What impactful sales coaching techniques have you used to boost your team's performance?
I'm curious about the real-world impact of sales coaching on team performance. What specific techniques or strategies have you found most effective in driving consistent improvement and growth in your sales team? Any success stories or lessons learned
3 Simple Strategies to Draft a Compelling Elevator Pitch
As a sales executive, you only have 30 seconds to capture your customer's attention and convince them to purchase your product. With a good elevator pitch, you can persuade your buyers and convey your message concisely in 30 seconds. An elevator pitch
How Sales Reps Can Leverage the Power of Storytelling to Persuade Buyers and Win More Deals (Tips + Examples)
An effective sales pitch should gain your customer's attention and build trust to create long-lasting relationships. Stories help you exactly do that. Stories are a powerful tool in helping you connect with your buyers and influence their emotions in
3 Seemingly Trivial Mistakes That Hamper Your Sales Email Conversion Rate
Talking to a lot of customers over the past year has made, one thing clear - nearly all businesses out there - small, medium, or large have had to make a drastic change in their conventional sales approaches due to the covid outbreak. The adoption
Is Cold calling still effective in this day and age?
What is Cold calling? Cold calling is calling or meeting a prospect without their consent with an intent to sell a product or service. To understand this better, in the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness", the protagonist is first seen trying hard to sell
How is Covid affecting the 2021 Super Bowl Commercials
Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football league, USA has an incredible viewer base of 100 million viewers on an average and is also one of the most-watched television broadcasts in the USA of all time. Nine out of ten Americans
As Sales Person, Here are my New Year Resolutions. What are Yours?
Being a salesperson, I keep learning from my mistakes and have noted a few changes that I need to make in my approach. I take these resolutions going into 2021, hoping to keep it going for as long as possible :) 1. I will not say "Yes, our product has
Once Upon a Sales Meeting!
It was an awkward silence in the meeting room "Uproar." John Kowalski, the new sales manager, was not happy with the team's performance. After scribbling something in the notepad, he decided to break the silence, John: I cannot believe you guys have been working like this. No reports, delusional forecasting, random targets, and no eye on the ball. Kevin: We followed Richard's orders. John: Well, Richard is not here anymore, is he? John walked up to the whiteboard, and wrote in big bold letters: "TARGET
How to scale your SaaS sales
Founded in 2005, LucidEra was a SaaS startup offering analysis of CRM and ERP data. The company went out of business in 2009, after running into problems with longer sales cycles and its go-to market strategy. The customer base they focused on was sales departments, and the company relied on Salesforce's CRM data, for the most part. However, they did not combine it with data from marketing and finance departments. Like LucidEra, several other SaaS companies have collapsed after inflows of VC funding and
Cold Calling Is The Primal Fear You Must Overcome To Master Modern Selling
[This is a guest blog contributed by a best-selling author, and award-winning Blogger, Tony Hughes. Read more about him at the end of this blog.] Is this smartphone ball and chain really a communication device? I don't think so. The chiropractors of the world must be rejoicing because homo novus has the worst posture in human history shackled to "the third appendage." Cold calling should be "warm" calling, I get your pushback. But I disagree. Sales is about real communication and I believe we need
Survey Results: 15 Most Recommended Sales Books of All Time
At Scaling Sales community, we surveyed 234 salespeople about which sales books they most recommended. Here are the rankings: RANK #1 SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham. With an entertaining tone, Rackham explains why traditional sales models don't work. He explains the successful SPIN strategy and uses real-world examples and case studies. RANK #2 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Carnegie highlights the use of other's ego against your charm, appreciation and personality.
How to Leverage Partners in Your Sales Strategy
At long last, your product is yours to sell; your partners are your primary customers. And each of your partners has their own customer base, untapped by you. It's a market brimming with possibilities. Your channel partners provide you and your brand an immediate social context, helping you sell your product in uncharted territory while saving time, cost, and effort. Partners are the strategic collaborators who open doors to other competitive markets Let's look at some of the benefits of having
Leave No Sale Behind: Supercharge Growth By Integrating Sales With Service
Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of Desmond Doss who served as a combat medic in World War II at the Battle of Okinawa. He was the first and only conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor for actions above and beyond the call of duty during World War II. He brought belief, integrity, courage, and heroism together to deliver amazing results in saving lives as he charged into the hell of battle without a weapon. Consistent with the US military code, he didn't want to leave anyone behind.