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Understanding Sales Process, Methodology, and Competencies

Mike Kunkle

Sales process, sales methodology, and sales competencies are all important and related aspects of sales effectiveness. Sales Process A sales process is a series of stages that an opportunity moves through. But they are not the same thing. It’s been proven in multiple studies and is worth the effort.

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

Red Star Kim

Most people appreciate the importance of questioning skills in selling, training, coaching, counselling (especially Cognitive Based Therapy – CBT) and commercial conversations. But “How are you today and is it better than yesterday?” Why are questions so important? Questioning skills). And they can help you foster collaboration. “He

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Account Planning Template – Five Components for Success

Upland

How are sales teams meant to grow revenue in key accounts without a well-thought-out account planning strategy ? The right software, however, can help guide sellers to better deals, and enhance their processes while enabling collaboration. However, account planning is one of the most underused strategies in the sales arsenal.

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

The session used the 7P model of buy-in to explore rational and emotional tools to achieve buy-in: Plan, Process, People, Psychology, Persuasion, Pressure and Patience. It takes time to build trust trust for better business relationships (kimtasso.com). This is challenging as everyone is time poor and most communications are digital.

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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 quota attainment 19.7%

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How to Radically Improve Your B2B Sales Win Rates

Mike Kunkle

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. I’ve been part of delivering these results, multiple times in my career, for both employers and clients. It’s entirely possible. Let’s dig in. Don’t let that be you.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

MBD executives, advisors, managers, client services executives and BDMs from law firms, economics and management consultancies joined a PM Forum workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development”. We tackled delegate questions as well as coaching and consulting scenarios along the way. The terms (e.g.