Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? And what should you do if you lose a sale? “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” ” And yet, he says, “Sales is the most fundamental skill.”

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2025

Kick Off a Sales Call with a New Prospect in 120 Seconds in 5 Steps Starting a sales call with a new prospect is a delicate balancing act that sets the tone for the entire conversation in two minutes or less. Be Prepared Sales pre-call planning is the foundation of a successful sales call especially when selling to senior executives.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

The B2B sales world has completely changed over the last few years, and businesses all over the world are struggling to keep up. This makes a sales enablement program a vital tool when running a business. What is the Purpose and Goal of a Sales Enablement Program? That’s why a sales enablement program is essential.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 18, 2017

A lot of consultants fear that they will give away too much in terms of advice during the pre-sales process. Here are some thoughts on how I’ve tried to keep sales processes on track: As you are engaging the client prospect, try to envision the big picture for the solution approach to the prospect’s business problem. hours each.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

As a result, manufacturers can reduce waste and inefficiencies, optimize production costs, and create better products that meet customers’ needs. With fewer defects, you can deliver better-quality products to the market, while the increased efficiency provides more time for research and development to meet changing customer demands.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The manager decides to meet with a field salesperson to get clarity and to work out some details for a quote. At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach. The buying process is no longer linear or consistent.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some professional salespeople recommend that you never say you’re available on the day a prospect suggests for a meeting, even if you are free that day. That way, these sales pro explain, your consulting firm doesn’t appear … Continued The post Should Your Consulting Firm Play “Hard to Get?”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 16, 2024

How to Sell in Challenging Times: B2B Strategies for Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that selling B2B solutions in challenging times requires more than sales perseverance it demands a shift in sales strategy, sales mindset , and sales communication.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Four-hour meetings? The sales, marketing, product, and customer service teams were stuck at the 11th hour (well, the 12th hour, actually) adjusting for the CEO’s violation of structure. According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Long commutes?

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

The analysis of these factors will allow you to choose a tool that will meet your organization’s needs, facilitate effective resource management and improve project outcomes. It helps companies plan, allocate, and monitor the utilization of various types of resources — personnel, equipment, and meeting rooms.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How to Win Over Value Buyers + Key Mistakes to Avoid Studies highlighted by our microlearning experts show that more than half of all sales prospects are value buyers who focus on achieving measurable business outcomes. To win their business and win over value buyers, sales reps must behave differently.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 29, 2025

Net Promoter Score This worldwide industrial technologies company wanted to design and deliver a Customized Sales Training program to help their sales reps who were facing increased competition, new pricing models, changing client demands, delayed sales cycles, and increased pressure to find and grow new accounts.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

Business development and sales are two of the most critical components of any successful business. They are closely related, with business development focusing on identifying new opportunities and building relationships, and sales being the process of actually closing deals and generating revenue.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Which is a sales killer. What will turn website visitors into discovery meetings and discovery meetings into signed contracts is speaking their language (not yours.). Your voice is what you say when you're comfortable with someone you're helping and when you adapt your language to meet others where they are at.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing relationships will only get you so far.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This delay can mean missing out on top candidates who may accept other offers and can also impact the company’s ability to meet business objectives that depend on timely hiring. Slower Hiring Process: The lack of resources and expertise in recruitment can lead to a slower hiring process. References Allen, D., & Vardaman, J.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I showed up for every soccer game, every school play, and every parent-teacher meeting. You’ll find yourself dreading client meetings or projects, and that will make it harder to be present and engaged with your kids. From the outside, I was a model of work-life balance. Efficiency is the name of the game here.

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. All those sales skills make sense.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Do you have the cash to make ends meet? One way to get over the psychological hurdle is to avoid calling it “sales”. This helps to ease the pressure of constantly doing business development, networking, or “sales”. You have to give yourself some time to build momentum.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I started to suspect that I was when I was presenting some difficult feedback to a client about their sales practices. I had sat with over 100 focus group participants and heard story after story about the impact of the company's unethical sales practices on their lives. I didn't realize I was an empath for a long time.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So when I was doing my initial contracting meetings, I was motivated to offer detailed solutions to my clients because the more steps, the more money I made.for this ONE client. Thinking about yourself and your fees in this way will literally transform how you show up in a client contracting meeting. The Ultimate Best Practice.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 14, 2021

A company that prides itself in having one of the industry’s best training programs, our client aimed to convert sales training courses to eLearning modules that would help its salesforce kick-off 2020 with a bang. TOP TALENT CREATES CUSTOMIZED ELEARNING CONTENT FOR SALES ENABLEMENT. part of our client’s Sales Academy program?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To do so, they should: tailor genAI tools to meet their organization’s specific needs, feed them existing data, and have them make suggestions for future survey questions. Companies can rescue qualitative survey data from the trash and dig for deeper insights.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So when I was doing my initial contracting meetings, I was motivated to offer detailed solutions to my clients because the more steps, the more money I made.for this ONE client. Thinking about yourself and your fees in this way will literally transform how you show up in a client contracting meeting. The Ultimate Best Practice.

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Consulting How To Intellectual Property Meeting 214

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Here’s how to nurture your connections when you can’t meet face to face. Strong relationships give salespeople an edge.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Christ Hoff came to this work because he is passionate about helping individuals become more fulfilled in their personal and professional lives, assisting organizations to meet and surpass their goals, and dissolving conflict between individuals, teams and in organizations in more creative ways.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 22, 2018

The first reason is that you’re not having a deep and meaningful consulting sales conversation. It all comes back to, you have to, you must, do a very good job of having a meaningful consulting sales conversation with them, because without that, nothing else really matters. Its just, “Oh okay, yeah. .”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy. The manufacturer was compensating sales representatives based solely on how much revenue they generated. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools.

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B2B Survey Company Sales 138

LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

How to Deliver Better Sales Training We know from sales assessment data that far too many sales teams lack the proper business sales training , sales coaching, and sales support to consistently meet or exceed their sales targets. Most organizations need higher sales rep.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

Ultimately - even if you're trying to meet urgent needs - you also still need confidence in your value proposition - because all of your immediate efforts will be focused on finding the people who you can help and who genuinely need you. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 17, 2020

Holding people accountable for results is about providing the conditions for an employee to freely choose whether to meet or exceed expectations and experience the resulting consequences (positive or negative) of their choices. It is not about communicating blame, frustration and/or disappointment in a monthly meeting or performance review.

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