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Why Are You Still Using Your Old Playbooks?

Partners in Excellence

We still train our people the way we always have, providing them endless product training and sales skills training (prospecting, qualifying, need identification, proposing, objection handling, closing). Yet year after year quota attainment plummets, our activities present fewer results, win rates plummet.

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Win Rate Hacks

Partners in Excellence

We can spend a lot of time focusing on specific selling skills, for example questioning, probing, objection handling, presenting skills, closing skills. When we look at pipelines, there are a few key factors in our pipelines: Quality/integrity, volume, velocity. Do the math on what that means for pipeline coverage.

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B2B Sales Training Topics: Boost Your Team’s Performance

The 5% Institute

From prospecting and lead generation to objection handling and closing techniques, we will cover a wide range of topics that are essential for B2B sales success. Sales Pitch The sales pitch is the moment when your sales rep presents your product or service to your prospect. What are some common B2B sales training topics?

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Sales Velocity: The Complete Guide to Growing Revenue Faster

Veloxy

It’s the most important metric to a Chief Pipeline Officer. Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. What is it? It helps you gauge the potential revenue associated with each opportunity.

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Our Job Is Helping The Customer, But All We Do Is Focus On Beating The Competition….

Partners in Excellence

We train our people in competitive differentiation and objection handling. We can be more predictable and prescriptive about how we present our products. And, while we don’t admit that to ourselves, our strategies and actions are solely focused on beating the competition. Many people will stop reading here.

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How To Build Your Sales Playbook (With Examples)

Gong.io

Objection handling. Sales presentations. Sales presentations. Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, sales presentations are an essential tool for sales folks to highlight who they are, what they do, what customers they serve, and — most importantly — how you (future customer) will benefit from buying. Sales resources.

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7 Sales Training Ideas That Will Transform Your Team Into “Top Gun” Reps

Gong.io

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.