Salesforce

APRIL 11, 2023

We learned very quickly that the biggest obstacle to closing new business isn’t the objections themselves, it’s how the team manages the objections. The key to effective objection handling is using a question-based framework that puts the prospect at ease. Why is objection handling important?

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Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

When it comes to sales discovery, reps are often trained to ask basic, surface-level questions about the customers needs. Most sales reps start with product or process-focused questions like What are you doing today? Related video: What’s the “Pain & Pitch”? What type of solution are you looking for?

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Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2018

Common Sales Objections. Every prospect you speak to has sales objections, or reasons they’re hesitant to buy your product. Why are sales objections unavoidable? To be successful, reps must learn how to both discover and resolve these objections. What Is Objection Handling? I hate you.".

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Tips for sales leaders Set clear expectations. Align cold calling with broader sales strategies. Tips for sales reps 1. When pitching, emphasize the specific problem your product solves rather than its features. Handle objections by agreeing then asking a trap question. Focus on the problem, not the product.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Objections,” more specifically, “Objection Handling” have been a fundamental part of sales training, probably since the first sale. Our mindset about objections tends to be combative, it’s the customer resisting our pitches, objections are something to overcome.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Open ended sales questions are a crucial aspect of the sales process. Additionally, we’ll cover some of the common mistakes to avoid when asking open ended sales questions. What are open ended sales questions? What are open ended sales questions? Why should you ask open ended sales questions?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Sales coaching is one of the many key responsibilities of a sales leader and is one of the most effective ways to increase sales performance across your team. 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.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 13, 2021

One of the most effective things you can do with your sales team, is to introduce activities to practice sales conversations and other sales tasks to improve their effectiveness. Not All Practice Sales Activities Are Equal. Our five prescribed practice sales activities will help you achieve both.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 2, 2022

These sales drills are a great way to make your usual sales training sessions fun, enjoyable, and easier to remember. When sales drills are fun, there’s a better return on your time spent. In this article, we’ll explore five effective sales drills that you should do with your sales team. Validate the objection.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Sales team building games can be a great way to break up your usual sales team meetings , because it allows your Sales Professionals to enhance their personal development in a lighter way. Not All Sales Team Building Games Are Equal. Our five prescribed sales team building games will help you achieve both.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 19, 2024

Objection handling 4. Instead of a pitch slap, they are approached with thanks. Here's an example of how this might sound in practice: “Sally, as the VP of Sales I imagine one of your top priorities is scaling your sales team efficiently while maintaining high performance. The introduction (pattern interrupt) 2.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

So has the routine sales pitch. The days of the “ideal buyer” have gone the way of the dinosaurs. In this new marketplace, your next hit might come from a company’s CFO instead of the customer service team you work … Read More »

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The 5% Institute

JULY 20, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is handling sales call objections the right way. Handling sales call objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 13, 2022

Lately, I’ve been watching some eLearning programs on objection handling. It suddenly struck me, there’s a unique arrogance we sellers have about the concepts of objections. Too often, the underlying thinking seems to be that salespeople are the only people that encounter objections.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Imagine having a sales team that hits or exceeds their targets without fail. It might sound like a lofty goal, but there’s a proven way to get there with sales enablement training. 54% of enablement teams that manage sales training programs report a six-percentage-point increase in customer retention.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase. In this article, well explore the challenges of complex sales and the strategies your team can use to close deals more efficiently. What is considered a complex sale? Complex sales typically involve high-value products or services, which are often highly customizable.

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Cerebral Selling

APRIL 6, 2021

365 days after the release of Sell The Way You Buy , here are some of my key sales lessons learned from a year of pandemic selling. Your pitch needs to as well. ” and then adapted their pitch and message accordingly. Has your pitch? Related article: 3 Objection-Handling Lessons from Pandemic Politics.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 15, 2023

In the world of sales and business, objections are inevitable. When you’re trying to sell a product or service, potential customers often raise concerns or doubts that can hinder the sales process. These objections can arise due to various reasons, such as price, product fit, trust issues, or comparisons with competitors.

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The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In this article, we’ll unpack sales resistance – what it means, why it happens, and more importantly – overcoming sales resistance. Sales resistance is something you’ll experience as a Business Owners or Sales Professional when selling your products or services. Sales Resistance – Your Ultimate Guide.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 23, 2020

In this article, you’ll learn about our online sales training program ; which will be perfect for your mortgage loan officer sales training needs. Many sales training programs focus on specific scripts; or are very niche and boxed in to the point that they don’t transfer across multiple service-based industries.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The moment a customer voices a sales objection, it’s tempting to do two things. Hearing sales objections make a rep want to: Say these words: “I’ve got the perfect solution for you!”. Handling sales objections well is a skill that separates good reps from their top-performing peers.

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to handle sales objections effectively. Knowing how to handle sales objections effectively can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly.

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The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fun sales training games can be a great way to break up your usual sales team meetings , because it allows your Sales Professionals to enhance their personal development in a lighter way. Not All Fun Sales Training Games Are Equal. Our five prescribed fun sales training games will help you achieve both.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Learning how to overcome objections in sales conversations is a very important part of the sales process , as it’s a part and parcel of everyday sales conversations. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales? Prior to doing so, we’ll also look at where sales objections come from.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 15, 2014

I talk to all sorts of sales people and sometimes notice an “impatience.” ” When I ask, I get responses like: “Would you just give us the formula to [insert whatever you want--prospect, get meetings with execs, close, handle this/that objection, fill my pipeline.]?”

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criteria for success

AUGUST 1, 2019

Have you ever met that ideal prospect who agreed with everything you pitched and immediately bought whatever you were trying to sell? So in order to close more deals, sales reps need to have a thorough understanding of the [ ] The post The Objection Handling Process: What Sales Reps Need to Know!

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 25, 2022

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to deal with sales objections effectively. Knowing how to deal with sales objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly.

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The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to handle sales objections the right way. Knowing how to handle sales objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So you want to learn what skills the best-of-the-best sales pros use to close more deals, crush their goals, and make boatloads of cash? To emulate what the top sales professionals do, you can: . and hope “sales skills osmosis” works. Millions of sales opportunities. . But the top sales reps are great at prospecting.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2019

These 7 sales mistakes are just that: Horrifying. SALES MISTAKE #1: “Feature dumping”. Feature dumping is to sales what bad breath is to dating. It makes your win rate plummet : If you’re a sales manager, this is the number one behavior to get rid of on your team. SALES MISTAKE #2: Asking annoying questions.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2019

Sales is no different, we have our own vocabulary, terms like prospecting, qualifying, objection handling, pipeline, funnel, discovery, closing, quota. Along with those, we develop tools that help us with those things, for example, objection handling techniques, closing techniques, qualifying techniques, and so forth.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 18, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is dealing with sales objections the right way. Dealing with sales objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. BANT stands for: Budget.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Most sales coaching is a waste of time. Sales managers pick topics at random and jump between reps without much thought or planning. The problem is that old-school sales coaching is designed to fail. If you want to know how to turn your salespeople into sales champions…. Sentiment supercharges objection handling.

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APACSMA

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Key parameters to be included in sales training programs. Sales leaders should focus not only on completing learning materials but also on assessments of whether they can perform key sales actives. Leverage peer learning Peer learning will help sales rep to harness the ‘tribal knowledge’ of veteran sales leaders.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Team processes.

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Gong.io

JUNE 10, 2019

Are you trying to take your sales success to the next level, but frustrated in your path to get there? If so, you’ve likely overlooked a simple concept: Sales success is a chain-link system. Sales success works the same way. It comes down to a combination of sales skills and personal attributes. Prospecting. Negotiation.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I run a European based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about the most important ingredients for a successful outbound sales process. The Key to Outbound Sales Success – Understand the Problems & Pain You Are Solving With Your Product.

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