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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

The first dates shown on this table - early 2009 - represent a time when the country was deep in recession. During 2009, only those companies with cash and a willingness to spend it - mostly mid-market companies - were hiring salespeople. There are four possible explanations for this considerable drop.

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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Who’s Harvesting Your Lead Farm?

SBI

The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential. A resource and functionality gap between marketing and sales.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Marketing (6398). Prospecting (4539). Incentives (379). 2009 (1040). In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. So many prospects and clients to kill, so little time. Topics Major Topics. Sales (12918). Training (4995). Tools (2872). Sales Management (2614). Software (1035). Inside Sales (849).

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Sales Interview Questions and Answers Guide

LeadFuze

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Who currently have job openings for marketing help. million… I won the top sales incentive trip the last three years… As a manager, I am really good at developing people. Example answers: 2009 was an awful year. The market bottomed out at 6,507.4

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Demand Gen's State of The Union Address - If Obama Were a Marketing/Sales Exec

Green Lead's B2B

Last night I heard a few sound bites in Obama's State of the Union Address that brought to mind what I hear from sales and marketing folks daily. This is about Sales and Marketing Alignment. Without constant attention to this challenge, marketers will continue to struggle. Tie incentives to it. We do not give up.

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End of Year Software Discounts: Savvy Cost Saving or Short-Sighted Business Move?

Sales Hacker

This is an example of a nice incentive to shop that is attractive to a buyer and provides a little extra perk. Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar. It happened in 2009. Erica Stritch , VP of Marketing at RAIN Group , also shared a tale of a deep discount gone wrong. “A