Category Archive for: Sales Management

MEDDPICC for Managers

Announcing the New and Enhanced “MEDDPICC for Managers” Course

A Comprehensive Guide for Sales Leadership Within The MEDDPICC Framework In today’s fast-paced and increasingly competitive market, effectively managing and guiding sales teams towards success is more critical than ever. At MEDDIC Academy, we’ve always been at the forefront of providing cutting-edge sales training and methodologies to empower sales professionals and leaders alike. We are…

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Aristotle Walks Into A Sales Meeting

This article draws a parallel between Aristotle’s ancient principles of persuasion—Ethos (credibility), Logos (logic), and Pathos (emotional appeal)—and the modern MEDDPICC sales methodology, emphasizing the role of Metrics in sales strategies. Metrics turn subjective claims into objective, measurable gains, aiding the decision-making process by quantifying a solution’s impact and the pain of the problem it addresses.

Infinite Sales Leadership

Infinite Sales Leadership

A New Course Helping Sales Leaders Building Teams The Why of the Inifinite Sales Leadership training You may wonder why the Infinite Sales Leadership course. In an era where sales environments are rapidly evolving, I noticed a persistent challenge that many sales leaders face: despite the plethora of automation tools and advanced sales methodologies, quota…

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Non-Commissioned Salespeople: An Odd Perspective!

Ken Olsen, the inventor of the non-commissioned salespeople, was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957. He was President until he was forced to resign in 1992 after the company had gone into precipitous decline. But before that, DEC was a major hardware maker for three decades, reaching $14B in revenue…

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It’s The METRICS, Stupid.

In the world of business, decisions are often guided by one underlying principle: return on investment (ROI) , something directly resulting from METRICS. While this may sound like a no-brainer, the complexity lies in understanding how various factors contribute to this crucial metric. Just as the Clinton campaign famously declared, “It’s the economy, stupid,” back…

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Sales Training & Coaching During Economic Downturn

Sales leaders are usually very aware of the benefits of sales training and coaching in general. However, it’s tempting for them to cut costs wherever possible in times of economic uncertainty. Sales leaders should not sacrifice the Sales Training & Coaching budget. Maintaining or increasing your investment in coaching and training during a downturn can…

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Discipline in sales is more important than sales skills

Discipline in sales separates the great from the mediocre. According to best-selling author Anthony Iannarino, it can mean the difference between success and failure. Discipline in sales is even more important than sales skills because skills won’t help you if you lack discipline. Discipline is the mother of all skills.  Some may argue that motivation…

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Sales teams should focus on sales skills more than sales automation.

Sales Automation Tools can be very effective but lead some salespeople to rely on them almost entirely. This is a mistake because sales automation is supposed to help the sales process, not be the process. It’s only a tool and sales should focus on skills to improve real performance like analyzing, qualifying, and closing quality…

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Why Sellers With Engineering Backgrounds Are Successful.

When you think of tech salespeople and you think of engineers, you think of two completely different kinds of people, or you think of people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. These two titans of tech and business may have very different personalities, but they have one thing in common that sets them apart from…

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Tokyo Olympics 2021-German judo athlete Martyna Trajdos and her coach

HOW A SALES COACH CAN CREATE SALES SUPERSTARS

Sales coaching has become very popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Studies have shown that companies with sales coaching programs boost their win rates by almost 30%. That rate jumps to over 40% with weekly 30-minute coaching sessions and more than 55% for reps who receive more than 2 hours of coaching per…

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