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8 Secrets to What Top Salespeople Want in an Employer

The Sales Hunter

A strong marketing and business development department. Yes, top performing salespeople are good at working on their own, but they also understand the value of marketing and things like product development. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Can You Improve a Kick-Ass Sales Force?

Understanding the Sales Force

Mark said, " Instead, they start a blog, create a website, open a Twitter account and begin email marketing campaigns. By the time training is over, they will rank in Google for a few dozen keywords in their market, have a few dozen followers on Twitter and have written a few dozen blog articles. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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9 Things Your Last Customer Forgot to Tell You

The Sales Hunter

Next time you bad mouth them and what they sell, I’m going to make sure I have them on the phone so they can hear you say it directly. Who in your marketing department developed them? Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” The sales materials you use are lame. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Wants of Salespeople Versus the Reality of SMB Business

Increase Sales

As I read the most recent data regarding these wants by Richardson Sales Training , I am not sure if business to business sales representatives (B2B) understand the reality of SMB (small to mid size business). Smaller firms, those (95.4%) do not have marketing departments because they cannot afford that expense. The reality is 98.2%

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Medical device sales success – an urgent need to do something different

Sales Training Connection

The medical device market faces transformational market challenges – decision criteria shifting from clinical to economic, decision-making moving from local hospitals to IDNs, the rise of GPOs, and the dramatic impact of new governmental regulations. How do you train KAMs? . Consultative selling skills.

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What Does it Take to Become a Sales Manager?

Understanding the Sales Force

If 50% of sales management is coaching and developing salespeople, then the new sales manager would need to have elite selling skills to support the necessary coaching skills which, in most cases, don''t yet exist. Only 6% of all salespeople have elite skills and only 7% of all sales managers have elite coaching skills.

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Get sales coaching happening – target trigger events

Sales Training Connection

Even if you have a winning product, the competition is likely to get a product to market that is just as good, at half the price … in half the time it took several years ago. Although a superior sales force is extremely difficult to assemble and train, once you have one, it is of the few sustainable advantages left.