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Sales Blogging - Do As I Say, Not as I Do

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s a big problem with many of the sales blogs you read. One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. Although that was the original plan in 2006, it is no longer on my radar. Improve your sales coaching capabilities.

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Sales Incentives, Awards, Lead Follow Up and Sales Effectiveness

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today I had the following email exchange: Subject: Question on Comp. Sales complains that the leads suck. We have the sales process dialed in and we are training on it now. That's one of more than 20 conditions that justify evaluating the sales force. I am stuck on comp.

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Want Better Lead Generation? Get Marketing & Sales in Line

DiscoverOrg Sales

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down. Process-oriented sales enablement. Marketing-generated awareness.

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Timing is Everything

John Barrows

I still believe it would rival some of the best sales tools out there today if it was still available. Unfortunately, they developed it in 2006 when the market wasn’t ready, so it died. Timing in Sales. Timing isn’t just critical with business ideas, it’s also extremely critical in sales.

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. A number of the authors writing back in 2016 suggested that sales training was at an inflection point. Inflection point. Design philosophy.

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One Thing Missing from The New Way of Selling - Part 2

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I read an article that was very consistent with what I was complaining about last week when I wrote The One Thing Missing From the New Way of Selling. I have tremendous respect for the article''s author, Mark Roberge , who has built a great sales force over at Hubspot.

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The Ultimate List of YouTube Channels for Sales Professionals

Zoominfo

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 2. Sales Hacker.

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