Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Sales Training Article: How Realistic Is Your 2014 Sales Quota? Gain access to guides and tools to help you make the number in 2014. Register now for a sales training workshop to help you make your quota in 2014. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Sales Training Article: What Your A Players Want in 2014. Additional suggestions to stress test your 2014 sales plan. Why Your ''A'' Players are In High Demand in 2014 Companies are investing in growth for 2014. They are the difference between making and missing the 2014 number.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Top Sales Tool for 2014. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of FrameAngel at FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. It has never been more necessary than it is heading into 2014.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

Sales Training Article: How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling. Sign up for the onsite session for your leadership team: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Understanding the drivers of Sales Force Effectiveness in 2014. SBI''s 7th annual research tour has begun.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 2, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Boost the Remainder of Your 2014. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Train wrecks happen a month at a time. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Sales Training Article: 2014 Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti at FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2013 winds down, people think about prospects for the New Year. View our updated calendar of 2014 sales training workshops.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Sales training. Each year lots of companies spend lots of money on sales training. Is sales training as effective as it needs to be? Today, sales training is significantly better than it was ten years ago. Only 32% described their own organization’s training as effective.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 5, 2013

Sales Training Article: "When Is This Deal Going to Close?". Sign up for SBI''s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance. The worst question a sales leader can ask a rep.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It’s safe to say that thanks to the Covid crisis, most of us are now accustomed to conferring with colleagues, holding team meetings, and following training courses through virtual platforms. This idea goes back well before the pandemic, to 2014, when Harvard Business School was launching its HBX online education initiative.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 2, 2014

As you’re planning for 2014, forget resolutions. The media is flooded with articles about resolutions right now. As you’re planning for 2014 , don’t just give your sales team an annual quota and expect them to make it rain. What referral-selling goals have you set for your team in 2014? Set manageable goals instead.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014 ? As 2013 winds down, 2014 naturally ramps up. Schedule a review of your 2014 SKO at your office here. An article by George de Los Reyes explains the 5 Keys to a Successful New Product Launch. That’s no good for morale going into 2014. SKO is on the horizon.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 2, 2014

Sales Training Article: An Often Overlooked Source of Revenue. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. View our updated calendar of 2014 sales training workshops. Read more sales training articles from CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 18, 2014

Given the responses we thought it would be good to shift the focus of the discussion from “ how to coach ” to “how do you train sales managers to coach” If you were tasked with developing a sales coaching program for your company, what would be the design specifications? Training Sales Managers to Coach. First, a little context.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Half of my own training, coaching and consulting clients are inside sales forces! The article highlights eight scenarios that help you determine whether or not making that move is right for your company. That article explains the various inside roles and makes a better case for migration winning out over the status quo.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 16, 2014

Planning your sales training curriculum for 2014? At this time of year most sales training managers are into planning for the year ahead. In previous blogs we have touched on the idea that what you do before and after the sales training is as important as the sales training itself.

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SBI Growth

JULY 23, 2013

Sign up for the onsite session for your leadership team: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Understanding the drivers of Sales Force Effectiveness in 2014. Within minutes, the reps of their electric car fleet would have seen the article spread. Sales reps are trained to spread messages quickly.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Sales Training Article: So What Can I Sell You? Register for a sales training workshop to learn how to sell better and make your number in 2014. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance. This conversation was loaded with insights from the customer''s perspective.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This article reveals how top sales reps stay on top. Video training modules are completed on a smartphone. Development: How can your training programs help top performers? Next Steps: Prepare for 2014 now. Make the Number in 2014. The post offered advice for top sales reps to avoid becoming obsolete.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

We’ve compiled them for you into the Winter 2014 edition of the Best of the Sales Training Connection. Take a look … Technorati Tags: sales best practices , sales training , sales training articles , sales training best practices , sales training blogs.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 9, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I read an article last month that actually had as its title, The Death of SPIN Selling. Although the author tried, the article did little to convince ME that SPIN was dead. For instance, today I was training a great group of salespeople and we worked on that very scenario.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I read an article that was very consistent with what I was complaining about last week when I wrote The One Thing Missing From the New Way of Selling. I have tremendous respect for the article''s author, Mark Roberge , who has built a great sales force over at Hubspot.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. 85% of these companies hired employees in 2014 with 40% of those who replied saying they hired fewer than desired this past year. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Forbes ran an article about selecting cloud computing vendors – it helps explain more about the questions you need to know to get the computing you require. ( [link] ). There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. So are you more productive?

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sales Training. companies spend millions of dollars on sales training for their salespeople. And, by sales training we are talking about sales skills training not product training. An equal amount is spent on product training as well. Internal training departments develop some programs.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

MAY 30, 2023

If you train rank-and-file employees to train others, you not only multiply your effectiveness, you improve the breadth and depth of the trainers’ own skills and knowledge. Purely voluntary So the cognitive and motivational advantages of training people to train others are clear. That’s OK. Nestojko, J.F.,

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Sales Training Article: Reducing Year-end Stress. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici at FreeDigitalPhotos.net One definition of skill mastery is technique under pressure. I wish you Happy (and less stressful) Holidays.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2014

I wrote about becoming emotional last week in this very popular article , The Top 5 Mistakes Salespeople Make When Under Pressure. September 10 - 11 | Boston Area | 2 Days of intense sales leadership training. You might have missed the article that I wrote on Friday last week. (I It''s a form of being emotional.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 9, 2014

We’ve compiled them for you into the Summer 2014 edition of the Best of the Sales Training Connection.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

We’ve compiled them for you into the Fall 2014 edition of the Best of the Sales Training Connection.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide. Register for this free June 5, 2014, 11 AM ET, webinar on the Magic of OMG''s Sales Candidate Assessment.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Sales Training Article: 4 Things to Avoid at Sales Kickoff. How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014? How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014? Schedule a review of your 2014 SKO at your office here. As 2013 winds down, 2014 naturally ramps up. It will help you balance Q4.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training. Earlier this month, I wrote this article about Sales Methodology and today''s article focuses on successful Sales Models.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2013

This article provides an overview of Sales Gamification. This article is more basic and more broad. Consider this common scenario: You bring your team together for product training. The sales training is yesterday’s news. In preparation for 2014, take a look at Sales Gamification. Everyone goes home.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Two Ways to Accelerate and Expand Your Reach on LinkedIn. By Tony Albachiara, Sales Benchmark Index Your Reach on LinkedIn will be one of your best sales assets in 2014. LinkedIn Profiles, Reach & Referrals is how you make your number in 2014. What else can you do to make the number in 2014?

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 12, 2019

Sue Barrett on 142 Days of Gratitude That Changed My Life Forever: Created in last October, the genesis of the book was started in 2014. Customized Sales Training for the Classroom and Field. Market Segmentation Analysis and Plan. Sales Operations Audit and Action Plan. Sales Coaching. Sales Consulting and Advisory Services.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Sales Training Article: Creating Social Debt on LinkedIn to Make Your Number. Follow these tips and you''ll be swimming in referrals for 2014. The two articles I wrote on these subjects (linked earlier in this paragraph) can help get you there. Read the rest of this article from SBI.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2015

What if you are left to sink or swim because your organization is going to send you out in the field without any formal training? My Article, “ Are You Leading Your Sales Team to Defeat? In the survey, we found that only 40% of sales organizations have formal training to support the transition from sales rep to sales manager.

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