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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Their survey data is limited to 2,500 salespeople at 30 member companies. As recently as April of 2013, Objective Management Group''s (OMG) data on 650,000 salespeople overall, and 50,000 from the past 12 months showed that 91% of the companies did not have a formal, structured sales process in place. It was a survey!

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Are You Ready to Break the Bias?

Smooth Sale

After completing my Executive MBA, I moved from financial services sales to customer experience consultancy. Henceforth from 2005, my belief about sellers’ relationship with buyers and customers changed. We at Scale Your Sales podcast celebrate the achievements of women and campaign for a world where we can all #BreakTheBias. .

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First, Stop Using the Term Win/Loss!

Pipeliner

These mixed outcomes are undoubtedly familiar to sales veterans. Yet, since time immemorial, sales managers have taken a binary view, categorizing sales opportunities that close as wins, and those that don’t as losses. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Sometimes, things really do turn out for the best!

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

This was in 2005 after I graduated. But science to me is just as important in your journey to become a great sales professional, and science is discipline. Science is studying the data, studying the analytics, learning from your losses. If she said no, then it was going to be like, “Well, guess what? We won six of them.

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Overloaded And Overwhelmed

Partners in Excellence

Each person we work with has needs for information and data from us to do their jobs. There is a never ending stream of information and data from these people directed toward each of us, some of it necessary, some of it not, but we have to filter through all of it to figure out what is important and what is not.

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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker Training

So for example, a bank can build an app that can automatically verify customer income in a fraction of a second or an insurance company can build an app that can process insurance claims in seconds, which in the real world today, all of those tasks are done by human beings and endless, endless armies of data entry analysts.

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Revegy’s Account and Opportunity Planning Platforms Now Live on SAP® App Center

SBI

With Revegy’s Opportunity Planning platform, sales teams can connect the dots in complex sales situations: see the people who matter, how solutions map to buyer’s needs and the warning signs hidden in text-based CRM data.

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