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The Pipeline ? Talking Long-Term ? Acting Short-Term ? Sales.

The Pipeline

December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. Talking Long-Term – Acting Short-Term – Sales eXchange – 109. ©2008 Copyright by The Pipeline. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009.

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

No More Cold Calling

Ram Charan, author of more than 20 books and consultant to CEOs, said in 2008 : “It’s counterintuitive but true that when the economy slows down, the pace of decision-making has to speed up, because you can’t put off the tough choices anymore. It’s not 2002 and 2003, or 2008 and 2009. It’s 2020.

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Normal Is Just Another Word For Yesterday

The Pipeline

Think about a time you got fired, like 2008, job and home, a friend’s death, a crushed ankle. Act Not React. The ability to think through the situation and act deliberately, not just react. Accept that as normal, and it is the right time to act. How did you cope, did you hide behind normal, or did you cope? Be The Normal.

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How Will You Sell With A Restrictive US Privacy Policy Act?

SalesforLife

2008 - The first LinkedIn talent solutions product launches - Recruiter Job Slots. 2020 - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), passed in June 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is slated to become the most comprehensive data privacy law in the US. Most mobile phones were still used by business people.

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Grow Revenue During a Recession by Being Counter-Intuitive

Understanding the Sales Force

The economic crisis of 2008-9, and the Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021 showed us that when companies focus on cost-cutting instead of growing revenue, revenue declines – sharply. We are now seeing these events in sales organizations: Missed forecasts. Closing delays. Failure to hit quotas. Order cancellations.

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Taking the Lead: Why Q4 Is the Time for Small Businesses to Get Aggressive

Sales and Marketing Management

Following the 2008 recession, it took larger companies an average of four years to recover their pre-recession level of GDP , while smaller companies took six years. Planned marketing hiring has dropped to its lowest point, going negative for the first time since the survey began in 2008, with average hiring estimated to be -3.5%

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Get Out Of Yourself!

The Pipeline

I think it is the change part that causes people to believe they act one way when they advise people to do things differently. Change is a big opportunity but a more significant barrier to acting. In 2008 I finished a gig in Chicago and was looking to have a beer in the hour before boarding.