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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Their member companies are big companies - most of what happens when they sell stuff doesn''t apply to small and mid-market companies. 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! It was a survey!

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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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Are You Ready to Break the Bias?

Smooth Sale

It was not until ten years into my entrepreneurial journey that I received formal sales training. Unfortunately, as my career has developed with international speaking, consulting, and training, I still find that I am the only black woman in the room. Today’s insights are provided to help you achieve the Smooth Sale!

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. Craving engagement. recession, to the current low of 13 percent.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?”

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. I did have a life-changing event in 2005. Sometimes I was patient but, more often, I was not.

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Building Culture to Increase Profits

Your Sales Management Guru

These costs include not only salary, but benefits, lost sales/profits, time of management support, training costs, and in many cases lost market presence and bad company image with repeated new salespeople calling on the same accounts (if you want the entire formula, send me an email and I will send it to you: Ken@AcumenMgmt.com ).