Partners in Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

We tend to overcomplicate things, particularly selling and leadership. Some focus on skills like objection handling, closing, negotiation. Some focus on skills like objection handling, closing, negotiation. Some might have broader approaches like solution, consultative or insight selling.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There’s an article from Napoleon Hill on personal achievement, one from Carl May on the strategy for winning, and a selling power piece from Les Brown. And there’s an entire section on cold calling scripts — complete with objection handling for just about every scenario you can imagine. And… meeting booked.

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Highspot

MAY 30, 2024

Whether it’s sales and marketing not syncing up, using outdated tools, or outdated processes, these problems can slow progress. Revenue enablement can help meet these expectations effectively by driving a more holistic view of the customer journey and full alignment on revenue generation. You’re not alone.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Gong captures anonymized data from our customers – web conference meetings, call recordings , and emails – and uses AI to analyze how seller and buyer behavior impacts success rates. . The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. Instead, focus on selling the meeting. #2 You’ve sent a (long) follow-up email.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Sales skills enable sellers to persuade, negotiate, and communicate effectively. Strong leaders inspire their teams, set clear objectives, and strategize effectively. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Benefits of a playbook Sales plays to include in your playbook How to write an effective playbook How to keep your playbook up to date 7 sales playbook types and examples Make your enablement about results, not effort Close your revenue gaps and get more out of every rep — with Sales Programs delivered in your CRM. What are sales plays?

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

The strategy ensures reps are well-prepared to meet and exceed sales targets. The goal of a blended and financially supported approach is to transform sales professionals into exceptional performers, equipped and ready to meet evolving customer needs and achieve measurable business outcomes.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Martech

JULY 19, 2023

I got to really know outbound marketing: Objection handling, what do we say to a customer? Between that and being a cold-calling account executive, you can pretty much talk to anyone because you have been exposed to being hung up on and, all kinds of things. I ended up leaving them. I managed a floor of people.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“When you’ve really got the stages in the right order in your sales cycle down, it frees you up to be connected with your prospect in the moment,” said Elyse Archer, CEO and founder of She Sells. He mentions that he’ll follow up in three days to see if the prospect is interested in buying. This is called a discovery call.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s how you get out of this trap, with one magic heck-of-a-sentence about the sales objection they named: “If we somehow figured out how to solve that issue completely, what other obstacles would we have to overcome before moving forward?”. If the customer voices other obstacles, those may be the real sales objections you’re up against.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

It starts with understanding the customer’s needs and demonstrating how your product or service can meet those needs. This is followed by handling sales objections, offering solutions, and finally, guiding the customer towards making a buying decision. How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Sales success = meeting booked in the next 10 days. Sales Stat #2: DON’T ask for time when booking meetings with cold emails. We crunched the stats, and it turns out the “Interest CTA” is the highest performing call to action for cold emails: The Interest CTA sells the conversation, not the meeting. . Provide context. .

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Starting Meetings 3. Objection Handling 6. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. Or making hundreds of dials a day hoping that someone agrees to meet with you. It’s PACKED with useful sales tips that will help you book more meetings: 1.

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criteria for success

MARCH 11, 2020

The opposite, a bottom-line, risk-taking buyer, will also raise an objection or concern to test your abilities or determine whether they can trust you. Objections are Opportunities. Fine-tuning your objection handling process can actually improve the quality of the conversation for both parties. Determine value/ROI.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

We’re passionate about enabling sales teams to be more efficient and sell more — and we know a thing or two about sales playbooks, too. It serves as an actionable guide that maps out your entire sales process and enables everyone from your sales team to make the most of each sales opportunity — and, ultimately, sell more. The result?

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

It influences everything from how the seller presents, to which objections the customer surfaces, to how much negotiating leverage you find yourself with at the end of the sales cycle. Spend 15-20 minutes on this, and get a “spokesperson” from every group to present the best questions they came up with. No pipeline, no glory.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A sales cycle is a term used to describe the sales process steps, beginning when a sales rep identifies a potential customer to follow up after closing the sale. This information will help you when coming up with the perfect sales pitch that will appeal to your prospect and sell the value of whatever product/ service you might offer.

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Hubspot

MARCH 20, 2018

When we talk about objection handling in sales, it is often focused on the later stages of the buying cycle, usually during negotiations. We focus on pricing and timing issues -- the types of objections that prevent a deal from closing. Second, d on’t sell the product, sell the next step. The Gatekeeper.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As celebrated entrepreneur Siva Devaki noted, “Sales is not about selling, but about building trust and educating.” Speed up your sales Wait, what is a sales call? Are you going to meet again to discuss things? Make sure you mention the day and date as well as the method you’ll use to follow up.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Bonus: 7 ChatGPT Prompts for Selling to the C-Suite Table of contents What AI can do for AEs Introduction to ChatGPT Easy guide: How to set up and use ChatGPT 5 things you should use ChatGPT for right now (with prompts!) Meet ChatGPT: The account executive’s AI personal assistant What is ChatGPT?

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. 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. Round up your corporate-approved, top-notch sales decks.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 6, 2019

The average ramp-up time for salespeople is between six and nine months. Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). That way, even if your day is packed, your new hire will know where to go and who to meet. What will your rep be selling?

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Gong.io

MAY 12, 2019

That’s true whether you meet them in person or on a cold call. That phrase should have been put to bed ages ago, but it’s in enough sales books that new recruits still pick it up. It works in some situations (like negotiations), but it doesn’t work on cold calls. Sales Tactic 5: Book a Meeting Using This Question.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 8, 2023

Prepare compelling answers that highlight your achievements, problem-solving abilities, and your approach to handling challenging situations. Be ready to provide specific examples of successful sales campaigns, difficult negotiations, and effective sales strategies you have implemented in the past.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Bonus: 7 ChatGPT Prompts for Selling to the C-Suite Table of contents What AI can do for AEs Introduction to ChatGPT Easy guide: How to set up and use ChatGPT 5 things you should use ChatGPT for right now (with prompts!) Meet ChatGPT: The account executive’s AI personal assistant What is ChatGPT?

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

It can be defined as the steps, beginning with identifying clients and following up after closing deals. Its important for sales teams to be knowledgeable about their prospects and do research on the person before they go into a meeting. Sales teams get to meet clients in person or through video conferencing apps and email.

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is keeping your sales managers up at night? Their bosses are raising their team quotas all the time, and they cannot understand how anyone could struggle to sell your product or solution. Not enough leads from marketing — no support from engineering – finance is pushing back on the discounts needed to sell the product.

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Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

I wanted to follow up on the proposal.”. "Do Great to meet you [prospect]! Finally, I picked up the phone and called my prospect’s office. Use it to coordinate meetings, set up calls, and confirm next steps -- but don’t use it to advance an opportunity. Great to meet you [prospect]! Objection handling.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Never has this been more true than in the art of selling. In fact, with so many variables involved in a deal—from unique buyer objectives, to your timing in a deal relative to your competitors— building playbooks for your sales teams is more like writing a “ Choose Your Own Adventure ” novel. In sales, it’s not much different.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

New engagement channels are propping up. Disruptive technologies offer smarter ways of selling services and ideas. While some experts view selling as an art of persuasion, all successful businesses approach it as a science composed of data, methods, metrics and processes. Objection Handling.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The quality of your sales culture determines how much your salespeople sell, how productive they are, how long they stay with your organization, and what benefits can your sales organization expect to reap from how you’ve structured your sales team. The role of congruence in sales. Conclusion. What is the definition of sales culture?

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When she tried to apply the product on my hand, I said “No thanks” and that was when her first objection came up. ” She used this objection to her advantage. When you show people that they are understood, even if it means working with someone else or not, then their guards go down and they will open up to a conversation.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Anything less is failure.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 3, 2020

So we’re going to cover three things: a mindset that I want you to get into whenever you hear an objection, some phraseology or words that you can use, and then an offer at the end, which, yes, is a blatant sales pitch. But you’re not going to be able to raise any objections because this is a one-way webinar. Step three.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. The sales team is set up in two teams, we’ve got a team that’s responsible for selling into the buy side and sell side, and a team responsible for selling into big corporations. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 22, 2018

Sales training programs help salespeople learn and/or improve their selling technique, skills, and processes. We’ve rounded up some of the most valuable training programs at a variety of price points, locations, themes, and delivery options. Focus: Prospecting, negotiating and closing, social selling, and sales management.

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