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Why Salespeople Find Meetings With Their Manager a Waste of Time

The Center for Sales Strategy

As such, they are often impatient when it comes to their time and meetings with superiors are no exception. One-on-one sales meetings need not be inefficient. Sales managers that want to maximize the effectiveness of their sales team can do so with Individual Focus Meetings.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

Why I made referral selling my life’s work. To this day, I don’t know why, but I added this question on the last round. I shared the results at our next meeting. Their answer 25 years ago is the same answer I still hear every time I ask this question today: No. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call.

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Don’t Miss This Event: The Gatekeeper Died

No More Cold Calling

“The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. Why am I doing a monthly Sales TV Show? The short answer is, more and more salespeople are finding it difficult to generate quality leads and new sources of revenue. A waste of your time.

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Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof)

No More Cold Calling

Perhaps it takes so many touches because salespeople use cold calling scripts, talk about themselves, and ask dumb questions like: Are you the person responsible for…? I’m trying to find the person responsible for … (fill in the blank). Other times they feel sorry for the salesperson who’s just doing his job. Lists them).

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Prepare For The Post Labor Day Sprint

The Pipeline

What follows are five things you can do any time in any year, but given the opportunities, they are crucial this year. Take time to catch up with your inbox. Even in what some call normal times, routines have their place, and need to be constantly reviewed. Harvest referrals. Recalibrate with your team. Embrace new things.

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Follow These 5 Steps When Preparing For A Sales Meeting

MTD Sales Training

Having achieved the goal of setting a sales meeting with a customer or prospect, what would be the best way to ensure, as much as possible, its success? Follow these five ideas in order to make sure you are fully prepared and confident when approaching the meeting: 1) Have a clear purpose. Plus, who specifically will be at the meeting?

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5 [Must-Know] Inside Sales Tips to Close More Deals

Marc Wayshak

Salespeople who used to sell out in the real world, face-to-face with prospects, began selling inside, never having to leave the office in order to close deals. While there are more salespeople now heading back out to sell in the real world, many still don’t have to leave the office in order to close deals. Check it out: 1.