Sales
Skills
Prospecting
Sales Collaboration
Unusual Guide to Defining your ICP and PersonasDakota covers: • What is an ICP? • Keeping Your ICP and Personas Distinct • Cross-Functional Benefits • Defining Your ICP and User and Buyer Personas • Changes Over Time
Example: GitLab's Ideal Customer ProfileGitLab's ideal customer profile covers attributes of their two main customer categories: large and mid market.
Questions to Develop the Ideal Customer ProfileDavid provides 5 questions you can leverage to make an ideal customer profile, and provides an example of what the answers looked like at Pardot to make their ICP.
- Effective Objection Handling Practice
Reshmi describes a 5-step process for objection handling alongside an extensive list of objection handling techniques and an exercise for teams to practice these techniques. • Objection Handling Process • Objection Handling Techniques That Can Help • Objection Handling Role Play Exercise • Facilitating Objection Handling Exercise • Best Practices • More resources
Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming — Objection HandlingMark provides an introduction to common objections from customers, emphasizing the importance of providing sales teams with the tools and preparation to respond effectively.
6 Rules to Demystify your Sales StagesSeth explains 6 rules that should help make your sales stages easier to set up and manage: 1. Sales Stages should mirror milestones in the sales process. 2. Open Opportunities NEED to have momentum. 3. Each stage should have an expiration timeframe. 4. The best stages are “PENDING” some event. 5. Each stage needs qualification criteria. 6. Sales stages are not a “Trello board of To-Do Tasks.”
- Field Guide: Outreach Tactics
John covers: • Startups, challengers, and champions • Outreach sequences • LinkedIn techniques • Email subject lines + bodies
- Discovery Calls – A Critical Part of the Sales Process
David identifies sales discovery questions that have worked for him in the past, including: • How do you currently do X? • What tools, system or process do you use to do X? • What works well with X? • What are some challenges with X? • Who else is involved with X? • How much time do you spend on X? • If you could wave a magic wand, how would X work? • What’s your timeline for changing X? • Anything else I need to know about X?
- Effective Discovery
• Qualification • Understand value points, including preparation and how to seek to understand using techniques like TED, five whys, and active listening • Avoid discovery pitfalls, like a lack of preparation, happy ears, not attaching to the biggest problem, and failing to identify the negative consequences of doing nothing
