Tue.Mar 27, 2012

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Strategic Questions? Why You Better Get Some.

The Sales Hunter

If you don’t understand the power of strategic questioning, you are missing out on a vital tool in high-profit selling. Building long-term relationships with customers and prospects requires that you ask strategic questions. Strategic questions are those where the answers are not always clear cut. You want to get the other person thinking and talking.

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Are you juggling Sales 2.0 reps with a Sales 1.0 system?

MTD Sales Training

Recently, Sean was asked to contribute to a webinar on the topic of outdated CRM systems in the modern selling world of today, for leading online business publication MyCustomer.com. MyCustomer.com is produced specifically for customer relationship managers and other customer management professionals across the UK, and Sean was invited to attend the webinar to discuss [.

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Spraying and Praying is Not Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

To be successful at sales prospecting, you have to have a plan. Spraying and praying is not a plan! Far too many salespeople have the belief that if they just throw enough stuff out there, spend enough time doing what they think is prospecting, then they will be successful. Sure, they could, as the saying goes — even a blind squirrel will find an acorn from time to time.

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E-mail marketing tips from a recruitment guru

Sales and Marketing Management

E-mail is a quick and efficient way to reach a lot of prospects in a short amount of time. Dougles Chan is a recruitment and retention guru (dougleschan.com) who uses electronic platforms to maximize his recruitment business.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Sales Leadership The Talent of Self Starting Ability

Increase Sales

Imagine for a moment a sales leadership team of individuals all demonstrating the self starting ability to do what they need to do without being told or extrinsically motivated. These self starters only come to you in sales management or as the small business owner when they have questions beyond their job descriptions or need clarification specific to current operating policies and procedures provided your firm has them.

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Win Or Lose, Do It Fast!

Partners in Excellence

The only thing worse than losing is losing after a loooonnnnnnng sales cycle. I’m constantly amazed at sales people investing time and resource chasing bad deals, but too many fall into the trap and stay there. It’s tough finding opportunities these days. Many sales people are desperate to find something, anything, get a prospect to find a deal.

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The 5 Immutable Laws of Selling

SBI

Tweet Our world, along with the entire cosmos in which we reside, is governed by what we understand as the laws of physics. And whatever affect these forces may have upon the course of our day-to-day endeavors, they are as unchangeable, and indeed as unstoppable, as time itself. All else is not only dependent upon, but is made constant and inevitable based on these realities.

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The Consequences of Dropping Our Pants Too Early

Jonathan Farrington

I suppose I should consider myself quite fortunate that my first sales manager was such a strong disciplinarian. By “strong” I mean he was a tough, uncompromising, unsympathetic, no-nonsense type of guy. Unfortunately he was also bigoted, racist, homo-phobic and chauvinistic. I hated him more than anyone I have ever hated before or since – and I am pretty certain he hated me too.

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