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Objections – Handle Them With Ease

The 5% Institute

Active Listening and Empathy When a customer raises an objection, actively listen to their concerns and show empathy. By demonstrating genuine interest and understanding, you create a foundation for effective objection handling. Anticipate potential objections and provide relevant information and solutions proactively.

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How “Sales-speak” Limits Us

Partners in Excellence

For example, finance types talk about debits, credits, accruals, depreciation, assets, liabilities, and so forth. Sales is no different, we have our own vocabulary, terms like prospecting, qualifying, objection handling, pipeline, funnel, discovery, closing, quota. For Sales Success – Everything Passes Through Finance!

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Otherwise, why do customers constantly complain about being pitched, sales people not understanding their problems, and so forth. Internal teams don’t think in terms of “objection handling,” but they have skills at resolving differences of opinions, contention/conflict within their own organizations.

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15 Sales Skills That Separate The Best Reps From The Rest

Gong.io

. #4 Sales Skills for Pitching: The 9-minute rule. Now you enter pitch mode. You’ve trimmed it down and have “perfected” your 30-minute pitch. The problem: You are 3x+ longer than your sales pitch should be. The problem: You are 3x+ longer than your sales pitch should be. Objections are inevitable.

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Drinking our own champagne: How Gong uses Gong

Gong.io

Jared is diligent, disciplined, enjoys coaching, and is a self-proclaimed Personal Finance Ninja (cool title). Carolyn loves that she can listen to the “best of the best” calls and read through the transcripts — not only to memorize the pitch but also make it her own. Top sales reps are also objection-handling pros.

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15 Sales Skills That Separate The Best Reps From The Rest

Gong.io

. #4 Sales Skills for Pitching: The 9-minute rule. Now you enter pitch mode. You’ve trimmed it down and have “perfected” your 30-minute pitch. The problem: You are 3x+ longer than your sales pitch should be. The problem: You are 3x+ longer than your sales pitch should be. Objections are inevitable.

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What Is a Sales Cycle and How Do You Optimize It for Consistent Sales?

Salesforce

The goal of a sales cycle is to ensure reps are uncovering customer needs and resources they can map to product solutions before ever making a pitch. Instead of getting defensive when these objections arise, ask follow-up questions to make sure you understand the root of their concerns.