Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

product-centric) messaging. Most sales reps start with product or process-focused questions like What are you doing today? But the truth is customers dont wake up thinking about products or processes. The post 5 Problem-Centric Discovery Questions (That Will Stop Customers in Their Tracks) appeared first on Cerebral Selling.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 10, 2025

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. Youre hoping your sequence will nurture your prospect into buying without you having to actually sell. Most salespeople would rather look productive than be productive.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2022

But there are a lot of problems with disagreement–or at least our ability to understand and manage disagreements, productively. If we learned how to deal with disagreement, productively, disagreement provides huge opportunities to learn, improve, grow, and achieve. Disagreement can be very threatening. We may miss opportunities.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Presenting: Showing the value of what you sell. Overcoming Objections: A game plan for addressing concerns. How to Remove Salesforce CRM Friction Learn how to remove friction points tied to Salesforce, helping your sales team sell easier and faster. This preparation can allow them to cut down selling time.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2019

As Regina and I walked back to her station, I said, “Great job of up-selling and objection handling!” ” I played back what I’d seen, but using sales terminology around the upsell, objection handling and creating great value for customers. “I’m Not Trying To Sell You…

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 13, 2022

Our sales training programs spend a lot of time helping us develop skills around what we sell and how we sell. We have endless classes and programs around what we sell—our products and services. We have terrific programs about how we sell. Because what each of us is selling is change!

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Cerebral Selling

APRIL 6, 2021

365 days after the release of Sell The Way You Buy , here are some of my key sales lessons learned from a year of pandemic selling. ROI is an objective statistic. Value is a subjective feeling that can vary wildly in different selling situations. Related article: Sell More by losing Faster .

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Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

Let’s look at the benefits of AI role-play in more detail: Faster Onboarding Think about how long it typically takes a new manager to get up to speed: there’s company culture, product knowledge, and leadership style to master. The ability to communicate compellingly keeps teams productive.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If doing a product demo FEELS easy and intuitive, watch out. Even if you have lots of product knowledge, doing a product demo persuasively is hard and counterintuitive. I mean that what feels right during a product demo usually causes failure. 3 Million Product Demos Analyzed. What do I mean?

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 6, 2021

An important skill to learn that’ll help you dramatically if you’re selling products and services, is selling over the phone – which s why we’ve created these five tips to make it easier. Selling Over the Phone? Selling Over the Phone? Selling Over The Phone Tip #1 – Know Your Audience. 5 x Tips For Closing.

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2021

An important skill to learn that’ll help you dramatically if you’re selling products and services, is knowing exactly how to sell over the phone – which is why we’ve created these five tips to make it easier. How To Sell Over The Phone – 5 x Critical Tips. How To Sell Over The Phone Tip #1 – Know Your Audience.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Objections,” more specifically, “Objection Handling” have been a fundamental part of sales training, probably since the first sale. In our team meetings, we sometimes workshop different objections we might encounter. “This call will be great as long as they don’t bring up these issues?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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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Partners in Excellence

MAY 18, 2014

Probably more “selling,” happens outside the sales profession than within the profession. That “selling,” isn’t measured by revenue or quote, but it happens every minute of every hour of every day. Perhaps learning from them helps us sell better. Related Posts: Falling In Love With Our Products!

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The 5% Institute

JULY 21, 2023

When faced with objections, it’s crucial to respond effectively and persuasively to convince others of your viewpoint or proposition. In this article, we will explore powerful objection handling techniques that can help you navigate challenging situations, turning doubts into opportunities.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sales Drills #1 – Objection Handling. There are numerous sales objections your team will come across when speaking with your potential clients, and if they don’t know how to effectively handle them – this can cost them the sale. Related article: Sales Objection Handling – A Step By Step Guide.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2023

So one recent survey we did really brought out a healthy debate: does your VP of Sales really need to be a product expert? Many of the comments said it was more important a VP of Sales understand process and leadership more than the product itself. I say, you just gotta know the product. A true product savant?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Five examples of close ended sales questions Have you used a similar [product/service] before? Are you interested in purchasing this [product/service] in the near future? On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this [product/service] to a friend? Gone are the days of selling one to one.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

For example, the famed Toyota Production System (TPS) was based on concepts of flow. Each step in the process flowed naturally to the next step, then the next until the products finally were built and shipped to customers. The post The Importance Of “Flow” In Selling first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 2, 2021

3 Objection Handling Script Examples & Techniques All Sales Professionals Must Conquer. 3 Common Objections (And Objection Handling Script). Below are three different ways to handle objections. Objection handling is value clarification. Consultative Selling Script.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2020

A reader asked me, “Dave, when are you publishing a book on complex B2B selling? There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on the topic–and look at how little they have really contributed to changing how we sell and improving our ability to create great value. I’d start by never talking about the selling process.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Last week, Tim Ohai and I were talking about the future of selling. You must master the “advanced,” methodologies currently on the market: Product knowledge, business acumen, customer/industry/market knowledge, financial knowledge, consultative/insight/solutions/value based/customer focused/challenger and related programs.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 4, 2025

Were objections raised? Did the salesperson build trust or just talk product? My Baseline Selling model compares the sales process to running the bases: you cant skip second and expect to score. A sales manager needs that same big-picture view: What was the prospects situation? Was the runners foot on the base?

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

Founders are often the best salespeople early on because they know the product inside-out, theyre passionate, and customers love talking to the CEO. You need to close your first 10-20 customers yourself to deeply understand the sales process, objections, and what resonates with buyers. Heres how to approach it: 1. Be specific.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 15, 2023

In the world of sales and business, objections are inevitable. When you’re trying to sell a product or service, potential customers often raise concerns or doubts that can hinder the sales process. Objections are concerns, doubts, or questions raised by potential customers that prevent them from making a buying decision.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 13, 2021

1 – Objection Handling. The first on our list of practice sales activities, is objection handling. Many Sales Professionals if trained correctly, will use something like our five-step objection handling breakdown ( that you can find here ) to overcome sales objections. 2 – Sell Me This Pen.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Integrate cold calling into a multi-channel outreach strategy, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints, including email campaigns and social selling. Focus on the problem, not the product. When pitching, emphasize the specific problem your product solves rather than its features. Tips for sales reps 1.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2020

1 – Objection Handling. The first on our list of sales team building games, is objection handling. Many Sales Professionals if trained correctly, will use something like our five-step objection handling breakdown ( that you can find here ) to overcome sales objections. 2 – Sell Me This Pen.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2018

Yet the CEO and many participants in the discussion were convince, all they needed to do was improve their selling skills. Great selling skills are meaningless if you aren’t really clear about the problems you solve for these ideal customers and why solving these problems is important to them.

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Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

It’s one of the most well-known -- not to mention oldest -- selling systems. The strategy focuses on asking good questions in the right order, using active listening, and translating the prospect’s needs into your product’s features. SPIN Selling Book Summary. SPIN Selling Questions. SPIN Objection-Handling Techniques.

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Sales Pop!

JULY 3, 2024

A productive sales team can boost profits, improve customer service, and create a respected brand. Comprehensive Training Program A sales manager should develop a powerful training program that will provide your sales team with extensive knowledge about the product.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By following these steps, your team can enhance productivity and improve sales performance. This leaves less time for actual selling. Monitor Performance : Track metrics like talk-to-listen ratios and objection handling with AI tools. Review how focusing on high-value leads improves your productivity.

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Closing Bigger

JULY 21, 2014

Many variables can impact our chances of closing a deal, they include but are not limited to: industry, geography, financial situation of the customer, product quality, the customer mood or sentiment and a variety of other influences. If it’s not an ideal fit we often have to rely on hard closes, discounting and heavy objection handling.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 3, 2024

The same objection handling and closing techniques, Carefully constructed phraseology no longer resonates because everyone else is using the same technique. Overtime, we become very productive, doing things that are most impactful in executing our jobs. The same prospecting scripts–so nothing is different or stands out.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

I stumble on one entitled “Selling Without Feeling ‘Salesy'” I didn’t listen to it, but it struck a nerve. We think of all the slimy techniques–methods of qualifying or manipulating a person, questioning/objection handling/closing techniques. Don't Confuse Buying And Selling!

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Highspot

MAY 15, 2025

Effective enablement includes onboarding, product training, content delivery, skill assessments, and ongoing communication, adapted to each partner’s needs and market. Furthermore, they often sell multiple solutions, including those from your competitors. What is partner enablement? Partners also dont needor wantconstant updates.

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Sales Training Activity #1 – Objection Handling. There are numerous sales objections your team will come across when speaking with your potential clients, and if they don’t know how to effectively handle them – this can cost them the sale. Related article: Sales Objection Handling – A Step By Step Guide.

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