CoSell

JULY 8, 2020

Virtual Selling is here to stay. As I’m sure you’ve been noticing, the business world has shifted from “virtual hesitation” to “virtual selling.” While last year, sales professionals relied on face-to-face meetings, today virtual conferences are the norm. Virtual selling is not just a temporary phase.

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Drift

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

An October 2020 study by McKinsey shows that 80% of B2B seller interactions have moved to digital. I’m here to talk to you about how to get more out of what you already have by making your salespeople much, much more efficient.

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Showpad

JUNE 6, 2022

Marketing is becoming a big partner of ours from the go-to-market side, and we’re trying to blend the world of marketing and sales together as we develop a new digital communication strategy. What in this new digital world of selling makes you most excited?

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Sales Outcomes

APRIL 3, 2023

Effective virtual sellers have traditional sellers’ qualities, in addition to conventional inside selling virtual skills. Here are four considerations for your organization to strengthen virtual selling abilities: 1. Enabling virtual selling is much more than Zoom meeting logistics.

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Customer Think

MAY 2, 2021

The sell-side of the seller-buyer equation has been flipped upside down. Transitions to virtual selling are happening at a rapid pace. Plans for complete digital sales transformation are accelerated. Marketing is producing new forms o.

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CoSell

JANUARY 28, 2021

As you grab the reins for virtual selling, it’s good to know that digital selling the way to go. According to recent reports from McKinsey, virtual selling is the name of the game for B2B companies. Let’s look at how people around the world are responding to, adapting to, and embracing virtual selling.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 23, 2020

Accessing digital tools that track and highlight the different points of the sales journey will be crucial to planning future playbooks. Invest in digital experiences. Companies around the world are making a rapid shift to the digital environment. Empathy and understanding are critical.

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CoSell

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With Co-Selling, the outlook for the future is optimistic. Many B2B leaders are expecting digital interactions from pandemic-induced changes to stick. In a recent McKinsey report, leaders agreed that by embracing virtual sales, their sales organizations have flourished. With digital selling, sales costs get slashed.

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SalesGlobe

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Virtual Selling. The third evolution of sales is virtual selling. This involves virtual interaction, which I describe as “seemingly face-to-face while physically distanced.” Digital Buying. The fourth dynamic still underway and being tested with large purchases is digital buying.

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SalesPop

JUNE 15, 2022

Some of the tools you might need for successful remote selling might include audio, video, and presentation tools such as lighting, microphones, and cameras. Digital Sales Rooms for Remote Sales. Digital sales rooms play a vital role in promoting human sales engagement even though this happens in a virtual environment.

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Chally

MARCH 4, 2021

Sales leaders were forced to shift to digital and remote client engagement early in the pandemic and the shift to virtual client engagement is here to stay. Globally, the majority of sales leaders have a positive view of this new, virtual sales environment for engaging clients. Virtual selling is here to stay[9].

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ACT

APRIL 16, 2024

Show them how your top performers manage their time, achieve peak performance, and use various communication tools for virtual selling. Similarly, train them to handle customer phone calls, cold calling, in-office meetings, and using various digital tools as sales representatives.

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Revenue Storm

JUNE 8, 2021

The economy, global supply chains, decarbonization and electrification, digitalization and 5G, Brexit, the policies of the new U.S. There are three critical skills strategic salespeople must master to successfully sell through the uncertainty of today’s pandemic era. Develop and Maintain Virtual Relationships.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. Brian: What Photography Means to Me I got my first digital camera in 2004 or 2005. When I got my own digital camera, that kind of launched it for me. My dad was into photography.

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Brooks Group

JULY 11, 2022

Building relationships is essential for any salesperson, but it becomes even more critical when selling virtually. By its very nature, virtual selling removes the personal connection that is important to building relationships and making sales. Virtual Selling Skills. Overcome objections. Time Management.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 7, 2020

How can we quickly adjust to selling in this digital world? The first thing to adapt to is the technology that’s needed to go digital and remote. Is selling online just like face-to-face, but without the physicals? Can you offer more of your services digitally, so people won’t have to rely so much on physical visits?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 17, 2021

Digital Sales Transformation Has Accelerated: There is no debate that COVID-19 accelerated the digital transformation in the B2B world. Businesses that pivoted their Go-to-Market strategy to changing customer demands thrived while laggards were left behind waiting for the dust to settle.

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Corporate Visions

APRIL 23, 2020

The whiteboard vs PowerPoint disparity jumps even higher in remote selling situations, where slides are used more than 83 percent of the time while using a digital whiteboard, or any kind of annotation, drops to below 4 percent. Even printed literature (8.8 Despite the popularity of touch screens and annotation tools, 83.1

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies opted either for a purely inside sales model, where reps primarily sell remotely, or a purely outside sales model, where field sales reps broker face to face deals. They had to figure out how to enable their team with the right technology, adapt processes to fit virtual selling, and so on.

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RAIN Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic challenged sales teams to try new and creative solutions for training, most of them digital-first. It’s true the global pandemic radically changed how sales organizations think about live events, including salesforce onboarding, education, and SKOs that were once the norm.

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Corporate Visions

APRIL 24, 2020

The whiteboard vs PowerPoint disparity jumps even higher in remote sales situations, where slides are used more than 83 percent of the time while using a digital whiteboard or annotation of any type drops to below 4 percent. Even printed literature (8.8 Despite the introduction of touch screens and annotation tools, 83.1 The Choice is Yours.

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Corporate Visions

APRIL 24, 2020

The whiteboard vs PowerPoint disparity jumps even higher in remote sales situations, where slides are used more than 83 percent of the time while using a digital whiteboard or annotation of any type drops to below 4 percent. Even printed literature (8.8 Despite the introduction of touch screens and annotation tools, 83.1 The Choice is Yours.

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Corporate Visions

APRIL 24, 2020

The whiteboard vs PowerPoint disparity jumps even higher in remote sales situations, where slides are used more than 83 percent of the time while using a digital whiteboard or annotation of any type drops to below 4 percent. Even printed literature (8.8 Despite the introduction of touch screens and annotation tools, 83.1 The Choice is Yours.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 4, 2020

Our 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study showed that lead conversion and quota attainment were both down by double digits (13% and 10%, respectively). Over the last five years, sales organizations have hit their revenue targets, even though individual sellers’ metrics declined.

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Arpedio

MAY 30, 2022

Here’s what you need to be aware of right now if you are operating within Strategic Account Management and Account Based Selling : SAMA Conference Attendee Takeaways. With the rise of virtual selling comes the rise of omnichannel. Marketing supports messaging, digital advertising, and critical signals that informs the SAM.

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CoSell

JANUARY 14, 2021

With Co-Selling, this is foundational. It’s easy to connect at a human level, bring human touch into virtual selling, and keep the channels open for real-human contact. Unlike traditional models, which focus exclusively on numbers, profits, and quarterly reports, Co-Selling focuses on collaboration.

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Aepiphanni

JANUARY 28, 2021

The COVID crisis reinvigorated the need to innovate, more so to digitize everything from supply-chain reinvention to AI in healthcare. Tech advancement & digitization benefits continue to favor industrial growth. COVID countermeasures led to much quicker adoption of digital technologies, and these changes are here to stay.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In our virtual selling environment, much may seem different. Cindy Campbell is a Senior Director for Korn Ferry Digital. They can help you develop comprehensive profiles of those accounts that will, in turn, let you get a better handle on what those customers need—perhaps even before the customers know themselves.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 10, 2020

They do not engage on most digital platforms and, unlike the majority of people searching Google or visiting your website or following you on Twitter, C-suite buyers are not interested in your product. During a recent Stop the Sales Drop Podcast , Lori Harmon mentioned that virtual selling will not be temporary.

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Showpad

MARCH 17, 2021

Forrester’s B2B Summit leverages the insights, analysis and experience of the brightest B2B minds to spark your curiosity, shape your strategy and fuel double-digit business growth. May 3-6, 2021. Unleash 2021. May 11-13, 2021. Unleash 2021 promises to teach you everything you need to know to win customers in this new era.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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Aepiphanni

JANUARY 26, 2021

The pre-requisite here is to have a sales process that supports and is optimized for virtual selling. And if you lack the skills of closing clients digitally, it’s time you acquired these skills. Customers have become less mobile and reaching them online can bring continuous sales. billion during 2020 holidays – a 32.2%

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

These two challenges, especially the training challenge, show that enablement teams haven’t paid enough attention to preparing their customer-facing employees to be effective in virtual meetings. Selling behaviors have to be adjusted to the new normal, a digital first world. Ideally at the same time.

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Showpad

APRIL 2, 2021

Regardless of the origins behind this shift, remote selling is likely here to stay. A recent Gartner report concluded that 80% of B2B sales interactions between buyers and sellers are expected to be conducted using digital means by 2025.

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SBI

AUGUST 10, 2021

Sales technologies supporting virtual selling and the shift to hybrid work offer new capabilities for sales teams to engage today’s digital-first buyers. Today, dispersed teams require a new level of coordination, collaboration, and empowerment in order to unlock sales success in an overcrowded digital world.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

In its third edition of ‘the State of Sales’ report in 2020, SalesForce reported that “Sales reps have increased their time connecting virtually with customers at a rate 3x greater than connecting in person.”. We have a specific Virtual Selling category on this blog with plenty of other tips and techniques to help you sell remotely.

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