Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. I suggest that you read it first, returning to this article for the analysis. Selling skills!

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A title like, "Presidents & CEO''s: 4 Out of 5 Sales Managers Are Ineffective", will cause some Sales Directors, Sales VP''s and Sales Managers to click and read the article. The top 10 Sales Management Functions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the comments on my article, The Validiation of the Sales Assessment Validation , mentioned the reluctance of CEOs and Presidents to redeploy or terminate ineffective sales managers. Lack of overall sales performance is an easily recognized problem.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan First the links. The Huffington Post and the Hubspot Blog both published an article, by Dan Lyons about OMG and Kurlan and what it takes to succeed in sales. asked the Director of Sales. How could that be?", That could be the punchline but it''s not.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I write often about sales process. After all, one can't accurately predict outcomes of sales calls, meetings and cycles without a formal, structured sales process to follow. Sales Process - Top 10 Reasons Why Sales are Lost.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan You probably haven't read this article by Dan Pink (Thanks to Craig Ruhland for sending me the link). Pink points to research showing that extroverts and introverts are not as successful in sales as ambiverts, the people in the middle of the scale between both extremes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Recently I was searching Google for a Keynote Speaker for Objective Management Group''s (OMG) upcoming International Conference in April. While a few were pretty good, most weren''t, and the secrets were certainly not very well kept. Example of the middle. Just pictures.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan For double article Friday, in addition to my Sales Pipeline Nazi article, I have the following bonuses for you: For those of you who wanted to attend the Webinar on the Sales Candidate Analyzer, here is a link to the recording. Download it here.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the findings in the most recent Sales Performance Optimization Study , from CSO Insights, revealed that the win rate for deals has reached an all-time low. Is sales process having an impact? Does that surprise you? Is it a result of more competition?

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan For double article Friday, in addition to my Sales Pipeline Nazi article, I have the following bonuses for you: For those of you who wanted to attend the Webinar on the Sales Candidate Analyzer, here is a link to the recording. Download it here.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 24, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan On the heels of The Top 5 Sales Leadership Articles of 2013 comes the Top 10 Sales Leadership Tips of 2013. Each of these tips are excerpts from articles I wrote during the first six months of 2013.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I wrote an article for the Sales Blog over at Hubspot on how Inbound Marketing has really been around, like, forever. The article was about who should be your first sales hire. This issue also announces a Top Sales Contest for Salespeople.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 7, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I wrote an article for the March 2013 issue of Top Sales World Magazine that debriefs an actual sales call. I've written more than 1,000 articles and I believe this one is the best yet! You'll have to get this month's issue to read it.

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