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Maximizing Your Company’s Investment in CRM

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: By Dave Stein, CEO and Founder, ES Research Group, Inc. Teaser: Even though $18 billion was invested in customer relationship management systems in 2012, many sales leaders continue to struggle to get value from their investment. Issue Date: 2013-07-01. read more'

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Achieve Greater Sales Success in 2012

Anthony Cole Training

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Achieve Greater Sales Success in 2012. Posted by Tony Cole on Thu, Jan 05, 2012. What are the key focus areas for sales success in 2012? In the research we do prior to engaging with a new client we find the following: 1. © 2012 www.anthonycoletraining.com.

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Top Sales Books To Read in 2012

Fill the Funnel

My list of top sales books to read in 2012 consists of books that were published during 2011 and contain innovative, fresh ideas about selling, customer expectations, and how to improve your ability to win new business customers. © MASP - Fotolia.com. Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. “Change is hard.”

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Maximize profitability – sell value and manage price expectations

Sales Training Connection

To maximize profitablity, your s ales force needs to do more than sell product – it must create value and manage price expectations. A consistent finding from social science research is as follows: in successful sales calls the sellers ask more questions than they do in unsuccessful calls, and the buyers talk more than the sellers.

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How to Grow Sales on LinkedIn

Score More Sales

Every sales team that puts some time into a combination of three things – their profile (improving and maximizing), their value (endorsements and recommendations) and their connections are gaining access to the executives they are trying to reach. Prospect research is the most frequent LinkedIn activity.

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Youth, Lead Quality, Social Selling, Inside Sales and Outbound Marketing

Pointclear

Dave Stein, ES Research Group, How Much Social Selling Should Sales Reps be Doing? Dave Stein, CEO and Founder of ES Research Group Inc. A business professor at Columbia University, Ruth is also the author of “Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers” and a guest blogger at Biznology and HBR.org.

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Social Selling - The New Door Opener

SBI Growth

A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. If you aren’t maximizing your online presence, assume competitors are “gleaning” your opportunities. Chances are you began your research online. Research – Stay up on best practices to make the most of your brand. With that change came concern.