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Sales and a Fish Story

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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The Advantages of a Career in Financial Services

Tom Hopkins

Advantage #1 – Nearly everyone is a potential client. Unless you plan to specialize, such as working only with the affluent who have $10 million or more in net worth or some other niche, your pool of potential clients expands to nearly every adult on the planet. Think about it. Who doesn’t need knowledge and [.] No related posts.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: What's Wrong With Sales Training Today

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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How to schedule 4 times more appointments or give your Reps an extra 5 weeks of sales productivity

SBI

Could you sell more if your Reps had 4 times the number of appointments? How about if Reps had an extra 5 weeks of selling time? You’ve got 215 selling days in the year. Too many of those 215 days are eaten up by non-selling (but necessary) tasks such as the tedious process of coordinating calendars and scheduling appointments. In fact, without the right tools, your Reps are losing 28 days of selling time every year unnecessarily while making appointments.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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Never Sell Yourself – Let People Buy You by Jeb Blount

Sales Training Advice

Sales expert and bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer teaches a simple philosophy, “People love to buy but they hate to be sold.”. In other words, most people prefer to buy on their terms. They do not want or appreciate a hard pitch or a features dump. Yet millions of salespeople daily, either on the phone or in person, sell to their customers by dumping data, pushing their position, or simply trying to talk their way into a sale.

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Top Four Considerations for Communicating with your Channel

BrainShark

So how do you reach your channel audience? Brainshark held its quarterly online Channel Communications Exchange last week entitled "Communication Secrets of Channel Leaders".

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How to Screw Up Your CRM Decision

SBI

1. Make sure the main purpose of your CRM system is to track Sales Reps activities. You need a way to prove they should be working harder. 2. Emphasize the management reporting capabilities when explaining to your Sales Reps why its important that they use the CRM to its fullest. 3. Don’t analyze your sales and marketing processes before you pick your CRM Software.

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Changes in Sales & Sales Mgmt? What do you think?

Your Sales Management Guru

Changes in Selling or Sales management? Living in the Southeast where football is a lifestyle, the radio sports talk shows and the newspapers sports pages are covered with discussions regarding the changing PAC 10, Big 12 and even Nebraska going to the Big 10 and the potential impact on the SEC. The changes that could occur impact TV, basketball and all non-revenue sports and as expected-there are opinions on all three sides of each issue.

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The Role of Technology in Sales

The Brooks Group

The other day, I had a great telephone conversation with Anthony Iannarino from The Sales Blog. As an aside, it's a lot of fun to connect with someone offline after getting to know them online - especially given what we talked about. In the interest of full disclosure, he and I have no connection other than that we both manage sales blogs. I will say that, because his content is so interesting, I'm hoping he'll bring a guest post to us here at Sales Evolution.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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This isn’t your Dad’s B2B Sales and Marketing

The ROI Guy

Back in the day, in the 1970s and 80s, companies like Xerox and IBM established the best practices on how B2B, and especially technology, was successfully marketed and sold. But according to Jefre Ogden, President of Find New Customers, the way your Dad sold back in the day is over. Done. Kaput. The catalyst for this change has been the Internet, which has clearly made more information and tools available to decision makers, and put the buyer in control, and Frugalnomics, the age of austerity wh

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Principal Financial: Holiday Party Invite (special application)

BrainShark

This special nominee sharkie presentation from Principal Financial is an invite to their holiday party.

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ActiveConversion Product Review: Demand Gen Intelligence

Green Lead's B2B

ActiveConversion is a web based solution that allows organizations to identify visitors to their website, to automatically qualify and nurture leads, to get notified when leads become "hot," and to track ROI of marketing campaigns. They are partners with Google, Jigsaw, VerticalResponse, and Salesforce.com. Upon opening up the solution, you can view your ActiveConversion dashboard.

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Types of Sales Questions

The Brooks Group

I have been thinking a lot about sales questions lately. Here at The Brooks Group, we teach salespeople how to use nine, different types of sales questions. Here they are: Problem-Resolution Questions. Agitation Questions. Solution- and Feeling-Based Questions. Needs-Based Questions. Feature-Benefit Questions. Objection-Testing Questions. Yes/No Questions.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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B2B online marketing continues ascent despite tough economy

The ROI Guy

Rapid 12% annual growth led by Social Media, Lead-Gen Micro-Sites and Online Marketing Services B2B online marketing continues to grow, with research firm AMR predicting an annual compound growth rate of 12% into 2013. With estimated spending of $3 billion annually in 2009, at this growth rate, B2B online marketing spending approaches $5 billion annually at the end of 2013.

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Jive Talkin for B2B Marketing & Sales Demand Gen Experts

Green Lead's B2B

Today at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, Jive Software is rolling out a new agenda for social business that is worth a close look. We all wake up on Mondays to a mountain of data, feeds, and emails. It's great to know that our best buddies "like" your latest blog article and left a comment that they miss you while they are surfing or mountain biking through your facebook fan page , or that the company we are following on LinkedIn just hired a VP of Demand Gen (nice lead for me), and that Chris Brogan

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