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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

Reading Gap Selling is a start to changing the way we sell, but the truth is, it is a sophisticated and inherently difficult sales approach. How is that a book on execution has become my favorite sales book? So what makes execution a sales book? How are you going to accelerate sales by 25% year over year for 5 years?

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We Lead with Sales Leadership

Score More Sales

The year 2002 seems like such a long time ago, yet with memories etched in my brain forever it seems like yesterday. A month and a half later, I left my corporate job as Director of Education for a SaaS company and did contract work until launching Score More Sales in early 2002.

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Sales Pipeline Dried Up? The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now

No More Cold Calling

We see deals in our sales pipeline postponed or disappearing. Sales leaders: Lead generation must be your primary focus. What do businesses typically do when clients stop buying and the sales pipeline dries up? If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline. If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Revolutionizing Sales Hiring with Lori Richardson (S4Ep22)

Alice Heiman

Hiring high-performing teams is no easy feat for CEOs, but when it comes to sales teams, the stakes are exponentially higher. Achieving your organization’s business objectives hinges on building and scaling a successful sales force that drives predictable revenue growth.

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Millennials are not from Mars

Sales and Marketing Management

You can’t pick up a magazine (we’re guilty) or attend a trade show these days without running into yet another discussion on the likes and dislikes of people born between 1982 and 2002 (the officially unofficial definition of millennials). Can we dial it back on the “what millennials want” talk? read more

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Developing a High-Performance Sales Team Using Tactics from Moneyball

The Sales Readiness Blog

The movie is an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team on a minimal budget. You don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.

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Want Sales Success? Practice. (We’re Talking About Practice?!?)

Anthony Cole Training

Let’s conservatively pretend that he didn’t start to hit Major League Batting Averages until 2002. Defensively, let’s say he has averaged 140 games per year since 2002; that would mean he has played 1,734 games and spent 15,612 innings in the infield facing at a minimum of 3 batters per inning. pitches per at bat.