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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

Pointclear

Helping them understand actual vs. assumed buyer behavior in B2B sales environments helps alter their behavior—and helps them be more successful. With a lack of accountability in both marketing and sales lead purgatory, leads are lost and ultimately reappear as wins for the competition.”. Gain sales acceptance.

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Improve Sales Performance with 3 “Art of Sales Management” Functions

Pointclear

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

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2013 Top Sales World Contributors Team Unveiled

Jonathan Farrington

The 2013 contributors line-up has been finalized over at Top Sales World , and these are the sales experts who will be working with TSW this year: They will be writing articles, providing tips, taking part in roundtables and interviews etc. This is the group that will be … Writing articles for the Top Sales magazine.

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Depend on Recurring Revenue? Here’s How to Contain Creation Costs

Braveheart Sales

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. I also had the privilege of hosting a breakfast where we discussed the state of sales in the security industry. Source: com].

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So How Do You Develop A First Class Sales Team?

Jonathan Farrington

For a group of people to remain consciously competent at optimum performance levels, they require frequent injections of stimulation, motivational guidance, prompting and directing, otherwise they can easily lapse into becoming unconsciously competent or worse, unconsciously incompetent.

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Do Standardized Sales Processes Really Work Anymore?

Pointclear

One thing we can always count on is this: sales will always say they want more leads. I was struck by Dan McDade’s statement in his recent article, Sales Leads: Why Your Reps Need Fewer, Rather Than More , that sales reps are paid to sell—not interpret leads.

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Is Lead Generation Slipping Away From Marketing?

Pointclear

” But in a recent post on the Sales Lead Management Group on LinkedIn, Kevin McArdle, the regional sales manager for Eloqua (Chicago), advocated that sales departments should take over lead gen and he makes the following points: Sales departments are responsible for revenue. Kate Maddox.