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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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Are You Being Helpful?

Partners in Excellence

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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The Invisible Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

I remember when I first got into B2B sales selling expensive office equipment. While techs never had any quotas, they were encouraged to sell time and material service, maintenance agreements, and supplies. Throw away the objection handling and conquering techniques. Tin Men kind of stuff. They weren’t salespeople.

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AI Sales Coaching: Your Always-on Coaching Assistant

Highspot

In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching. This tool acts as a virtual assistant that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, offering suggestions for objection handling, tailoring pitches, and delivering compelling messages.

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“A La Carte” Comp Plans

Partners in Excellence

I’m noticing something similar in selling. But selling is different from a dining experience–even the a la carte choices I normally make. But selling is different from a dining experience–even the a la carte choices I normally make. While in dining, I can skip courses, in selling, we can’t skip anything.

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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.

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5 Key Strategies for Building a Team of Unicorn Sellers

Sales Hacker

It’s based on an outdated way of thinking that selling is an art – perfected only by a select few. Revenue leaders who accept this notion often cross their fingers during the hiring process, hoping they’re lucky enough to find the rare “unicorn seller” with those innate, unteachable skills that translate to quota attainment.

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