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13 Strategies to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

Veloxy

Efficiently qualifying leads to perfecting negotiation techniques, every step matters. Prioritize training resources on what skill sets you need to develop, such as strong communication, negotiation and objection handling, as well as skills unique to any specific complexities of the sales environment.

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Self-Awareness: The Hidden Sales Skill

Sales Gravy

We obsess over skills like closing techniques, objection handling, and prospecting cadence. We obsess over skills like closing techniques, objection handling, and prospecting cadence. Here's the brutal truth: Self-awareness is the ultimate sales skill. But self-awareness is the real make-or-break.

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Why Do We Find “Objections” So Objectionable?

Partners in Excellence

Objections,” more specifically, “Objection Handling” have been a fundamental part of sales training, probably since the first sale. Our mindset about objections tends to be combative, it’s the customer resisting our pitches, objections are something to overcome.

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AI Sales Coaching: Your Always-on Coaching Assistant

Highspot

This ensures that reps have access to the most effective and up-to-date sales strategies and techniques. 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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3 Powerful Ways to Handle the “I’m In a Meeting!” Objection (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

That said, they might be between meetings, heading into a meeting, or simply using this as a brush-off technique. Regardless of their true situation, you need an objection handling strategy. That said, they might be between meetings, heading into a meeting, or simply using this as a brush-off technique.

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“The 4 Hour Work Week!”

Partners in Excellence

Closing techniques, discovery hacks, objection handling gimmicks, proposal generation in 5 minutes, and more. How we leverage technologies to reduce the time we spend on administrative tasks. How we reduce the time we need to spend doing research on our customers. And AI has amped it up to another level.

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B2B vs. B2C Sales: 5 Key Strategy Differences

RingDNA

B2B reps benefit from deep product training, sales process mastery, and strategic skills like objection handling, ROI modeling, and stakeholder mapping. B2C reps need to focus on fast rapport-building, objection response scripts, and closing techniques.

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