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How to Help Your Field Sellers Thrive in a Virtual World

SBI Growth

While the world innovated rapidly and continually adopts many advanced technologies, the sales environment is still catching up. In most cases, face-to-face selling was the top method or process, allowing for strong relationship building, effective communication, and the ability to.

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5 Effective Sales Prospecting Techniques You Should Be Using

Hubspot Sales

Ways to establish yourself as a thought leader include starting a blog, writing guest articles for industry publications, and speaking at trade shows and conferences. It’s about sourcing leads who can then be qualified and entered into the sales funnel. 3) Be a trusted resource. Only once these steps have taken place can selling begin.

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How B2B Social Sellers Align With Their Buyers

SBI Growth

This article is for B2B Sales Reps who work in complex sales environments. Then I provide a Buyer Alignment Tool to enable success in these environments. But the transition from a virtual conversation to a real opportunity is complex.

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Gain an Innovative Advantage Using Social Sharing

SBI Growth

In B2B sales environments, it’s easy to become a commodity. This article discusses how to use social media to share ideas among your peers. Our ideas are products of our environment. It seems the only way to win a deal is on price. Ideas can run together and sound the same. To find this, we need to collaborate.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Get Promoted?

SBI Growth

Do you aspire to make the leap from sales rep to sales leader? This article is specifically written to help you make this move. 15 Competencies for Sales Rep Promotion. Demonstrating results in a variety of sales environments 4. You may not like or agree with the trend – you wouldn’t be alone.

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10 Research-Backed Ways to Improve Sales Success

RAIN Group

This article originally appeared in Entrepreneur and has been updated given the current sales environment. While this new environment has presented new challenges, many companies and individuals are adapting and succeeding even in tough times.

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How to Make Your Sales Training More Inclusive, According to HubSpot's Inclusion Experts

Hubspot Sales

As for her own team, Benfer avoids using analogies that would speak only to the interests of a particular group (such as sports, which is typically referenced in traditional sales environments). Sales training is only as effective as its audience, and its audience can only learn as much as is tailored to them.