January, 2009

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Motivational Sales Quotes for the New Year

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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What is wrong with the Hunter / Farmer Metaphor?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

Putting the right person into the right sales role is one of the key responsibilities of a sales manager. The Hunter / Farmer metaphor is frequently used as guidance to fulfill this demanding task. Is this still a valid concept today with informed self directed buyers? I have assisted many heated debates about the usefulness of this Hunter / Farmer concept.

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Top 10 Sales Tips To Stay In Control When The Market Feels Out Of.

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Are You Missing Your Prospect's "Buy Signals?"

Sales Gravy

By gaining a working understanding of nonverbal communication, you will be able to reduce sales pressure, build rapport quickly and dramatically increase your sales effectiveness!

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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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Creating a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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5 Ways To Keep Your Prospect Talking

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A Top 20% closer is an expert at asking questions, layering those questions, questioning the red flags, etc., and at the end of a prospecting call or presentation, they call can tell you exactly where the prospect stands.

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Are your Hiring Methods Undermining Your Success?

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Let’s face it: no manager wants to face the unpleasant possibility of letting a member of their sales team go — but knowing how to leverage your talent pool and keep it fresh is critical to the ultimate goal of maximizing overall effectiveness and ma

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Discover the Powerful Lead Generation System of Top Sales Professionals

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If you truly believe your product or service is the best money can buy and you care about your clients and their friends, you're doing them a disservice when you don't implement this lead generation system of asking for referrals.

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The Unprecedented Sales Management Challenge for 2009

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Sales managers are facing a set of challenges that they've never experienced before. They think their team is focused on generating sales, but they are completely distracted.

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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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Guest author Ian Brodie on diminished returns to sales calls

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

In today's business climate, sales organizations think that they have to increase their activities to counteract the increased reluctance of customers to buy. These increased activities will however not necessarily be rewarded by higher revenue.One might end up trying to get more juice from an already squeezed out lemon. Read below the thoughts of Ian Brodie, triggered by my mentioning of diminishing returns to sales calls in a previous post: “ A few years ago I was involved in some consulting w

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2009?The Year of the Hunter

Sales Gravy

Many of us take great pride in having developed our business to the point we no longer have to be hunters, constantly prospecting for new business, turning over ever rock, looking behind every tree, spending countless hours cold calling and roaming t

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Is Cold Calling Dead? - New Cold Calling Rules for the 21st Century

Sales Gravy

Cold calling today is direct, targeted and above all it’s a communication skill. Those who disparage cold calling are totally missing the point.

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Don't Become a Sleeping Beauty

Sales Gravy

In the real world, passively waiting for clients to court you and give you business is a sale strategy doomed for failure.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B