Sales

How to Train Your Sales Team Quickly – Top Free Resources

What This Is:

  • Unified Training Knowledge Hub for the sales team
  • All the key info for sales training at your fingertips

Understanding Our Customers, Their Challenges / Needs, How They Decide

  • Our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
  • Our Target Buyer Persona
  • Unique Value Proposition
  • Elevator Pitch
  • Our “Buyer-Focused” Prospecting Email Examples

BDR / SDR – Prospecting Team Training

SDR Tech

Using Outreach.io:

  • Outreach University – link
  • Getting Started – link
  • Outbound Prospecting with Outreach – link
  • SDR Prospecting
  • Prospect Basics – link
  • Sequence Basics – link
  • Creating Sequences – link
  • Sequence Maneuvering – link
  • Outreach Meetings – link

SDR/ Prospecting Skills

  • Outbound Email Prospecting
    • JBarrows – Keep your emails short – link
    • JBarrows / Morgan Ingram – Webinar Replay – Sales Ready Messaging with Morgan J Ingram – video link
    • SalesBuzz/Pedone – link
  • The “Fanatical Prospecting” 4 Step Email Prospecting Framework – link
  • Sending Hyper-Personalized Emails – link
  • LinkedIn Prospecting
    • How to Message Prospects on LinkedIn – link
  • Prospecting with Empathy
    •  John Barrows 2 minute video – link
    • John Barrows – Prospecting in Difficult times – Webinar link
  • Hyper-Personalizing Our Emails – link
  • Outbound Calling
    • JBarrows – Why a Phone Works Well in Sales – link
    • JBarrows – Why Phone is Better than Email – link
    • JBarrows – Powerful Intros – link
    • JBarrows – Phone & Voicemail Strategies – link
    • JBarrows – Cold Calls and Phones – link
    • JBarrows – Power Hour – link
    • JBarrows – Never Waste a Cold Call – link
    • SalesScripter – How to Make Cold Calling Easy – link
    • SalesScripter – How to Make Cold Calling Less Scary – link
    • SalesScripter – How to Build a Cold Call Script That Works – link
    • Gong – 17 Proven Techniques To Master Your Cold Calls – link
  • Leaving Voice Messages
    • JBarrows – Leaving Effective Voicemails – link
    • JBarrows – Example of a Bad Voicemail
    • SalesScripter – How to Effectively Use Voicemail as a Sales Prospecting Tool – video link
    • SalesScripter – The Cold Call Voicemail Message Examples – video link
      • Note that the name is left in the beginning – this is different from JBarrows training suggesting to do it at the end but you can choose and A/B split test
  • Getting Around Gatekeepers
  •  Prospecting Objections 
    • SalesScripter – How to Get Around Sales Objections – link
    • Just Send Me Your Information 
        • JBarrows – link
            • What, When, Why
        • SalesScripter – link
    • SalesScripter – We don’t have any budget – link
    • SalesScripter – I’m not interested – link

AE – Sales Training

  • Effective Selling Skllls
    • Selling Best Practices
    • Sales Messaging: Sales Positioning, UVP & Sales Differentiation
      • Unique Value Proposition
        • SalesScripter – Creating a Unique Value Proposition – video link
        • SalesScripter – How to Buid Your Value Proposition – video
        • SalesScripter – How and When to Use your Value Proposition – link
    • Consultative Selling
      • What is Consultative Selling – link
    • Effective Time Management
    • Doing Your Research / Preparing
        • 3×3
        • JBarrows – Show You Did Your Homework – link
          • Specific questions based on research on the client
    • Selling to Executives
    • Gain Access to Power / Authority / Champion
      • JBarrows – How to Ask for a Champion – link
      • JBarrows – Going Over Somebody’s Head – link
      • JBarrows – Use Proposals to Gain Access to Power – link
      • JBarrows – Test for Power – link
    • Building Trust & Rapport
      • SalesScripter – How to Build Rapport – link
      • 6 Scientifically Proven Steps to Building Rapport with Anyone in Sales – link
    • Offering Insights to the Prospect
    • Creating and Adding Value at Every Interaction
    • Mutual Agreements (i.e. the “Upfront Contract” in Sandler)
    • Active Listening (2:1 ratio, patience before replying, verbal affirmations)
    • Discovery Process & Non-Interrogative Exploratory Sales Questioning
    • Questioning Skills –
      • JBarrows – Questioning Skills – link
    • Qualifying for Buyer Pain Points / Needs Analysis
      • How to Identify the Pain Points that You Help With – link
      • Also the “What/Which/Why” technique
      • Sandler Pain Funnel
        • Ask pain Funnel Questions in the Right Order – link
        • Avoid Unpaid Consulting – link
    • CHAMP Qualification
    • First Call Qualification & First Call Outcomes
    • Connecting the Solution to Specific Pain Points
    • Presenting / Pitching / Demonstrating
      • Pitching the Solution Effectively or Presenting Effectively
      • Context for connecting the solution value to the pain points
      • Gong – 7 Elements Of Persuasive Sales Product Demos – reading link
    • Storytelling and creating an Experience for the Buyer
    • Creating a Sense of Urgency
    • The Summary Email
      • JBarrows – The Summary E-mail: Aligning Expectations – link
      • The IQ Email
    • Follow-up skills
    • Effective Selling
      • Selling on the Value to Solving Problems
        • Connecting the solution to the specific pain/problem/challenges
      •  Creating a Business Case
    • Objections
      • Mental Resilience / Sales EQ
      • Prevention
      • Redirect, Diffuse vs Overcome and Handle
      • Responses
        • I am not interested – link 1 & link 2 
          • Note: a genuine “No” is a great answer to hear so you don’t focus on them anymore – Go for No & No is the 2nd best answer in sales
        • What is this in regards to? – link
        • We already use someone for that – link
        • Just send me your information – link
        • We do not have any budget right now – link
        • Your price is too high – link
      • Videos:
        • SRG-Sales Readiness Group – How to Overcome Sales Objections – link
        • SalesScripter – How to Consistently Get Around Sales Objections – link
        • SalesScripter – Sales Objection Rebuttals that Defuse Common Sales Objections – link
        • SalesScripter – The Examples of Overcoming Objections in Sales – link
        • SalesScripter – 4 Concepts that Will Help You With Building Your Objection Rebuttals – link
        • SalesScripter – The Ways To Handle Objections – link
        • SalesScripter – How to Deal with Sales Objections – link
        • SalesScripter – The Examples of Redirecting Sales Objections – link
        • JBarrows – Objections with David Priemer of Cerebral Selling – link
        • 7 (Proven) Tips to Overcoming Objections in Sales That You Hear Constantly [Avoidance] – link
    • Working with Proposals / RFPs
    • Complex Deal Negotiations
    • Pricing
      • Dealing With Complex Pricing
      • Communicating Pricing Effectively
      • Positioning the ROI
    • Closing
      • Asking for the Business
      • Closing Effectiveness
      • JBarrows – All About Closing – link
  • Internal – Sales Self-Management Skills
    • Following a Sales Process
    • Opportunity and Pipeline Management
    • Deal Reviews & Opportunity Troubleshooting
    • Sales Forecasting Skills
    • Sales Tech knowledge (CRM, Sales Prospecting like Outreach, etc.)
    • Finally – basic Excel skills to analyze their own sales metrics
  • Sales Management
    • How to Manage Sales Like a Football Coach – link
  • Other Sales Training Links
    • Sandler Rules – 53 Videos – link
    • JBarrows – Series of Sales Tips – link
    • Gong – 55 Sales Tips & Techniques That Work Like a Charm – link

Also:

  • Hubspot Sales Certifications
    • Inbound Sales – link
    • Email Marketing – link
    • Social Media Selling – link
  • Hubspot Academy classes (not about Hubspot tool, but about sales)
    • Account Based Marketing – link
    • Identifying Good-Fit Leads – link
    • Active vs. Passive Buyers – link
    • Inbound Sales Fundamentals – link
    • Customer Journeys – link
    • Growing Our Audience – link
    • Measuring Email Marketing Success – link
  • Predictable Revenue:
    • Prospecting 101: sales tips and tricks from the trenches | Predictable Revenue – link
    • LinkedIn prospecting – link
    • SDRs doing 100+ activities per day – link