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The Many Different Selling Roles and How They Differ - Part 1

Understanding the Sales Force

When you think about cars, you know there are coupes, sedans, crossovers, SUVs, and sports cars. To further complicate things, in some companies and industries, Sales Managers function as salespeople and Sales VPs function as Sales Managers. You also know there are luxury cars, mid-range cars and economy cars.

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Competitive Sports are Like Professional Sales

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CLICK HERE to Play Video (or click on image above). When my company was re-branded, I wanted a name that represented my views and my life. At the time, my son had been a successful Division I college athlete and moved on as a professional hockey player.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 136 – Quick Wins

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If you have any doubt about that, look at how people feel the morning after their local sports team has won – especially in playoff competition. If you are in a sales role and do not experience regular wins of some type, you probably won’t feel very motivated or inspired. Winning is fun and it gives you energy.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 110 – Deliberate Practice

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I used to call what sales people need to do “perfect practice” as many will say that “perfect practice makes for a perfect end result” but I am not a perfectionist and don’t like to see sellers stalling, wasting hours and hours while they try for more perfect research and to perfect their messaging.

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4 tips to grow and develop your inside sales team

Velocify

We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. Richardson noted that a good sports coach motivates and inspires their athletes by leveraging and developing the individual strengths of each player.

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PowerViews with Josiane Feigon: Survival of the Fittest Sales Reps

Pointclear

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. The Inside Sales Superhero to the Rescue. They’re social.

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Why the ‘will to win’ isn’t enough…

Mr. Inside Sales

It took a long time for me, as a struggling sales rep, to understand the difference in attitude and action this quote speaks to. But once I did, my sales results (and my life) changed. I used to be an inside sales rep, a financial broker selling LLC partnerships, in a company with 25 other reps.

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