Sat.Feb 18, 2012 - Fri.Feb 24, 2012

Sales Training Connection

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Sales rep’s nightmare – selling the solution and losing the sale

Sales Training Connection

Selling the solution, but losing the sale. The last couple of years have produced a number of challenges for those engaged in the B2B market. Some of the problems will be temporary and as the economy improves the challenge will fade – while others will become new permanent fixtures on the landscape. Let’s examine a scenario that highlights one that falls into the latter category.

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Sales managers – assess your performance last year and adapt!

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High Performing Sales Manager Puzzle. Sales managers are starting the new year, making plans to meet (and hopefully exceed) sales goals and reviewing their territory for sales opportunities. While these activities definitely are necessary, top performing sales managers share there’s an additional piece to the top performing sales manager puzzle.

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Sales performance – leveraging the potential of disruptive trends

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Sales Performance. If you are a VP of Sales, adjusting to constant changes in the marketplace is the new normal. Fortunately most of the changes are minor and require only fine-tuning tactical adjustments. On the other hand, from time to time disruptive trends emerge that upend the market in ways that few ever imagine. These tends are often difficult to foresee and they produce transformational changes.

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