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The One Thing You Cannot Skip When Hiring an ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Planning for 2014 is in full swing. You just got off the weekly call with the Sales Leadership team. Your boss, the SVP of Sales, has some ‘great’ news. “We We got budget approval to add new sales heads. Start recruiting now so we can start of 2014 with a full team.” Prospect/Customer Facts.

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How Data and Intelligence Are Going to Change the Sales Industry Forever

Crunchbase

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. Today, this traditional sales structure is undergoing a drastic change. Identify the right customers.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Do you need to develop or sharpen your team’s analytics skills? They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers.

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Hiring Best Practice: Test Before You Offer

SBI Growth

Sales can learn a lesson here. Sign up here to receive a copy of the Sales Job Tryout Toolkit. Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Here''s a 7-step overview of a tryout for a sales rep. (To It follows the format of your typical sales proposal. This post will help take the risk out of hiring.

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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps.

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Do You Know Your A, B, C’s?

Your Sales Management Guru

Then those kinds of prospects with similar demographics become your only targets for marketing and for sales prospecting. Take an analytical approach to understanding your customer base, it will drive better messaging, increase order rates and improve your profitability-sounds like an excellent formula to get started on 2015!

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Put a Little Personality into Selling

Your Sales Management Guru

The concept of selling based on your buyer’s personality style has been around for a while, but I’m often surprised at how many sales professionals aren’t familiar with it. In presentations use brief, bottom-line visuals, ask open-ended questions designed to make the prospect talk and allow the director to lead.