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Sales Energy Audits: How to Increase Revenue by Shifting Your Sales-Energy Use

SBI

Sales Energy Audits: How to Increase Revenue by Shifting Your Sales-Energy Use. Twenty years ago, the connection between energy efficiency and environmental benefits was poorly understood by the general population. Today, nearly everyone agrees that it’s important to save energy. Deciding who to call.

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4 Reasons Dumbing it Down is the Smartest Way to Sell

SBI

Almost a year to the date, I posted a blog called Dumbing it Down: 5 Secrets for Getting Smart People to Buy. That post, along with the one you’re reading now, is aimed at complex sales. Complex sales are to be contrasted with transactional sales where decisions are made in minutes or days rather than in months or longer.

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A Roadmap For Value Based Selling

Sell Integrity

Many organizations are realizing solution selling, on its own, isn’t enough to drive the results they need. A value based sales process gives sales teams the system and behavioral alignment to effectively differentiate and demonstrate what the results are of the sale. Enabling A Value Based Sales Process.

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Why Your Focus on Quota is Killing Revenue Growth

SBI

We rely on quotas as a method for measuring sales rep performance. The real magic to driving radical revenue growth resides in understanding sales productivity and how our reps spend their limited sales capacity. These are sales productivity issues. Salespeople have 215 selling days or 1720 hours a year to sell.

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2013 will NOT be better than 2012! Unless you do this…

SBI

There are lots of sales tools to help you. There are lots of sales tools! We’ll each be recommending 6 sales tools for B2B sellers. That’s a lot of ‘tools’ to cover in 60 minutes so you can expect this webinar to be informative, fast-paced, and full of energy. Shorten the sales cycle. Motivate your sales team.

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Lead Progression: The first element of the Sales Cycle Triad

SBI

I recently wrote about the 3 fundamentals of sales that, if ignored, will keep your business from growing at a sustainable level, especially in terms of revenue. Lead progression, the first element of the Sales Cycle Triad includes identifying, assessing, assigning, responding, selling, tracking, and nurturing leads.

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It Still Is All About Implementation And Execution!

Partners in Excellence

.” This particular discussion started with what I thought was the SEB’s particularly ill constructed argument that “Solution Selling Is Dead.” If you are curious, read my blog post–but more importantly read the comment stream. Related Posts: Do We Need A Sales Process Or A Sales Methodology?