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Why Sales Managers Need Street Smarts

No More Cold Calling

Tony Alessandra explains why the best sales managers learn on the job. Real learning comes from life experience, and most of what we really need to know about our actual jobs, we learn on the job. This is particularly true for sales managers. Street Smarts. So how do you learn to be street smart?

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Does Sales Lead Generation Really Require a College Degree?

No More Cold Calling

Street smarts or book smarts—which is better for sales? So, when the president of my company hired a Sales VP without a degree, I challenged him. He said that Craig, the new VP, had the sales leadership experience we needed, and that a degree, in this case, was irrelevant. Don’t get me wrong.

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What Google Might Know about Hiring Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The NY Times posted a story on June 20 about Google, their recruiting efforts, and big data. When we help companies get the sales selection piece right there are several components that we tweak. The posting - the entire sales recruiting process is only as good as its weakest link.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Gus Maikish

Partners in Excellence

He started a few years before me and was managing some significant banking accounts for IBM. Gus progressed in his IBM career, later managing one of the largest banking accounts, Citibank. When I finished college I needed a job. In 1972 IBM was doing on campus interviews for sales people.

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Why Is It So Hard to Ask for a Referral? [February Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

Yet, unless yours is among the 5 percent of sales organizations that have built referral selling skills, set referral metrics, and made referrals the way you work every day, you’re missing out on your biggest competitive tool. If you’re working too hard and still not getting the sales leads that you need, it’s time to change the game.

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January Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

I could picture the sales rep on the receiving end of that lead generation form, already ramping up to barrage me with emails and stupid cold calling scripts. And that poor sales rep wasted his time and mine. No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads. Why Sales Managers Need Street Smarts.

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From Lead to Loyal Client: How Nurturing Builds Stronger Client Relationships for Agencies

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Understanding and responding to a client’s unique needs, habits, and preferences lend a personal touch to your actions and communications. It requires an in-depth historical and real-time understanding of client behavior, a robust and flexible customer relationship management system, and ongoing client engagement.