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Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

Sales Training Connection

In 2011, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick shared that mid-level managers could have greater impact on company performance than almost anyone else in an organization, yet they are “often overlooked and sometimes maligned.”. These middle managers reported at least two levels of management between them and the highest executive in their company.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. That has all been upended now. And StorySlab is an end-to-end solution for outside selling.

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The ultimate guide to solution selling

PandaDoc

Solution selling implies that the salesperson focuses not on technical characteristics, but on how a product or service will alleviate the customer’s pain or allow them to exploit an opportunity: This software development kit will allow you to save up to 50% of development time and decrease the amount of money you risk. Long-term efficiency.

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The Lost Art of Selling

Platinum Rules for Success

In this week’s story on Platinum Rules for Success, Rick addresses this issue, by sharing recommendations for sales managers who want to recapture the lost art of selling and improve their team’s performance. At its zenith, Xerox put new hires through months of sales training before they ever called on a customer.

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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

Mindtickle

Now, when I first left Miller Heiman, I still had a lot of my big clients; Fidelity Investments, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, some real giants. I’ve had some companies that I work with that start with customer success, not with sales because they’re a find/try/buy model because they’re a software of some type.

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#MyFirstSevenJobs Kathy Dyer And Chris Ahearn

Partners in Excellence

Software Development Manager for communications software for front ends to NCR mainframes. Program Manager– communications solutions for financial industry customers- NCR Comten. Manny Hanny long since been absorbed into Chemical bank which was then absorbed into Chase.

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8 Highspot Competitors: An In-Depth Analysis

Bigtincan

Apart from integrating with other cloud repositories and being fully functional offline, another key feature of a sales content management software is the ability to track how sellers and prospects are using the sales collateral. Collaborative tools to be in contact with buyers and send them relevant sales collateral.