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How much Sales Training should I have?

Highly effective sales people do not happen by chance.  Top performing companies across industries provide their sales teams with no less than 8 days of focussed sales training per year, excluding product training. Of course, larger businesses can afford to invest in the development of their sales teams and appear to have the upper hand when it comes to highly skilled sales and service teams. Having regular and quality training […]

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10 Do’s of Onlines Sales Training

Here are 10 important Do’s that every successful online training provider should incorporate into their online (sales) training courses, well in my humble opinion anyway. Present the benefits of undertaking the course, module or topic Do not let your participants dive into a course, module or topic without providing them what the aim is. If you just dump the content in front of them in the hope “they will pick

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What do Sales People Need to Know and Apply?

What is expected of sales people today? And so, what do they need know or learn? Let’s first look at what clients want. This will help us determine what sales people need to be able to do. Clients today have access to more information than ever BEFORE. Clients can make product versus product comparisons very easily. And most clients know what they are after even if they don’t know how

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Client Buying States

Selling can get quite confusing sometimes. The more you know about it and understand the different things that are involved in selling can help you have a clearer picture and become a better salesperson. An interesting point to know about is that there are mainly four different Buying States.  They are classified as: Opportunity Problem Static Blinkered Buying States that show that a sale is possible: Opportunity: Your prospect recognises

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Myth: E-learning technology is unreliable

Every other arena in society- financial institutions, businesses, and government- do not avoid updating their procedures and protocols because of the fear of unreliable technology. Clearly, you only need to look at people’s phones – how many of those phones are new? Loads – mainly because of the easy ways to upgrade you phone while getting better and cheaper phone plans! The reality is that most distance learning software requires

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Synchronous and asynchronous online sales training.

Online (sales) training can either be synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous occurs in real-time all participants interacting at the same time e.g. webinars, Skype, chat rooms, live discussions Asynchronous self-paced all participants not logged into the course/discussion/online at the same time e.g. email, blogs, wikis, videos, documents, courses While there are advantages to synchronous learning – people can interact with each other – there are many advantages for asynchronous learning: people

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We want more than a script

A sales script is a well constructed set of guidelines that support us when we prospect. Millions of sales people around the world use sales scripts.  Used properly, sales scripts act as scaffolding or bridgework to help us earn the right to have a meaningful discussion with our prospecting customers, members, donors, or subscribers. Good sales scripts: are purposeful – have a clear reason why we are calling someone; use

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Exeptional Prospectors

Over the past 19 years, our parent company, Barrett, has conducted thousands of psychological assessments and interviews with both managers and salespeople about their prospecting and sales behaviours. Their research has consistently revealed that salespeople often experience their greatest difficulties, dissatisfaction, and anxiety at the prospecting stage of the sales cycle. Meanwhile, we know that this it’s also the case for people that are not sales people but need to

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Hello, World.

A “Hello world” program is a computer program that outputs “Hello, world” on a display device. Because it is typically one of the simplest programs possible in most programming languages, it is by tradition often used to illustrate to beginners the most basic syntax of a programming language. It is also used to verify that a language or system is operating correctly. In this case we used it to make

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