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What is the Best Sales Process for Increasing Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Having founded Kurlan & Associates in 1985 and Objective Management Group in 1990, the only surprise should be that it took so long to combine the two passions and write Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball , in 2005.

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How I Increased My Email Prospecting Response Rate by 1400%

Hubspot Sales

Even if some prospects do read the email, few bother to respond. However, a well-crafted prospecting email is a powerful weapon in any salesperson's arsenal. I used seven principles to take a prospecting email from bad to great, and raised my response rate from 1% to 14% in the process. Email 1: The Before. Email 2: The After.

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4 Buyer Personalities & How to Sell to Them

LevelEleven

A popular movie was released in 2005 called The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants , which told the magical tale of a pair of jeans that fit everyone in a group of four friends, all with different body types. The world of sales is not like a pair of magical jeans. Each pitch must be tailored to fit the prospect’s personality.

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Do You Need Training Even While You are Still Making Sales?

Jeff Shore

I am having flashbacks of 2005…economically speaking that is. If you were in sales in 2005, things were booming. From the sales person perspective it was both good and bad. From the sales person perspective it was both good and bad. When the market is kind, the majority of sales people relax their behaviors.

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A Modern Take on Sales Coaching

Xvoyant

The Modern Sales Environment. To say the state of sales today is radically different than it was in 2005 would be an understatement. And it isn’t just one part of sales that has changed. Buyers have changed. Today, over 3,000 sales tools are ready for a salesperson to use to help win more business.

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Rejection - Why it is the #1 Enemy in Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Most of the sales bloggers don''t touch on rejection but when it does comes up, it''s usually in the context of fear, as in fear of rejection. But rejection isn''t that well understood by salespeople, their sales managers or sales even their sales VP''s. The revenue of the prospect company. Nothing will stop him.

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The 3 Ways Experienced Sales Reps Typically Fail.

MJ Hoffman

Who’s likelier to make a mistake: The rookie sales rep who’s never sold a day in their life, or the veteran rep who’s been on the front lines for nine years? This helps them hone in on the most lucrative buyer personas and disqualify poor fits. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response. 1) They Over-Qualify.