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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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“Why I Am So Interested In Selling,” Craig Jamieson

Partners in Excellence

It was a national firm that offered high-end calculating equipment and training that had won many industry awards. In 2005 I left management to pursue the pure joy of selling. I decided to pursue a new start in B2B selling. That was 1977. I went to work for the only company that would hire me. It was BRUTAL. Straight commission.

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The Sales Enablement Market Is Consolidating – and It’s a Good Thing

Sales and Marketing Management

What you might not know, however, is that the sales enablement market is poised for a major paradigm shift that will forever alter sales enablement platform strategies and set the industry on a new path. regardless of their experience in sales, the industry or the company. History of the Sales Enablement Market. Market Oversaturation.

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Zig Ziglar's Legacy to the Sales World

Understanding the Sales Force

He paved the way for people like me by almost single-handedly creating the motivational speaking industry. He wrote articles, appeared live and was really the grandfather of the industry. Clement Stone, and Elmer Wheeler. But Zig is the name that everyone associated with motivation and sales.

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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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Selling to Startups and Small Business: A Cautionary Tale

DiscoverOrg Sales

In 2005, just two years after DiscoverOrg was launched, a client contacted us with a request: “We love what you do in midmarket and enterprise companies, but need support for our small-business and start-up efforts, too. We hired and trained a research team. It was time for industry disruption, so that’s what DiscoverOrg did.

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Pharma sales – it’s a different world

Sales Training Connection

nearly doubled to 100,000 between 1996 and 2005 even though the number of practicing physicians rose by just 26%. PWC identified seven major socio-economic trends that will have huge implications for the industry as a whole: The burden of chronic disease is soaring. Pharma sales. Pharma sales reps in the U.S. The Wall St.