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Two Selling Strategies That are More Effective Than Facts and Figures

Understanding the Sales Force

In 2005 I took my passion for sales development and my passion for baseball and married them together to write the best-selling book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. Today, fifteen years later, that book is still #15 on Amazon.

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GTM 65: Consultative Selling Mastery, and The Positive Snowball Effect of Building Strong Relationships with Zach Lawryk

Sales Hacker

Zach Lawryk is currently the Head of Global Solutions Consulting at Rippling , previously the VP of Solutions Consulting at Slack , Director of Sales Engineering at Box , and really began his career in tech at Salesforce as a Sales Engineer in 2005.

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7 Powerful Exercises to Up Your Sales to the Next Level

Understanding the Sales Force

Shortly after I published my best-selling book, Baseline Selling , in 2005, I also published the Baseline Selling Field Guide. Today, I received yet another request asking if I would recommend how to use the exercises in the Baseline Field Guide with the book, Baseline Selling.

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How to NOT execute your revenue strategy: Part 1

Mereo

Now, factor in the research that Robert Kaplan and David Norton published in 2005 : “… On average, 95% of a company’s employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.” And if you and your team can do that, imagine how much of that 40% benchmark will shrink. Based on what I am seeing and hearing, the answer is depressing.

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How to Achieve Sales Mastery - A Collection of Loosely Connected Paths

Understanding the Sales Force

There are lots of reasons for baseball being in the top 5 but in 2005, I wrote my best-selling book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. Baseball and it's ties, connections, similarities and place in sales.

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

Bernadette McClelland

After reading the works of Sun Tzu in his book The Art of War , he describes beautifully the rules of competition and how to use these rules to our own advantage. Especially proud of our daughter, Sargent Danielle McClelland who served with the RAAF from 2005 to 2015 and was deemed individually ready for deployment to the Middle East.

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Sales Coaching: How to Hold Your Team Accountable When You Never See Them

Funnel Clarity

A recent survey reveals that remote workers in the US has grown by 140% since 2005. This should come as no surprise, as advancements in technology have enabled sellers to essentially perform every work duty from the palm of their hands.