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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

Reading Gap Selling is a start to changing the way we sell, but the truth is, it is a sophisticated and inherently difficult sales approach. How is that a book on execution has become my favorite sales book? So what makes execution a sales book? How are you going to accelerate sales by 25% year over year for 5 years?

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What’s “Prompt Engineering” Have To Do With Sales?

Partners in Excellence

While we didn’t call it that, one of the biggest challenges the AI company I co founded in 2002 was helping our customers understand prompt engineering. At the time, helping our customers do this was very resource intensive. What skills are these great sales prompt engineers displaying?

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Not the “R” Word Again…

No More Cold Calling

The economy is fickle, but No More Cold Calling’s 9 “killer” steps will boost your sales in any economy. What a roller coaster—this up and down economy—2001, 2002, then the Recession of 2008-09. First and foremost, we stay in touch; ask how we can help them; and connect our clients, colleagues, and peers with resources in our network.

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6 Ways to Generate Urgency in B2B Sales

Janek Performance Group

No one wants to miss a deal, and, in sales, time counts. For every stalled sale, there are a multitude of excuses. It was instrumental in Kahneman winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. For example, show the immediate effect of a Midwest supply chain issue on sales quota. In B2B, the sales process can be arduous.

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Assets Under Management – A Sales Leaders Job!

Anthony Cole Training

In 2002, Marie Guion-Johnson ’s 41-year-old husband, Rob, died after going into cardiac arrest while swimming. That got me thinking about sales managers and their assets – people. As a sales VP or manager, people are your only asset. Looking at the return (pipeline or sales results) is not enough. Additional resources.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

Showpad

Executives looking for the best technology solutions to aid in their sales enablement program have various resources at their disposal, one of the best being The Forrester Wave , which was established to give a thorough analysis of vendor product and service capabilities in all verticals. History of Forrester and The Forrester Wave.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

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Executives looking for the best technology solutions to aid in their sales enablement program have various resources at their disposal, one of the best being The Forrester Wave , which was established to give a thorough analysis of vendor product and service capabilities in all verticals. History of Forrester and The Forrester Wave.