04 Oct 2021

Sales Coaching, Sales Management, Sales Training
Sales training initiative India
Recently, we interviewed a client who is in a business for almost 25 years and their sales are primarily done from the field. The conversation went as follows: Q. When was the last time you took up sales training intervention? A. In our 25 years of working, we have never done training for the sales staff. Q. What prompted you to go for the sales training intervention now? ...
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18 Jul 2021

Sales Coaching, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting, Sales Training
B2B Sales Prospects Qualification
Most of the sales process involves 8 to 10 steps as below and where do you think the difference b/w the high performers and average performers start? Preparation & Organization Prospecting/Qualifying Conducting a Needs Assessment Presenting Solutions to Needs Developing & Presenting Proposals Handling Prospect Resistance Closing Sales Professionally Following Up Sales Effective...
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08 Oct 2020

Sales Coaching, Sales Prospecting, Sales Training
Innovation selling
Prospecting is one of the key activities of the B2B Sales professional. Accept or not, in most businesses, prospecting is undergoing major change with the penetration of internet and social media. Any B2B sales person, who has been in the industry will realize the way Buyers are slowing taking control of the sales process and traditional methods of cold calling, sending cold e-mails a...
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19 Nov 2019

Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Prospecting
Innovation selling
Recently we worked with a company that wanted to serve the education institutes with the innovative solution towards teaching in an experiential way. There is a lot of innovation that has gone into this solution to understanding current student grades, their gaps, progress. But when salespeople visited and promoted these solutions, the response wasn’t great from the teachers as well...
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16 Apr 2019

Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting
How to build trust with buyers
In the recent article from LinkedIn on the sales statistics, it is mentioned TRUST is the No. 1 attribute of the salesperson which is critical for B2B sales success. Here are the statistics, 51% of decision makers rank trust as the No. 1 attribute they want in a salesperson.Virtually 100% of sales professional say trust if “very important” or “important” to winning new business.88% of...
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21 Mar 2019

Sales Coaching, Sales Management, Sales Training
sales coaching conversation
Recently one of the participants said, he is having a hard time to get consistent delivery from his team members. No one seems to own responsibility and happy when they meet 70%~80% target. I am not very aggressive like other sales managers and I don't know what to do? I asked have you tried coaching the team members weekly or bi-monthly? He said, I hear a lot about coaching but I am ...
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31 Jan 2019

Sales Coaching, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Training 1 Comment
What actually results in sales success? This is a difficult question and there is no one answer. Some say sales success is driven by process, structure, whereas others say sales is all about building relations. The answer lies in the combination of these. Sales is as much an art as science. Many of you, would have come across someone who in spite of not having a sales process, produc...
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23 Nov 2018

Sales Coaching, Sales Management
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sales review meetings are key activity among sales teams. In these meetings, it is a great opportunity for sales managers to guide sales reps to find their area of weakness and show them opportunities to improve. Instead, the majority of sales review meetings leave a bad memory for sales executives. That is because sales managers use these meeting...
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29 Jun 2018

Sales Management, Sales Prospecting
Consultative selling for B2B Sales
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ask any customers, how many sales executives they meet really know what they want, the answer is quite low. On one side, many sales executives think they know what their customers want, on the other side, many customers say, most salespeople they meet don't understand our requirements.  Why does this gap exist? Nobody wants to be misunderstood but...
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14 Apr 2018

Sales Coaching, Sales Enablement, Sales Management
How to sell better customer experience as differentiation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What are you differentiating from competitors? Businesses today are changing and so too the buyers. If a company is operating in the competitive environment, then showcasing the better quality and low price of product or service have been key differentiating factors. Things have been changing. Buyers think the high quality is a necessity. With most co...
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31 Mar 2018

sales CRM, Sales Operations
5 rules for hit sales target?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The new financial year is starting and most of the companies would have already given their sales target or in the process of giving the sales target sheet to the team. Meeting sales target is becoming more and more challenging and even experienced salespeople are finding it difficult at times to meet sales target let alone exceed. In the article 3 tip...
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14 Mar 2018

Real Estate Selling, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting
Unsold homes real estate sales
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A recent article dated March 4th, 2018 from JLL India said there are close to 4.4L unsold homes in 7 big cities in India. The article goes to mention some of the macro reasons such as Demonetization, GST, RERA  has caused this big inventory. With an ever-growing population in key cities in India, demand always exists for quality homes in India. Bu...
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16 Feb 2018

Sales Coaching, Sales Management
Sales coaching characteristics for managers
Can sales manager be good in sales coaching? Sales Coaching skills is becoming a common requirement for senior sales manager role. Why not, coaching is the most effective way to help people get the results. Whether you are a sales head or business owner, applying sales coaching skills in your working will produce tremendous results. Reality is, as sales manager role, it is easy to add s...
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13 Nov 2017

Sales Coaching
Consultative selling for B2B Sales
There is ample research shows that salespeople struggle to reach their performance potential without a well-defined sales-call procedure that they can follow and learn from. Without a well-defined process, a sales calls are left to luck and grim consequences – lost sales, long sell cycles, less revenue, and lower margins and there is no clear path to improvement. Bottom line: Your entire...
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