The Will to Sell: An Essential Part of Your Sales Team’s Success
Sophie Rivest
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29 Feb
- Sales Force Evaluation
- Competencies & DNA
- Développement personnel et professionnel
- Motivation
- Sales Strategy
In sales, there are three key factors that determine an individual’s success. The first is the tactical aspect – a teachable skill. This encompasses everything that can be acquired through training; sales techniques, processes, and the art of conducting a sales conversation from first contact with prospects to debriefing with customers. Next, there is what … Read more
Sophie Rivest
6 minutes read
The Will to Sell: An Essential Part of Your Sales Team’s Success
8 Feb
Asking for a referral can feel nerve wracking. After considering the stats & testing the waters, not only is it a lot less daunting than it seems, but most people are genuinely happy to provide a referral (bonus points if you can reciprocate!).
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Referrals: The Sweetest Valentine You Can Get
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We’re in a challenging hiring market. Finding the ideal candidate can seem like a stroke of luck. Most of the good ones aren’t actively searching for a new job, but that doesn’t mean they’re unreachable.
Chris Kardaras
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7 Steps to Hire the Ideal Sales Talent
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Small gestures focused on training, coaching and following-up with your distributors can have very beneficial effects on your sale objectives.
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Increase your sales by distribution: change these misconceptions!
14 Nov
The end of the current year is intimately linked to the start of the following year. If you don’t take the necessary measures at the end of the year, you’re in trouble.
Louis Larochelle
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6 things you can do to end the year on a high note and plan for the next one
3 Oct
AI has been around for a long time, but is now a concrete tool for sales professionals, and can play four major roles for sales reps…
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Revolutionize your sales strategy with AI
26 Sep
The essential elements that will enable you to measure the performance of your sales team and better plan your growth.
Frédéric Lucas
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What indicators should you use to measure the performance of your sales team?
Jonathan Lucas
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How technology freed up 20% of our sales team’s time
23 Aug
- Sales Coaching
- Competencies & DNA
- Développement personnel et professionnel
- Sales Management
- Sales Structure
Understanding the signs that a sales rep needs to improve their skills is crucial to increasing sales performance.
Louis Larochelle
7 minutes read
How do you know when a sales rep needs to improve their skills?
8 Aug
Internal and external sales are fundamentally different, even from one sales organization to another.
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
Inside and outside sales have more (and less) in common than you might think
27 Jul
Choosing a CRM for your sales team is a crucial decision that impacts sales productivity and performance.
Jonathan Lucas
7 minutes read
Choosing a CRM: you’re overlooking the most important element
12 Jul
- Coaching en gestion des ventes
- Sales Coaching
- Sales Growth
- Sales Leadership
- Sales Management
- Sales Strategy
- Sales Structure
- Sales Transformation
Discover the five tips that will enable you to successfully manage change in a sales team.
Louis Larochelle
6 minutes read
5 tips for successful change management in sales teams
21 Jun
Don’t underestimate the power of listening and communication in sales; they are the foundations on which success is built.
Frédéric Lucas
6 minutes read
The Art of Selling: Communication and Active Listening
12 Jul
Time to stop feeding the limiting belief that the hot summer season is poor for reps. Take our advice to fill your pipeline and reach your sales goals.
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
4 tips to avoid missing sales opportunities during summer
18 May
Let’s explore how sales managers are often not providing sales reps what they need to perform at higher levels and what you can do to build a thriving sales organization.
Éric Dionne
6 minutes read
5 reasons sales managers fail at developing stronger sales teams
5 May
Showcase the value of asking open-ended questions by playing the game 20 Questions with your clients. Play it the right way, then let the client ask you directly what you’re thinking of. Shorten the process to everyone’s benefit.
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
The Power of Open-Ended Questions in Sales: Let’s Play a Game!
20 Apr
Sales organizations can be simple or they can be complex. Read the full article to learn the different roles of a sales organization.
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
The Different Roles of a Sales Organization
13 Apr
To achieve sales goals, without having an unrecoverable summer sales slump, sales teams can apply 5 successful strategies.
Frédéric Lucas
6 minutes read
5 strategies to avoid the summer sales slump
7 Apr
Best practice guide for successfully generating sales opportunities at when you attend B2B trade shows or events. From trade show preparation to follow-up.
Éric Dionne
7 minutes read
Best practices for taking advantage of a B2B event or trade show
6 Apr
Selling value is paramount to consultative selling. What key skills and competencies do sales managers need to help sales representatives sell value?
Louis Larochelle
9 minutes read
Want to sell value? You need these sales management competencies first
30 Mar
Here are 5 strategies for selling and maintaining margins in the context of inflation to ensure the sustainability of B2B companies.
Louis Larochelle
8 minutes read
5 Strategies B2B Companies Can Use to Maintain Margins When Inflation Is High
9 Mar
Prospects’ buying habits are changing at a rapid pace, but are B2B salespeople following best practices to increase sales and avoid prospect traps?
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
Has B2B sales adapted to the way decision-makers buy?
1 Mar
Laurentide Controls’ success story with Prima Resource to transform the company’s sales and return to growth in the midst of a pandemic.
Émeline Gleitz
4 minutes read
Success story: 3-level wins with Prima Resource
23 Feb
At the end of a strategic planning process, here are the elements of the sales strategy that need to be aligned to achieve business and growth objectives.
Frédéric Lucas
6 minutes read
How to leverage strategic planning to build a winning sales strategy?
15 Feb
Before investing in a CRM, you should be able to answer these 7 questions, to make sure you choose the perfect solution for your needs.
Frédéric Lucas
8 minutes read
Choosing the right CRM: 7 critical questions you need to answer
10 Feb
Sales technology creates value for businesses when they are carefully selected and integrated. Follow our guide to invest in key sales technologies.
Jonathan Lucas
8 minutes read
6 Sales Technologies All B2B Companies Need in 2022
17 Jan
Successful sales transformations require 7 key steps that define what to transform and how to transform. Learn about the proven process.
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
7 keys to a successful B2B sales transformation [video]
4 Jan
The Prima team shares its reading recommendations on the topics of leadership, personal development, growth and sales.
Émeline Gleitz
4 minutes read
Leadership, Management and Development: Reading Suggestions for 2022
3 Jan
Sales hunters are vital to a sales organization but sales evaluations demonstrate that only 40% of salespeople have the right competencies. Read the full article!
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
How to Hire Great Sales Hunters
8 Dec
Explore the best strategies for recruiting B2B salespeople to help SMBs overcome the obstacles associated with the current talent shortage.
Frédéric Lucas
5 minutes read
Talent shortage, the best strategies to hire B2B salespeople
25 Nov
Closing B2B sales starts with the early stages of the sales process. Here are 3 steps that increase the closing rate with less effort.
Émeline Gleitz
7 minutes read
Strategy for Winning B2B Sales: What is Most Important Before Closing
23 Nov
For a constant and profitable sales growth, even when everything is going well, it is necessary to perform a sales transformation.
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
Sales growth and the principle ‘You don’t fix it if it isn’t broken’
3 Nov
Sales transformation is a complex and rewarding process that cannot be achieved without strong committment and giving up habits, 2 keys to success
Frédéric Lucas
3 minutes read
13 quotes to understand sales transformation
16 Sep
Compensation is an essential part of a well-functioning sales department, impacting motivation, commitment and, most importantly, results.
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
How to create a compensation plan for B2B sales representatives
4 Feb
B2B sellers: How to improve the quality of conversations with clients and build trusting relationships by being fully present and attentive.
Éric Dionne
7 minutes read
Selling with mindfulness for greater success
12 Jan
CRM is a key tool to strengthen the sales team on a daily basis. That’s why the cheapest or most popular option is often not a good fit.
Jonathan Lucas
4 minutes read
Why implement a quality CRM, not the cheapest or most popular option?
15 Dec
Leaders need to work on their company’s sales culture now, whether the sales environment is favorable or not right now.
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
When is the best time to work on the sales culture?
25 Nov
This is the method that has helped me the most to progress personally and professionally by setting goals and having a plan to achieve them.
Éric Dionne
5 minutes read
How to set personal goals for your success
2 Sep
Adapt your management style to ensure the discipline of your sales force, the elimination of deficient behaviours and goal achievement
Louis Larochelle
5 minutes read
Sales managers’ challenges with accountability
2 Jun
How to make the sales training that you offer to your salespeople more profitable by applying 5 principles of sales reinforcement and coaching
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read
Sales managers: 5 ways to reinforce sales training for higher performance
19 Mar
As a sales manager, learn how to improve your recruitment and coaching methods with a specific sales evaluation tool.
Éric Dionne
5 minutes read
The one tool I missed the most when I was a sales manager
10 Mar
Learn how to differentiate yourself through your sales prospection approach and learn to gain a greater trust from your customers and discard competition
Louis Larochelle
3 minutes read
How to differentiate yourself in sales prospecting
13 Feb
Designing a great sales strategy is necessary to generate greater revenues, thus ensuring constant growth. Learn the fundamentals to an efficient strategy.
Frédéric Lucas
4 minutes read