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Are You A Player?

Pointclear

We're pleased to have a new guest blogger with this post. James Obermayer is Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting. He can be reached at JObermayer@salesleadmgmtassn.com. The coach gave his pep talk and the team was ready to take the track. One of the players hung back and was quiet.

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Why not Fire your Entire Sales Force?

Steven Rosen

. . Happy holidays! Are you feeling like the “ Donald ” again? I know that it is very difficult to downsize your sales force. How do you think your remaining sales team will perform? Can you say with good conscious that your sales force is making a difference? You are selling “me-to” drugs with minimal points of difference. Product differentiation is not a source of competitive advantage.

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Sales Leadership: Time Management Tips

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: Time Management Tips. How to Manage a Successful To-Do List. Get in Habit of Doing a To Do List every day. Be Realistic and Aware of Your Limitations. Don’t Over Schedule Events. Allow for Time Cushions. Review Your List Every Morning. Ask yourself; “why me?” Is there someone else that can do this? Group Related Activities: Am I prepared to lead the event?

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Questions to Move Middle-Tier Employees to the Top Tier

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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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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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 4: Dedicate Qualifying Resources

Pointclear

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The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer ? Blog Archive ? How.

The Science and Art of Selling

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Interactive Smart Content™ and Dynamic Sales Tools Required to Meet Changing Buyer Needs Marketing of B2B solutions has clearly become more difficult over the past several years, evident in research from IDC indicating that: 62% of B2B vendors now need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales; 72% indicate an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, while the buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months.

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The Sale You Can’t Close By Mark Hunter

Sales Training Advice

We’ve all been there. After countless calls, meetings and an endless amount of work, you just can’t get the customer to say “yes” and move forward. There can be hundreds of theories and ideas as to why this happens more times than we care to admit. Let’s put all the theories aside and get to a solution you can use right now to determine if the customer is serious.

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Who Is Your Greatest Competitor?

Sales Gravy

The woman failed to listen and barged into the business because she had to talk to her as one business owner to another. My client then received a very loud earful about her unethical business practices and how she was stealing this woman's clients.

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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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The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer ? Blog Archive ? Sales.

The Science and Art of Selling

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Code of Ethics for Sales Professionals

The Brooks Group

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of Wartburg College students about Professional Selling. Since we’re in the business of elevating the sales profession, I jumped at the opportunity. During the presentation, one of the students – Nathan Welsch – asked about the ethical dilemmas that arise during the course of selling. Nathan’s question got me thinking about the ethics for the sales profession.

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Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professional

The ROI Guy

Each week the Content Marketing Institute poses a new question to help drive content marketing best practices. This weeks question: What other areas of the organization can help build loyalty/buy-in to the content marketing program? One of the most important, but often forgotten consumers of content marketing programs are sales professionals. In many organizations, Sales and Channel Enablement groups are responsible for leveraging and building best practices so that sales professionals are aware

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It's Time to Winterize Your Business

Sales Gravy

Beyond being a trendy word, innovation is critical for small business owners. By understanding what innovation is and then how to integrate this necessary concept into any business can help to increase sales.

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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

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Are You Ignoring Your Secret Sales Force? | Sell More, Word Less.

Engage Selling

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Event Marketing Works, but ONLY if Vendors Add Value

Green Lead's B2B

I've recently been on the conference circuit, speaking and tweeting whatever sales and marketing goodness I can find. One topic that came up at each conference was the quality of the content presented by the various speakers. Some sessions were brilliant; some were nothing more than veiled commercials. The key as an attendee is to be able to pull the brilliant content out of the commercials.

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Sales Skills – Let’s Talk After the Holidays

SalesGrail

Many sales people dread the holiday season for these simple words: “let’s talk after the holidays.” What’s strange is that we all know it’s coming, yet some of us are unprepared. What can we do to sharpen our sales skills in preparation for the holidays to ensure we close the year strong? As always, we [.].

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Two Kinds of Sales Philosophies: What kind of closer are you?

Sales Gravy

The downside was that I based my entire self-esteem on how well I did as a closer. If I had a good month then I felt good about myself, but when I didn't do well I tended to get anxious and depressed.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Take control of every sales relationships by closing on every.

Engage Selling

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5 Reasons Why Your Small Business Is Failing (or Failed) ? Score.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. 5 Reasons Why Your Small Business Is Failing (or Failed). by Lori Richardson on November 30, 2010. Business Failure. You know who I am talking about. Perhaps, if it is NOT you, you do know of several folks this happened to (or is in the process of happening to) Perhaps it IS you – or perhaps you are one of the other 50% with a succeeding business.