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Define it or Deny It ? What's the Problem With the Word ?Sales??

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Companies that are driven by sales vision and leadership tend to embrace and reward the sales role. More operational focused companies, or those that don’t traditionally see themselves as sales focused, do not embrace the semantics as well. Most sales-oriented companies have embraced some form of consultative selling.

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The Sales Association: Help! I Need To Develop New Business.

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Tap into online sources like LinkedIn to see who you know that can provide information about companies that you are interested in. Research companies and join groups that your potential customers join. For instance, because we offer instructional design services, we contact companies that have want ads for instructional designers.

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Just Making More Calls Doesn't Guarantee Sales Success

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Is this company actually a prospect? I think so, however, we’ll have to wait until he gets back from attending another one of his company’s monthly quota buster’s lunch before we can ask him. Not only must it be the right solution, it also must be at the right time. If yes, are they a prospect today?

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The Sales Association: Pull Out The Stops ? To Gain Commitments!

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I recently received a call from a company selling network solutions. However, instead of sending a technician, they sent a salesperson to tell me about their company and “gain a commitment before work would start.” Because of the immediate personalized service, the company has very few returns.

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The Sales Association: Are You Prepared to Undo Doubt?

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Generally, when a customer asks for references, there is uncertainty or doubt about what you or your company can do for them. Give potential customers a list of current successes and a list of client companies. Would you mind if I shared your experience with our company with others whom are considering using our services?”

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The Components of a Metric-based Strategic Account Plan

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As an adviser to prominent companies on sales and account management strategy, we can’t give away our clients proprietary secrets to strategic account management success, but we can provide you with a guide on developing a best-in-class metric-based strategic account plan.

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The Sales Association: Sell the ?Product of Your Product? to.

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However, the company that we chose added value by offering advice that we needed regarding networking the machine to our computers and other online materail distribution issues that we were facing. Even though we paid thousands of dollars for the machine, the company we employed is in the business of selling service, not machines.