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7 Winning Steps for Effective Objection Handling

Salesforce

As you can imagine, selling was a struggle through all of it. We learned very quickly that the biggest obstacle to closing new business isn’t the objections themselves, it’s how the team manages the objections. The key to effective objection handling is using a question-based framework that puts the prospect at ease.

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4 Steps to Help Your Sales Team Nail Objection Handling

SalesLoft

For sales teams, there’s simply nothing worse than progressing a deal through the pipeline only to have a no-go objection come up at the 11th hour. Move the deal back to an earlier stage where the objection should have been addressed, which involves re-engaging other stakeholders to resolve it.

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Why 3x Pipeline Coverage Is a Terrible Strategy

Salesforce

The sales pipeline should be three times the annual quota.” You might know this as the “3x Pipeline Coverage” rule. ” Then I became a chief revenue officer, and the pipeline suddenly became real. I’d sit down with sales reps for pipeline reviews , and we couldn’t answer the most basic question: “How big is big enough?”

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3 Sales Enablement Tips To Ignite Your Selling Engine

Salesforce

Sales reps are the engine that drives your pipeline. Here’s the rub: it’s easy to lose sales momentum if you pull your team away from selling for training. However, it’s not enough to frame this as generic “how to sell” training with no connection to revenue goals.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. But there are limitations to this.

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Why Are You Still Using Your Old Playbooks?

Partners in Excellence

The world has changed, but we are still doing the stuff we’ve always done–at least in selling. We engage in linear selling processes–Prospecting, Qualifying, Discovering, Proposing, Closing. It hasn’t changed since I started selling, despite all the data showing us customers don’t buy that way.

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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. Some of the more advanced thinkers will focus on value creation or Business Focused Selling (which is another of my hot buttons. Some look at chasing higher value deals.