Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In some ways, sales leaders revel in this. We nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. We revel in the predictability of our order taking process, seldom questioning whether we can do better.

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Revelation Margin Discount Retention 106

Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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Sports Sage Revelation Face-to-face 52

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” ” Intrigued, I clicked on the link.

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Up-Sell Revelation CRM Buying Cycle 52

Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Third, no one on this list had advance notice of my plan to republish this article and many are reading their name here for the first time. I kept the development of this article super confidential, meaning none of these authors either sponsored or influenced my list. See @M_3Jr's top #sales picks here!

Paid Content 81

Paid Content Conversion Top of Funnel Hiring 81

Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Third, no one on this list had advance notice of my plan to publish this article until the week before it went live, and only then did I tell one person – Doug Vigliotti. I kept the development of this article super confidential, meaning none of these authors either sponsored or influenced my list. 7 Drive by Daniel Pink.

Conversion 112

Conversion Paid Content Hiring Pivotal 112

Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Get your sales manager on a call.

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Sales Process Cold Calling Call-back Cancellation 103

Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Get your sales manager on a call.

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Sales Process Cold Calling Call-back Cancellation 48