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Did President Obama Do More Damage to the Image of Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

We need to present our products and services in the best possible light and must do that without name-calling. Over the past four years, the national health care package has come to be known as Obamacare. Sales Manager: "Hey Steve, how did you make out on that sales call to Exxon/Mobil?".

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“Parasales” Reps – Sales eXchange 209

The Pipeline

One example would be a paramedic “a person who is trained to assist a physician or to give first aid or other health care in the absence of a physician, often as part of a police, rescue, or firefighting squad.” A regular lament I get from managers is that the best presentation a rep had was the one they did for the job.

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Training New Medical Device Sales Reps – Getting it Right

Sales Training Connection

Identifying physician expectations – Because sales people often are present during cases and follow up with patients, physicians expect substantial support personalized to them. This means sales people must identify the likes and dislikes of every physician with whom they work. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC. .”

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Should You Stop Selling During This Crisis?

Anthony Iannarino

Until the crisis reached our shores, the stock market valued the companies at numbers that are trillions of dollars more than their present value, even though the underlying fundamentals for most companies haven’t changed. Learn how to sell without a sales manager. You need to make sales. Get the Free eBook!

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Inbound Sales: How to Sell the Way Prospects Buy

Hubspot Sales

Give a tailored presentation. Legacy sales teams build their sales process around their own needs, not their buyers’. Legacy salespeople focus their energy on “checking the boxes” their sales manager laid out for them instead of listening to the buyer and supporting them through the purchasing process.

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Hospital sales – business-as-usual will be business lost to competitors

Sales Training Connection

So for those of us interested in sales what do we need to do in order to be responsive to these changes so we can continue to be successful? To get some ideas for answering that question, let’s listen in on a presentation being given at a meeting of the VP of Sales and several regional mangers for a large medical device company.

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Why You Can't Motivate Workers | Sales Motivation and Sales Training

The Sales Hunter

This is particularly true in sales, as money has always been the traditional carrot dangling from a string. Enlightened sales managers go beyond money and find the inner drive of each sales person and speak to that, but traditionally it’s been money as the reward and job loss as the punishment. phone sales tips.