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The Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 20 Featuring David Bauders

Allego

Bauders recognized a consistently growing skills gap in sales forces’ ability to navigate evolving buyer practices in today’s disruptive digital economy: core selling skills, negotiation skills, financial acumen, strategic client-relationship building, and emotional intelligence. That, to me, has been a revelation.”.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

Though the “goal” is to set the stage for sales success, SKO agendas are dominated with things that do not help salespeople be better at the craft of selling. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation.

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Chally on Challenger – “Defining sales role requirements is not as simple as comparing apples to oranges!”

Jonathan Farrington

Since the inception of the modern day sales force some 100+ years ago by John Patterson, the founder/leader of (NCR) National Cash Register, the sales profession has been presented with a constant stream of revelations introducing the latest in “trends and techniques” that are needed to compete and SELL successfully in the changing marketplace.

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Sales Targets – 2 Reasons You Won’t Hit This Year’s Target

Klozers

As discussed in our post on the Top 4 Reasons Companies Don’t Hit Them , many Sales Professionals simply, a) either do not know or do not employ basic selling skills, b) move something forward in their sales pipeline or c) move something out of their sales pipeline. 1) Being Busy is Not the Same as Being Effective. .

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Sales Targets – Top 4 Reasons Companies Don???t Hit Them

Klozers

In our sales training course Sales 101, we teach sales people that the value of all sales people is not the information they give out, but the information they gather. When two products appear the same, why pay more? . 4 out of 10 Sales people struggle to sell value versus price.

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20.5 Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study | Jeffrey Gitomer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Online Training. “Revel” and “lament” are choices. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study. Gitomer | November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share Here are 20.5 It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Sound familiar?

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“….Must Have Previous SaaS Sales Experience”

Partners in Excellence

Sure it may require a consultative/solution selling approach, it requires deep product knowledge, but there is nothing about the technology implementation that necessarily requires specialized selling skills. The skills needed for any other complex product/solution (technology or non technology based) are similar.