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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal sales training. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.

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Are Your Sales Targets Too High?

Brooks Group

As we pass the half-way point of the year, sales managers may start to hear a few grumblings that quotas are too high. While it’s wise to reassess sales targets to make sure they are realistic, assuming they are too high might be a mistake. Forbes reported that in 2017 that 57% of sales reps failed to meet quota.

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Senior Leadership: Fertilizer for your Growth Strategy

5600 Blue

Senior executives know that, beyond mergers and acquisitions, a company’s growth is driven one deal at a time by the way salespeople sell and negotiate. billion every year(1) on sales and negotiation methodologies. Sales Training Investment. That’s why American companies spend $7.2

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The Top Sales Trends of 2018

Hubspot Sales

Sales automation. And if history repeats itself, just like 2017 we’ll see major developments in the sales world. As companies demand higher success rates and competition intensifies, I believe we will see more sales training and empowerment for SDRs,” says Roy Weissman, VP of Sales at SendPulse and sales consultant.

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Are You Prescribing a Solution Before Diagnosing the Problem?

5600 Blue

In April 2017 Harvard Business Review published The New Sales Imperative. This fundamental shift in the role of a seller requires traditional sales training, marketing and CRM support tools to shift and deliver sellers the tools and insight they need to support the reality of today’s market.

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7 Steps to Establish a Successful Sales Mentorship Program

Hubspot Sales

If you don't reward the senior rep financially, they tend to act more like a coach than a player, which leads to a slower deal time and less involvement in the negotiation (an area in which the new rep has the most to learn). Editor's note: This post was originally published in February 2017 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.

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Stop Dreaming, Start Succeeding: 10 Motivating Stories from Top Salespeople

Hubspot Sales

Things that require more attention and energy, like demoing or negotiating? In 1970, he left his lucrative sales job behind in favor of a full-time speaking circuit and writing career. His personal development and sales training company, Ziglar Inc. Probably won’t go very well.

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