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Virtuous Cycle vs. Death Spiral with Scott Sands {Hey Salespeople Podcast}

SalesLoft

Are we setting up millennials for failure with territory assignments? ” I remember the 2002 Dot Com bubble, where there were a bunch of companies that went out of business because they didn’t have any profits. Why is quota attainment lower now that it was in 2009 at the bottom of the recession?

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker Training

This is more or less a representation of my numbers, my attainment every year since I started back in 2002. It starts by looking through your territory, and picking what accounts do I have that could even be candidates to do a mega deal? .” The next slide here is just an example of how I can measure the value of mentors for me.

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PODCAST 107: Origin Stories and the Core Principles of Sales Leadership with Lori Richardson

Sales Hacker

Lori Richardson: I started a sales consulting business in 2002, which seems like forever ago. I saw an instance for myself once where I took over a sales territory from someone else and a company had not let us bid on a huge project because they didn’t like the rep. Show Introduction [00:04]. So it involved a lot more data.