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Stacking the Cards in your favor
Signing up for a career in sales is essentially agreeing to a career where you lose far more often than you win. Become an Enterprise level closer, and you should be winning thirty-percent of the time. Either way, you are losing more than you win. So the question becomes, “how do I stack the cards…
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Nailing down the right Talk Tracks
Talk tracks and frameworks are not scripts. Modern call coaching technology uses frameworks or talk tracks to get salespeople saying the right things, in the right order, at the right time. They are not exactly …..
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What a conversational intelligence platform for sales does and doesn’t do
Many leaders and great companies today are either looking for or using the next “big” conversational intelligence platform for sales. In reality, they are more than likely using a combination of recording and maybe analytics software that has been around for years (ok… maybe more than a few years… actually – it’s been around since…
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Why should I invest in real-time call coaching for my team?
With many companies adopting work from home technologies including video conferencing, coaching has become more than just listening to your reps speak over the phone ….. We are going to dive into a few critical components of your sales coaching tech stack to see if it is doing everything it can to fulfill your team’s…
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Ways to Measure Success using Conversational Intelligence for Coaches
“What gets measured gets improved” – how many times have you said this as a coach, manager, trainer, or even just to yourself? If you are anything like me, probably a bunch. I have said it a bunch of times because it is true. What gets measured, does, in fact, get improved. A couple of…
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When your sales team struggles to meet quota
While your Sales Team struggles to meet quota, there are Conversation Intelligence tools that literally could not only save their jobs, but exceed quotas. Annual revenue goals met. Customer attrition issues solved. Conversation Intelligence needs to be “live”, not post-call analytics, but “Real-Time Conversation Intelligence”.
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Why your reps do not apply their sales training
The number one problem with any sales training is that we spend a great deal of time practicing, training, and honing our skills… but managers don’t always follow through on making sure the training is being applied. One reason is that there is not an unlimited amount of time in the day, but the other…
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ValueSelling is not just about Sales
Companies are made up of many departments all working together with one central goal. How does valueselling apply to departments like Product Management, Sales Engineering, Channel? Where do things like titles come into play when building persona-based prompts such as playbooks and sales call frameworks?
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Why Introverts Make the Best Sales Reps
Organizations that look to scale, should start to see the power of introverts in a sales culture because many introverted traits can be found in some of the most successful sales reps. One trait that is especially powerful is listening, which can help create rapport with clients. Another key trait is being able to synthesize…
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5 Signs to Help You Hire The Right SDR
You probably already know that the SDR position is one of the highest churn positions in the sales industry… not that any position in sales is super great for retention. And that is understandable. It’s a tough position that requires a lot of sacrifices and hard work. But that said, when hiring the right SDR…
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Building with the Buyers Journey in Mind
I value what I would call the three P’s: the people, their processes, and their pain points. And understanding that second, is work with your account management team or whoever maintains that relationship with your customers.
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Why Your Reps Need Positive Reinforcement, Not Criticism
Go to your lowest-performing rep and find 3 things they are doing that are amazing. Say nice things about them, and then just let it go. That’s right, don’t coach them yet. Just let that ball of confidence roll for a day or two. Then pump them up again, only this time, be on their…
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