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Virtual selling: what success in virtual sales looks like

Zendesk

Remote sales have become increasingly common, but it took a pandemic to truly establish virtual selling as the new normal. A McKinsey survey conducted in the wake of Covid-19 found that over 75 percent of buyers and sellers alike now prefer virtual sales meetings over face-to-face interactions. Prioritize process over speed.

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There is no longer Inside vs Outside Sales

Sales Outcomes

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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How Tricia Westfall of Kaiser Permanente Is leading the move from field sales to virtual selling | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series

Showpad

How does technology support you in this new hybrid world of selling? We’re trying to change the way we prioritize and adopt new tools because it impacts our position in the market. What in this new digital world of selling makes you most excited? Let’s shift gears to talk about technology.

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Four Sales Tactics to Regain Control During Crisis

Miller Heiman Group

How has COVID-19 impacted virtual selling practices? Korn Ferry surveyed sales organizations around the world to find out, uncovering how companies are working to achieve stability in the midst of ongoing crisis. Organizations seem to have the same idea: focus and execute on what you can control as the surest path to success.

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Enable Sales Teams For Better Prospecting

Sales Outcomes

Earlier this year, I wrote a post titled There Is No More Inside Sales to highlight that outside sales teams need to develop or strengthen their inside selling skills to succeed in virtual selling. . Whatever the ideal target account criteria that your organization adopts, you need to track it in the CRM.

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Look Beyond Sales Results

Sales Outcomes

Develop Virtual Selling Skills. While most sales organizations adapted quickly to virtual selling brought by COVID-19, the current business boon is cloaking how sales organizations are achieving their results. Develop Virtual Selling Skills. Inspect Sales Process Adherence.

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Hitting your year-end numbers

Miller Heiman Group

Identify and prioritize your best opportunities…first. What should be considered in developing an approach to prioritizing opportunities? We have provided a strategic opportunity quality scorecard to help you qualify opportunities in today’s virtual environment. Organizations who do this effectively not only have 18.1%