Brooks Group

MARCH 25, 2024

The process culminates in negotiating a mutually beneficial close while laying the groundwork for future sales. The IMPACT sales training program begins with a sales assessment of each participant to understand their behavioral patterns, communication styles, and decision-making processes. It aligns the entire sales team.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

This blog post takes a deep dive into the key benefits and drawbacks of the sales profession to help you make an informed decision. Commission-based pay and fluctuations in sales volume can make it challenging to predict your monthly or annual income. This can make it difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

This is done by forming a team of stakeholders and decision-makers, establishing approval workflows, and effectively integrating automation tools. A deal desk is a team within a company responsible for managing and negotiating deals, contracts, quotes, and other sales documents. Let’s get to it!

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 29, 2022

Closing a deal is definitely the most challenging and demanding part of sales negotiations with the customer. In our context, it means finalizing the negotiation process by setting an agreement. There are two common goals that exist when we speak about the finalizing of the sales process: To make it as fast as possible.

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Other times, sellers work with ad hoc buying committees who have never worked together to make a purchase decision, and who are operating without an aligned process, policies, or even guidelines and guardrails. click the image to see a larger version] This makes sense, right? Should sales process be adaptable?

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Red Star Kim

MARCH 1, 2024

This is challenging as everyone is time poor and most communications are digital. And we know that face-to-face communication is most effective in building relationships. Building empathy with fee-earners helps us to understand what they expect and any assumptions they may be making about the likely results.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Bigger deals usually mean bigger committees, which present unique challenges compared to selling to an individual decision maker or even a small group. Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is good news for B2B sales teams that have faced economic headwinds, shrinking customer budgets, and delayed or canceled purchasing decisions. In this blog post we share 6 of the key differences between successful and underperforming teams. Recommendation 1: Adopt, communicate, and enforce a well-defined sales process.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Nervousness – Shyness, modesty, lack of confidence and fear of failure can make fee-earners reluctant to organise meetings to take the next steps in building a potential client relationship. There is rarely a deep understanding of how disparate and disconnected decision-making units are across such large organisations.

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Brooks Group

MAY 2, 2023

The process of tying up a sale doesn’t begin at the negotiation table after all the meetings have been had and solutions have been presented, but rather at the beginning of the sales process. This can trick even the best sales managers into thinking their team has a negotiation problem , when in reality they have an opening problem!

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

At the same time, deals take longer to make their way through the sales process than they used to. But if a buyer is not ready to make a deal, there’s nothing that can make it happen any quicker. Understand the decision matrix: B2B buying groups are getting larger. That’s true in any sales landscape.

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing By exploring key themes in commerciality and entrepreneurship, we saw why risk management and anticipating return on investment (ROI) is critical when making the business case for marketing investment. Supply and demand underpins pricing decisions for markets and clients.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An article in October 2022 in Training Magazine argued that the four most important soft skills to prioritise for remote work – to bridge the distance gap – were emotional intelligence (I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in my book), next-level communication (ie over-communication), active listening and conflict resolution.

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DemandFarm

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Autocratic Sales Leadership An autocratic sales leader comes closest to the conventional idea of a leader who makes most decisions unilaterally and without any participation of the team. These leaders encourage teams to challenge the status quo, making them ideal for sectors needing continuous innovation.

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 3, 2020

This doesn’t mean it will be easy nor will you not have to make tough decisions. It just means the effort and tough decisions will be worthwhile. Asking who’s got great skills at influencing, negotiating, analysing and creativity is the best way to start. Two – VUCA Decision Making.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

It encompasses various aspects of the sales process, including lead generation, prospecting, qualifying, presenting solutions, overcoming objections, negotiating terms, closing deals, and ultimately retaining customers for repeat business. Make sure each KPI you track directly contributes to the outcomes you want.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 29, 2024

The main benefits of data room index are increased searchability, speed, transparency, automation and enhanced communication. Efficient communication A logical data room structure enhances communication within all members and assigned users. And better communication works hand-in-glove with optimized collaboration.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 17, 2023

How to build a winning account management team Account Management Software ← Back to blog A winning account management team can be your secret weapon to supercharge your company’s growth and customer satisfaction. Team communication: Encourage open and honest communication within the team to address challenges collectively.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, top-down analysis and decision-making ensures that the various units are working towards the firm’s goals (a “one-firm approach”) and making tough choices between competing interests. In practice, there is usually an iterative process where top-down and bottom-up strategies are negotiated and aligned.

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MDI Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Read this blog post to see the results. Coach potentials: AI can make learning suggestions Answers from ChatGPT: The four main roles of a leader according to Covey – building trust, developing vision, implementing strategies, and coaching potential – can be supported to varying degrees by AI technologies.

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Strategic Communications

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s wisdom that I was well aware of when I started my business, Strategic Communications , in 2008, and at first was very easy to do. Not as a conscious decision, but simply because looking for more work when I already had way too much work just didn’t make it onto my to-do list.

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 28, 2023

Value-based selling is a sales approach that focuses on giving value to prospects and customers throughout their decision-making process. They are also more likely to make an investment sooner and with a larger amount of money. Make sure to remind them to enter every prospect interaction with an intention to provide value.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 8, 2023

By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), sales automation tools offer insights and improve decision-making processes. This could range from prospecting and initial communication to follow-ups, meetings, negotiations, closing, and after-sales service.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

Working as a salesperson makes you accountable for identifying , qualifying , closing , maintaining , and growing new and existing business opportunities. These responsibilities also make a career in sales highly rewarding. Make no mistake, your learning process will be bumpy. A great product is one side of the coin.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

A lead can also be obtained through inbound marketing where they sign up for your newsletter, blog, or reply to any of your cold emails. However, one should remember that having a lead does not make them a potential buyer directly. This can be done through any communication channel. Make a proposal.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In this blog, we have broken down the sales pipeline vs sales funnel concept in detail for better understanding. Likewise, a series of sales stages will together make up your sales pipeline depending on your business. However, people tend to get confused while understanding the difference between sales pipeline and funnel.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable. This makes it far more likely they will listen to you—and that you’ll make the sale. They make buying decisions about products and services they don’t personally use.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this blog post, we delve into the dynamic realm of sales strategy by exploring the concept of Mobilizers and the renowned Challenger Sales methodology. Unlike traditional decision-makers, Mobilizers are proactive, forward-thinking, and adept at navigating complex organizational landscapes.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 17, 2023

If you need guidance on making your team better at enterprise selling or are just looking for advice yourself, this complete guide will give you all the details you need to know. Enterprise Sales Training Enterprise sales are different compared to sales you will make to one person at one time. Enterprise sales have long sales cycles.

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SuperOffice

AUGUST 1, 2022

How many stakeholders usually take part in the decision-making process? Running a blog? Today, almost every B2B company has a beautifully designed website, which means your ability to present what you offer in the best possible way doesn’t affect prospects’ decisions much anymore.

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SalesGlobe

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How AI Can Benefit the Sales Team B2B sales are often complex, with many stakeholders, intricate decision processes, and high-stakes negotiations. According to a report by LinkedIn Business, AI is making a tangible impact on B2B sales, as demonstrated by a series of case studies. Below are a few of these challenges.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Imagine for a moment one of your competitors making an attractive offer to your largest account. How can I make their day a little bit easier? The ability to pick up on and adapt to the subtle emotional communication that your customer is exhibiting can be more valuable in sales than actual intelligence.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

From negotiation to messaging personalization, sales managers and employees can improve their communication skills with anybody by taking enterprise sales training. Understanding your clients is essential to communication and sales in the business world.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 8, 2020

Communicate a Price Increase. To make it happen, they needed to train about 6,000 sellers to deliver that price increase message to their customers. The message was based on an exclusive, tested, and proven framework for communicating price increases. Consider the following three examples. The Solution.

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AchieveIt

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His Master’s Degree in Healthcare Communications from Boston University helped formulate his ability to condense abstract topics and make them more relatable, making his work on strategic execution impeccable. Joe Krause has been with AchieveIt since they opened their doors, always maintaining a customer-facing role.

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Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on the Intercom blog here. Founders make natural salespeople. Discuss your company’s non-negotiables. A healthy discussion for founders to have with their early sales leaders is to identify each other’s non-negotiables. They’re dedicated to protecting your non-negotiables.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Excellent, high-value content: Negotiation skills (under-taught in most sales curricula today). Relationship selling (not dead by any means; people make decisions emotionally). And you can follow my posts on our blog, here. Business acumen (grossly under-taught in most sales curricula today).

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