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Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. At this time of the year everyone is working on your sales business plans for 2013 and finishing budgets and forecasts. This particular company wanted to reinforce the sales process, sales strategy execution as well as increasing the focus on customer service.

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One Easy Tool to Improve Sales Efficiency Now

SBI Growth

We’re nearly 60% through 2013. Develop priority rankings for existing customers with factors including: Revenue & Revenue Growth. Other Costs to Serve (customer service time, billing inquiry time, post-sales support time, etc.). Product and service offerings have to evolve to meet changing demand.

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Throw Your Sales Materials Away…NOW!

The Sales Hunter

He opened the sales meeting beautifully and then began walking the customers through the materials. For some reason, he was hung up on the idea he needed cute pictures and “marketing speak” content to wow his customer. We want customers talking and we want them engaged. I have no idea! The guy was good!

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Observations On Dreamforce 2013

Partners in Excellence

I was able to brush up on technology–personally, I spend a lot of time getting updates on marketing automation. But from the point of view of new, interesting, and emerging technologies focused on sales, marketing, and customer service professionals, it’s awesome.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Sales Ops: Defend your Turf

SBI Growth

Ops remains close to the CSO but marketing, finance and HR are more influential. Operations data has not been properly leveraged - Are you tracking the metrics that drive results in 2013? What are the Major Business Objectives of the CSO? Marketing is not sharing pipeline data. Sales Ops has lost some of its credibility.

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Major Accounts vs. Sales Prospecting: Where to Spend Your Time?

The Sales Hunter

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. Marketing, on the other hand, tends to be compensated more for business growth, and their belief tends to be that growth is more likely to come from new customers than from existing customers.

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