The 5% Institute

MAY 16, 2023

Sales is the lifeblood of any business, driving revenue and growth. However, achieving consistent sales success can be challenging, even for experienced professionals. That’s where sales coaches come in. What is a Sales Coach? What is a Sales Coach?

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the key sales skills that will equip your reps with confidence and boost sales. With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Why are Sales Skills Important?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we dive into sales cycle management, let’s first focus on what a sales cycle is and the sales cycle steps. What Is a Sales Cycle? 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.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Team processes.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 4, 2023

In the competitive world of business, sales attainment plays a crucial role in determining the success of a company. Achieving and exceeding sales targets is a priority for organizations looking to grow and thrive. It is a measure of how well a company performs in terms of meeting or surpassing its sales objectives.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Hard-hitting sales stats. ” Our product gives sales leaders data-backed insights into their sales team. And our Gong Labs team pores through stats from millions of sales interactions to uncover actionable sales tips. Sales Stats for Prospecting. Sales Stat #1: DON’T use ROI in cold emails.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2018

“I’m running out of sales training ideas ,” the director of sales told me, a bit embarrassed. “My My job is to upskill the sales team ,” he said. But keeping a calendar of sales training topics has been tough to juggle with everything else I have to do.”. This story is more common than many sales managers care to admit.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Objection Handling 6. Looking for a rich list of sales techniques and tips you can use to close more deals? We’ve pulled together a list of 55 sales techniques, tips, and best practices. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. Discovery 4.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The first thing we need to understand is what a sales cycle looks like and the different steps that it contains. In here, we will discuss the sales cycle definition, stages, and strategies for accelerating sales. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Sales Cycle Definition. What is a sales cycle?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In the face of all this, for the most part we are training our sales people in the same skills I learned many decades ago, and my predecessors learned decades before that. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.).

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 18, 2016

At its essence, sales is about finding customers who have problems we can solve, helping them understand why they should solve the problem, helping them commit to that change, and helping them solve the problem. We spend further billions providing tools to help sales people more efficiently execute those things.

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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. Expect outmoded and inefficient sales stacks to drag growth instead of driving it. The top professionals at hyper-growth companies are busy hacking their sales process.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

In my previous article, I talked about why you must embrace your inner sales geek. Now, let’s talk about what happens next after you start working skillfully with the numbers that rule your sales pipeline Here are three case studies … Read More »

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Outreach

MARCH 25, 2019

Welcome to the definitive guide to sales pipeline management! This guide provides a high-level overview of all things pipeline-related, including: Why is a sales pipeline important? What are the sales pipeline stages? Sales pipeline definition. What are the sales pipeline stages? .

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2018

Among the most frequently mentioned are product knowledge, customer empathy, problem solving, persuasiveness, and sales methodologies. No sales leader in her right mind would let loose a sales rep who lacks every one of those crucial attributes on the floor. Business Acumen Vs. Sales Acumen.

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Engage Selling

JULY 2, 2016

The instead focus on how to create a perpetual sales boom. The best companies don’t tolerate boom and bust mentalities. While this may be considered unconventional, my research and experience has shown that, left unaddressed, boom and bust cycles will … Read More »

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

In this inaugural episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Kiva Kolstein , Chief Revenue Officer at AlphaSense. . Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) Kiva’s sales story [3:02]. 4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. Sales Hacker Podcast—Sponsored by Node. Each of those teams has a VP of Sales.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Have you listened to our live show, Sales Pipeline Radio? It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year.

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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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Hubspot

JANUARY 22, 2018

Sales training programs help salespeople learn and/or improve their selling technique, skills, and processes. According to CSO Insights, salespeople who complete highly rated sales training programs have 10% higher win rates. Length: How will you fit training into your and/or your sales team’s schedule? Your SalesMBA™ Workshops.

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Engage Selling

JULY 16, 2016

In my work with top performing sales teams I’ve found that leaders who exhibit three consistent traits create perpetual revenue growth. Enforcing a High-Performance Culture In a typical sales organization 10 percent of salespeople overachieve. Another 20 percent underachieve … Read More »

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Engage Selling

MARCH 24, 2018

Two of the toughest problems that salespeople struggle with are knowing when to recognize a deal is stuck, and understanding what needs to be done next. Stuck deals aren’t just ones that haven’t closed yet. They’re the ones that have … Read More »

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