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Mistakes to Avoid When Expanding Your Sales Department

Pipeliner

These days I remembered something I’ve read back in 2006 and somehow kept in the back of mind all this time: ‘’Everyone wants to be the VP of marketing and do the cool stuff like advertising and promotion. If sales force size and business growth objectives are mismatched, the success rate of the expansion will drop like a lead balloon.

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The Sales Assessment Client Who Didn't Renew after All These Years

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan He has been a client of Objective Management Group (OMG) for over 20 years. He was assigned a remote territory! He had a license to use OMG's Sales Candidate Assessments and, as most clients do, had renewed it each year.

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