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Is Your Sales Training Tethered to the Stone Age?

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Recently I spoke with a potential client who shared with me in had invested $80,000 in sales training over the course of three (3) years. ” His response was three fold: “Me for not being more engaged” It was “not aligned with the behaviors of our people” (mostly software engineers).

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Please Stop the Ongoing Insanity in Bank Sales Training

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During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? My quick and direct response was “banks and other financial institutions continue to use the same training providers they have been using for the last 20 plus years.”

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Think Investment Not Cost Regarding Training the Sales Force

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Many small businesses to large organizations would secure far greater results if they would think investment not cost regarding training the sales force as well as all other employees. Another explanation is the value behind training or upgrading the sales skills. Share on Facebook.

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How to Increase Sales Myth Work Smarter Not Harder

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Attend many of the sales training coaching seminars to workshops or even some some of the sales management software tools (customer relationship management CRM) and eventually you will hear all about you, as the individual contributor, need to “work smarter not harder” if you want to increase sales. Action is needed.

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Plagiarism Goes Beyond Intellectual Dishonesty

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A sales training company in Texas took one of my website pages one for word and copied it to their own website. Software programs can find duplicate content with the stroke of a few keys. The group responded and not even 24 hours later, this particular article as well as all other articles under this person’s name were removed.

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7 Tips to Increase Inbound Sales Leads for Your Small Business

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Sales Training Coaching Tip: Keeping is the third phase of the 3-Phase-Sales-Process and will only grow in importance. Website is essential – Sales Training Coaching Tip: Over 50% of US small businesses lack a website or their existing websites are not SEO friendly. Share on Facebook.

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Customer Loyalty Is a Two Way Street

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Recently, I upgraded my Microsoft Office software as it desperately needed upgrading. (I Then in working with a new executive small business coaching client in the IT industry, I asked him if he sold the same software program. I won’t even tell you how old it was.) He responded yes and told me the price.

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