PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Most sales training manuals will tell you to ask open-ended questions and treat a sales experience as an opportunity to explore your client’s needs. You’ve probably heard all of the top sales and marketing folks hawking the “consultative approach” to selling for a while now. Solution: Ask about their budget.

Non-Profits 111

Non-Profits Pipeline Prospecting Entertainment 111

RingDNA

MARCH 26, 2025

On LinkedIn, you can engage in thoughtful ways—commenting on their posts, liking their articles, and offering value before the pitch. COOs & Operations Leaders: LinkedIn isn’t just for sales and marketing. For operational leaders, it’s a goldmine for finding potential partners, vendors, or consultants.

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Closing B2B Sell Referrals 62

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But there were also more endemic trends reshaping B2B sales, including increasingly complex routes to market, segmentation models, and digital-native buyers with a whole new set of expectations. The new solution for B2B sales. But the consulting firm was, until recently, still missing the last mile, Berumen said.

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B2B Territory Manufacturing Sales 96

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The people interviewed are actively in a sales role and offer up tips to those who are still “pounding the pavement” Best 3 Episodes: . Get UNCrushed: Mental Health and Sobriety in Sales with Tim Clarke. Episode 122: A Consultative Approach to Sales with Driver Studios’ Derek Sentner. 7 Get In The Door.

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Sales Drivers/motivators Up-sell Inside sales 98

Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

But if you take a question-based consultative selling approach, people might open up a little more. What we love: Even if this doesn’t result in a sale, you’ve gained a great insight into what people really think about products/services in your niche. You don’t want to seem too pushy and create a negative sales experience.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Trust Up-sell 74

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A sales methodology is any documented approach that prescribes specific actions a salesperson should take when engaging with customers as they move through the different stages of the sales cycle. Businesses use sales methodologies to codify their selling techniques and empower sellers to consistently achieve quota.

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Cross-sell Consult Sales Strategize 85

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

You've come to the right place to learn what it's like to have a career in sales, and it's about much more than the close. Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. There's the hustle to find leads, the hundreds of calls, and the high of delivering a flawless pitch. What's a typical sales career path?

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Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Consulting. Review of SNAP Selling Author and B2B Sales Trainer Jill Konrath Live. It was a lucky double stroke of good fortune recently that sales thought leader Jill Konrath would be coming to town and that I was not on the road myself. Sales Tools. TOP 50 SALES BLOGS.

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B2B Sell Non-Profits Sales 63

Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A strategic sales plan is a detailed strategy that outlines how you’ll target and sell to high-value prospective clients. It outlines a clear path to reaching your sales goals. Strategic sales focus on relationship selling or using a consultative approach. A strategic sales plan is a lot of work. Sales pitches.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Often, I get into conversations about the sales approach a company deploys. There are questions of, “should we be transactional, product, solutions, consultative focused?” ” Sadly, most focus on pitching their products, trying to find receptive customers, because that’s they way they’ve always done it. .”

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Sell Consult Finance Inside sales 48

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Incorporating value selling into sales training can help your company stay ahead of the competition. That is because it empowers sales professionals to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and tailor their pitches according to each prospect’s unique pain points. A perfect example is the Sandler sales methodology.

Sell 59

Sell Profit margin Price Non-Profits 59

SBI

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With information so readily available about you and the competition online, and different B2B solutions looking and sounding more and more alike, creating a unique and different buying experience could be exactly what you need to differentiate. Tom: For me, better CEx starts with Ditching the Pitch.

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Pitch Presentation Education Drivers/motivators 46

Highspot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Customers crave fast, clear, and hassle-free buying experiences. Lengthy sales pitches often fall short. But with SNAP selling’s concise and customer-centric approach, you can enhance sales performance by reducing stress and focusing on needs. This creates a more personal sales experience.

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Sell Real Estate Customers Healthcare 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

Sales needs to partner with the customer success team to make sure that the post-sales experience surpasses the customer’s expectations. I generally recommend that a company hires (or promotes) an exploratory enterprise sales rep to start to test the waters in bigger deals. This sales rep might not close deals right away.

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Cross-sell Legal Contract Price 101

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Most sales training manuals will tell you to ask open-ended questions and treat a sales experience as an opportunity to explore your client’s needs. You’ve probably heard all of the top sales and marketing folks hawking the “consultative approach” to selling for a while now. Solution: Ask about their budget.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Pipeline Prospecting Entertainment 52

PandaDoc

MAY 16, 2024

You can also personalize the sales experience to make your pitch and value proposition relevant to each lead. ChAMP (challenges, authority, money, prioritization) Once you know a lead’s challenges, you can adapt your sales pitch to these. Do you currently use a particular tool to solve this challenge?

Legal 52

Legal Pitch Cross-sell Follow-up 52

SBI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To help, we recommend our customers craft their sales presentations to support discovery and listening, with question prompts to create a more collaborative, consultative sales experience versus a one-way sales pitch.

Sell 37

Sell Finance Entertainment Up-sell 37

Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Sales enablement tools (like Highspot): Highspot provides a platform for sales teams to access relevant content, training resources, and analytics, enhancing customer engagement. Video conferencing tools (like Zoom): Zoom facilitates virtual face-to-face meetings, ideal for sales presentations, team meetings, and client consultations.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read more: How to build a sales enablement strategy Using chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by AI are excellent in initial customer interactions quite efficiently and with record-breaking average response time. Each session included 8—10 sales reps from various regions and product lines.

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Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. This is when a sales rep will take on a more consulting role. So how can you build rapport with your prospects?

Sell 62

Sell Up-sell Prospecting Price 62

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

How have you found, you know, the, I guess, education piece of either a sales cycle or marketing, becoming more and more important. It does feel like we’re almost back at consultative selling in a real way. Um, or you can do it the old school way, read the whole thing and, and, and, and come up with the pitch.

GTM 63

GTM Sales Pipeline Technology 63

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or inside sales expert, we can all agree on a few things. One; sales is no longer just about high pressure, ‘won’t take no for an answer’ pitches. And two, sales tactics are not just learned in the classroom – it’s a never ending journey of ‘sales-education’. 18 phone calls.

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Inside sales Pipeline Cold Call Quota 130

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Always seek to understand, seek more input, and consult your own tribe to decide what’s for you and what is not. Believe in yourself and be open to what you can learn from each experience. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? What is one aha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Nikki Ivey.

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Sales Up-sell Start-ups Cross-sell 136

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Pitching and Closing. Pitch Anything. Sales Differentiation. Sales Engagement. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales uniquely blends years of selling concepts with real-world experience in a framework anyone can learn. For a practical guide to a successful career in sales, you can’t go wrong here.

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Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Looks like you’re ready to make a sales call. This isn’t just a quick pitch, however. The most successful sales calls include tailored presentations and focus on building trust with prospects by addressing their unique pain points. Market research done? Prospects qualified?

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch X-functional Sales 69

Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

Before you can make a pitch, you need to verify that your product is a good match for the prospects you’ve identified. Lead a sales call It’s finally time to schedule a sales call and present your pitch. Tailor your pitch to your prospect and discuss solutions, not product features.

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Process Real Estate Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 59

Hubspot

JANUARY 30, 2024

Salespeople say that a change in the sales field that has had the biggest impact on their role is that selling has become more focused on presenting a solution than pitching a product or service. These more informed buyers don’t want a product pitch, which changes the role of a salesperson. Why the change?

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Cold Call Pitch Sales Consult 78

PandaDoc

APRIL 11, 2025

Objections are inevitable in sales. It doesnt matter how well you perfect your pitch or how well your product or service can perform. But raising questions or even rejecting a sales pitch doesnt mean prospects wont buy. According to Gartner , roughly 33% of all buyers desire a seller-free sales experience.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Pitch Legal 52

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They’re excellent at providing a smooth-sailing sales experience and maintaining existing accounts but sometimes struggle to challenge customers and close new deals. Lone Wolf Lone wolves follow their gut and often ignore the sales playbook. They’re diligent but often stuck in old, dated methods.

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Cross-sell Education Sales Technique 52

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As a result, instead of adapting their product and proposals to fit the needs of different markets, they try and create one universal pitch. There are 3 benefits of such an approach: All your marketing materials will be more effective and personal: sales pages, proposals, ads, lead nurturing emails.

B2B 52

B2B Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Campaign 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. So for me, I can not only get people who have sales experience, but I can actually get people that have subject matter expertise.

Finance 58

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 58

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

” Market segments, in this vocabulary, meet our definition of markets When marketing consultants sell market segmentation studies, all they are actually doing is breaking out the natural market boundaries within an aggregate of current and potential sales. The problem goes beyond pitches and positioning, though.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite their lack of religious, missionary, promotional or sales experience, Jesus coached them up until they were capable of succeeding in their new roles. While hiring for sales experience is required to quickly ramp-up new salespeople, hiring for industry experience should not a requirement.

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Sales Construction Up-sell Promote 105

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite their lack of religious, missionary, promotional or sales experience, Jesus coached them up until they were capable of succeeding in their new roles. While hiring for sales experience is required to quickly ramp-up new salespeople, hiring for industry experience should not be a requirement.

Sales 75

Sales Construction Up-sell Promote 75