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Is Your Sales Training Tethered to the Stone Age?

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Recently I spoke with a potential client who shared with me in had invested $80,000 in sales training over the course of three (3) years. Further discussion revealed this expensive sales training focused on technical sales skills and failed to address the people side of selling or people skills. It did not increase sales.

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Emotional Intelligence Grows Sales

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I had the pleasure to sit down with Emotional Intelligence (Ei) Sales Expert Colleen Stanley recently and we talked about how sales training – sales skills – can fail because our reps were not aware of their emotional awareness. Inconsistent prospecting activity – low impulse control or delayed gratification.

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The "No Time to Prospect" Myth - Why People Don't Succeed in Selling

Anthony Cole Training

Leadership Training (2). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales management training (4). sales prospecting (34). Sales Training (5). training sales (25).

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Sales Amateur or Sales Professional? What are You? | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Feb 13, 2012. Guest post Monday and we have Owen Van Syckle of the Van Syckle Group , a sales training and consulting group. They write a lot of proposals, but have low closing ratios. Client List. Testimonials. FREE Resources. Negotiation.

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Drivers and Your Salespeople Need to be Patient

Understanding the Sales Force

In a sales call, no matter how slowly it may be going or how difficult a prospective client may be, I have the patience of a saint. To make matters worse, your prospects want your salespeople to present and conduct demos. They want prices and proposals and your salespeople are too willing to oblige.

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The (New) New ABCs of Selling — Alignment, Belief, and Consistency

Sales Hacker

The sales profession often drives people away because its training methods need updating. And these tactics make those salespeople — not to mention their prospects — uncomfortable, decreasing any successful outcome. In 2012, Daniel Pink proposed a new ABCs of selling in his book, To Sell Is Human: Attunement, Buoyancy, and Clarity.

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3 Steps to Grow Your Online Visibility and B2B Brand

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There are many cloud-based tools to help grow your visibility, do niche research, and learn more about your existing and prospective customers. Research is critical, because you are learning online where your prospects and customers are, and coexisting. As in real life, you need to go where your customers are. What communities?

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