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Key metrics can help gauge progress

Sales and Marketing Management

Emotional – stress polls and energy audits, mental health-related claims, absenteeism rates, employee assistance programs usage rates, pharmaceutical usage. Career – engagement survey results, turnover rates, employee referrals, number of employees taking advantage of professional development opportunities, rate of internal promotions.

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Major Accounts – The Growth Framework

Pipeliner

Recently, I had a planning session with a CSO from an HR services firm that had just landed their first large client, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. In my discussion with the CSO, we focused on just how to make that long-term growth happen by focusing on the teaming of sales and delivery. Sure, it takes work.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: How to Become a Trailblazer in a New Market with Amy DuRoss (S2:E9)

Alice Heiman

Personalized medicine—designing custom therapeutics for each patient to cure diseases like cancer—is a whole new terrain in the pharmaceuticals industry. In this episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Amy talks about what it takes to become a trailblazer in a new market, including the role of passion, storytelling, networking, and referrals.

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The Top 5 Sources to Help You Find New Sales Leads

criteria for success

Finding new sales leads leads can be one of the most frustrating parts of a job in sales. If you’re in the “fend for yourself” camp, you might be struggling to find new sales leads to fill out your pipeline. Referrals: The best source of new sales leads. That’s why referrals are so powerful.

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Pipelinerpreneurs – Where Do Your Leads Come From?

Pipeliner

Leads become opportunities, opportunities turn into sales, sales turn into real customers, customers bring in referrals, and referrals turn into future leads. That last part is especially important, for referrals are the highest quality leads available. In our case, we’re selling a CRM, which is a tool for sales.

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5 Things Good Content Marketers Know About How to Grow Your Business by Jayna Locke

Increase Sales

What are they doing that leads to new clients and closed sales? For example you might track social shares, web traffic, clicks, amount of time visitors spend on the site, which sites refer visitors to your site and quarterly sales growth.). Content marketing and referral marketing are in. Push marketing is over. But it works.

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

Sales Training Connection

For example, hospitals are continuing pursuing mergers and acquisitions , purchasing physician practices and hiring sales people to call on physicians to increase referral rates. 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?