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The Technical Sale – How To Handle It Correctly

The 5% Institute

If you’re selling complex products or services , the chances are high that you’ll be regularly involved in the technical sale. The question to ask however, is if you keep the conversation technical – can it impact your closing rate? The Technical Sale – How It Can Work Against You. Don’t Make People Feel Stupid.

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How to Develop Trust with Your Technical Sales Counterparts

Selling Power

If you are struggling to communicate and collaborate with your sales engineers, here are three things you can do to improve both the relationship and your results.

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Selling New B2B Technology: Getting Reps Beyond the Technical Sale

Force Management

How can you grow sales revenue when you’re selling a product that simply isn’t a line item in most buyer budgets? When groundbreaking high-tech companies aim to scale sales success, solidifying alignment with their buyer is a key first step and one that can drive company-wide benefits in the process.

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Sunday Morning Blog: Sales Aerobics for Engineers

A Sales Guy

Babette’s writting style is direct and to the point, as you would expect from someone whose audience is technical. If you’re a sales engineer, a technical sales person, a technical start-up CEO or founder Babette has you covered. They pretty much run the world as it is.

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What It Really Takes to Sell To Developers and Engineers with Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell

SaaStr

The Sales Team Question: How Technical Do You Need to Be? One of the biggest debates in technical sales is how technical the sales team needs to be. Intellectual curiosity matters as much as technical expertise. They won’t approve if the benefits don’t align with business objectives.

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Are You Blocking Your Own Success?

SalesProInsider

Well, in looking at these “blocks,” and from our experience, it could be you.

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How To (Successfully) Source Your First 2 Sales Reps

SaaStr

Instead, try to find someone great who can sell at your price point and type of sale (transactional vs. solution). If your product is truly a technical sale, you may need reps — at first — that have made technical sales. That’s true. It’s much more important the ACVs are similar.