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Women Sales Leaders: From Pioneers to Modern-Day Trailblazers

No More Cold Calling

Who paved the way for women in sales? Yet, even with gender biases and cultural norms working against them, there were women trailblazers in every century, including women sales leaders. Blazing a Trail for Women in Sales. Most notable among early women sales leaders is Lucinda W. Picture yourself in 1900.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals.

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Want Better Lead Generation? Get Marketing & Sales in Line

DiscoverOrg Sales

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down. Process-oriented sales enablement. Marketing-generated awareness.

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Sales presentations: Why more ISN’T better when it comes to benefits

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

You’re a savvy sales professional, and you know it doesn’t do any good to trot out product benefits that don’t interest your buyers. If you provide good training, it’s not a big problem.”. It’s an overly simplified example but you get the idea. Harvard Business Review, March 2006. Anderson, J.C.,

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. A number of the authors writing back in 2016 suggested that sales training was at an inflection point. Inflection point. Design philosophy.

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How Getting Fired Actually Launched My Referral Business

No More Cold Calling

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. From Consulting Business to Referral Business.

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Review of SNAP Selling Author and B2B Sales Trainer Jill Konrath.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Review of SNAP Selling Author and B2B Sales Trainer Jill Konrath Live. It was a lucky double stroke of good fortune recently that sales thought leader Jill Konrath would be coming to town and that I was not on the road myself. Consulting. by Lori Richardson on November 14, 2011.

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