Discover the psychology of sales

This course is your guide to mastering sales and buyer psychology. Packed with expert advice and practical tips, you’ll learn to understand your buyers’ minds like never before.
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Course
overview 

Discover buyer secrets and be able to pass your newfound knowledge back to your sales team - and elevate their sales performance to dizzying heights.

This course will teach you:

  • What buyer psychology actually is and why it’s so critical to success in sales.
  • Tricks of the trade that allow you to influence a buyer’s behavior in your favor during the sales process.
  • To implement tried-and-tested buyer and sales psychology techniques into your sales enablement programs,  boosting your sales teams’ confidence and capabilities.

Chapters

  • What is sales enablement?
  • What is buyer psychology?
  • Why is buyer psychology important?
  • How buyer psychology can help sales
  • Challenges of buyer psychology

Chapters

  • What you need to know
  • Why you need to understand your buyers
  • The buyer centre
  • The bases of power
  • What do your buyers want?
  • The buyer journey
  • Buyer psychology in the real world
  • [Fireside chat] Lyle Jacon, Sales Operations Consultant at TekAdvizr
  • [Bonus footage] Understanding your customer journey to reduce churn and increase retention - Leilani Carbonell, Senior Manager of CS and Greg Watkins, Customer Success Team Leader at Tipalti

Chapters

  • What persuades someone to buy?
  • The triangle rhetoric
  • Buyer personality types
  • Buyer behaviour
  • Cultural differences
  • The principles of sales psychology
  • What about influencers?
  • [Fireside chat] Crystal Crouch, Senior Manager - Product Marketing Insurance Partners at Motive
  • [Bonus footage] B2B and B2C applications - Alex Chahin, VP of Marketing at Titan

Chapters

  • Know your product or service
  • Have better conversations
  • Using the right language
  • Sales techniques
  • Discounts - 50% off or BOGOF?
  • The perfect buyer psychology sales
  • [Fireside chat] Phill Agnew, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Buffer
  • [Bonus footage] Understanding your customers - Laura Welch, Director of Sales Enablement at HP

Chapters

  • B2B vs B2C
  • Feedback loops (customers and company)
  • Metrics
  • Workshops and roleplays

Chapters

Chapters

Modules

Modules

Modules

Introduction to buyer psychology

Chapters

  • What is sales enablement?
  • What is buyer psychology?
  • Why is buyer psychology important?
  • How buyer psychology can help sales
  • Challenges of buyer psychology
The psychology of buyers

Chapters

  • What you need to know
  • Why you need to understand your buyers
  • The buyer centre
  • The bases of power
  • What do your buyers want?
  • The buyer journey
  • Buyer psychology in the real world
  • [Fireside chat] Lyle Jacon, Sales Operations Consultant at TekAdvizr
  • [Bonus footage] Understanding your customer journey to reduce churn and increase retention - Leilani Carbonell, Senior Manager of CS and Greg Watkins, Customer Success Team Leader at Tipalti
What influences buyers

Chapters

  • What persuades someone to buy?
  • The triangle rhetoric
  • Buyer personality types
  • Buyer behaviour
  • Cultural differences
  • The principles of sales psychology
  • What about influencers?
  • [Fireside chat] Crystal Crouch, Senior Manager - Product Marketing Insurance Partners at Motive
  • [Bonus footage] B2B and B2C applications - Alex Chahin, VP of Marketing at Titan
Improving your sales techniques

Chapters

  • Know your product or service
  • Have better conversations
  • Using the right language
  • Sales techniques
  • Discounts - 50% off or BOGOF?
  • The perfect buyer psychology sales
  • [Fireside chat] Phill Agnew, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Buffer
  • [Bonus footage] Understanding your customers - Laura Welch, Director of Sales Enablement at HP
Metrics

Chapters

  • B2B vs B2C
  • Feedback loops (customers and company)
  • Metrics
  • Workshops and roleplays

Chapters

Chapters

Modules

Modules

Modules

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3+
Hours of content
5
Modules
40
Exam questions
6
Templates
5
Coursework tasks

"Love the module, Improving your sales techniques. So important to getting back to the basics on knowing the product and using the right terminology! This is an unintentional gap we sometimes have with misalignment internally, not overselling ourselves."

Sarah Wester

Director of Sales Enablement and Operations

"SEC is doing phenomenal work bringing global enablement thought leaders together and driving value with new, yet proven, insights delivered by these leaders. The drive is for actionable insights that move the needle and I learn something new that improves me and my team's performance every time."

Petek Hawkins

Vice President of Revenue Enablement

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Understand the psychology of sales

Train your sellers to understand how your buyers think, and use that to their advantage.

Discover the power of influence

Delve into the minds of your buyers and learn how to highlight the value of your solution.

Weave psychology and enablement together

Take your newfound learnings build sales enablement programs that pass that knowledge on to your teams.

What's
included  

01
Content

Industry-leading, community-led curriculum that covers the key areas of sales and buyer psychology - with nothing but expert intel throughout.

02
Interviews

Cutting-edge insights from world-leading sales and buyer psychology experts on how they've achieved success - so you can tap into their learnings and expedite your own success.

03
Exams

Exam questions throughout to consolidate your learning, challenge your way of thinking, and ensure what you learn in the course is taken out into the real world.

04
Templates

Tried, tested, and vetted templates and frameworks ready to use right away to streamline your processes and work with peace of mind.

05
Coursework

Create your own bank of tangible takeaways, bring them back to your boss, implement them right away, demonstrate instant ROI, and grow your career.

06
Bonus

Access fireside chats, and bonus footage from industry experts. And apply practical tools and resources to implement effective buyer and sales psychology strategies.

07
Certification

Get officially Buyer Psychology certified and access the entire library of content for life.

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With every single one of our courses and certifications, you can get your hands on templates, frameworks, and toolkits. All are designed with the cumulative knowledge of our community to help you implement your newfound knowledge the very next day.

Sales Enablement Metrics worksheet

The Buying Center and their roles

Top Factors

Customer Journey map

Types of Tie

Types of Buyers

Types of Buyers

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Understand your prospects’ thinking to close more deals

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Discover the power of psychology in the sales world

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FAQS

Who’s this buyer psychology course for?

This course is for anyone who’s ready to master the science of buyer psychology. This course will equip you with the confidence and know-how you need to understand your buyers inside and out.

How does the buyer psychology course work?

The course is 100% online and entirely self-paced. Once you enroll, you’ll work through the modules chronologically and be invited to participate in activities. At the end of each module, you’ll be presented with mandatory exam questions, and if you pass all these, you’ll become Buyer Psychology: Certified!

How long will the buyer psychology course take to complete?

The course content, activities, and exams will take approximately 3 hours to complete.

What happens if I don’t pass the exams?

If you fail the first time around you'll be given the option to retake the exam. If you fail the second attempt, unfortunately, it means you won’t get the certificate. However, all’s not lost, you’ll have still learned LOTS and you’ll be given access to the course materials for life - so you can brush up on the bits you slipped up on forevermore.

How long will I have access to the course content?

For life! One, one-off payment gives you unlimited to all the course’s content forevermore.

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