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Sales negotiation skills and strategies to win more deals

Zendesk

Looks like it’s time to begin negotiations. Life in sales isn’t so different from navigating the delicate conversation of movie preferences with your partner. There are real benefits to be had from honing your diplomatic skills and establishing a set strategy for guiding leads from the top of the sales funnel to the bottom.

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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

Just when customer account teams and salespeople were beginning to grow accustomed to virtual-only sales and account management, a return to (some) face-to-face interactions is on the horizon. Figure 2: Buyer and seller perspectives on the challenges of virtual sales interactions. Just 5 percent report no success at all ( Figure 3 ).

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What is Socratic questioning? (Questioning skills)

Red Star Kim

It’s helpful in conversations, critical thinking and negotiation. – Kim Tasso March 2010 How do you close a sale? Long before I learned of the value of Socratic questioning in coaching and counselling, I remember an editor asking me to use Socratic questioning in some writing. So what is Socratic questioning? Questioning skills).

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How to boost sales strategy with a deal desk

PandaDoc

This article highlights how a deal desk functions and its ability to transform the way companies tackle their sales strategy. Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to optimize the deal creation and execution process.

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Sales Process – What is it?

Arpedio

What is a Sales Process? The sales process is a structured set of steps and activities that sales professionals follow to guide potential customers from initial contact to closing the deal. It outlines the sequence of interactions and engagements between the salesperson and the prospect throughout the entire sales cycle.

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The Perplexing Power of Process & Methodology in Complex B2B Sales

Mike Kunkle

“As in other studies we’ve done, this year’s enablement study found that sales process and sales methodology adoption rates above 75% resulted in above-average gains for revenue plan attainment, quota attainment, and win rates, with a big boost at adoption rates greater than 90%.” increase in revenue plan attainment 17.1%

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Book review: Neuroscience for learning and development by Stella Collins

Red Star Kim

For example, learning a sales process including documents and offers for clients that use colour and images to explain simply. The author makes it clear that you need to “do” in order to learn and created the Brain Friendly Learning Group. Throughout the book there are comments and case studies from others (“Other Voices”).