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Why the Basics Still Beat Fancy: The Unsexy Skills That Close Deals

Sales Gravy

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. Fancy decks, CRM tagging, and custom email flows feel like progressbut they dont get the contract signed. Objections arent stop signstheyre buying signals.

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10 x Sales Questions To Ask Customers

The 5% Institute

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. Although there are various questions to ask a customer; we’ll be looking at it with the following structure: Rapport. Objection handling. Qualification.

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13 Strategies to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

Veloxy

This is the foundation of your sales management, outlining the progression from prospect to customer. A sales cycle is the process your sales team goes through in order to close a sale with a customer. It traditionally has steps that include prospecting, engagement, qualification , presentation, objections and closing.

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The Top 3 Reasons AI Sales Tools “Don’t Work” (Spoiler: They Actually Do)

SaaStr

An AI SDR yesterday told me "clients like you" really benefit from their product Asked who these clients are Never heard back (Also, we are already a customer of this vendor) — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Humans handle the strategic thinking and relationship building. ✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 12, 2025 #3.

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The AI Tradeoff: Preserving Human Skills in an AI World

Sales Hacker

CSMs have summaries of every customer call. Every time we automate a task – prospecting, drafting, follow-up, analysis – we also outsource the skill-building that task enables. Leaders like Kevin “KD” Dorsey use AI to surface rep weaknesses, diagnose call issues, and build targeted training. Is there a hidden cost?

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11 Ways Sales Job Seekers Can Stand Out, According to Recruiters and Sales Leaders

Hubspot

The job market is crammed with candidates all claiming to be “results-driven” and “customer-focused.” Even account managers — once focused on relationship-building — are now expected to drive revenue. That's because their customers were CFOs and financial controllers who needed someone who spoke their language,” Wickett says.

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Complex sales CPQ: Accelerating sales cycles and eliminating bottlenecks

PandaDoc

You choose a price based on size, add any extras, and send your customers on their way. Transactional sales typically involve minimal customer relationship development and focus on brief, individual purchaseslike movie tickets or coffee. Build relationships: Be available to your prospect and any decision-makers.