Salesforce

APRIL 11, 2023

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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SalesLoft

AUGUST 4, 2020

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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Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2018

I can't sell this internally.". Your product doesn't work with our current set-up.". To be successful, reps must learn how to both discover and resolve these objections. What Is Objection Handling? Objections are generally around price, product fit, competitors, and good old-fashioned brush offs.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How we reduce our selling cycle. Closing techniques, discovery hacks, objection handling gimmicks, proposal generation in 5 minutes, and more. And AI has amped it up to another level. We are even seeing AI Agents conducting the meetings for us, so we don’t even have to show up. Are you selling more?”

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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. Follow-up calls. Most reps send five emails and give up.

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Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But the truth is customers dont wake up thinking about products or processes. Its problems and challenges that keep them up at night! Bonus:Ive covered 3 ways you can use this question in the initial discovery, a second meeting, and even as an objection-handling tactic 2. or What are you looking for in a solution?

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Sales Gravy

MAY 1, 2025

We obsess over skills like closing techniques, objection handling, and prospecting cadence. Its what causes reps to: Over-talk and under-listen Project their objections onto the buyer Miss subtle cues because theyre too focused on a static script Push when they should pause This isnt just a skill gapits a blind spot.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The way we make up for the gaps is with a volume/velocity approach. We provide rich training on prospecting, qualifying, discovery, questioning, objection handling, closing skills; but too often, even though the right words are coming out of our sellers mouths, nothing is happening. These aren’t ping-pong questions.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

In selling, there is no end to the tools that claim to provide coaching, performance reporting tools, conversational intelligence, role play tools, social selling, prospecting/customer engagement, negotiation, objection handling, closing, time management. Effective coaching requires follow up. So what is coaching?

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Sales Gravy

MAY 29, 2025

AI is everywhere: in social selling, content creation, automation, to say the least. Take objection handling. What if your follow-up email was already drafted after a call, incorporating specific points from the conversation? It'll suggest the optimal time to follow up based on the prospect's communication preferences.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 2, 2021

3 Objection Handling Script Examples & Techniques All Sales Professionals Must Conquer. But only if they are prepared and know what objections might come up along the way. No sale is perfect, and when objections come up, the question becomes what are you going to do? Consultative Selling Script.

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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. 3 – Pre-Frame.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 13, 2022

Lately, I’ve been watching some eLearning programs on objection handling. It suddenly struck me, there’s a unique arrogance we sellers have about the concepts of objections. Too often, the underlying thinking seems to be that salespeople are the only people that encounter objections.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 13, 2021

Although this is completely normal, it’s still very important to have regular sessions with your team, as it keeps communication healthy, and creates an opportunity to up skill their training and abilities. 1 – Objection Handling. The first on our list of practice sales activities, is objection handling.

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Cerebral Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I refer to this in my objection handling course as “ turning the future into the past ”). I discuss this principle extensively in my book when I say that sometimes if you want to sell someone a Band-aid, you need to “ cut ” them first. Suppose you don’t act to solve this problem. What might happen 6-12 months from now? (I

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Avoid current and future objections Go back up to the top of this blog post and review Jordan Belfort’s three-step open ended sales sequence. When it comes to [relevant issue], what keeps you up at night? Gone are the days of selling one to one. “ Be the one that asks more questions to get more opportunities!

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Sales team building games can be a great way to break up your usual sales team meetings , because it allows your Sales Professionals to enhance their personal development in a lighter way. 1 – Objection Handling. The first on our list of sales team building games, is objection handling. 2 – Sell Me This Pen.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

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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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This leaves less time for actual selling. Set Up the Integration : Connect the AI tool to your email, calendar, and CRM system. Customize Coaching Prompts : Set up prompts in the AI to guide reps through the sales process. Monitor Performance : Track metrics like talk-to-listen ratios and objection handling with AI tools.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 4, 2025

A sales debrief requires the same close-up look, minus the fancy camerasthough a good managers questions can be just as revealing. My Baseline Selling model compares the sales process to running the bases: you cant skip second and expect to score. Was the runners foot on the base? Was the tag late? Thats where the truth comes out.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 20, 2021

We recommend using the BANT method to identify whether or not they qualify, which’ll prevent sales objections and sales conditions coming up later on. If there is a lack of time frame or need, then you’re not going to have much desire; which will make dealing with sales objections difficult. BANT stands for: Budget.

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

This includes: Ideal Customer Profile (ICP): Who are you selling to? Include scripts, objection handling, and key metrics. Note that reps do need to scale in start-ups, and often, mostly on their own. Document the Sales Process Before you hand off sales, you need a repeatable process. Be specific.

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Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

Traditional onboarding can take up to 26 weeks at the executive level; AI role-play cuts this time dramatically. They are all waiting for you to screw up your script so they can tell you about it. AI-driven simulations provide judgment-free, personalized feedback, helping managers improve skills without peer scrutiny.

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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. Who Should We Be Talking To?

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Sales Pop!

JULY 3, 2024

Concentrate on consultative selling techniques, objection handling, and effective closing strategies to increase conversion rates. It should be done by providing the selling team with all necessary items, including updated product details, sales tools, and technology support services.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

But one unassuming topic that kept coming up? Integrate cold calling into a multi-channel outreach strategy, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints, including email campaigns and social selling. Example objection handling: Prospect: “Were already working with [Competitor].” Cold calling.

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Highspot

MAY 26, 2025

For example, sales reps who skipped interactive role-plays in training struggled with objection handling. Sales enablement leaders use data-informed training to boost sales rep performance Sales enablement leaders want to set sales reps up for success. Time-to-productivity: Does tailored onboarding speed up time to quota?

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Highspot

MARCH 6, 2025

Gartner found that 67% of sales reps say sales leadership is disconnected from day-to-day selling realities. Evaluating sales performance closes that gap, letting sales reps share valuable insights, objections, wins, and roadblocks. Theyre on the front lines; their input can refine your sales objectives while keeping them engaged.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 30, 2023

The world has changed, but we are still doing the stuff we’ve always done–at least in selling. We may have buffed them up a little to make them look shinier, but underneath they are what we have always done. We engage in linear selling processes–Prospecting, Qualifying, Discovering, Proposing, Closing.

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Closing Bigger

JULY 21, 2014

When you pick up the phone or step into a client meeting your intent will frame what you hear, the words you use and even your tonality, body language and pace of conversations. An sales person answering customer inquiries could have the intent to “get an order” or “sell something from my product line.” Next steps.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When sales managers don’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized coaching sessions for each rep on their team, it may be time to use AI sales coaching – your always-on coaching assistant. This ensures that reps have access to the most effective and up-to-date sales strategies and techniques.

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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 Tip #1 – Know Your Audience. Selling Over The Phone Tip #2 – Qualify Early.

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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. These great “sales people,” simply don’t give up. No related posts.

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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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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

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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