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Combining Goal Setting with Sales Competencies

Understanding the Sales Force

For example, 2024 marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life. I am excited to return to my roots and grow the sales consulting and training firm I started in 1985, Kurlan & Associates. At the end of 2023 and 33 years after I founded the company, I exited Objective Management Group (OMG). Not by any stretch.

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5 Sales Pitch Examples Too Good to Ignore

Hubspot Sales

For this post, I’d like to discuss the anatomy of a good sales pitch and share examples of the best sales pitches I’ve ever heard. Proof Points: Provide clear reference examples and list recognizable achievements. Customer Stories: Share customer examples and successes. 5 Great Sales Pitch Examples. Share benefits.

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Women Sales Leaders: From Pioneers to Modern-Day Trailblazers

No More Cold Calling

She decided special training was needed for girls who wanted to become saleswomen, and perhaps one day, women sales leaders. And as a member of the executive committee of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, she had the means to provide that training.

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Do You Need Training Even While You are Still Making Sales?

Jeff Shore

I am having flashbacks of 2005…economically speaking that is. If you were in sales in 2005, things were booming. And then when the market dips, I get training requests to help teams “Get back to basics.”. Here are a few examples of each to illustrate the difference: Product or Service. By Ryan Taft. ?I Yes, and no.

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9 Valuable Entrepreneur Training Courses That You Can Take For Free Online

Hubspot Sales

Originally held in 2005, this one-week program from MIT’s Sloan School of Management is now partially available online. With plenty of interactive exercises, anecdotal advice and real world examples, and engaging videos, Kawasaki’s lecturers are highly informative and entertaining. How to plan your business logistics. Price: Free.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Let me give you an example. In 2005 I wrote the book Baseline Selling and it contains both the Baseline Selling sales process and the Baseline Selling sales methodology. Those are the exact same issues we have identified in the 10,000 companies whose sales forces we have evaluated - the companies where 91% did not have sales processes!

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Rejection - Why it is the #1 Enemy in Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

It''s my favorite series, and I''ve been adding to it since the inception of this Blog in 2005 when he was 3. Further relating this example to sales, the stakes go up for some salespeople relative to: The title of the decision maker or contact. Sales training will not make rejection related weaknesses disappear. No problem.