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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? Yes, it should.

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Sales Management: Preparing for 2013

Your Sales Management Guru

Preparing for 2013. I thought I might simply highlight a few points from both sessions since there are pertinent for everyone as we move into 2013. Acumen Management Group Ltd. operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. Panel Discussion.

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2 Sales Tools and Productivity Webinars on December 13th

Fill the Funnel

As you wrap-up what I hope was a successful 2012 and begin preparation for 2013, I think you will find some great ideas about sales tools during two Webinars to register for. Minimize Your Workload and Maximize Your Sales with Web Tool Automation. 31 Must-Have Sales Tools in 2013.

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Top Ten Ways to Immediately Improve Sales Tool Adoption

The ROI Guy

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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The Biggest Thing Sales Leaders Overlook: SALES!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? You’re using CRM as an accountability tool, rather than a sales tool. Successful sales leaders….

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Delicious Sales

Sales (12918). Tools (2872). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics. Marketing (6398). Training (4995).

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3 Common (but Fixable) Ways Your Sales Enablement Can Fail @brencournoyer

SBI

Flash forward to the present, and the number of companies with dedicated sales enablement functions has more than tripled since 2013, reports CSO Insights. Thousands of people now have sales enablement in their titles on LinkedIn, and technology solutions have been born specifically to support the enablement function.