Smooth Sale

MARCH 8, 2022

Ambition, endeavors, and most avenues in our life bring up undesirable events, but one starting point can fuel the fire to succeed. Stormy weather often looms ahead, and we face the need to learn how to deal with it and make improvements. We each have an opportunity or many to speak up when the threat of injustice occurs.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2022

We were talking about a huge challenge they faced in driving growth. The CMO was struggling with the strategy for doing this. He was getting a lot of pressure from sales, from the CEO and others to broaden his messaging. The language and style of how they presented themselves would have to be very different.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I’ve always been an avid reader of selling books and today, electronic media has dramatically increased our ability to stay sharp through books, posts, blogs, and the like. How about that for a premise? So, to broaden the perspective, I’ll be widening my request shortly. No excuse for being uninformed. It was to listen.

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Sell Integrity

JULY 2, 2020

Although we typically think about Behavior Styles in terms of aiding sales performance and communicating with others, they also provide valuable insights into our own motivations, preferences and strengths. We all have natural styles, and each has its strengths. Applying Behavior Styles to Bolster Performance.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 15, 2022

“We don’t have problems, we have opportunities.” Therefore, if you really want to turn problems into opportunities, you need to broaden and deepen your problem-solving skills. In this article, we explore how sales leaders can truly turn problems into opportunities for their sales reps.

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Women Sales Pros

JANUARY 24, 2020

I realize now that I must talk about the negative committee that meets in my head not just for my peers in business but for all of our daughters. We need to make these safe topics for girls and women of all ages to discuss. I needed to become my best advocate and needed to learn how to positively advocate for others.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While slashing prices might seem like an easy solution, it’s not always the most effective long-term strategy. Unfortunately, even though price reductions can be effective in getting new initial purchases from customers, they do not necessarily ensure any level of customer loyalty. Can you reduce price to attract new customers?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2018

I was sitting in yet another deal review. The sales person was describing the deal, focusing on what the customer wanted to buy. ” The sales person looked at me, perhaps noticing by silver hair, thinking, “Poor old guy, doesn’t realize senility is setting in, I’ll humor him.”

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

There should be no reason to point out that the way we work has changed more in the three years since 2020 than it has in the 20 years prior. Can they really work remotely and still create great pricing strategies and drive better margins? But do you really care where the pricing manager does her analysis if she is driving margins?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2020

According to Salesforce, an average of 58% of the deals in your pipeline will stall. So clearly, the numbers aren’t in our favor. 3 Reasons Deals Don’t Close More Quickly. 3 Reasons Deals Don’t Close More Quickly. Think about it. How to Move Contacts Through the Funnel Faster.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For years, we’ve been telling sellers and marketers that they need to talk business issues. Our industry overall has gotten a bit beaten up for talking too much about speeds and feeds and not being able to connect that back to some overarching business strategy or business issue. . Do you try to combat that?

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

What happens when one of your sales people loses a big deal? Do you kick the s**t out of them by calling out everything they did wrong? Do you play Monday morning quarterback and point out all the mistakes that were made and how losing the deal could ruin the quarter or even the year? If you do, don’t.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve been looking at how to improve their prospecting results. It’s been a fascinating project, in some sense, I may be learning more from them than they have from me–but they seem excited about the changes we are introducing. As I looked at their typical deal, initial ARR is about $12-15K.

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Rob Jolles

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Lifetime achievement award recipient, co-author of four books Fred Miller sits down with Rob and talks about his book, Change Champions, for a powerful and motivational conversation about becoming the leader you are meant to be! How this book found Fred and his co-authors, Judith Katz and Monica Biggs. What is the primary work?

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

are just a few of the new terms that have penetrated our sales vernacular. If you’re interested in expanding your skills, broadening your understanding the new world and learning new skills these are the sales books for you. (To It’s how we build our pipelines. Prospecting is where everything happens.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

There is a lot of talk about what skills and traits are necessary for successful salespeople, but it turns out that business acumen (or more specifically, the ability to be good at selling) plays an important role. They cannot be successful without strategic thinking or affinity to technology. How to Develop Business Sales Acumen.

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Hiring How To B2B Banking 52

A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

are just a few of the new terms that have penetrated our sales vernacular. If you’re interested in expanding your skills, broadening your understanding the new world and learning new skills these are the sales books for you. (To It’s how we build our pipelines. Prospecting is where everything happens.

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Account Based Marketing Social Selling Hiring Decision Maker 60

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

Perhaps, you are doing something to throw off your game. Be sure to do the following: Follow your organization’s sales process Update stale email templates and sales scripts Find the lost smile in your voice (yes, this is a thing) Utilize all aspects of social media, especially LinkedIn Overhaul your virtual sales stage. Attend Events.

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Lead Gen Social Media Face-to-face Networking 116

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It has little to do with the work itself, and more to do with the societal pressure, norms, and bias that exist in 2021. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. The expectation is that we can “do it all.” Women in sales often have a polarizing experience.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JULY 14, 2016

If you climbed a mountain to ask an ancient Zen master about the right approach to Facebook, what would he say? I don’t think that David would make a claim to mastery, but Mindful Tech is the closest thing I’ve seen for a Zen response to technology. In many ways, I think he picks up where she leaves off.

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Social Media Intent Guidelines Fashion 45

Zoominfo

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s common knowledge: We learn from our mistakes. And while this age-old phrase certainly rings true, we would like to point out that we also learn from our successes. So, before we blink and find ourselves halfway through 2019, we’re taking a look back at our content successes in 2018. Keep reading.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 17, 2019

How Fire Departments Get Started. They include crucial content about what your solution will deliver to customers, but that content is isolated from the rest of the sales process and is rarely connected to or integrated with other content in the sales library. Fire alarms are repetitive events. Value Calculators are the Problem.

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Highspot

MARCH 9, 2022

We’ve all had experiences with sales leadership. In this post, we’ll dig into the nuances of sales leadership and show you what you need to know and do to become one, answering questions including: What is a sales leader? How to become a sales leader. Why is sales leadership important?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Today on the show we’ve got Tom Martin, an incredible leader who started at the bottom in research and development at Hewlett Packard. He and I talk about how you can get better at your career. How Tom is managing through the pandemic [23:18]. He and I talk about how you can get better at your career.

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