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Is Your Sales Team Disabled by Your Sales Enablement Software?
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Sales Enablement. One of the Drivers of High-Performance Sales Teams, yet the least understood—let alone appreciated. This critical driver encompasses all the …
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Sales Methodology: Is Your Sales Team’s Strategy the Right One?
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Your sales team may be using a well-known Sales Methodology such as relationship selling, strategic selling, or value-based selling just to name a few—but is it the right one? As one of the 6 Drivers of …
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Does Your Business Make Your Sales Talent, or Does Your Sales Talent Make Your Business?
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Your sales talent is the heartbeat of your company. But many companies lack a proper process to even attract the right people. Some companies don’t have a process to select and onboard their sales talent. Others still fail to …
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Is Your Sales Process High Performance…or High Maintenance?
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Getting your sales process down is one of the critical drivers of high-performance sales teams. We’re talking about your road map, your prospecting strategies, your agendas. And let’s not forget about …
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Sales Management: Think You’ll Score High on This Critical Driver of High-Performance Sales Teams?
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Ahhh, Sales Management. Leads, pipeline, goals, tracking, reporting, KPIs, and compensation. All of these elements are no-brainers, right? Easily articulated, easily understood.
Would you say every member of your sales team can define their KPIs? Do you have a scoreboard so every …
To CC or Not to CC…There is No Question
High-Performance Sales Teams Leverage Multiple Decision-Makers to Close the Deal
In most B2B sales, you will need to deal with more than one decision-maker. To avoid getting limited by corporate politics and the whims of one decision-maker, you should enhance your entry efforts by contacting all decision-makers who can have an impact on your sales process. …
You Have to Move People, Not Your Product or Service
Increase Sales Performance Metrics by Appealing to What the Buyer Wants
Do you turn your selling game on and off like a light switch? Or do you use it outside the office, too? Guess what? You’re not alone. We all sell. Every one of us. Sometimes it’s our product or service. Sometimes it’s ourselves. …
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Take Your Time To Buy Time
Set a Slow and Steady Cadence to Increase Sales Performance Metrics
Anyone who knows me well, knows that one of my guilty pleasures in life is buying watches. For me, a watch signifies so many things—time, commitment, longevity, patience, perseverance. Time is what we struggle to keep with those we love, and is what we struggle to win with those we hope to connect with or do business with. And time is at the heart of selling—we’re asking someone to give it away, banking on the fact there’s going to be a mutual ROI. …
Don’t Get Your Ask Kicked
High-Performance Sales Teams Make the First 7 Seconds Count
In the early 1990s, I remember being so excited when pay-per-view had on a Mike Tyson boxing match. It didn’t matter who it was, Iron Mike’s opponent was going to get their ass kicked, usually in the first round. The hype and excitement lasted for weeks, then it was over before it began. …
Know Your Why
High-Performing Sales Teams Always Know Their Prospects’ Needs
I’ve done all types of real-time phone coaching with a variety of inside sales teams. Getting the gatekeeper to put a decision maker on the line is easy. Listening to the decision maker chew you out for a useless interruption with no value is a lot harder. …
Research: Use With Caution!
Find Balance in Prospecting Research to Improve Your Team’s Sales Metrics
I know a sports executive who has been president of an NBA team and an NHL team. With all the heavy lifting this person has to do—running marketing, sales, business operations, building a new stadium—sometimes social media isn’t number one on their priority list. I know it took over nine months for that person to change their role on LinkedIn. …
The Myth about Legendary Closers
Trust Your High-Performing Sales Team To Close
Legendary closers are like Bigfoot, like leprechauns. They just don’t exist. But if you look at the classifieds under sales jobs, companies are always looking to hire skilled closers. Somehow, closing has become some kind of mythical skillset only a handful of enlightened beings have mastered. …
They Didn’t Put Him on the $100 Bill for Nothing
Increase Sales Metrics by Using the Balance Close
One of the best sales books you’ll ever read is Ben Franklin’s autobiography. He’s really the only American philosopher we had. And he’s one of our only inventors and philosophers. What made Ben Franklin such an expert in sales? The way he made decisions. For any business transaction, or when considering anything major that would require his time or money (or both), he’d make a t-chart and weigh his options from a pros versus cons standpoint. …
Land the Plane Already!
Increasing Sales Performance Means Asking the Question to Close
There was a famous sales study from the 1970s done by Mutual of Omaha that you may have heard about. The set-up was this: they went to their home market in Omaha and targeted some folks who would be good customers for them. They picked about 1,000 people and said they’d give them insurance premiums (up to $500,000) for a year, but potential customers had to meet with Mutual’s salespeople in order to get this offer. …
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