Digital Selling and Sales Training Journal

Sales Funnel - The Digital Sales Institute : The use of a sales funnel allows sales management and trainers to identify what sales activities are posing a challenge in the sales process. A sales funnel is the process a salesperson works to in order to convert prospects into qualified leads or sales. A typical sales funnel will have stages that each sales lead goes through. These funnel stages are based on the steps in the company’s sales process that the salesperson leads the customer through. Why use a Sales Funnel? By implementing and aligning sales activities to a sales funnel , sales management and trainers can identify which stages are posing challenges in the sales process. To also understand where individual salespeople are struggling to progress leads, for use in sales forecasting and measure conversions rates more accurately. The sales funnel should be used as a training and sales tool to give the sales team insights into their prospects or customer’s buying journ

Online Sales Training Platform - The Digital Sales Institute : The use of an online sales training platform can have multiple benefits within any sales organization. Due to time pressure, cost and changing learning preferences, classroom-based or day long sales training is becoming obsolete. Today, many sales leaders and trainers see the use of an online sales training platform as the best solution to improve sales performance, no matter the size of the sales team. Due to advances in video, technology and bandwidth, giving access to salespeople to improve their sales skills with online sales training is not the big decision it once was. Typically, an online sales training platform will have a number of sales training programs that covers a multitude of topics from sales prospecting, cold calling, business development, digital selling, presentation skills etc, so a sales training program could be implemented relatively quickly. Let us look at some of the reasons why sales