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Exceptions in Small Business Sales Are the Rule Not the Exception

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A recent Twitter response to a posting about relationship selling in small business sales revealed a buyer had bought an expensive new car without any relationship. Possibly this is why there is so much information on marketing, selling and sales from the books to the webinars to the workshops or actual sales training events.

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What Are Your Action Plans to Increase Sales?

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Many small businesses have a sales action plan and some of the more forward thinking have a strategic action plan. Sales Training Coaching Tip: An effective action plan is reinforced by written WAY SMART goals. With buyers become better educated, salespeople must also become better educated. With 97.7% With 97.7%

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Sales CRM for Small Businesses with BIG Ambition

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Small business expert Rieva Lesonsky recently wrote that 2013 will be a year that small businesses “go for it” with small business optimism rising. In fact, more than half of small business owner’s project sales will grow in the next year, according to a Bank of America Small Business Owner Report.

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When Is the Time for No Free Consulting?

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Time is something many small business owners and sales professionals have in vast or short quantities depending upon their current sales and business growth. Sales Training Coaching Tip: The lack of an ideal customer profile may be part of the problem when it comes to “no free consulting.” Share on Facebook.

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Please Stop the Ongoing Insanity in Bank Sales Training

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During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? My quick and direct response was “banks and other financial institutions continue to use the same training providers they have been using for the last 20 plus years.”

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Is Your End of the Year Desperation to Increase Sales Showing?

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With less than two months to close the books on 2012, desperation is beginning to kick in for those small business owners, entrepreneurs and salespersons who have yet to fully increase sales. You can almost hear “please stick” riding in the currents of the small business winds. Credit www.sxc.hu.

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Are Your Mental Barriers Keeping You From Your Increase Sales Goal?

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Mental barriers more often than not are the real obstacles to increase sales and business growth. We hear small business owners and sales professionals all the time saying: I can’t do this. We wanted to share our knowledge to help other small business owners achieve sustainable business growth.