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Sales Management: Taking Smart Risks

Your Sales Management Guru

The first chapter titled: “The Dangers of Playing it Safe” covers a great story of a CNN/Money executive that left the security of success within a large enterprise to go into the turnaround and high risk oriented opportunity.

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CRM: 15 Years Later, now a friend

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales force automation (SFA) systems hit the market in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until Siebel’s release in the mid-90s that they gained a foothold in the enterprise. Best of all, up-front and ongoing software fees were now a small fraction of what an enterprise-scale SFA application cost. December 14, 2011. About the Author.

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Sales Growth: 5 Proven Strategies

Your Sales Management Guru

While many of the examples are from enterprise and global organizations the concepts and lessons learned are appropriate for any sales organization. When I read these kinds of books, I tend to have a pen in my hand and I fold over the page corners where I find the key important points… In 225 pages I counted 19 pages folded! .

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High-Profit Prospecting

Your Sales Management Guru

Winning at the Enterprise Level. Just a few of the chapter titles will help you understand why I felt this is a powerful book: Fit the Prospecting Plan to Your Market. Time Management for Prospecting. Best Practices for Making the Initial Contact. Customer Engagement Dos and Don’ts.

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3 Magic Questions a Sales Manager Must Know

Your Sales Management Guru

Exploring unexpressed potential needs, linking the implications of the current issues with other functions within the enterprise and tying the project to corporate objectives will both help the prospect build momentum internally and differentiate your offering. This is critical to begin to build your “business case” for taking action.

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You Don’t Just Hire a Sales Team: you build it

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Executives from smaller companies often tell us that, unlike their counterparts at larger enterprises, they don’t have the resources to undertake professional-level development projects. (My My typical response is: “That’s why you’re still a small company.”)

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