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Solution Selling Is Exactly What Today’s Buyer Wants

Sales Hacker

So why did HBR declare the solution selling methodology dead in 2012? Buyers in 2012 had come a long way from the buyers of the 1980s. They wanted a document solution tool which would provide analytics and reporting, merge with their existing systems, and would be fit to scale. Well, they had a fair point.

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Can Your SMB Grow Sales Without Disruptive New Tools?

Score More Sales

It has been the case that many sales tools have been unapproachable for smaller and SMB sales teams due to the financial investment as well as the time and expertise to get some tools in place. The Good News – Tools Can be Easy to Try Out and Implement. Some even offer immediate results. Companies do this all the time.

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Why Content Marketing Matters to a Sales Rep

SBI Growth

Creates cheat sheets and sales tools because the ones from Marketing are useless. Download a time study tool at this event. Figure out how much time you spend creating your own Content Marketing tools. Source – CEB, The New High Performer Playbook, Arlington VA, 2012). MarketingSherpa, 2012). Well, it’s true.

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Are You Embracing Social Business

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McKinsey Global Institute Report, “The Social Economy: Unlocking Value and Productivity Through Social Technologies” – July 2012. IBM Social Business Global Client Creates Products Faster, with a 23% Improvement in Cycle Time for New Products – July 2012. It is one of the no-brainer, must do sales tools to look into.

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Scrivener Is A Surprising Tool for Sales

Fill the Funnel

When I started to finalize the list of the twenty tools that I wanted to highlight in this series, Scrivener kept jumping off the screen at me, demanded to be added to the series. For that type of written communication, Scrivener has proven to be a powerful tool. It is not just for salespeople. All Rights Reserved.

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The Incredible Power of Connection Using Three Lists to Grow Business

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There has never been a better time to find simple and even free tools to capture your prospective customers and all your connections). Use online and social tools to connect, such as through LinkedIn and Twitter. Don’t stop with social tools, though. Note: if you are NOT doing this, start immediately.

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How Giving Money to Your CMO Will Save Your 2013

SBI Growth

This year’s SBI Q3 Tour- Make the Number: How your Peers are Allocating People, Money and Time in 2013 provides research-backed strategies, plans, approaches, and tools that are used by many of the best organizations in the world. And by the way, your CMO partner is going through that exact same exercise.