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How to Make a Remote Sale

Sales and Marketing Management

Provide a focused agenda. In our experience training and coaching thousands of sales professionals all over the world – this is an obvious skill that is often overlooked. The agenda provides a clear plan for the conversation to ensure you respect their time and achieve both parties’ goals.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

10,000 Birds

Eleven individual flights and two train trips were taken. A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. Too many gifts were purchased, you see.)

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Secret 3: Set the agenda early. The next step should be to assemble a first draft of the agenda. There are no shortcuts to superior SKOs, though. Sales kickoffs adjourn, but these six secrets ensure they never end.

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. Incorporate different perspectives into training teams. In InsideView’s case, we’d gone back and forth over the past few years between large scale/scope/budget/bold agenda and conservative/scaled back.

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8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018

Sales and Marketing Management

Donning the analyst hat I wore in my previous role – and also pulling from experiences I have with our sales team and customers every day – here are my sales enablement and readiness predictions for 2018: 1. Accordingly, sales teams will better commit to providing continuous training and coaching, and clear, learning-driven career paths.

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Every Great Conversation

Sales and Marketing Management

Training programs in sales or customer service, negotiation, coaching and leadership all contain the same foundational elements. For example, when learning how to coach it is critical to understand many steps – or skills – such as establishing trust, setting an agenda, observing behavior, giving feedback, gaining commitment, and many more.

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3 Steps to Keep Buyers Engaged During Your Virtual Meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Buyers aren’t looking for exit ramps or distractions, they’re drawn into the promise and reward of the selling experience. . When buyers’ eyes are open to what’s possible, their eyes and ears are focused on a shared agenda, and sellers are more likely to be successful.

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