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Hiring Salespeople

Adaptive Business Services

While I have spent most of my adult life hiring and training salespeople, it has been two years since my last new hire and that was for a client. I left my last management job in 2005 and have been blissfully semi-retired since that time. I can train product knowledge and sales skills. I can train a monkey to sell low bid.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

In 2005 I wrote the book Baseline Selling and it contains both the Baseline Selling sales process and the Baseline Selling sales methodology. Those aren''t sales coaching questions, those are tick marks in the CRM system! The reality is they only think it. 5 Steps don''t make a process. 7 steps don''t make a process either.

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The Death of Traditional Sales Coaching

Xvoyant

Gary Rhoads, PhD – Co-Founder Xvoyant — Despite the traditional wisdom of the Sales Executive Council in 2005 to focus on the middle and leave the top and bottom performers alone, many sales leaders are still unsure about who and how to coach to maximize sales revenue. The adage, “You can’t coach your dogs out of the kennel.”

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The Death of Traditional Sales Coaching

Xvoyant

Gary Rhoads, PhD – Co-Founder Xvoyant — Despite the traditional wisdom of the Sales Executive Council in 2005 to focus on the middle and leave the top and bottom performers alone, many sales leaders are still unsure about who and how to coach to maximize sales revenue. The adage, “You can’t coach your dogs out of the kennel.”

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How To Win On The Front Line Using Strategy, Sun Tzu and Sales Readiness

Bernadette McClelland

One of those strategies is summed up by this very ‘relevant to 20th century sales leadership behaviour’ statement : “If officers are unaccustomed to rigorous drilling they will be worried and hesitant in battle; if generals are not thoroughly trained they will be inwardly quail when they face the enemy.”.

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The 3 Ways Experienced Sales Reps Typically Fail.

MJ Hoffman

Challenge yourself to add at least one new contact to your CRM every quarter. I asked a group of salespeople I was training to describe the purpose of an email subject line. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response. Who’s gotten a promotion? Who’s moved teams?”. I’ll give you the perfect example.

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The 5 Quota-Killing Mistakes Only Experienced Salespeople Make

Hubspot Sales

Challenge yourself to add at least one new contact to your CRM every quarter. I asked a group of salespeople I was training to describe the purpose of an email subject line. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response. Who's gotten a promotion? Who's moved teams?". I'll give you the perfect example.

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