Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2014

Janet is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. Each month Janet is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success. Janet wants to get 2014 off to a great start. Janet’s goal in 2014 is to reach the top 10% of the country and she is focused.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Last week I led our annual Sales Leadership intensive and hosted the best group of sales leaders to ever attend the event. Chad Burmeister , who is well known throughout the inside sales community, was one of the attendees. Sure enough, the numbers were amazing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-07-14. Teaser: Most corporate social media accounts function more as a customer service tool than a sales tool, and there’s nothing wrong with that. An institution’s Facebook or Twitter can be a public face of the company, but not one that is used to drive sales of new products or services.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This is the third in a four-part series that will run this week. The Sales Leadership Articles. Sales Leadership and sales management are the keys to successful sales performance. Starting with the Sales Management Team - Is it a Bad Decision? See Part 1 here.

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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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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 10, 2014

In sales we always talk about the importance of getting close to our customers. We all want to improve a customer relationship, right? Relationships are key to sales. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Yes, it all sounds good.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Salespeople always want a higher price and don’t want to offer a discount to close the sale. The price a customer is willing to pay must equal or be less than the value they expect to gain, unless they’re being held hostage to buy. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 9, 2014

You won’t hear great salespeople running around telling stories about the big sale they made last quarter or last year. True sales leaders don’t run around telling others what they’ve done. There are only two people they know they have to please — their customer and themselves. Go after being great!

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 16, 2014

Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price. Blog Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills customer high profit selling high-profit value'

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Consultative Selling Banking Selling Skills Customer Service 241

SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2013

This time of year, Sales Ops leaders are often faced with a pressing question. Today’s post is about a simple approach to improve efficiency with current sales resources. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Reduce your cost of sales.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 4, 2014

Moving in this direction now makes it easier for the customer to share with you without any pretense or misconception. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price.

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Customer Selling Skills Customer Service Up-Sell 236

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Stop selling products or services and start selling stories. Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2020

Amazon suffered great failure when it introduced Fire Phone in 2014. Amazon’s goal was to become the most customer-oriented company in the world and every employee was encouraged to experiment in order to reach that goal. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist. Simplicity.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2013

If you could wave a magic wand and make improvements for keeping track of your business contacts, their social activity, and your current and past sales opportunities, what would you change or fix? These include prospects, customers, former customers, vendors, partners, and referrers? Because stuff like this tends to get lost.

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CRM Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 193

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

Sales reps run into trouble when they try to go into a call totally cold. Prospect research is a challenge that's every bit as frustrating as it is essential — so to help you out, we've put together a list of 18 of the best places to research buyers before sales conversations. The Company’s Twitter Account. An amateur trumpet player?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 2, 2013

As a Sales Rep, your Buyers expect you to be a Thought Leader. Sign up for the onsite session for your leadership team: How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. Then determine if your next idea is good enough to win the sale. Understand the advantages of your customer service.

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Trends Face-to-face Buyer Follow-up 306

A Sales Guy

APRIL 29, 2014

Yesterday, I talked about why sales people fail themselves. Today, I’m breaking down why sales people fail because of the company. Sales people fail because their company fails them. Sales people are only part of a two part system to drive sales. They aren’t providing solid sales support (enablement).

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 11, 2013

The sales QBR (Quarterly Business Review) is a convention that needs to be revamped or reconsidered. Thanks Mr. or Mrs. Customer for making the time to review ‘our’ activities over the last quarter. In this blog, I address a sales strategy to enliven QBRs and improve account management. It also helps with sales development.

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Engage Selling

DECEMBER 24, 2013

As we move closer to 2014, and sales kick off season in January, I’m going to be spending much more time in hotel rooms than at home (and more time in the air than on the ground!). I want to share a great customer service story I experienced last year at the Ritz Carleton Half […].

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 11, 2013

The sales QBR (Quarterly Business Review) is a convention that needs to be revamped or reconsidered. Thanks Mr. or Mrs. Customer for making the time to review ‘our’ activities over the last quarter. In this blog, I address a sales strategy to enliven QBRs and improve account management. It also helps with sales development.

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Exercises Face-to-face Vendor Churn 221

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

A 2014 study revealed that the ten most socially connected brands saw 31% greater revenue growth than the least connected brands. We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. 93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). Expecting instant results.

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Social Media Media B2B Marketing 147

Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

The solution required a distributed and remote sales force, with reps living in central locations so they could cover multiple countries and languages. Tactically, our team was composed of both inside and outside sales reps and, more strategically, we made sure we stayed close as a team, connecting virtually on an almost daily basis. .

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Production and Customer Service were geared up and ready to go. Unfortunately all too often, even when this is the scenario, the new product fails to produce the desired sales success. Most companies take the first step and provide their sales team with technical training about the new product. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. In this post I want to recommend three ideas to raise your game in 2014. Every sales manager is time starved. POST-SALES SUPPORT Stop the role corruption.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Amp Up Your Sales. Powerful Strategies that Move Customer Fast, Favorable Decisions. Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. He has broken his 40 chapters into eight (8) parts that range from; Simplifying your sales.

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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This year represents the culmination in an ongoing business pivot – my own leap of faith – I’ve been making since 2014. Starting in 2012, I realized that while my Sales Aerobics for Engineers® Blog continues to win awards, the blog focuses on far more than topics which are exclusively sales-related.

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Ideal Customer Profile SME Retention Pivotal 70

Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Salespeople must, in a compelling way, make the connection between their solution and the outcomes that are important to the customer. They cannot leave making the connections to the customer because sometimes the customer will and sometimes they will not make the connections. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®. .

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I also believe that smaller companies are more capable of building stronger, sustainable relationships with their customers, and we can certainly say that 2014 is the year of “Customer Focus”. But what exactly does “Customer Focus” mean? Understanding the customer’s agenda, buying cycle and best interests.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 8, 2018

A sales CRM is a foundational tool for modern sales organizations. Here’s a closer a look at the evolution of customer relationship management and where it’s headed. That is why keeping track of customers could spell the difference between a closed sale and a lost opportunity.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 1, 2020

Sales are increasingly made on a global stage. trillion in goods and services in 2020. While online banking means many bank teller jobs are becoming obsolete, AI is now replacing many points of human contact in customer service. Worldwide, about 25% of goods produced are exported, and the U.S. exported $2.21

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Nutshell

APRIL 10, 2020

Customer relationship management (CRM) software makes it easier to handle your sales processes from beginning to end. While true for any business, small sales teams can reap the optimal benefits from the resources available in CRM software. Effectively prioritize sales tasks. Increase efficiency among your sales team.

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Nutshell

APRIL 10, 2020

Customer relationship management (CRM) software makes it easier to handle your sales processes from beginning to end. While true for any business, small sales teams can reap the optimal benefits from the resources available in CRM software. Effectively prioritize sales tasks. Increase efficiency among your sales team.

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CRM Lead Rank Benefit Follow-up 71

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. KEN : I wrote this magazine column last November (2014), I thought it might be fun to hear your thoughts on my predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Power Networking.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In this article, we provide insights on how to build a product sales organization structure that yields results. We talk about optimal sales organixation structures of teams in your company. First, it is important that sales team structure roles are clear; second, it ensures successful achievement of both parties’ expectations.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The failure to draw the language distinction becomes important because it can be assumed that a sales model other than the branded one is not somehow as well designed for selling consultatively – and that is clearly not the case. In fact, many executives say they have decided not to select a vendor because of a negative sales experience.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This drive-in chain prides itself in operational excellence and its customer service. This brand keeps growing -- its franchise owners saw the average gross sales-by-store increase from $1,072,000 in 2012 to $1,252,000 in 2017. Initial investment : $1,073,000 to $2,361,500. Franchise details : Sonic Drive-In. Great Clips.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 30, 2018

In 2014 Spiro was officially incorporated with Adam Honig, Andy Levi and Justin Kao at the helm. It connects to a sales rep’s email and alerts them to possible new deals not already in their CRM. In fact, when our customers use Spiro, they see: They were able to speak with 47% more prospects per week. So to speak.).

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