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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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Tips for Building a Highly Effective Sales Training Program

Brooks Group

More than ever, sales professionals need sales training programs that can help them keep pace with the demands of the modern sales process. Sales training pays off in many ways. A recent study by Accenture found that every dollar spent on training got a $4.53 What is Sales Training?

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Improving Sales Efficiency: How to Accelerate Sales Cycles

Brooks Group

Sales leaders, the driving force behind a company’s revenue generation, understand that time is of the essence. 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.

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Coaching for Impactful Sales Calls

Revenue Storm

“Pick me up at the airport and you can brief me about the client on our way to the meeting.” As a sales leader, have you ever asked one of your salespeople to do this? As a young salesperson, I believed just getting one of my senior executives to meet a client was a success, often disregarding the achievement of a tangible outcome.

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Consultative Selling Tips: How to Sell to Procurement Managers

Brooks Group

Instead of pushing a specific product, sales professionals use a consultative sales process, ask open-ended questions , and actively listen to uncover needs and pain points before recommending a solution. Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable.

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Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up

Red Star Kim

Finding a suitable location (quiet and without interruptions) to make calls when working in an office environment was sometimes a challenge. 83% No – and no experience 17% Yes – formally Your sector: 33% Legal 50% Accountancy/Insolvency 17% Property/surveying How confident are you at taking and making telephone calls?

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Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum

Red Star Kim

no-data-entry CRM; relationship intelligence (ERM); revenue operations system; automatic capture of emails, meetings and referrals). Some firms provide templates of different types of KAM meeting types. My KAM/relationship management experience (0=low, 10=expert): 0% 18% 18% 9% 9% 9% 18% 18% 0% 0% Have you had formal sales training?