Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 25, 2024

You must pull out all the stops and sell your value without trying to win with low-margin, low-retention pricing. When you encounter unfavorable selling conditions, refuse to accept them. The post 10 Unfavorable Selling Conditions That Prevent Sales Success appeared first on Kurlan & Associates, Inc.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

Virtual selling will continue to play a pivotal role in sales organizations, whether they have fully remote, in-person or hybrid work environments. The post How Sales Enablement Can Improve Virtual Selling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. But with its wide adoption comes a new skill set to learn.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

In the sales domain, this big change has accelerated the trend to digital selling. Some of those new digital selling habits will stick. Here are some areas to consider using digital selling, now and after the crisis is over. Now is the time to pick up some new digital selling skills. Many will be better off because of it.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Traditional sales models vs. AI-enabled selling. Heidi says we are moving into a new age of selling driven by the availability and adoption of AI (Sales 2.0?). She says “There’s been a bifurcation of the way people manage sales organizations: There’s the traditional model which dumbs down selling.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The post Unlocking the True Potential of Digital Selling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Here is the right approach to increase revenue by optimizing the experience of the digital buyer (first) while achieving more productivity with sellers.

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SMEI

APRIL 25, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business world, professional selling plays a vital role in driving economic growth and innovation. In this blog post, we’ll explore the critical role of professional selling and why it’s more important than ever. That is why better selling is so urgently needed now.” As William C.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2023

While both of these unrelated events are analogous to selling, I would like to first share the story of how the Veterinarian closed me for surgery in a one call close. The X-Ray clearly showed that the tissue which is supposed to connect the tibia and the femur was torn. Disconnected. Hold that thought too.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 4, 2022

We work with many community banks and while the commercial side of the bank usually has some “sales chops”, we often hear from leadership that retail bankers are less comfortable with “selling.” Or they may even avoid that word altogether. The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 25, 2022

Social selling flips the switch on traditional cold calls and takes a customer-centric approach, which is exactly what businesses need to do to stand out from their ever-increasing competition. The post Using B2B Social Selling to Generate Better Leads appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2024

The post Getting Selling Down to a Science – Data Science, That Is appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. The seller who genuinely understands their client wins consistently. Doing this in a systematic, repeatable and predictable way is what separates the best from the rest.

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The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2021

As you’ll recall, we have an actionable definition of value , easy to follow, easy to sell. “Buyers will see value in things that measurably move them closer to their objectives. The more people we engage, the better, but it also requires that we become adept at winning with multi-track selling.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 22, 2024

It was in the very early days of Decisionlink, we were solving the problems of business value selling. Jim and John, were out to reinvent (and succeed) in developing some of the most powerful customer-aligned value selling tools I have ever seen. Why I’m So Interested in Selling “Why are you so interested in selling?”

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I’m introducing a Referral Selling System to ensure companies build a referral culture, source only qualified leads, get meetings with their prime prospects, and close business quickly. Referral selling—and the tenets of a referral-selling system—help you get ahead, stay ahead, and ace out the competition in any economy.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 25, 2024

With Keenan and his team, selling success is all about the customer, not what we sell. “When you look at selling, good selling, it’s all about helping teaching and solving problems. ” Why I’m So Interested In Selling! Keenan sums it up well! Solving problems, I’m a problem solver.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

One of the things he discusses in the concept of “Selling Possibility.” What if, rather than focusing on selling our products, we engaged the customer by Selling Possibility? Selling possibility gets the customer to re-imagine what they are doing and how they are doing it. We sell possibility!

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

For the past month, I’ve been publishing stories on “Why I’m So Interested In Selling.” Some have had long careers in selling, some are relatively new. I think these unique themes highlight the diverse motivations and experiences that can draw people into selling and sustain their interest over time.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 15, 2024

I then spent another 4 years in the private sector selling engineering and planning services (see Why Will Buyers Create Their Own Distinction? ). I was introduced to Strategic Selling and became an ardent fan of formal sales methodologies and sales processes. I went to work for a business owner who was a self-improvement junkie.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Preface : Jill Konrath is one of the most well respected author, speaker, teacher on all things selling. She’s written 4 masterpieces on selling. Yet, if I wanted to start my own company it was necessary to learn how to sell. I detail my process in Agile Selling ). What did I love about it? I loved the challenge.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2024

While I haven’t met Daniel, it’s fascinating to read his perspective on selling. Like so many other participants, Daniel didn’t set out to be in sales, but found himself selling. The post “Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Daniel Schmidt appeared first on Partners in EXCELLENCE.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 17, 2024

Using video in social selling can boost engagement across social networks. It should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy,” advises Erin Pennings for HubSpot. Video In Social Selling Works Both social media and video continue to be an effective way to engage with buyers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

My friend, Dave Brock challenged me to explore, “why I’m obsessed with selling.’ Here is what I got: “ Being passionate about selling can be beneficial for several reasons: Financial Success: A strong focus on selling can lead to increased revenue and financial stability.

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Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Guided selling is a game changer. When using guided selling tools, machine language-trained applications suggest content for sales teams to show prospects.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2024

Marketers sell! At least Carlos Hidalgo sells. Sometimes, “we” have mis-conceived notions about selling, thinking that only those in some sort of formal sales role sells. But selling goes far beyond the titles. And some of the very best have never had a selling title. Preface : Surprise!!

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

One of the things that has made me fascinated about his work is he thinks differently and deeply about selling. I only became interested in selling when I moved to Los Angeles. Now I am interested in selling because I recognize the evolving B2B landscape by documenting the strategies that work today and helping others succeed in sales.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Selling is one of the toughest things to do well. I started writing about the issue, the first was: “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested in Selling.” ” That post provoked a challenge from a friend, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” I came to selling through an obscure route.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s interesting to see continued predictions of the death of selling. Some focus on PLG types of approaches, where the product sells itself–at least until one wants to scale that to the enterprise level. I actually never see anything about this other than within the selling community. Hmmm, what am I missing?

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Grant Cardone

APRIL 9, 2024

But it’s not all over for Kiss, the stellar rock band… When their final tour closed out, the band announced they were selling their music catalog to a Stockholm-based company. What does this mean […] The post After Retirement, Rock Band Kiss Sells Music appeared first on GCTV.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

As you will see, Martin has a fascinating and rich career an selling. Martin articulates something that I think so many of us find so exciting about selling: “The main reason is that it challenges you to reinvent yourself and stay current with your knowledge because it is the most dynamic industry of all.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

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