MTD Sales Training

MAY 21, 2012

Successful sales management requires a plethora of skills, techniques, leadership abilities, motivational cleverness and teaching expertise. Indeed, to be a good sales manager you must do a lot of things right. However, to be unsuccessful in the role of leading a sales team, you need only do a few things wrong. Quick and to the point, here are three sales management DON’Ts you need to avoid. #1 – Fail to Recognise Work Ethic and Effort.

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Engage Selling

MAY 4, 2012

Chris and I try to stay pretty active – running and hitting the gym regularly. I have to admit I chuckle every time I see one of those infomercials on T.V. You know the ones, promoting an exotic piece of exercise equipment promising to deliver incredible results… Results that most will probably never achieve. I actually don’t have a criticism about these pieces of fitness equipment.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 10, 2012

Tweet Think about the pile of business cards on your desk, of people that you’ve never really connected with, and certainly have never provided value for. Then think about the number of people who you could be adding to your network; people who could really be enlightened by you and discover your depth (or lack of it). Networking is a non-negotiable in sales.

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Negotiation Sales 68

SBI Growth

MAY 24, 2012

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2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

SBI

MAY 1, 2012

Tweet Sales-ready leads. Marketers, as we all know and understand, are responsible for many critical business tasks. Not the least of which is to ensure that the company’s vision, brand, and most importantly its solutions become not just known to, but ultimately acknowledged by as many of the right people as possible, and that its solutions are recognized as being viable and competitive options.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 25, 2012

"How Do I Become a Top Salesperson? I want to be better but I'm struggling!" Here's what I've found that worked for me. What Works – The Skinny Details Reading Sales / Business / Self-Help Books It doesn’t matter which books.

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Engage Selling

MAY 16, 2012

Today I stress the best practices for maintaining customer loyalty. Asking for referrals, involving yourself in customer’s personal interests, and business life, and building corporate rapport are all keys to understand. Today I stress the best practices for maintaining customer loyalty. Asking for referrals, involving yourself in customer’s personal interests, and business life, and building corporate rapport are all keys to understand.

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Organization Sales Training Sales 79

Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 4, 2012

Tweet Looking to keep your present job? What would you do if you were fired today? How would you feel? How would you react? Where would you go? What would you do? Here is my 12.5 step formula to get you from FIRED to ON FIRE. 1. Let your emotions out for 48 hours – not one minute more. Do all your whining, crying, pitying and door slamming until it’s completely out of your system.

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SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2012

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SBI

MAY 29, 2012

Tweet A few weeks back, I wrote about the sales lessons you can learn from the television show “Kitchen Nightmares.” The main gist of the post was that the problems each restaurant owner suffers from are always both fundamental, and fundamentally the same (bad food being the primary example), and that the problems go unresolved because the owners are in complete denial.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Sales Gravy

MAY 25, 2012

Reversing an objection is counter-intuitive, highly effective, and requires superior preparation and courage. Consider the response that requires the most confidence, preparation, quick thinking, understanding, and sales talent.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 11, 2012

How do you get prospects to return your calls? Of course, it seems impossible to get a return call from leaving a message on a cold call. However, sales people also have problems getting calls returned from warm calls, or referrals given by satisfied customers. So, what is it that you have to do in [.

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Sales 119

Engage Selling

MAY 14, 2012

Sometimes there is simply no way of making them happy… My niece Georgia was not a happy camper last week when the weather got warm but she still wanted to wear tights. She was hot but didn’t want to get changed… Turns out, a perfect recipe for a very grumpy girl. Unfortunately, identifying the landmines in advance with a six year old can be a bit tricky.

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Sales 79

MTD Sales Training

MAY 7, 2012

Ok, when the sales person started with your firm, you thought that he or she was a prodigy. You then invested the time and money to get the sales rookie up to speed. You eventually established difficult, yet achievable goals and quotas. A Big Deal Finally, the sales person began to hit the mark. The [.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 16, 2012

Every day, I hear from sales people who are confused, frustrated or defeated by facing what they feel is a nearly insurmountable objection: “I am sorry, but I am very happy with my current supplier/vendor. We have been doing business with them for many years and have no reason to change…” This position strikes terror [.

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Suppliers Sales 113

MTD Sales Training

MAY 2, 2012

You can always find a multitude of tips and tricks for sales people. Sales techniques, closing strategies and prospecting avenues abound. However, I have found that usually these pillars of advice pertain to the sales person who has been with their company, at least for some length of time. I am also guilty of this, [.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 14, 2012

There are countless tips, tricks and gimmicks on how to begin a cold call. Of course, the majority of these ideas focus on how to get the call started or how to begin the call. Which makes sense, since if you do not get the call started correctly, it is over. However, what most people [.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 9, 2012

While there are as many different types of buyers as there are different personalities, buyers do eventually fall into a few very distinct categories. There is the paranoid, scared buyer who does not seem to trust or believe anything that you say. Then you have the price only buyer, who is only concerned with getting [.

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 30, 2012

One of the main questions I get from sales people is what to do when trapped under ineffective, negative, de-motivating or otherwise, bad sales management. Being a sales director myself, I hesitate to align myself with unfounded complaints about sales management. However, being, first and foremost, a sales person myself, I must address this issue. Let’s face it; there are some, unethical, under-trained sales people out there that often make things harder for all of us.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2012

Ok, you are a pro. You have been cold calling for years, and despite the trend toward e-prospecting, and e-everything else, you have still perfected the art of being able to pick up the telephone and CREATE business, almost at will. There are a few of us that have no fear of the cold-call and [.

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Sales 110

MTD Sales Training

MAY 4, 2012

For some reason, many sales people still feel that they and the prospect are on different sides of the issue. Many sales professionals today still suffer from the outdated thinking that selling is a battle; a contest. The whole though of “winning the sale” is an obsolete concept. Yet, you hear it all the time, [.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 18, 2012

Below are three clear and simple mistakes that sales people routinely make while prospecting. Prospecting mistakes are the most costly problems because most sales people and sales management never actually realise the full affect of prospecting errors. What You Can Not See CAN Hurt YOU The problem is that it is much easier to see [.

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Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 23, 2012

If you are going to be successful in business-to-business sales, you must first learn to recognise a clever and sophisticated gatekeeper screen. Then you must learn how to negotiate the screen successfully to get through to the decision maker. Here is a simple yet highly effective technique to help you get past a hard screen. Use this and increase your contact rates today!

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 10, 2012

No introduction or explanation needed here. I am just going to give it to you simple, brief and straight. Follow these A B C s of account management, and you will grow your business! A – Advise If you really did your job in closing the sale, then you were able to elevate yourself from [.

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Account Management Management Sales 102

MTD Sales Training

MAY 1, 2012

LinkedIn is THE professional platform to be involved with, and if you are not on it by now then you really are missing out. LinkedIn is full of opportunities for every executive, sales professional and business owner to generate leads for their business and engage with those all important decision makers – but how do [.

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Sales 81

Engage Selling

MAY 3, 2012

Listen as I share my thoughts on what sales executives can do with their team to implement strategic direction. Listen as I share my thoughts on what sales executives can do with their team to implement strategic direction.

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Sales Sales Training 79

Speaker: Michelle Vazzana

Every sales organization wants their sales force to be agile. Why? Because the world is rapidly changing, becoming more complex, and making the salesperson’s job harder. Organizational leaders are unsure of the best way to equip sellers to succeed in this new reality. Should they change their sales methodology? Should they adopt better technology tools?

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Engage Selling

MAY 15, 2012

Effective compensation plans can make or break your results. But no matter how good your plan is, if it’s not rolled out effectively it will sabotage your sales. Take the quiz and test your sales skills!

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Sales 78

Engage Selling

MAY 8, 2012

Got Grumpy? Today’s podcast offers tips to creating a cohesive team that reaches (or exceeds) sales goals. Got Grumpy? Today’s podcast offers tips to creating a cohesive team that reaches (or exceeds) sales goals.

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Sales Sales Training 78

Engage Selling

MAY 2, 2012

What is the sales funnel? And why is it important to maintaining an objective view of what deals will close when? What is the sales funnel? And why is it important to maintaining an objective view of what deals will close when?

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Sales Sales Training 78

Engage Selling

MAY 1, 2012

There is NOT a one-size-fits-all best sales process. Sales processes differ from organization to organization and situation to situation. In this podcast I share three sales processes that every company must have in place. There is NOT a one-size-fits-all best sales process. Sales processes differ from organization to organization and situation to situation.

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Sales Organization Sales Training 78

What if there was a better method of changing the conversation with your customer from delivering pricing to delivering value solutions? A method that would help keep you in control, manage the uncertainty, and close larger deals more quickly for you and your company? There is.

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