Wed.Jan 21, 2015

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14 Ways Buyers Want to Feel

The Sales Heretic

'You’ve heard before that all buying is emotional. Whether you sell to businesses, governments or consumers, your buyers go through a variety of emotional states during the sales process. And while those emotional states at the start of the process can sometimes be positive (hopeful, excited), very often they’re negative. When a buyer begins their [.].

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4 Ways To Stop Sounding Like You’re Begging For Their Business!

MTD Sales Training

'I was asked to go on a sales call once by a Sales Manager with one of his sales people who wasn’t bringing home the bacon. He asked me to observe this salesperson to see what might be done to assist. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Critical Mass Accelerates Sales Growth

Understanding the Sales Force

'I''m going to begin today''s article with a recent example of how reaching critical mass changes things for the better.

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Are You Facing This Sales Barrier of ‘Everyone Is a Coach’?

Increase Sales

'A colleague emailed a business card of another coach who joined a local Chamber of Commerce. His email RE line read: Everyone is a coach. This statement has become a sales barrier for many good executive coaches who go beyond the platitudes offered by some coaches. With executive coaching continuing to grow and be marketed as the “quick fix” to gain instant wealth, this sales barrier will continue to expand because not everyone is a coach, or at least an effective, results driven

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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7 call planning tips – An STC Classic

Sales Training Connection

'A Classic – ’63 Corvette. Although sales people may not do it as often as they should, most would rally around the notion that call planning is a good idea. In this discussion a distinction is made between call planning and account planning. Exploring account planning is a topic that deserves its own discussion and will be postponed for another day.

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The Buyer's Journey or Hide and Seek?

The ROI Guy

'By Dan Sixsmith Once upon a time a few decades ago, selling was simpler. Picture the NYC garment district in its heyday, the late 80s. My colleagues and I would stand outside the buildings where our clients and prospects worked. When they came out for lunch or a meeting, “Bingo!” It was Showtime. We''d pitch them as they walked, or nabbed them for a productive lunch presentation.

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Sales Tips: Funding "Maybes"

Customer Centric Selling

'Sales Tips: Funding "Maybes". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. Sales is a challenging occupation. Over time many sellers must learn how to execute product sales, sell professional services, sell desired business outcomes and manage buying committees.

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Building Trust in Sales Presentations

Tom Hopkins

'Building trust is THE key element in all sales contacts, but especially so for presentations. Rarely will people buy from someone they don’t trust. However, as important as it is that buyers trust you, they need to trust the product as well. It’s your job to build trust in the product. In other words, help […]. The post Building Trust in Sales Presentations appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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Four Obligations Every Insurance Agent Has

The Science and Art of Selling

'The members of any profession, since they constitute a specifically trained group of people, are looked upon to assume the responsibility of leadership in work allied to their own. The doctor is looked upon as the leader in public-health campaigns, and the lawyer in campaigns for civic betterment. You, like every other successful insurance agent, should be interested in any movement which works toward human betterment; but there are certain fields in which your profession enables you to do part

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Don’t let Your Contacts Get Away

SugarCRM

'The post Don’t let Your Contacts Get Away appeared first on Salesfusion.

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Getting Social With: Ann Handley

BrainShark

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