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“Why I Am So Interested In Selling,” Craig Jamieson

Partners in Excellence

this time in retail merchandise management. Upon graduating, I was hired by Montgomery Wards as a regional management trainee. I loved selling, but I had come to HATE retail. My next 20 plus years were almost exclusively in management and I lived mostly vicariously on sales calls with my reps.

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Women Sales Leaders: From Pioneers to Modern-Day Trailblazers

No More Cold Calling

In the fall of 1905, she began teaching a class on retail sales to women through the union. I don’t recall if we were the only women in the room, but I do know we were the only attendees with a book on sales. Her book Selling to Big Companies was published in December 2005, and my book No More Cold Calling was published in 2006.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?”

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Winning Big Deals - Everything You Need to Know

Tony Hughes

Back in 2005, Tiger Woods was the biggest winner in the world and he cracked more than $10 million in prize-money earnings alone for the first time in a single year. In 2005 I was running the Australian region of a global software company and we did three of the four biggest deals globally for the corporation.

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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker Training

And so there was just this huge opportunity, and I’d spent time working a weekend job at an electrical retailer, just like Best Buy, but in the UK and just saw that so many people were so out of their depth with these consumer electronics and computers and just thought, Hey, there’s a big angle here.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. I’ve spent 10 years in various Sales and Sales Management roles, both in Paris and London. I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations. ” Aletta Noujaim. Be yourself.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

They focus on producing content for sales reps, sales managers, and sales execs. When they’re not blogging, the Double Digit Sales team also produces awesome sales training courses. Diagnose Your Sales Pipeline to Increase Performance. The Gist: A sales management blog with a BizOps spin.