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Your 2012 Sales Plan

Your Sales Management Guru

Your 2012 Sales Plan. It’s a little late to begin planning your 2012 Sales Plan, but in a conversation last week with a reader of this blog, I realized there maybe others who have not formalized their 2012 plan. 12.1.2 Marketing support: Collateral, lead generation, PR events, trade shows, Press releases.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 115 – Be Social

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In past posts I’ve talked about how your social footprint is your 365 day per year, 24×7 online trade show where your buyers and potential referral partners can learn about you on their own schedule. There are three major reasons you need to have regular time blocked off in your calendar for being social online.

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5 Proven Steps to Sell Smarter

SBI Growth

The statistics I share below are from SBI’s 2012 Sales & Marketing Research. Trade shows and local community events can be a grind. You would close a few more deals per year. How do you achieve that? Without getting too deep into the weeds, below are 5 steps to sell smarter. Utilize event floor time for networking.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

Pointclear

2012: Companies Lifting Off with Higher Budgets for Marketing & Lead Generation. Research indicates that prospects are completing 70% of the decision making process before they want to talk to a salesperson, but information sources for this self-education still needs to include direct mail pieces, emails and trade show participation.

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The 21.5 BEST Places To Network | Jeffrey Gitomer's Sales Blog.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Trade shows. Both industry specific and general business shows are excellent places to get known, get sales, and get ahead. Take the success hint from above and add the ingredient of hard work, rather than partying, and you have the formula for trade show success. Hire Jeffrey to speak at your next corporate event.

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Top Ways to Maximize Trade Show Opportunities

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Can you remember back to that time, perhaps not so long ago, when you had an amazing trade show booth opportunity to showcase your company and for whatever reason you did not capitalize on it? 2) An industry event like a trade show is a great way to be “many-to-one” in meeting up with buyers and existing customers.

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PowerViews with Rich Vancil: Marketing Ops, Sales Ops & Mashups

Pointclear

2012: Transformational Change, the New Buyer & Big Data. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what is happening or not happening in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Rich notes there’s been more transformational change in the past eight to twelve months than he’s seen in the previous nine years.

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