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16 Apr 2019

How to build trust with buyers

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

In the recent article from LinkedIn on the sales statistics, it is mentioned TRUST is the No. 1 attribute of the salesperson which is critical for B2B sales success. Here are the statistics, 51% of decision makers rank trust as the No. 1 attribute they want in a salesperson.Virtually 100% of sales professional say trust if “very important” or “important” to winning new business.88% of...

7 powerful questions to coach your team members

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Management, Sales Training

Recently one of the participants said, he is having a hard time to get consistent delivery from his team members. No one seems to own responsibility and happy when they meet 70%~80% target. I am not very aggressive like other sales managers and I don't know what to do? I asked have you tried coaching the team members weekly or bi-monthly? He said, I hear a lot about coaching but I am ...

Measuring the success of sales training

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Training

When it comes to sales training initiative, measuring the success of sales training or ROI in terms of business results is not clear. This inhibits many businesses to take up sales training initiatives. Many companies we meet ask this question about sales training. Since I am investing money on this training, how do I clearly measure the impact with respect to business results such as...

3 must competencies for consultative selling

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Enablement, Sales Management

Depending on the business types, buying environment, solution types, selling and sales complexity must vary. In the article, we had mentioned 4 types of sales expertise depending on the buying environment and solution type. Just for brevity, let us put this again here, Sales people expertise vs solution type As we can see from the above 2x2 matrix when the buying envir...

Light up your B2B sales success using stories

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Training 1 Comment

What actually results in sales success? This is a difficult question and there is no one answer. Some say sales success is driven by process, structure, whereas others say sales is all about building relations. The answer lies in the combination of these. Sales is as much an art as science. Many of you, would have come across someone who in spite of not having a sales process, produc...

Knowing what your customer wants from your own teams?

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Training

Are you facing situations where you are losing business and don't know the reason? Do you wonder if you just had magic wand using which you could know what exactly your customer wants? Or wonder why the customer who used to buy stopped buying? If you are facing any of the above, there is a way to know the answer. It is fact, one of the hardest things in business is knowing what th...

Why measuring sales activities is key to sales success?

Prashanth G Sales Operations

Sales analytics is gaining popularity and most large companies with field force sales are realizing the importance of it. The definition of the sales analytics is Sales analytics is the process used to identify, model, understand and predict sales trends and sales results while helping in the understanding of these trends and finding improvement points. It i...

Sales productivity increase, what tools can help?

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Sales force automation not giving the results

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sales Force Automation software, sales tracking tools have been some of the latest technology trends to help companies improve field sales effectiveness, sales efficiency resulting in overall sales productivity improvements. Any organization which relies on field sales force would love to have a dashboard of what is happening on sales from prospec...

Make your sale review meeting from painful to insightful

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Management

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sales review meetings are key activity among sales teams. In these meetings, it is a great opportunity for sales managers to guide sales reps to find their area of weakness and show them opportunities to improve. Instead, the majority of sales review meetings leave a bad memory for sales executives. That is because sales managers use these meeting...

7 key data analysis for every sales managers

Prashanth G sales CRM, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In today's competitive market where salespeople are targeting different kinds of customers, and selling different products, sales data analytics knowledge becomes an essential requirement for sales managers. With the help of the right data and analysis, sales managers can identify the factors contributing to sales and identify the areas for future devel...

7 rules to make Sales CRM implementation a success

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales force automation

Let's get this. Every company which has field force sales staff is keen to try out new technology to get more insights so they can improve sales team productivity. For this, technology solutions such as sales CRM, sales force automation software are the most popular. Technology companies promote claiming a huge scope of improvement in all sales related activities in using Sales CRM and S...

Do this instead of managing your sales team

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Management

One of popular analogy being used in leadership is buffalo leadership vs geese leadership. Let us understand how this applies to sales management and sales leadership roles. One of the biggest challenges for being manager or leader is how to make his team members think and own responsibility on their own. This is not easier for many. Most companies have developed a system to identify be...

Are you worried about your competition?

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Training

Ask any sales executive or sales manager, what is their biggest challenge when it comes to increasing their sales, their response is increased competition. No doubt, most companies are operating in a highly competitive environment. Take the case of the automobile market, whether it is for cars or 2 wheelers, there are 4-5 very strong players in each segment. There are 12-14 Sale...

What is not sales coaching?

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting

Make sales leaders sales champions with sales coaching

In the article, 10 characteristics of super coach we shared what are the 10 characteristics of a sales coach. In this article, we will focus on addressing some of the common misconceptions around coaching. Before that, let us understand again why coaching is important Why Sales Coaching? One of the key differences with respect to high performing organization vs average organization...

Is your sales matching buying complexity?

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Enablement

sales people role for different buying environment

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In one of the foremost referred article of Theodore Levitt on Marketing, this is what is said b/w sales & marketing In the [traditional] selling scheme the seller is located at a distance from buyers and reaches out with a sales department to unload products on them. This is the basis for the notion that a salesperson needs charisma because it...

Top five objections in any sales and how to overcome them

Prashanth G Sales Prospecting, Sales Training

top 5 objections in sales and how to handle

When it comes selling, the critical skill required is handling objections. Starting with taking appointments, fix up a meeting, trying to sell a prospective customer on buying your product, pricing discussions, you will have to overcome objections. Importantly, you should plan for these objections beforehand. How? By expecting them, and trying to preempt them. Here are the five ...

What motivates good sales manager?

Prashanth G Sales Management, Sales Training

What motivates Sundar Pichai to be best CEO?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google is rated the best CEO and known to be the best manager. What motivates Sundar Pichai to be a good manager? As a sales leader among many managers reporting, do you see a difference in their performance? Ever wondered why do some managers are self-motivated and work whereas other's need a constant push? Why some manager...

How to know what your customers want?

Prashanth G Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ask any customers, how many sales executives they meet really know what they want, the answer is quite low. On one side, many sales executives think they know what their customers want, on the other side, many customers say, most salespeople they meet don't understand our requirements. Why does this gap exist? Nobody wants to be misunderstood but...

Are you investing on developing selling skills?

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Training

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Selling is not easy! The market keeps changing with many changing factors like entry of new competitors, demands of customers, new product launches, sales team attrition etc. Salespeople must constantly upgrade themselves to the changing needs. Hence, Organizations make continuou...

The secret to winning the RFP

Prashanth G Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The reality of the RFP's Quite a few companies rely on the RFP's to win new businesses. The moment the sales team sees the RFP and if it is in the scope of their work, everyone is excited, put them into the pipeline and start celebrating that the deal is theirs. The Sales executive starts working very hard, check and recheck ten times wi...