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Why are Half of All Sales Reps Still Missing Quota in a Booming US Economy?

Understanding the Sales Force

During 2008 and 2009 more than half of all US sales reps were missing quota and considering the circumstances, that didn't seem to shock anyone. I remember it well as revenue at Objective Management Group dropped by more than 30%, almost overnight.

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One Millimeter Mindset Customer Retention Blog Posts 2017

Babette Ten Haken

When I started this blog in 2009, I focused on the thorny issues involved with communicating across the sales-engineering interface®. The following One Millimeter Mindset customer retention blog posts represent the top posts from 2017. Depending on where we sit around the business table, we all see the same things differently.

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Why a Good Economy Can Be Bad for Sales Teams

No More Cold Calling

That’s the question I asked myself as we welcomed in 2017. And I remembered early 2009, when it dropped by more than 6,000 points. Now that the Dow has hit 20,000, more questions arise, including the one we’d rather not think about: Is our current year-over-year, month-over-month rise doomed to repeat 2008 and 2009?

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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

Nearly half of all buyers surveyed by the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) say that budgets have increased, and 60 percent of buyers report they plan to increase the number of people eligible for incentive travel awards in 2017. economic performance, often acting as a leading indicator. 

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Optimizing Sales Training for Outcomes

Richardson

Consider that the average annual growth in new product patents filed from 2010 to 2017 was double that of the entire period spanning 1980-2009, according to IFI Claims. Developing this specificity is challenging because products and industries are changing with accelerating speed. Similar change can be seen across industries.

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Episode #094: The Return on Relationships with Ted Rubin

Jeff Shore

In March 2009 he started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR. His book, Return on Relationship, was released January 2013, How To Look People in the Eye Digitally was released January 2105 and The Age of Influence… Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer was released in May 2017.

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February Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

That’s the question I asked myself as we welcomed in 2017. And I remembered early 2009, when it dropped by more than 6,000 points. Now that the Dow has hit 20,000, more questions arise, including the one we’d rather not think about: Is our current year-over-year, month-over-month rise doomed to repeat 2008 and 2009?

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