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This Is What Has Made B2B Sales More Challenging

Anthony Iannarino

Push for Risk Shifting and Performance Guarantees. Another way clients shift risk is by requiring performance guarantees. It started with a downturn in 2001 and gained more momentum during and after the Great Recession. This way, there are penalties for failing to produce outcomes that are part of a service level agreement.

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Wanna get lucky? Wanna make more sales in less time? Then I seriously want you to meet someone….

Bernadette McClelland

In 2001 I left my sales role at Xerox Australia and decided to go out on my own as a speaker – because back then coaching was only for sports professionals and not yet viewed as a method of peak performance for sales professionals. What many don’t know is the type of person she is to those who do know her.

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Lesson Learned: 4 Things You Can Learn from Business Failures

Pipeliner

The lesson: ultimately, a company’s asset size does not guarantee its continued existence given the circumstances, unless its failure bears grave consequences and requires intervention. These failed products are proof: Microsoft’s Office Assistant Clippy was active from 1997 to 2001, resurfaced in 2019 as stickers, and removed again.

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Executive Coaching Can Bring You BIG Results!

Steven Rosen

Feedback is a cornerstone of improvement; it’s pretty hard to see outside yourself so you need the perceptions of other people that you interact with (give it a shot, I guarantee that you may not like what you see but the insight has the best ROI you’ll get). ©2001-2009 What-IS-Coaching. Measure yourself accordingly.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit.

The ROI Guy

d=897224256317007750 This new tool will help VMware quantify realized ROI for its ROI guarantee program, a groundbreaking ROI service level agreement to assure up-front that customers achieve promised savings: [link] Posted by Tom Pisello at 8:23 AM Email This BlogThis!

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The ultimate sales guide to setting and discussing pricing

OnePageCRM

Lawyers get involved demanding service level agreements (SLAs) and guaranteed uptime. Founded in 2001, it took Mailchimp 8 years to grow to 85,000 users. In fact, when we launched MailChimp in 2001, we didn’t even have a free trial option. Account managers and real-time phone support. Should you offer discounts or go freemium?

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Sales Tip to Dear Mike: Unsolicited e-Mail Not Effective in Sales.

Score More Sales

Our company sells all the top web conferencing and audio conferencing services at the guaranteed lowest cost in the industry. We offer the following to all of our customers: Low price guarantee for both Web and Audio conferencing. Low price guarantee on all international calls). © Score More Sales 2001 - 2012.

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