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The Challenger
According to their book, “The Challenger Sale”, Salespeople should have a different view of the world, understand the customer’s business, love to debate and push the customer to get out of their comfort zone.
Find out how you can adopt the Challenger sales model in our in-depth guide.
A straight-line commission structure
For example, if a rep has a quota of $10,000 in monthly sales and they only sell $8,000, they would have only made 80% of their quota. Therefore, they’ll only get paid 80% of their commissions.
You can read about commission structures and compensation plans in our guide.
Relevant
Here are all the SMART objectives:
For guidance on creating objectives for your team, read our article on sales objectives.
Prospecting
Before you start qualifying or contacting your customers, you need to find them.
Read more about these stages in our article about creating a sales process.
A Customer Relationship Management tool
In reality, it could be any of these answers. With the right CRM tool, you can monitor, measure, maintain and retain customers, clients, prospects and leads.
Read our article on CRM for more information.
SNAP Selling
As the name suggests, SNAP Selling is all about keeping the sales process short and sweet.
Read our guide to sales methodologies to find the right one for your business.
Chatbot
A chatbot is a program that uses text, and occasionally voice, to conduct conversations in a friendly, human-like manner.
Read our article to find out how a website chatbot could help boost your sales.
Budget
You can use the BANT framework to assess and qualify potential customers. Ask them (and yourself) these questions:
Read our sales strategy article for guidance on how to find, qualify, contact and convert potential customers.
A question that only has a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response.
Closed questions are a powerful tool for salespeople on a sales call. Read our guide to cold calling article for tips and 25 cold calling scripts you can try.
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