Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 24, 2015

Sales Tips: Making Sense of Vague Advice. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My sales manager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. It was a mountain to climb.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 6, 2013

When I was thinking about what to write this week, my mind kept returning to an article I wrote a few weeks back. Each person I meet when delivering my program, Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions , has such interesting stories to share which are all truly unique. It was basically a really long list of leadership characteristics.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Chili Piper

AUGUST 27, 2018

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Slow lead response times.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

” Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.” How do I introduce coaching in a way that they would be open to exploring it?

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

From quite early on in our sales careers, we are encouraged to explore every sales opportunity that presents itself – in fact in some companies, they are brainwashed into believing that “all business is good business.” Finally, they are able to recognize fail-safe signals that indicate when a sale is in jeopardy.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 8, 2017

This includes inferior products, services, resources, sales processes, CRM’s, closing techniques, technology, presentation tools, your sales cycle even a mediocre sales team. Okay, maybe not the epiphany you’re looking for yet, right? Nothing new and mind-blowing?

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 8, 2012

By the end of this year we will have increased sales of product A by 25% on the last year’s volumes and maintained our profit margins. I then discovered that multi-level objectives was a very powerful way to both win and retain business. These objectives are specific – very clear. “

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was going to operate as a quasi-independent sales contractor in the electric sign industry. Along the way, I experienced an epiphany. It was 2006 and I was ready to embark on the next phase of my career. I had spent the majority of my life as a B2B manager and owner, dating back to 1977, and now I was ready for a little fun.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 20, 2009

However, the upside is, managers now have a clear and valuable epiphany as to the real reason why their people aren’t closing more sales, what their salespeople have to do to change for the best and what the manager has to provide (additional coaching, training, resources, and so on) in order to help facilitate these necessary changes.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Voss had an epiphany of sorts upon leaving the Bureau; he realized that several of the skills he’d learned and honed ‘in the wild’ during hostage negotiations were directly relevant – and essential – to the business arena. The best sales leaders will use the tactics outlined above and appeal to their counterparts’ emotions.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 19, 2018

We were targeting large enterprises and the sales people that worked for me understood that sales success is largely derived from having the right relationships with people, and they also talked about strategy; but when I quizzed any of them about what 'strategy' actually meant in the real world, each was like a deer in the headlights.

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Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Whilst I cannot claim to have experienced an epiphany of “Damascus Highway” proportions, it did cause me to make fundamental changes to the way I conducted business. The very best sales professionals will not pursue the opportunity, after proper objective analysis, if the answer to any of those questions is “No”.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

How are marketing emails different from sales emails? How are marketing emails different from sales emails? Marketing emails and sales emails are similar, and are thus easy to mix up. A sales email, however, is designed to have the feeling of a one-to-one message between a salesperson and the recipient.

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