Remove Agenda Remove Process Remove Research
article thumbnail

Sales Discovery Mistakes That Hurt Sales

SalesFuel

Knowing how to navigate the discovery process helps build credibility and trust. Sales professional Jeb Blount believes that discovery is the most important part of the sales process. “It It can be easy to get caught up in your own agenda. If you show up without doing research on the prospect, it will be obvious.

Agenda 52
article thumbnail

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. Each year is – and should be treated as – unique, and the planning process should begin by selecting a planning committee. Secret 3: Set the agenda early. The next step should be to assemble a first draft of the agenda.

Agenda 97
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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. 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. We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView.

article thumbnail

Every Great Conversation

Sales and Marketing Management

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. A business conversation is not a linear process. They act as an effective foundation for any communication-based program.

Agenda 105
article thumbnail

Peer-to-Peer Selling Is A Modern B2B Strategy for Winning Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Larger buying committees mean more agendas and opinions. people are doing their own research, consuming vast amounts of content and hindering a consensus. To cut through the noise and madness of this process, buyers are turning to their peers for answers. It can be even larger for enterprise sales deals. It means 6.8

article thumbnail

Imprisoned by PowerPoint: A Foolproof Escape Plan in Five Steps

Sales and Marketing Management

Step 1: Create a Flex-Agenda. But whose agenda matters more? Leverage the research of Dr. L.D. If your slides are so dense and convoluted that you need an abacus and a GPS to find your way out of the slide, you’re making a mistake—and punishing your audience in the process. But freedom is closer than you think.

Agenda 79
article thumbnail

It’s Time for Joint Business Planning 2.0

Sales and Marketing Management

and here’s what it looks like: A disciplined, facilitated process that’s equally shared, collaboratively developed and mutually invested. The Process Framework. Rather, envision a plan that answers the question: “What would a growth plan look like if we were one integrated company?”. The answer is JBP2.0

Agenda 78