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Cracking the Code: Secrets of a Thriving Sales Culture (video)

Pipeliner

In this article, I’ll share the insights from our talk. I shared a revelation about being easy to do business with. Our Host John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

In some ways, sales leaders revel in this. Since we are leaving all this to the customer, we don’t have to build skills around business acumen or problem solving, instead we focus on product skills and creating closing presentations focused on how great we and our products are, asking for the order.

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Relationships Always Rule [Q4 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

I was too distracted with other activities like social media, emails, writing articles, watching football, and yes, sometimes, Facebook. Starting next quarter, I will write one fewer article at quarter-end. That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. I admit those were excuses.

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What You Need to Know About the Challenger Sales Model

Corporate Visions

Challenger is one of several sales training models inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s original idea of Provocation-based Selling, as popularized by his HBR article, In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers. Take control of the discussions around pricing by focusing on value and applying pressure to persuade buyers to close.

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College Football Wagering and What It Has to Do with Sales

Braveheart Sales

While I was watching ESPN’s College Game Day, I heard Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who is a research producer and sports betting analyst for ESPN, make an observation about betting odds that was a revelation to me. You may be interested in the article I wrote about this topic: “Reduce the Fluffy Pipeline Syndrome.”.

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Are You Willing to Move Beyond Impossible?

Smooth Sale

I recently closed previous chapters of my life that held me back longer than I care to admit. Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know. The article states that with only $80, she left Ukraine in 1999 to enter the United States and begin anew.

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Of Course Sales Is About Relationships!

Partners in Excellence

He starts his article with the sentence, “Sales people are not necessary… ” He claiming that it’s easy to claim that “relationships are the cornerstone of every sale,” and “there is no replacement for human interaction,” then saying none of that is true. They shift and evolve.

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