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Make Sales Data Meaningful in 2013 by Spending Time in the Field

SBI Growth

Mystery Shopping : The act of becoming a customer and purchasing your competitor’s products and services. Customers who quantified the problem purchased the new software 85% of the time. Also make sure you sign up for our Make The Number Tour: How Your Peers Are Allocating People, Money and Time in 2013. Author: Joshua Meeks.

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Reflections on 2013: Social Proof, Quota Killers, Failing CRM, and Recommendations

SBI

In all, there were 16 categories that honored thought-leaders; books, blogs and articles; software tools; and useful resources. For me personally, I was honored to get a Silver award for best Sales Blog Post of 2013. Why Your Focus on Quota is Killing Revenue Growth (Silver medal winner for best Sales Blog Post of 2013).

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Is Marketing the New Sales?

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2013-07-05. Author: Atri Chatterjee, CMO, Act-On Software. Teaser: Whose job is it to send an email? In a company that has well-aligned sales and marketing departments with the common goal of revenue, the answer is: It depends on where the buyer is on the journey. Whose job is it to send an email? read more'

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Which Industries Need the Most Help to Get Sales to the Next Level?

Understanding the Sales Force

The software industry is notorious for having demo-crazy and technically savvy, but weak, salespeople who hunt for new business, generate binders full of proposals and convert a small percentage of them. Software industry executives want help, need to improve, must improve their conversion ratios and increase sales. Not really.

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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Consultative Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

James is guilty of one of the most common misunderstanding in all of sales - that consultative selling requires salespeople to act like a consultant. Business Software and Applications. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Business, Auto and Professional Liability Insurance. Commercial Real Estate. Office Supplies and Furnitute.

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Discounting Belongs in Every Sales Tookit

Pipeliner

Critics consider it an act of desperation, a last-ditch knee-jerk tactic vendors try when prospects get nervous and jittery about buying. One B2B software company I worked for always presented small-to-medium business (SMB) pricing as discounted from the large-system list price. Discounting gets a bad rap.

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The Modern Guide to Candidate Sourcing

Zoominfo

While evolution is always a good thing, many in the recruiting world have wondered: is the act of strategic candidate sourcing dead? This debate picked up steam in 2013 when recruiting expert John Sullivan declared candidate sourcing a dying practice. His reasoning? However, fully-automated sourcing has its pitfalls.