Challenger Blog

How Will Sales Evolve in 2025? Trends & Expert Insights From Richardson & Challenger

Ever wish you could peer into a crystal ball and learn what lies ahead for your sales team in 2025? Us too — but we know wishful thinking doesn’t…

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How Will Sales Evolve in 2025? Trends & Expert Insights From Richardson & Challenger

Ever wish you could peer into a crystal ball and learn what lies ahead for your sales team in 2025? Us too — but we know wishful thinking doesn’t…

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How To Win Negotiations Like a Challenger

There’s no win more satisfying — and no loss more frustrating — than one you’ve spent months negotiating. Sales leaders know that the desire to close…

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How Aerogen Invested in Sellers Through Challenger Experience Training

Transitioning a company to a new selling style is no small undertaking. But for Aerogen, a global medical device company headquartered in Galway,…

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Enabling the Challenger: How Nuix Drives Sellers to Reach New Heights

We’ve often focused on the importance of reinforcement after introducing Challenger, with guidance on gaining buy-in, coaching, and increasing…

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Three Key Challenger Skills for Motivating Buyers

Every seller knows that sinking feeling: realizing a deal they thought was progressing apace has slid off the rails. Maybe your main contact suddenly…

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Career Insights from a Fortune 500 Sales Leader

According to a 2024 report from Salesforce, more than half of sellers say it’s harder to sell now than it was a year ago. In the face of constantly…

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Winning the Challenger Sale

Tune into our series of webinars to learn how to win deals and improve your selling capabilities.

Winning the Challenger Sale: Season 3 Replay

Catch up on all of the episodes of Season 3, Winning the Challenger sale webinar series.

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Winning the Challenger Sale: Season 2 Replay

Catch up on the 13 episodes of Series 2, Winning the Challenger sale.

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How MSC Built a Sales Coaching and Reinforcement Machine

You’ve heard the old joke about how you get to Carnegie Hall. Strangely, the same directions apply to success in selling: Practice, practice,…

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Grow Accounts Like You're a New Logo Seller

The New Rules for Account Growth

As go-to-market (GTM) teams have grown and evolved, so too have our perceptions of “pre-sale” and “post-sale” roles. Customer success and account…

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Don’t Let Reluctant Sellers Derail Your Sales Training

Though sales trends may change, sales leaders’ goals remain fundamentally similar: grow pipeline, close deals, increase revenue. Perhaps that’s why…

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A Sales Leader’s Guide to AI Strategy

ChatGPT’s explosive debut in late 2022 changed the way many of us saw artificial intelligence’s role in everyday life. Sure, industries such as…

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Three Keys to Maximizing Your Training Investment

Any sales leader deserving of that title knows that they need a sales methodology. Sometimes, they build the SKO around it. Maybe they roll it out…

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