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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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The Challenge of the Challenger Sales Model - The Facts

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote an article, Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind , that was very critical of an article that appeared in Harvard Business Review. This highly successful, elite salesperson, has a Sales Quotient of 140 (out of a possible 173) or better.

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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. The modern sales team has added structure to the activities salespeople conduct to build pipeline and win business. 6 min read.

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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. Objective Management Group (OMG) measures something a bit different; difficulty recovering from rejection. The revenue of the prospect company. Nothing will stop him. No problem.

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How I Work It – Social Selling with Tom Pick

Adaptive Business Services

Professionally – started my career running an engineering documentation group, which I like to say is exactly as exciting as it sounds. But if one out of ten becomes a solid business prospect, or better yet a client, the process is working well. But I have reviewed some very interesting online tools for sales pros.

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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? She’s noticed she enjoys a high success rate when she talks to prospects 90 days before their contract renewal. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.