Corporate Visions

MARCH 19, 2020

The post Virtual Selling Just Became Vital to Your Business by Jim Moliski appeared first on Corporate Visions. Are your salespeople prepared for the unique challenges of virtual selling? Before this month, at least 70 percent of sales calls were virtual, according to a study from Inside Sales.

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Corporate Visions

MARCH 19, 2020

The post Virtual Selling Just Became Vital to Your Business by Jim Moliski appeared first on Corporate Visions. Are your salespeople prepared for the unique challenges of virtual selling? Before this month, at least 70 percent of sales calls were virtual, according to a study from Inside Sales.

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Is your Team Ready for Virtual Selling Success in Q3: 5 Key Questions to Ask. Travel restrictions and meeting cancellations have put quotas at risk. Even with some states reopening, in-person meetings are rare. Virtual selling—working a deal remotely when you can’t be there in person—is the new normal.

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Sales Gravy

JULY 9, 2020

Shifting Initial Sales Meetings From Face to Face to Video Calls One of the most effective points in the sales process to leverage video sales calls and virtual selling skills is the initial meeting. The initial meeting is first step in the sales process. There just isn’t enough time in the day to do more.

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Sales Outcomes

JANUARY 16, 2023

Body language accounts for 55% of communication, while words account for only 7%. So minor improvements in body language can lead to significant improvements in communication effectiveness. Body language is an unspoken way that people unconsciously communicate their thoughts. Lean in to demonstrate you’re engaged.

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Sales Outcomes

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Body language accounts for 55% of communication, while words account for only 7%. So, minor improvements in body language can lead to significant improvements in communication effectiveness and enhance or inhibit connection with customers and prospects. For more Virtual Selling Tips, Click Here to Subscribe to Two-Bullet-Tuesday

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As digital channels have improved and buyers’ preferences have changed, sales organizations have adopted hybrid models: where more teams are selling both in-person and remotely to meet buyers’ needs. They had to figure out how to enable their team with the right technology, adapt processes to fit virtual selling, and so on.

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CoSell

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Let's look at 3 big reasons why the next big thing in co-selling is optimism. Virtual selling and co-selling are creating an optimistic outlook. Virtual sales are easier to schedule, less expensive, and safer. No in-person sales meetings, conventions, and visits. It's exactly what decision-makers prefer.

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CoSell

JANUARY 28, 2021

As you grab the reins for virtual selling, it’s good to know that digital selling the way to go. According to recent reports from McKinsey, virtual selling is the name of the game for B2B companies. Let’s look at how people around the world are responding to, adapting to, and embracing virtual selling.

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Revenue Storm

JANUARY 12, 2021

Get Good at Virtual Selling. Virtual selling is going to be here for a long time to come. We need to master the art of building sustainable relationships over the virtual medium. On phone calls or web meetings, it is easy to reach for the mute button or go off camera to avoid interaction or decisions.

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Mike Kunkle

JUNE 12, 2022

Another rep might work in an office and sell virtually, without every leaving HQ. It should come as no surprise that some people are better suited than others for remote work and/or virtual selling. Selling virtually requires mastering selling by phone and email, as well as mastering web conference technologies.

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Showpad

JUNE 14, 2021

Old school personal relationship selling no longer works. Previously, a deal’s loose ends were sorted out during in-person meetings where sales reps could fall back on their techniques and experience. Was there active two-way communication on those assets? A key metric with digital deal rooms is the participation of your buyers.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount’s (Virtual Selling) and Alex Goldfayn (5 Minute Selling) offer a simple strategy for overcoming your natural fear of rejection by breaking it into doable doses. Salespeople need to get used to the word blending because, blending is how we will be selling going forward.

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CoSell

JANUARY 21, 2021

I hope that these ideas inspire you to take on the challenge to boost sales, serve customers, and embrace virtual selling. These 6 key ideas enable us as sales professionals, to meet this challenge and optimize virtual sales performance. These meet-and-greet events were a good idea. Co-selling.

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Mercuri International

MAY 22, 2024

The transition to “virtual selling,” “remote selling,” or “distance selling” has become the new standard in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, transforming what was once a rarity into a routine practice. This quickly shifted. One year later, this figure rose to 92% 3.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As a communication tool, it’s fast, efficient, less formal than email, and allows for arm’s-length, nonintrusive, synchronous communication that still feels personal. These are the primary communications devices in our lives and businesses. Quarterly business reviews and other formal meeting are time consuming.

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Showpad

JUNE 6, 2022

Meet Tricia Westfall, a Senior Manager for the Sales Capability Planning & Enablement team at Kaiser Permanente. In this interview, she shares how she and her team are adding value during virtual conversations with customers—and how they’re partnering with marketing to build curated content experiences.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 7, 2020

We’re receiving a relatively large number of enquiries from sales people asking what advice we can offer for those who are still offering products and services, without being able to meet clients face to face. More advanced tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams and Adobe Connect can help you do more than just run meetings.

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SalesGlobe

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

From the early days of meeting in the bustling downtown squares to salespeople today that jet off across the country, face-to-face is the original and oldest method of selling. Telephone, Internet, and Virtual Communications. Virtual Selling. The third evolution of sales is virtual selling.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 27, 2021

A recent study by McKinsey & Company found that 89 percent of sales professionals will prefer virtual sales for at least the next year, and perhaps beyond. Wardrobe, hair, and makeup are new, but real, considerations in the virtual world. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Zendesk

OCTOBER 12, 2021

All that constant communication is made possible in part by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology. It can also be used to take notes about client preferences, schedule meetings, and remind reps to send follow-up emails. This communication enables sales teams to close more deals and identify more upselling opportunities.

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SalesGlobe

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In a year of virtual selling, virtual coaching, and virtual meetings in virtual offices, you don’t need a soothsayer to tell you that communicating during a lockdown is a challenge. Technology investment will increase (SPM) to improve communications and performance visibility.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales readiness should always be closely connected to the sales content management domain, as all your internal training content has to be managed and communicated as well. This is why one of the core messages of this study is that the pandemic has amplified existing selling challenges rather than created new selling challenges.

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Brooks Group

JULY 11, 2022

Building relationships is essential for any salesperson, but it becomes even more critical when selling virtually. By its very nature, virtual selling removes the personal connection that is important to building relationships and making sales. Virtual sales is all about communication. Be a good listener.

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ACT

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s difficult to find specialised remote sales professionals In conventional sales, you leverage both verbal and non-verbal communication to build trust with your prospects and close deals. Remote selling is much more challenging because of limited body language signals and the need for more elaborate communication.

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ACT

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s difficult to find specialised remote sales professionals In conventional sales, you leverage both verbal and non-verbal communication to build trust with your prospects and close deals. Remote selling is much more challenging because of limited body language signals and the need for more elaborate communication.

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SBI

MARCH 18, 2021

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? It’s hard to believe we’ve had one year to adapt to our new normal of virtual selling, but a lot of lessons have been learned along the way.

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CoSell

MARCH 24, 2021

The top concerns include worrying about health and safety, challenges of working from home, and shifting to effective virtual selling. Social Distancing Selling has always traditionally been like a high-contact sport. We thrive on personal contact, face-to-face meetings, and handshakes.

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Brooks Group

JULY 14, 2023

But challenging economic times require a leader who has the agility and savvy to build and communicate the best action plan for the times. Virtual selling, changes in buyer behavior, and unstable market demands are just a few of the factors putting new pressures on sales professionals. Sales leaders are no exception.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 26, 2023

Sales training provides new and veteran sales professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to meet sales targets and succeed in their roles. Improve Communication Skills One of the most critical skills for salespeople is communication. Salespeople today need both in-person and virtual presentation skills.

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Arpedio

MAY 23, 2023

Sales coaching can be conducted through regular meetings, role-playing exercises, feedback sessions, and performance evaluations. It’s worth noting that unlike sales managers, sales coaches prioritize individual development over meeting targets.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A majority of Qstream’s customers selling models are through field sales models and recently moving to virtually selling. Remote selling requires communication Remote selling requires constant communication, and that means constant training. This is no different when doing eLearning in an LMS.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Machine learning and artificial intelligence can handle them: analyze tons of data and make strategic predictions, cover multiple communication channels, provide valuable advice, and automate most of your routine tasks. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours.

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Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Remote sales have become increasingly common, but it took a pandemic to truly establish virtual selling as the new normal. A McKinsey survey conducted in the wake of Covid-19 found that over 75 percent of buyers and sellers alike now prefer virtual sales meetings over face-to-face interactions.

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Strategic Account Management Association

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has accelerated a trend already underway toward increased virtual interactions between customers and their suppliers. As vaccines are distributed and we move beyond the most acute phase of the pandemic, most salespeople believe virtual selling is here to stay. Just 5 percent report no success at all ( Figure 3 ).

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 14, 2023

This shift has required sales teams to adjust their processes and strategies to accommodate the new reality of virtual selling. AI for Sales: The Future of Selling The use of AI in sales has been on the rise for several years, and for good reason.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The reasons for this are simple: If the buyer communicates her business afflictions to you, then it’s likely she wants them to go away as soon as possible. To lead the most thorough needs discovery in your virtual meetings, you must be aware of and attend to the differences of virtual and face-to-face needs discovery.

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