High-Impact Sales Training Techniques for Software: Key Lessons for Success
Iannarino
MAY 31, 2024
Are you struggling with sales techniques for software? Discover the key lessons for successful software sales!
Coaching Our Customers
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 20, 2025
At the end of the article, I had and Afterword, suggesting the same principles used in high impact coaching within our own organizations should be applied in working with our customers. High impact coaching is collaborative, learning conversations. I recently wrote an updated version of “ What Is Coaching ?”
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Three Simple Things You Can Do to Create a High-Impact 30-Second Commercial?
Sandler Training
AUGUST 8, 2022
The post Three Simple Things You Can Do to Create a High-Impact 30-Second Commercial? Here are three simple things you can do, starting today, that will immediately upgrade your 30-second commercial. appeared first on Sandler Training.
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Sales Management Training: 7 Skills to Lead a High-Impact Sales Team
Highspot
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Trying to build a high-impact sales team? motivational coaching techniques. With these seven skill sets, you’ll be well-equipped to build your dynamic, high-impact sales team. Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find.
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AI Sales Coaching: Your Always-on Coaching Assistant
Highspot
OCTOBER 29, 2024
In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching. This ensures that reps have access to the most effective and up-to-date sales strategies and techniques.
How Google SGE will impact your traffic – and 3 SGE recovery case studies
Search Engine Land
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Discovered an optimization technique that helps pages rank in the SGE snapshot carousel. We have found such a technique, proved it in a controlled study, and executed it successfully across multiple websites. We provide an experimental framework that can help you find a technique that works for your niche in a matter of weeks.
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How to prioritize technical SEO tasks
Search Engine Land
AUGUST 23, 2024
Will it have a high impact? But usually, if you fix a side-wide issue or an issue related to revenue, you can say with greater confidence that the impact will also be high. High-impact, low-effort tasks. However, there are three simple techniques you can use if you want to succeed.
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The Pipeline Generation Problem…
Partners in Excellence
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
By social feeds are filled with connection requests suggesting, “I’d like to tell you how we can guarantee and endless stream of high quality leads… ” In addition to all the techniques suggested for filling the top of our pipelines, AI is here to save us! High impact content in the right channels.
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How Snowboarding Taught Me to Ask Better Closing Questions
Jeff Shore
APRIL 19, 2018
You can read about closing techniques in my book, Closing 2.0. But on top of all those amazing resource, there is one more high-impact method of perfecting your closing technique: Teach Yourself. By Jeff Shore. You can join me at the Closing 2.0 And there is always YouTube.
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The Challenger Sale vs. Account-Based Selling: B2B Sales Techniques Pros and Cons
Outreach
APRIL 25, 2019
Over the years, businesses have used many selling techniques to reframe their sales process and improve performance. If you use the right sales technique that elevates customers and enables them to solve their problems, then the key to sales success is yours. Sales techniques are not created equal. Solution Selling.
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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Content Amplification
Heinz Marketing
JULY 9, 2021
They hit the nail on the head when they note that content amplification isn’t a single strategy or technique, it encompasses many techniques, strategies, and methods such as social media, influencer marketing, paid search, etc. Features/functionality: Solutions for high impact awareness, consideration, and conversions.
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“Cheat Codes….”
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The secrets to cold emails, how to build your LI network, how to post content that gets 1000s of likes, high impact telephone calls, ChatGPT prompts that do 90% of your job, qualifying questions, objection handling, closing, GTM strategies. All from experts who have earned millions using the same techniques.
In this economy CMOs need to spend more on training, not tech
Martech
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Economic uncertainty favors prioritizing skills where proficiency can be gained quickly, in about one month, yet still have a high impact. The hallmark of these skills is that they revolve around replicable techniques or specialized process knowledge that, once taught, can be applied quickly on the job. Consider external hires.
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Stop Wasting Money On Marketing Automation, Personas, And Content Marketing!
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 4, 2015
The survey asked, “What targeting techniques do you use for your email marketing?” ” 42% of email marketers use no targeting techniques at all! They have to make sure they are developing meaningful relevant, impactful content—role-wise, contextually, situationally, and timely high impact content.
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Before you hire another marketer, do these 5 things first
Martech
OCTOBER 4, 2023
With their diverse experience and skill sets, they can offer unique insights, techniques and ideas. There are often more cost-effective and high-impact ways to get better performance from your team without adding the complexity and cost of another marketer. Expanding your marketing team doesn’t always mean hiring.
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Freeing Up “Time To Sell,” A Quandary
Partners in Excellence
JULY 13, 2023
And for years, we’ve employed all sorts of techniques to improve efficiency, to free up our time to sell. So we will have this quandary, which we will have to be prepared to help our sellers address: How do we have high impact meetings that actually are helpful both to customers and sellers.
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Our “Attention” Problem
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 7, 2021
We shorten our content, we move from “pages,” to paragraphs, to sentences, to phrases, to a couple of “high impact” words. So we find ourselves in races to maximize the impact of what little attention we can get. Some of our technique is to “shout” more loudly.
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AI Role Play for Sales Managers: How to Train and Sell Better
Highspot
APRIL 1, 2025
This approach provides data-driven insights that help managers develop techniques and measure continuous improvement. AI’s instant feedback pinpoints communication gaps and tracks progress over time. Help them build confidence in handling objections. Resolve a team conflict that’s dragging down morale.
Lean Sales: Cause And Effect
Partners in Excellence
JULY 7, 2015
Likewise in making high impact sales calls, or prospecting, examining the things we and our customers do to create the desired outcomes enables us to define those things we need to do to produce results. Yet we don’t do it, instead we look for the latest tool, gimmick technique, blindly hoping they will produce results.
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How marketers can mitigate bias in generative AI
Martech
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The rapid commercialization of genAI’s models and applications have moved sources of bias beyond the scope of tools and techniques currently available to data science departments. Generative AI (genAI) is an incredible breakthrough , but it’s not human, and it’s not going to do exactly what people think it should do.
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Sales People Don’t Message, They Have Conversations
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 14, 2017
Yes, marketing can build some level or interactivity through web sites, perhaps a stream of messaging based on scoring techniques, but it’s primarily one way communication or messaging. As sales people we want to engage our customers in high impact two way conversations. Pick Up The Damn Phone!
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Excel pivot table best practices for search marketers
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In 7 useful Excel formulas and functions for PPC , I shared tips to quickly identify high-impact PPC optimizations that will move the needle for your brand or client. Might be a given, but you need to build your bulk sheet before you can use this technique. The applications of these techniques are far-reaching.
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Why we care about advertising: A marketer’s guide
Martech
MAY 27, 2022
The sheer volume of advertising has made people increasingly numb to conventional digital advertising techniques. At its core, successful advertising involves knowing your audience and identifying the most effective platform to deliver high-impact ads to your specific target group. The decline of third-party cookies.
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Sales prospecting: Ultimate guide to your B2B sales success
PandaDoc
DECEMBER 19, 2022
You’ll also find a roster of valuable prospecting techniques and an in-depth look into what makes for a good prospective customer. Though the closing ratio is highly impacted by the seller’s skills and insights, the quality of the prospecting list is paramount. Keeping your prospecting database dynamic is another winning technique.
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Why, What, How, Who, When, Where
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 26, 2020
We are inundated with training, content, articles, books on “You have to prospect, You have to build your pipeline, You have to follow the process, …… ” These focus on what sales people have to do, they are generally closely followed by techniques and tools focusing on how we do those things.
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4 Small Business Marketing Tools To Generate More Leads
Salesforce
JANUARY 24, 2022
Use a combination of technology and technique: Build campaigns triggered by behavioral and intent actions. Create high-impact marketing campaigns on a limited budget. The State of Marketing report shared that 76% of marketers use email to communicate with their customers. How do you avoid that in the future?
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The Two-Minute Test That'll Help You Prioritize Your Tasks
Hubspot
JANUARY 24, 2016
But if neither of those work for you, I'd suggest trying a new technique: the impact vs. effort analysis. Before you begin a task, ask yourself: How much effort will this take and what will the immediate impact be? 4) Then conquer high impact, high effort goals.
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53 How to Come Up with More Winning Tests Using Data
ConversionXL
APRIL 22, 2015
So in a nutshell, this is how you succeed: Run as many tests as possible at all times (every day without a test running on a page/layout is regret by default), Win as many tests as possible, Have as high impact (uplift) per successful test as possible. Executing point #1 obvious, but how to do well for points #2 and #3?
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Are Grammar Mistakes Costing You Money?
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
One of the most effective proofreading techniques you can employ is reading your writing aloud, as it forces you to listen.”. Put it in the JFDI (just do it) bucket, and move along with other high-impact areas to test. The end result is that your writing will be better overall, as well as error-free. Sleep on it.
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It All Revolves Around Them: 4 Tips to a Customer-Centric Sales Process
Sales Hacker
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Research allows you to create a treasure map to those high-impact answers you’re looking for. All of these techniques are an investment of time and practice. To get to these deep questions, you need three things — research, rapport, and open-ended questions. Research, Research, Research. It Isn’t Easy… But It Is Worth It.
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ConversionXL
JANUARY 12, 2017
For each guideline, you’ll find success criteria and techniques. Now, you can prioritize even further by focusing on low-effort fixes and and high-impact fixes. High-impact fixes. Guideline 3.3: Help users avoid and correct mistakes. Guideline 4.1: Low-effort fixes.
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Lessons Learned Rapidly Scaling a Team from 2 to 1100 People with Remote CEO and Co-Founder Job van der Voort
SaaStr
JUNE 27, 2024
He prioritizes and optimizes his day by focusing on the things that have the highest impact or are fun, and that never changes. Of course, the things that have a high impact are very different from the early days. There’s very little technique and a lot of pure hustle.
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We’re Long Past Our “Use By Date”
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 30, 2023
Yet we insist on using the same old models, techniques, and approaches. We need to look at, organizationally, processes, responsibilities/accountabilities very differently if we are to engage our customers in high impact ways. ” The world has changed! We look at sales roles and how we engage our customers in outmoded ways.
At Its Base, a CRM Is Just a Database: Here’s How to Build One
Sales Hacker
MAY 17, 2021
High Impact, high value data capture. Here are a few innovative ways to democratize your CRM data: Ask marketing to show sales how they use the data from the CRM to inform their inbound marketing strategies and improve their qualification techniques. Build a dashboard for each salesperson.
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100 9 Willpower Workouts to Maximize Your Productivity
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
Here’s how it works: Write down your tasks and rank each one based on how much impact it will have on your productivity and how much effort it will require. Once you finish ranking your tasks, begin working on your low effort, high impact goals to build up steam, then transition to your high effort, high impact goals.
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HubSpot's Guide to Becoming a Better Writer
Hubspot
JANUARY 29, 2019
Grammar encompasses a lot of rules and techniques. Language refers to using certain words and writing techniques to create a great piece of writing. HubSpot Academy , notably our Business Writing Course: Master High-Impact Writing With Bestselling Author Daniel Pink. Here are a handful of my favorite grammar tip lists.
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If People Buy From People, Why Are We Racing In The Opposite Direction?
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 11, 2017
” Despite having these powerful, technology enabled capabilities, we still execute the mass marketing, mass messaging techniques of decades before, inflicting millions of irrelevant, unpersonalized communications on an ever increasing volume of people and organizations.
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What is Consultative Sales? 5 Principles and Best Practices
Salesforce
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Even though it might not result in an immediate sale, this relationship-building technique helps reps earn the trust of prospects. What is the impact on them, professionally or personally? Ask high-impact questions By now, you may have noticed a trend with these principles — consultative sales is about asking powerful questions.
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The 80 20 Rule – Achieve More With Less
The 5% Institute
JULY 27, 2023
By focusing on these high-impact exercises and maintaining a balanced diet, they can achieve better results in their fitness journey. Time Efficiency : Prioritizing high-impact tasks saves time, allowing individuals to achieve more in their personal and professional lives. A: Absolutely!
The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management
Hubspot
JULY 9, 2019
In this guide, we'll cover the reasons why getting sales management right is so important as well as some sales management strategies, duties, and resources to help your team become high impact players for your business. Here are four sales management books we recommend reading to help you improve your techniques.
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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Jennifer Brandenburg is an industry sales leader in building high impact organizations that are repeatable, measurable and predictable. She has more than 20 years of deep enterprise sales experience managing sales operations and growing sales organizations in the high technology industry.
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Mastering Value Selling in the Digital Age
Highspot
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Building high-impact sales training programs further enhance your sales reps’ ability to effectively communicate this value proposition, refine negotiation skills, and adapt to evolving market trends. Sales training provides salespeople with the tools and techniques to differentiate. Not all sales techniques are created equal.
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The 40+ Best Apps for Salespeople Who Want to Win
Sales Hacker
APRIL 17, 2019
Skill Pill provides micro-learning and gamified learning apps, delivering high-impact training when and where you need it. The Pomodoro Technique –– which divides your time into 25-minute work “sprints” with five-minute breaks –– may be just what you need. Price: Free. Available here: iOS | Android. Pomodoro Time. Price: Free.
7 Strategies to Boost Your Sales Team’s Performance
CloserIQ
OCTOBER 3, 2019
An even more shocking statistic is that only 22% of sales teams implement strategies or time management techniques to maximize their output. . But once the noon hits, my energy disappears, and I struggle to complete high-intensity tasks. . The rest I fill in with high-impact work – prospecting, calling and engaging my leads. .
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