Integrity Solutions

MARCH 18, 2021

Effective sales recruiting strategies start with a well-defined Sales Success Profile based on objective performance criteria. As a sales manager, it’s pretty frustrating when you spend a significant amount of time and energy coaching and developing someone only to discover in the end that, well, it’s not you, it’s them.

Sales 128

Sales Coaching Personalization Management 128

Integrity Solutions

JULY 20, 2021

In many ways, building sales confidence is about expanding belief boundaries, addressing some underlying perceptions and providing the type of sales training and coaching that maximizes strengths, encourages risk taking and helps your customers think differently. Building Sales Competence Builds Sales Confidence.

Sales 121

Sales Coaching B2B Personalization 121

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

McDonald’s also has text-to-win sweepstakes to win tickets and sidelines passes, lunch with one of the Eagles team players, dinner with coaches, and more, all season long. Philadelphia area McDonald’s donate 100% of the income generated from coffee sales to a local youth homeless shelters.

Transportation 419

Transportation Customer emotions Coaching Employee engagement 419

Integrity Solutions

MARCH 19, 2024

As a sales leader have you looked at your forecast and asked questions like these: “Do we have enough opportunities in our forecast to confidently make our goal this quarter/year?” ” Sales forecasting accuracy is one of the most important processes for running a successful sales organization.

Sales 106

Sales Coaching B2B Customer centricity 106

CX Global Media

JANUARY 15, 2019

When you’re referring to agent performance, that can be referenced in numerous and very different categories – attendance, absenteeism, call metrics, sales metrics, customer satisfaction metrics, schedule adherence, utilization, customer satisfaction, tickets closed, first contact resolution, and so much more. Spoils of War.

Contact Center 304

Contact Center Schedule adherence Coaching Metrics 304

Callminer

MAY 29, 2019

Identifying customer trends and sales opportunities. Your call recordings can be used to identify customer trends or sales opportunities. You can then identify and correlate desired outcomes of the calls, such as driving successful sales, with certain agent behaviors, skills or language used. Improving coaching and training.

Contact Center 223

Contact Center Coaching Analytics Call Center 223

Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s important to understand what it’s really going to cost you when you lose a sales rep — and what steps you can take to minimize your turnover rates. Every sales leader can relate to that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when a star sales rep says they’re moving on. In some industries, average sales rep tenure is just two years.

Sales 114

Sales Coaching Morale SaaS 114

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve been a part of Dan Sullivan’s Strategic Coach program for 20 years. Once a quarter, I meet with my coach and spend the day working on my future. My belief is that success doesn’t happen by accident, and the Strategic Coach program has helped make my quest for success a purposeful effort. First, a little background.

Coaching 255

Coaching Sales Customer Service Personalization 255

Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Alex Tebbs is the Co-Founder and Sales Director at VIA , the UK’s largest Hosted Skype for Business solution. Rachel Ivers worked as an Inside Sales Representative for 8z Real Estate for one and a half years. Katherine Dougherty, MaidPro National Sales Center Director, describes herself as being MaidPro born and raised.

Contact Center 334

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 24, 2024

Imagine having a sales team coach who sees the potential in you that you don’t even see in yourself—and then is committed to helping you help live up to that potential. Most leaders agree that the role of sales team coach play a key role in helping salespeople achieve their goals. Their instinct is right.

Coaching 66

Coaching Sales Surveys Banking 66

Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sales enablement has become an integral component of the modern sales organization, yet there is still confusion around what sales enablement actually is and, crucially, how to really make it deliver results for your salespeople and your business. They appreciate the investment and tell others that their new coach is the best!

Sales 101

Sales Coaching Telecommunications Accountability 101

ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2020

This week we feature an article by Patricia Fripp, executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer. Everyone makes a difference: the sales force, the service technicians, the clerical staff, the PR department. Patricia Fripp is an executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer.

Customer Service 247

Customer Service Coaching Advertising Scripts 247

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

By coaching to handle every situation amazingly well, you can improve reputation and get more sales/. Remember that employee education should be an ongoing process to keep service quality high and hit sales goals. How to avoid that if you’re running an eCommerce business? Only by delivering amazing customer service.

Customer Service 378

Customer Service Chatbots Education Feedback 378

ShepHyken

JANUARY 9, 2019

My friend, Shary Raske , a motivational speaker and coach, sent in a story that reminds me that sometimes common sense isn’t so common. There was plenty of toilet paper for sale. Now, some of you may point out, that the toilet paper on the floor is for sale, not for use. His response was, “We don’t have any.”.

Customer Service 324

Customer Service Coaching Sales Management 324

CX Global Media

JULY 6, 2018

AI can’t coach your agents. But what AI could do is help your supervisors to more effectively and efficiently coach agents. Supervisors do not have the time to collect and interpret it all and then go coach. What is it that they should be coaching them on. Artificial Intelligence can’t coach them.

Contact Center 240

Contact Center Coaching Business Process Outsourcing Call Center 240

ShepHyken

APRIL 23, 2019

He and his fellow teachers—called “coaches”—focus on creating leaders and building self-confidence in their students using music as a tool. Don’t brand the gifts or turn them into a sales ploy; this is an opportunity to insert some humanity into a service interaction. A coach focuses on the student.” – Mike Grande.

Coaching 279

Coaching Personalization Sales Customer Experience 279

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Principle Seven: Make sure there is a good coach – When I look at the best teams in business, whether they are customer service teams, sales teams, finance teams, etc., The leader of a truly effective team is like the coach of a professional sports team. I recognize that they all have good leadership.

Customer centricity 282

Customer centricity Coaching Finance Customer Service 282

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 13, 2023

It would follow, then, that increasing coaching effectiveness is one (major) tool in the toolbox to help solve these problems. Employee engagement is very much emotional, and it’s managers and the coaching culture they create that can make or break those emotional ties. Why does a coaching culture matter?

Coaching 87

Coaching Employee engagement Sales Management 87

Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2021

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. It’s also clear that the shift to a remote sales model isn’t just a temporary fix. New Sales Pipeline Strategy. By Will Milano.

Sales 123

Sales Coaching B2B Metrics 123

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 25, 2022

As a result, their team was always pressured to streamline staffing, coached to be as efficient as possible with multiple priorities, and designed to generate the least amount of cost. Contact center employees felt like second-class citizens in the organization, not nearly as valuable or venerated as sales and marketing.

Contact Center 370

Contact Center Consulting Consulting Coaching 370

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 10, 2024

There’s no real sales conversation or dialogue. Most sales leaders today recognize this isn’t a sustainable way to develop business and cultivate a long-term customer base. Today’s buyers are not only are turned off by the relentless sales talk, they’re also more informed than ever.

Sales 107

Sales Scripts Personalization Coaching 107

Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a high school football coach, I always get excited this time of year. As coaches, it’s up to us to put each player in the best position to succeed, teaching the mindset, skillset and disciplined processes needed to win the next play. Kids who represent their communities, fellow classmates and their families.

Sales 97

Sales Coaching Scripts Personalization 97

Integrity Solutions

JULY 24, 2024

One of the most critical areas where small businesses can gain a competitive edge is by investing in their teams’ development, particularly through sales training. The Fundamental Element Sales Training Often Overlooks Sales training is often deployed with a focus on product knowledge, process, selling skills and techniques.

Sales 100

Sales Coaching Marketing Scripts 100

Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Is sales still a viable profession today? While the selling environment has undergone some pretty dramatic changes in recent years, if anything, they’ve only heightened the need for sales professionals who care about, can connect with and actively listen to their customers. Is it something needed or that people even want to do?

Sales 101

Sales Coaching Scripts B2B 101

CCNG

AUGUST 14, 2024

My previous experience working with outbound sales agents proved invaluable: there were scripts to be followed, and the most successful agents were always those who could read a script and carry on a conversation without sounding like a robot. It was also important that the agent could demonstrate an aptitude for coaching and improvement.

Scripts 195

Scripts Call Center CCNG Outbound sales 195

Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While investing in sales training can produce a range of benefits, all of us in sales know it all boils down to the bottom line. Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics.

Metrics 86

Metrics Sales Coaching Accountability 86

ShepHyken

JUNE 21, 2019

Across simple sales and customer support journeys, where conversations are process driven, chatbots can be used effectively. Live chat flourishes in complex sales and customer support journeys. Read Shep’s latest Forbes article: Coach Of Stanley Cup Champions St. Louis Blues Teaches Valuable Business Lessons.

Chatbots 309

Chatbots Customer Experience Scripts outsourcing 309

Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of the most common pathways into sales is… accidental. Many people find themselves taking a sales role almost as a layover en route to their “real” career. And then a funny thing happens: They realize they like doing sales. “To become successful in sales, you need a lo t of networking.

Sales 110

Sales Coaching Education Feedback 110

Balto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Coaching sales teams to excel on calls often requires significant time and resources, plus a fair share of trial and error. Sales leaders are tasked with balancing revenue forecasting, pursuing new business, and nurturing key client relationships—all while still finding the time and energy to mentor, motivate, and monitor their reps.

Coaching 52

Coaching Sales Gamification Call flow 52

Cincom

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Speed, accuracy, and the ability to meet customer demands efficiently are the pillars of success for the sales team. Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) software plays a vital role in automating product configuration, pricing, and quote generation helping sales teams to easily handle complex pricing scenarios.

Sales 40

Sales Gamification Finance Best practices 40

CX Global Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Joe currently heads Coca-Cola’s Inside Sales and Service team with that business-to-business sales and reactive service calls to over 77,000 CCBCC customers. Jim Rembach is the President of Call Center Coach and Host of the Fast Leader Show podcast. Consolidated (CCBCC), the nation’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler.

Employee engagement 45

Employee engagement Contact Center Morale Coaching 45

Integrity Solutions

MAY 23, 2023

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? What is Sales Prospecting?

Sales 91

Sales Coaching Brand ambassadors B2B 91

Quality Contact Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sales leaders are one of the most critical assets to your company. Their decisions are directly responsible for how sales reps contribute to the company’s growth or lack thereof. But what makes sales leaders great? Here are 10 qualities that great sales leaders have in common.

Sales 98

Sales Telemarketing Best practices Coaching 98

CCNG

MARCH 30, 2022

Some sales organizations utilize email “cadences” to drive their business development efforts by utilizing a certain order of pre-programmed emails in the quest for increasing sales. Coach the agent for 20 minutes – check off the box and get the green dot. The supervisor goes on, “So I’ll send this to you in the coaching form.

Coaching 195

Coaching CCNG Average Handle Time Contact Center 195