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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you are not a sports enthusiast, please read on, because even if you know nothing about football you could benefit from this post, and learn more about how sports conversations can help you in business. . The league was made up of some of my favorite sales guru colleagues and I ended up taking SECOND place. Weekly sales goals.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Working hard in sales but not accomplishing enough? Make an accountability deal with someone inside or outside of your company – it needs to be someone you trust, and someone who could also benefit from some accountability to accomplish something.

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MARCH 14, 2013

Sales and marketing experts Jill Konrath and Ardath Albee just announced a new e-book, Cracking the LinkedIn Sales Code which will help you better understand how professional B-2-B sellers are using LinkedIn to grow visibility, gain connections and ultimately grow revenues. LinkedIn Power Tips for Sales.

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MAY 20, 2013

After being in sales for many years, I had an “Aha” moment. I don’t remember ever hearing about this idea in sales training (I’ve been through so many programs over my sales career) but I immediately knew it to be true when it registered in my head. I don’t even know where it came from.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Over my selling years, I had 22 sales managers whom I directly reported to. Somehow, even in my early sales days, I learned to find someone upbeat, positive, and skilled who I could emulate and hopefully be coached by even if they were not my manager. Three Ways to Be Coachable and Grow Your Sales. Increase Opportunities.

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JULY 1, 2013

If you are in sales and have mastered the art of the brief, succinct message, consider yourself a Sales Rockstar or on your way to being one. Understand what the insight is that will benefit your prospective customers – and incorporate that into messaging. Sellers also leave long-winded voice mail messages. Do A-B testing.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

In some companies, larger sales opportunities need to be wrapping up to even be able to deliver products or services by the end of the year. We are talking about the art of sales with well qualified prospects. We see sales reps mis-diagnosing scenarios and missing the opportunity to close deals quite often because of this.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

No Means Many Things in Sales. ” Two Other Great Benefits of Hearing NO. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. The post Inside Sales Power Tip 144 – Know NO appeared first on Score More Sales.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Sales pro, when you are a consumer, do you make quick decisions after being very clear of the pros and cons of the purchase you are about to make? I don’t like going into their retail stores because it’s usually too crowded and the sales reps do such transactional deals that it isn’t much fun, either.

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APRIL 16, 2012

I’m spending the next three days at the largest International conference for Inside Sales Professionals at their annual Dallas Leadership Summit. If you are a sales leader, you should be here – and you might still be able to squeeze in by going to the AA-ISP website. The benefits of team selling? Comp plans?

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APRIL 16, 2012

I’m spending the next three days at the largest International conference for Inside Sales Professionals at their annual Dallas Leadership Summit. If you are a sales leader, you should be here – and you might still be able to squeeze in by going to the AA-ISP website. The benefits of team selling? Comp plans?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

We teach sales professionals about the “Big 10″ items you need to pay attention to and do correctly for success on growing your visibility and your revenues using LinkedIn as a tool. My hope is that you see clearly why being vague, impersonal or one-sided does not work with LinkedIn requests, or in sales as a whole.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

Now that you are working to grow visibility as a seller and think like a publisher, work to craft a plan to make sales increases happen. Over many years and hundreds of sales teams, I’ve seen the most successful sellers work a plan and plan their work. I crafted plans to work hard to keep myself on track. What Plans do I Need?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

When you love being a sales rep, or a business development rep, or a regional account rep, or a national account rep, you know it. First of all, you know that sales is admirable and regardless of the noise about how you should stop selling and start helping, or stop selling and start serving – you have been helping and serving for years.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

How The Antarctic is Like Sales. This year I met Mike Pierce, also known as “Antarctic Mike” when we were both speaking at a sales industry conference. LR: What are the top 3 things you have learned from Antarctica that apply to sales? Before going to Antarctica, he trained in a huge freezer. Stay tuned for that!

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AUGUST 14, 2012

When it comes to integrating online and social activities into their marketing and sales strategies it seems like there are two camps – those that “get it” and those who will wait till there is more “proof” that social selling actually works. Are you utilizing these basic ideas with your sales and marketing teams?

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APRIL 30, 2013

There are SMB and mid-market sales organizations who have not embraced a cloud-based, customer relationship management system, better known as CRM or SCRM. Most sales reps believe these are really not for them as much as they are for leadership. A TOOL JUST FOR SALES MANAGEMENT? They think it is simply for management’s benefit.

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JUNE 10, 2016

How many times have you heard someone describing their company’s value proposition only to hear them spew out features and benefits of their services or products? Having a strong value prop is one key to making the “short list” when companies are searching online and need to narrow down their search before engaging.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Are you one of those sales people or company leaders who has resisted LinkedIn but now you want to learn more? Like going to a trade show or Chamber of commerce meeting, it won’t benefit you unless you interact in smart ways on an ongoing basis. Top Mistakes Using LinkedIn for Sales. set up advanced searches.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

1) They feel they don’t have the time to “add” social strategies to their sales and marketing repertoire. Moderator for this webinar is Ralf VonSosen, Head of Sales for LinkedIn, and my co-presenters are Nancy Nardin of Smart Selling Tools and Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing. You know why I’m excited?

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

What used to be a one-way road – a sales person “telling” potential buyers what to buy, is now a two-way, busy street where buyers find their own information and need us in sales to offer specific insights and stories – and paint a vision of the future – to help them know if the information they have is right for their scenario.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Busy professionals only want to speak with other professionals, not sales reps. If you feel like a peddler or sales guy / gal with a “pitch” – you won’t get far connecting to the professionals on LinkedIn. Your prospective buyers are getting dozens and dozens of contacts from bad sales reps every day.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Those of us in a professional selling career – especially a B2B (business-to-business) sales career tend to over think much of what we do. For now, you can review my six ideas on how to keep new rep on-boarding, sales messaging, and sales management SIMPLER so that we can all accomplish a lot MORE. Set 3 annual goals.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Mid-sized companies also need better ways to help the sales team capitalize on potential and actual sales opportunities. It went on to say that many midsize businesses still rely on traditional, non-integrated customer management, sales tracking or marketing systems. What will you do with it and how will that look?

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JUNE 30, 2013

It is always good to get positive feedback when sales reps implement a suggestion or two that I have for being more effective with potential buyers and with prospecting strategies. Dave is a veteran sales rep who was open to a tweak on his e-mail messaging. 10% response isn’t bad……. You might be surprised what you find……. You will too.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

If you are a sales leader you need to know that your sales people are not following common courtesies on social media and are not representing you and the company well in many cases. Why: Why would it benefit ME to connect with you? I’m a busy person and I know you are too. It could cause you to lose business.

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JULY 20, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. 15 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Benefit From a Sales Strategy Session. Need more sales revenues? Many entrepreneurs and small business owners have no one to talk sales ideas through with – so they either get paralyzed or make the wrong moves. Consulting. How about this one?

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

In sales this is critical for your success – you cannot get stagnant. My co-presenter, sales coach Lynn Hidy from B2B Camp last week added 10 tips, author Robert Terson , Alan from Sales HeartBeat , and business writer M. In no particular order, here are more ideas for you to build sales. Score More Sales).

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

I am a “master connector” – I LOVE connecting people to each other once I feel they could benefit from the connection. In using LinkedIn since 2003, I have *NEVER* done that – most likely because I am in sales and can pick up the phone and call anyone I want to connect with.

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JUNE 5, 2013

A main takeaway from hearing Porter speak was her passion for the power of your connections – literally the subtitle of her book shares the benefits of how nurturing and adding value to your network offers you so much more than business. The post Invest in your Network to Build Sustainable Business appeared first on Score More Sales.

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MAY 23, 2014

Brilliant sales ideas are overlooked every day. Sales professionals often tend to over think things – so the combination of missing a simple idea and then over thinking can equal lost revenues. Elite sellers do this and have benefited greatly – why not give it a try? “It’s so simple, ” I said.

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JULY 24, 2014

I met world-renowned sales expert Jill Konrath virtually back in 2005 or so, after she had written her first best-selling sales book, Selling to Big Companies. Her book came out, I read it, and I wrote a review for my fledgling B2B sales blog. Jill created Sales Shebang(R) in 2007 online and as a conference for women in sales.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

No one can stand that guy that goes around handing his card out to anyone and everyone – or the guy who turns away once he hears that what you do won’t benefit him. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute ” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Track Your Sales Opportunities! Are you a sales data naysayer? Metrics and measurement save the lives of your sales opportunities. Metrics and measurement save the lives of your sales opportunities. If you sell commodity items in a single conversation, this would not be a complex sale.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Remember the business conference or sales offsite you attended to sharpen your skills – perhaps you were a speaker. Even if you were an attendee, you can benefit from being connected to a great event through curation. Visibility: You grow your potential to meet more people who can refer your company or you by gaining visibility.

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MAY 31, 2012

After that, it is company process training – meaning more about the internal workings of how orders flow through the organization than even close analysis of the key steps within sales for a predictable process to happen. No single sales performance improvement provider is right for every company’s requirements”. It is very simple.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. They cannot do simple reports to determine the cost of a closed deal this year as compared to last year, and they often don’t know what is fully in the pipeline of each of their sales reps. A social CRM strategy should benefit marketing, customer service, sales and e-commerce.

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