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Team selling – the need for more shorter, better meetings

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We train and coach and provide salespeople tools in many areas: call execution skills, sales strategy, business acumen, sales negotiations – but we tend to provide less help in how to run a meeting. The good news is new software tools are available that can help. Internal Team Planning Meetings.

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Sales management: Step 1 – Stop annoying your sales team

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Growing up, when my I did something wrong, my Mother often lumped my Sister and I together – saying “You and your sister both ….” The more successful the salesperson, the more likely that they regularly follow-up with buyers in a timely way. Make it a group when it isn’t. This good idea also holds true for sales managers.

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5 Payoffs to Asking Questions in Sales Calls

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Questions are a primary consultative tool for getting that done. Alternatively, asking follow-up questions is an effective way to better understand the scope of the problem as the customer sees it and to explore what the possible strategic, operational, and financial ripple effects might be.

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New sales strategy process being implemented – caution ahead!

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Three have a particularly nasty track record because they pop up frequently and they have a substantial disruptive effect. Forgetting that creating better strategies requires up-front planning, management review, and follow-up. Failing to distinguish between tools and forms.

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Successful sales managers are effective delegators

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This frees up your time to focus on activities that yield the highest returns for the company and that grow the business. This frees up your time to focus on activities that yield the highest returns for the company and that grow the business. Set up a successful delegation process. You have mastered the art of delegation.

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Sales and Storytelling – 16 tips and 3 shout-outs for help

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Follow the “Goldilocks” theory of detail – Give just the right amount of information – not too much detail, but not too little either. Build up your story inventory – Have an appropriate story ready to illustrate a point and advance the sale. ? Use fewer words that carry more meaning. ? Punch the story – Put your audience in the story.

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Virtual reality – a new day for medical product launch presentations

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They need the knowledge, skills and tools to present the product to their customer base in a compelling fashion that differentiates the product from a wide array of competitive offerings – the more innovative the new product, the truer this proposition. We have referred to a number of the upsides.