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Your 2012 Sales Plan

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It’s a little late to begin planning your 2012 Sales Plan, but in a conversation last week with a reader of this blog, I realized there maybe others who have not formalized their 2012 plan. Sales Tools (Q-screens, proposals, standard documents, contracts, sales collateral kits, case studies, ROI/justification calculators), section?

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Brain Waves: Transform your sales team

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Since I had studied the concept beginning years ago the term stuck with me and during one of our recent Slammed!

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Are You the Maestro of Your Sales Team?

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Schedule formal one on ones ; these monthly meetings are not about the forecast, they are designed for you to have a conversation with your team members about: H ow is everything going? In the concert both conductors discussed why and they picked the music for each concert, they had taken the time to make sure that the music fit the event.

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What is all this talk about a Sales Process?

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Just yesterday I was speaking with a small business who mentioned they had a good sales process defined, in going deeper in our conversation I learned they had no tools, nothing documented and nothing reinforced. Submit Findings to prospect along with appropriate Case Study. How you define a sales process is important.

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Inside Scoop on Lead Follow Up Strategies

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Ken: This is a guest blog with wonderful insights from a detailed study on Lead Follow Up Strategies by Accounting Software. Enjoy…and STUDY this. The study takes on four questions that every sales and marketing employee deals with on a daily basis: How does the speed of follow-up affect the results? Russ Davidson.

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Sales Management is the Hardest Job in Sales.Period

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In a recent conversation with a Senior Vice President of Sales for one of the largest companies in the world he lamented that his single biggest worry was for his sales managers. Studies, including one by the journal of managerial psychology, have concluded that the best salespeople may not be the best sales managers.