Virtual Sales Training Workshops

Our “Sales Shots” are 30-minute, tip-rich virtual sales training
workshops served monthly to sales reps, managers, and leaders

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Virtual Sales Training Workshops

Our “Sales Shots” are 30-minute, tip-rich virtual sales training
workshops served monthly to sales reps, managers, and leaders

Webinars brought to you by
Outreach

Now Serving Sales Shots Straight from The Sales Bar!

Join us each month for a Sales Shot: a free 30-minute virtual sales training workshop hosted by Factor 8 Founder, Lauren Bailey. Lauren is serving up the most important skills that inside and virtual sales professionals need to master.

You’ll walk away with 5-10 quick and tactical tips brought to you straight from the coolest “Bar” in town, The Sales Bar, our award-winning online training platform. 

Who should join our workshops?

Our virtual sales training workshops were created for business development reps, sales development reps, field sales reps, inside sales reps, virtual sales reps, account executives, and account managers. We also host sessions for sales managers, sales leaders, ops, and enablement who are looking for more efficient ways to train and manage their reps.

What topics do our workshops cover?

Mastering your call openings, how to overcome a brush-off, selling to customer value, how to tell what customers care about, crafting your value prop, how to gain sales referrals, tips for closing more deals, as well as call coaching best practices, tips for new managers, and more! Learn more about our upcoming virtual sales training workshops below.

New topics are being added monthly. Fill out the registration form and we’ll make sure to invite you to our new workshops!

REGISTER BELOW FOR OUR UPCOMING
VIRTUAL SALES WORKSHOPS

Can’t attend a session? Fill out the form, select your workshop,
and we’ll send over the video recording after.



Now Serving Sales Shots Straight from The Sales Bar!

Join us each month for a Sales Shot: a free 30-minute virtual sales training workshop hosted by Factor 8 Founder, Lauren Bailey. Lauren is serving up the most important skills that inside and virtual sales professionals need to master.

You’ll walk away with 5-10 quick and tactical tips brought to you straight from the coolest “Bar” in town, The Sales Bar, our award-winning online training platform. 

Who should join our workshops?

Our virtual sales training workshops were created for business development reps, sales development reps, field sales reps, inside sales reps, virtual sales reps, account executives, and account managers. We also host sessions for sales managers, sales leaders, ops, and enablement who are looking for more efficient ways to train and manage their reps.

What topics do our workshops cover?

Mastering your call openings, how to overcome a brush-off, selling to customer value, how to tell what customers care about, crafting your value prop, how to gain sales referrals, tips for closing more deals, as well as call coaching best practices, tips for new managers, and more! Learn more about our upcoming virtual sales training workshops below.

New topics are being added monthly. Fill out the registration form and we’ll make sure to invite you to our new workshops!

REGISTER BELOW FOR OUR UPCOMING
VIRTUAL SALES WORKSHOPS

Can’t attend a session? Fill out the form, select your workshop,
and we’ll send over the video recording after.



Upcoming Workshops

Power Prospecting: Spend Less Time, Get Better Results

Thursday, April 6th @ 1 pm ET

Let’s face it, there are only about 5 people in sales today who LOVE to prospect. The rest of us power through it because we know we need to. In this power-packed, 30-minute Sales Shot, we’ll help you get excited about prospecting, save you hours of wasted time planning, and probably double the number of people who actually take your calls. You’ll walk away with a go-to checklist for prospecting, five ways to group leads, tips on how to improve your messaging to get a reply, and more! Worth it? We think so.

Bring the entire team and stay to the end to hear about a special sales training discount just for attendees.

8+ Hacks For Sellers And Managers To Get More Done Today

Wednesday, May 17th @ 1 pm ET

It’s hard to imagine any other job in the world that expects someone to take meetings, manage email, collaborate with their team, AND make 100 dials a day. And don’t even get us started on sales management (it’s literally the busiest job in the world!). Salespeople and managers face pressures that no other professionals do, and it’s critical we squeeze the most out of every minute, every call, every meeting, and every chat.

We’ve curated best practices from over ten thousand sellers and managers in the past 15 years and we promise you’ll leave with at LEAST one hack to help you win your day.

COMING SOON!

Past Workshops

How to Create a Coaching Culture That Retains Your People

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In today’s talent-driven market, we need to offer more than our competition to retain our best employees. Companies and teams with a coaching culture are known to achieve higher quotas and lower attrition rates. After all, if you help your employees become successful at work and they’ll keep coming back!

You’ll hear from leaders at some of the most employee-centric organizations on how they’ve achieved a coaching culture and why it’s crucial to employee retention.

Mastering the Transition from Field to Virtual Selling

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Virtual and hybrid work practices are here to stay now which means it’s time to brush up on some new virtual selling skills.

Listen, you’re gold at the in-person presentation, but you’ll need these phone sales tips and tricks to GET the meeting. In this session, you’ll learn how to leave a better voicemail and ensure it’s returned, how often you should call a prospect, the best days/times to call, how to avoid the brush-off, how to find new contacts and reach the decision-maker, and more!

This session is ideal for field sellers who are now selling virtually, as well as sales reps in manufacturing, logistics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or other traditionally face-to-face industries.

How to Build Pipeline and Keep Selling During a Recession

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Let’s face it, it’s a nervous selling economy. So, LB is bringing in the big dogs to share the million-dollar strategies for selling during a recession: Doug Landis – advisor to the biggest and brightest SaaS startups, and Zach Miller – a 20-year enterprise-selling veteran. Sales leaders will learn 5 critical tactics to keep sales momentum and seller morale strong. Reps will discover 5 essential skills and techniques to protect their pipeline and commission! Bonus: Learn how and why to involve marketing and customer success in the strategy. 

Forward this invite NOW to every sales, customer success, marketing, and enablement leader, and book 30 minutes following to discuss your tip takeaways and how to roll them to your teams.

Beyond the Keyboard: Tips for Prospecting via Phone and Video

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Want to increase the size AND quality of your pipeline? Then it’s time to pick up the phone AND turn on your camera! It’s easy to hide behind email and social, but if you want to close some final deals and build massive pipe, you are going to need some fresh ideas.

Join us for this 1-hour session focused on using both phone AND video during prospecting. We’re sharing the top 5 levers to try when cold calling, how to overcome common objections, video best practices to improve email response rates, how to avoid prospect ghosting, and MORE! Special guest, Alicia Berruti from BombBomb, will be joining LB for this session.

Tips for Creating Your Sales Team Development Plan + Budget

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Smart leaders know that ongoing training and development is the #1 way to keep employees happy and engaged. It’s also the top thing that Millennials and Gen Z seek when job hunting. With attrition at an all-time high and the talent pool shrinking, companies need to shift their focus to retention strategies. 

Join us for a 30-minute, tip-rich session covering everything you need to know when creating your sales team development plan. We’re covering the mistakes to avoid, how to budget for sales training, tips on executing development with low bandwidth, and much more!

How to Make Negotiation Your Superpower

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Whether you’re a high-level sales executive or a professional new to the workforce, negotiation is one of the most important skills you need to hone. If you’d love to learn how to be a better negotiator, register for this uber informative session.

In this workshop, we’ve gathered a panel of leaders who are sharing everything you need to know about negotiation, from negotiating employment, to contracts, to a raise, and more. Plus, we’ll cover how women negotiate differently and tips for success everyone can use!

Onboarding Sales Reps: 10 Hacks to Improve Training + Ramp Time

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Sales Leaders, Enablement, Ops, and Training Leaders take note! Your new hire program is critical right now. It’s hard enough to find these folks, let’s ensure they stick — and perform! What if your training could take less time? What if they came out closer to quota? What if it was so good you could hire more diverse talent? It’s all possible with a best-in-class sales onboarding program!

This session is recommended for: Training Managers, Sales Directors, Enablement Directors, Sales Operations Leaders, Recruiting Leaders, New Hire Trainers, Onboarding Specialists, VP Enablement, VP Sales, VP Operations, and Sales Managers.

The Ultimate Sales Rep + Manager Relationship

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We know how tough it is to find great salespeople, so the smart leaders are asking a better question, “How do we keep our reps?” The bottom line is always the relationship between an employee and their manager. So what does the ultimate Sales Rep to Sales Manager relationship look like? Gallup reports that reps with great relationships won’t leave a company unless they’re offered over 20% higher salary. 

Come learn 10 things you can do ASAP to boost the relationship with your reps (and reps with their managers!). We’ll hear from in-demand sellers and award-winning leaders so we can beat the Great Resignation by keeping talent longer, loving our jobs, and all making more commission. 

How to Fix the Top 5 Mistakes Made During Sales Demos

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We’ve all sat through demos that are total snoozefests; they’re too long, too detailed, and don’t tell you what you really want to know about a product. For reps, a product demo is a chance for you to get prospects excited about your product, and the quality of your demo can make or break your sale.

In this session, you’ll learn the top 5 mistakes made during demos, plus how to avoid giving a boring demo, and how to keep prospects wanting to know more. By the end, you’ll have a clear plan to deliver a demo that doesn’t suck!

How To Be A Great Sales Manager

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Whether you’re a current sales manager craving more training, a sales rep who aspires to lead, or a leader who wants to know the secret to turning their best reps into great managers, watch this informative workshop to learn how to be a great sales manager.

Lauren Bailey shares best practices for call coaching sales calls, how to run pipeline meetings, top time management tricks, how to drive sales performance, and more!

Call Coaching: 5 Things Reps + Managers Need to Prepare

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We all know that we need more and better call coaching – that it can lead to big leaps in quota attainment, improve rep engagement AND leap tall buildings in single bounds. So why don’t we hear any real-life success stories? Why can’t your team find the time? Why are your top managers still avoiding it? And why are our teams still averaging 60% to quota? Because call coaching is HARD!

In this session, we’re breaking down the top 5 things both reps and managers need to prepare before each coaching session and how to ensure every coaching session is productive and efficient.

How to Leave a Voicemail That Gets Returned

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A shocking 90% of outbound calls end in voicemails, and only a mere 3% of those voicemails are actually returned. So why aren’t you receiving a call back? It’s likely because your voicemail is bad. 👎

In this session, we’ll teach voicemail strategies that work! You can expect double to triple returned calls – that’s about 5-10 more conversations a week (or another selling day!). Plus, you’ll walk away with 4 voicemail scripts that you can use ASAP!

Field vs. Inside Selling: How to Excel in Different Sales Roles

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Field sales, virtual sales, inside sales, telesales, channel sales – what’s the difference? Which career is right for you? How do you succeed in each role? Learn more about the evolution of selling, when and why companies embrace inside sales, and why others don’t (and shouldn’t!). We’ll cover quick tips on what skills, attributes, and behaviors are lock-fits for the many roles in each lane and how to rise quickly to the top.

This webinar is perfect for new or aspiring sales reps and leaders that need to hire sales reps.

Email + Voice Scripts that WORK When Prospecting

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Nobody loves cold calling. That’s why we’ve renamed it prospecting! 🙂 Whether it’s a warm call, a cool call, or even existing customer calls — it’s harder than ever to capture our buyers’ attention. Enter the best-practice cadence and omnichannel approach of Email + Social + Phone. It works, but ONLY if your messaging doesn’t stink.

In this special Sales Shot, Lauren Bailey is joined by Brooke Bachesta, Revenue Enablement Manager at Outreach, and they’re sharing their top tips on how to master your omnichannel prospecting outreach.

Help! Should I Be in Sales Management?

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For both managers who think they want out of management and reps who aren’t sure if they want to get there, we’ll break down the job, the pros, the cons, and considerations. Wonder how to get your name in the hat? We got you.

Trying to take a step back without taking a step down? We get it. Look for no BS, practical tips from Factor 8 and #GirlsClub Founder LB who got in and out of sales management herself three times.

10+ Tips to Build a Human Connection on Sales Calls

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Ready to bring the “human” back into sales calls? Join us for a special “Double Shot” featuring our friends at #GirlsClub and BombBomb. You’ll hear best practices and tactical tips on how to build a connection with your prospects and customers, from utilizing storytelling to incorporating videos in your outreach to letting your personality shine on sales calls.

How to Use Storytelling to Engage Prospects and Customers

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Using a story to prove a point can be up to 20x (yes, you read that right) more effective than just delivering facts. By crafting an engaging story about your experience, company, and solutions, you’ll have your prospects and customers leaning in and wanting to know more.

In this session, you’ll learn the components of a great story, plus actionable tips you can apply on your sales calls. We’ll go beyond building rapport to creating customer engagement on every call!

Tips to Transition to Close FAST

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Only 10% of customers will close themselves and most reps lack the confidence to even ask for the sale. This means that most deals don’t close. It’s time to change that!

In this session, we’ll cover buying signals and transition statements that help reps steer the conversation to a close, break down the types of closes that work, and help reps find their go-to closing questions that build “muscle memory” and confidence closing.

How to Run a Great Discovery Call

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Lack of discovery is one of the most common sales sins. Ready to arm yourself with the knowledge on how to ask more (and better) questions during a discovery call?

In this session, you’ll learn how to transition open and closed questions into techniques, as well as how to turn scripts into conversations. You’ll come out of this workshop with five standard questions to uncover the need for your solution on every call.

4 Easy Steps for Handling Objections

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Objections are an inevitable part of every sales process. The key is to welcome them as a roadmap to the close (rather than a roadblock).

In this session, we teach a four-step process to use with any objection to reduce defensiveness, dig into the questions behind the objection, answer it and close.

How to Get More Sales Referrals

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Have history in your accounts? Maybe even relationships? We’ll teach you how to leverage past success straight into your next win—an order, a partnership, or a referral.

Referral business closes faster, stays longer, and spends more. This workshop will give you the framework and the confidence to get more!

Fast and Easy Ways to Speak Value with Your Prospects

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By understanding core business motivators and mapping them to your buyers, you’ll learn what levers to pull to differentiate, gain attention, and propose solutions that sell.

In this session, you’ll learn how to align your messaging with what your customers and prospects care about and how to turn your value prop into a short, powerful, and conversational “SWIIFT Pitch”.

Quick Tips for Better Cold Call Openings

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You’ve got mere seconds to capture the attention of a prospect once they pick up the phone. It’s critical you get the information you need as quickly as possible.

In this 30 minute session, you’ll learn how to craft your SWIIFT intro to quickly entice prospects, plus ways to overcome the dreaded “I’m not interested” brush-off to salvage the opportunity and keep the lead alive.

 

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