heard about it in a presentation from a software vendor. However, thanks to today’s software and computer-savvy salespeople, it’s now possible to codify an entire sales organization’s processes and rulesets and deploy them across your go-to-market team efficiently and effectively. How do you use it effectively?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about the most important ingredients for a successful outbound sales process. But we often present our product as a solution. people in a business are involved a single decision process. people are involved in a single decision process. Objection Handling.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 3, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. In it, Founder of Sales DNA , Josh Braun , shows you how to diffuse objections and close the deal. Why people raise objections. The problem with overcoming objections. A way out: examples of the defusing objections framework.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This time we hear from Jeb Blount in an episode we call “Sales Objection Handling from the Master: Insights from Best Seller Jeb Blount” Jeb is a best selling author of nine books and the CEO at Sales Gravy. Jeb Blount: Well, it’s the one thing that everyone in sales faces is objections.

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SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

Software (like CRM), training (skills and product knowledge), coaching, and good sales processes are all key. In business, snags cause deals to be lost at the last minute, cold-calls to not convert into meetings, forecasted deals to get pushed. Even with all of those in place, your journey to quota can hit snags. Conclusion?.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

He became threatened and told me that I had to follow his ridiculously complex and impractical method that required presenting 60+ confusing slides. Instead, what inspired and energized me was presenting, training, and empowering others to succeed. Mindest : Be a Student, not just of the product, but of the process.

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Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

It reduces onboarding time: According to HubSpot , the onboarding process for a new rep takes an average of 3.2 Role play: Let your sales team practice sales calls with real-life training exercises. Provide them with the opportunity to practice high-pressure situations like cold calling and elevator pitches.

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