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What is the Best Sales Process for Increasing Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Having founded Kurlan & Associates in 1985 and Objective Management Group in 1990, the only surprise should be that it took so long to combine the two passions and write Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball , in 2005.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s amazing what Harvard Business Review will print on their pages when it comes to the subject of sales. The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. So they say. Here are some of the many problems with their premise. Let me give you an example.

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The Challenge of the Challenger Sales Model - The Facts

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote an article, Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind , that was very critical of an article that appeared in Harvard Business Review. This highly successful, elite salesperson, has a Sales Quotient of 140 (out of a possible 173) or better.

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

Bernadette McClelland

When they find themselves in a competitive sales situation some wouldn’t have a clue where to focus their attention or what steps they will take next. Initially designed for the battlefields of China some 2,500 years ago, his works have now been adapted to leadership, business and more relevantly sales strategies.

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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. But what about real sales reps? Don’t do it.

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Are You Ready to Break the Bias?

Smooth Sale

The insights are essential for business growth and the precursor for successful sales. Janice is listed in the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Customer Experience, 2020 and 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow, 2021 and LinkedIn Sales 15 Innovating Sales Influencers to Follow, 2021.

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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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