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New Data: Top Salespeople are 7562% Better at Winning RFPs

Understanding the Sales Force

But lately, when I talk with the Kurlan & Associates team, the topic is consistently about salespeople who push back when our sales training and coaching is specific to RFPs. When you partner with those decision makers, they write you into the spec and/or dictate to procurement to whom the business must be awarded.

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Using LinkedIn Groups To Network And Engage With Key Decision Makers

MTD Sales Training

Recent statistics released by the LinkedIn Ads group showed that nearly 50% of LinkedIn members are in a key decision maker role such as Manager, Director, Owner, Chief Officer or Vice President – once again proving that LinkedIn really is the biggest and best decision maker search engine in the world!

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Why Technical Decision Makers remain Skeptical of You

Babette Ten Haken

Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. Technical decision makers are just as skeptical with each other as they are with the sales, marketing and non-technical types reading this article. As a result, these decision makers continuously validate the technical and scientific truth underpinning What They Know.

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Top Salespeople are 7562% Better at Winning RFPs Than Weak Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

But lately, when I talk with the Kurlan & Associates team, the topic is consistently about salespeople who push back on our sales training and coaching when it comes to dealing with RFPs. ” When training and coaching salespeople, theory is not enough. He started strong which you can see here.

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Four Competitive Advantages that Manufacturers Get When They Train Engineers as Sellers

Miller Heiman Group

Traditionally, manufacturers have turned technical experts like engineers into sellers because of their in-depth product knowledge. Engineers come into sales with the advantage of in-depth technical knowledge. One reason? Manufacturing sales organizations often assume technical expertise is enough. Today, on average 6.4

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4 Top FAQs About Remote Selling During COVID-19

MTD Sales Training

There are many solutions out there that exist for virtual meetings and they can be quickly adapted to meet the needs of the modern-day salesperson who needs to keep in contact with buyers and decision-makers alike. Engineering companies are changing their lines to deal with needs for medical equipment. Happy selling!

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Generative AI, Telling Us What We Already Should Know?

Partners in Excellence

Our feeds are filled with hacks, prompts, “cheat sheets” offering things like, “What are key decision maker roles for this… ? I’ve become relatively agile in prompt engineering, so I keep tweaking them, trying to find that “Aha” revelation. What are qualifying questions… ?