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There are 4 modules in this course
This course is designed to enhance your sales skills and deepen your understanding of IT concepts. This course will teach you to identify and demonstrate effective strategies for qualifying opportunities, ensuring you can recognize and pursue the most promising leads. You will learn the sequence and significance of each stage of the sales process, enabling you to navigate sales cycles with confidence.
Understanding buyer types and motivations is crucial, and you will craft probing questions tailored to each buyer type. You will develop a mindset for building trust, learning the factors that contribute to credibility and the consequences of lacking it.
Building rapport is essential, and you will identify the five key areas for establishing strong connections with customers. You will also learn strategies for delivering compelling insights to the right contacts within customer organizations.
Finally, you will gain knowledge of key technologies and understand ways to leverage this knowledge to find solutions for your customers.
This course is designed for anyone with an interest in a career in IT sales. No previous experience is necessary.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Use knowledge of buyer types and motivations to craft probing questions appropriate for each buyer type.
Describe the sequence and significance of each stage of the sales process.
Identify and demonstrate effective strategies for qualifying opportunities.
Identify strategies for conveying insights to the right contact within the customer organization in a compelling manner.
Identify the five key areas for establishing rapport.
Identify the factors that are key for establishing credibility & trust with customers.
Describe the relationship between software and external hardware in the functioning of an enterprise solutions.
Describe key data center technologies.
Recall the various types of questions they can ask, the value of each type and the natural order of asking.
Discuss, define, and practice probing and drill-down questioning to uncover further important customer information.
This week you’ll learn about the Sales Campaign. We will get into detail about The Sales Process and give you a better sense of how to manage a sale from start to finish. You’ll learn about the things that motivate buyers to make a purchase and how you can use that knowledge to sell. We’ll also address ways to determine which opportunities are worth pursuing. And finally, we’ll walk you through the steps that a customer goes through during the process of making a decision to buy.
Course Syllabus: Establishing Your Sales Strategy•10 minutes
How to Define Your Sales Process•10 minutes
Recap•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 85 minutes
Understanding the Sales Cycle•10 minutes
Formulating Questions for Different Buyer Types•30 minutes
IT Sales Campaign Assessment•45 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 30 minutes
Qualification Questions•30 minutes
Leading the Sale with Insight
Module 2•2 hours to complete
Module details
Relationships are critical for sellers and this week is all about getting to know your customer. You’ll learn about establishing a rapport and building trust with your customer. We’ll also go through some best practices for opening customer call.
11 Ways to Increase Credibility with Prospects•10 minutes
How to Start Sales Calls•10 minutes
Building Rapport•10 minutes
Recap•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 37 minutes
Researching the Customer Quiz•3 minutes
Call Opening Quiz•1 minute
Rapport and Communication Quiz•3 minutes
Leading With Insight Assessment•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Building Rapport Reflection•10 minutes
IT Sales Technical Foundations
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
This week is all about technology. While the majority of our curriculum centers on the skills needed to sell, in order to be successful in the tech industry, you’ll also need some technical foundations. This module provides a high-level view of computers and data center concepts. This week will also feature an introduction to digital transformation which is changing the world as we know it.
What's included
21 videos1 reading1 assignment
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21 videos•Total 78 minutes
Digital Transformation•4 minutes
Impacts of Digital Transformation•5 minutes
Modern Data Center - What Is It?•3 minutes
Modern Data Center - Real World•4 minutes
Modern Data Center - Impacts•3 minutes
Modern Data Center - Evolution and Technologies•2 minutes
Modern Data Center - Server, Storage, and Networking•3 minutes
Modern Data Center - Virtualization, Data Protection and Security•5 minutes
Cloud Computing Introduction•4 minutes
Types of Clouds•4 minutes
Benefits of Cloud•3 minutes
Cloud Computing Overview•2 minutes
Introduction to Edge•4 minutes
Why Edge Computing?•4 minutes
Edge Computing Scenarios•2 minutes
AI and Machine Learning Overview•3 minutes
Challenges and Future Outlook•3 minutes
Internet of Things (IoT)•6 minutes
Telecommunications•5 minutes
5G Introduction•3 minutes
5G Benefits•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Recap•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Technical Foundations Assessment•30 minutes
Uncover the Customer's Needs
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
This week will be focused on effective questioning. Questions are some of the greatest tools you will have as a seller. Learning how to ask the right questions will go a long way towards helping you understand your customer’s needs and providing them the right solution.
Dell Technologies is among the world’s leading technology companies helping to transform people’s lives with extraordinary capabilities. We are driven by our ambition and the power of technology to drive human progress. From hybrid cloud solutions to high-performance computing to ambitious social impact and sustainability initiatives, what we do impacts everyone, everywhere.
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