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How to Lose Your Sales Leader in 10 Days

Jeff Shore

Remember the 2003 romantic comedy “How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days” starring Mathew McConaughey and Kate Hudson? The key sales lesson in the movie is our need to recognize what we unknowingly do that drives people away. Here are the top 7 things I see company leaders doing that drive their sales leaders away. By Amy O’Connor.

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Maximize Your "B Player" Sales Talent in 2013

SBI Growth

By now, HR and Sales leaders have solidified their common 2013 goals. For more details on how to grade talent, refer to Topgrading for Sales.) Harvard Business Review published Let’s Hear it for B Players in 2003. These B players lack the skills and charisma of top sales performers - and they know it. Time for Topgrading.

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Metrics to Drive Lead Generation Performance

Pointclear

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). The ability to report and forecast metrics improves when full-featured marketing automation integrated with CRM or sales automation is in place.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Six

The Spiff Blog

John Arsenault, Sales Engineer. Solving problems and having fun while doing so makes him happy, and he’s excited to showcase Spiff to finance and sales teams. Dustin Carpe, Sales Development Representative. Alison Varney, Sales Development Manager. She loves being able to help people and get things done.

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Women in Sales: How and Why the Sales Industry Should Include More Saleswomen

Hubspot Sales

In a world where women make up roughly half of the population, it’s only natural that we’d see a similar distribution in sales, too. What’s more, studies show that despite women consistently hitting or even surpassing their sales quotas, they only earn 82% as much as their male counterparts. Think of the traditional sales stereotypes.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. Decrease the cost of sales. That got me thinking.

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Sales Incentives Aren't the Only Motivator. How One Company Got Rid of Them

Hubspot Sales

In sales, it can incentivize reps to work harder to close more deals, meet their numbers, and even adapt to new sales tech. The reality is that most companies offer sales incentives — we at HubSpot do, too. But we put the customer first, and we compensate our reps for doing the same. Less Is More. Source: PFX.