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5 Proven Steps to Sell Smarter

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The statistics I share below are from SBI’s 2012 Sales & Marketing Research. You will have access to guides, templates and tools. These tools will help you excel in your current and future sales positions. Implementing a well-constructed plan will get you there. Every Sales Rep wants to work smarter and not harder.

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The Importance of Giving Feedback in Inside Sales

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In working for 22 sales leaders in my tenure as a technology sales rep, I’d say that the very best of my managers or leaders gave me constructive and supportive feedback. Where did you learn to give good, constructive feedback that helps others? They did not embarrass me, and they were (mostly) respectful.

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Sales Leadership The Talent of Realistic Personal Goal Setting

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These criteria work far better when infused into a goal setting process and even more so when there is a goal setting and goal achievement tool that leverages this talent of realistic personal goal setting. When working with clients, I use the Results Tool (as constructed by myself and Laura Novakowski ).

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New Sales Comp Plan? HR's 5 Must Dos.

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As well, a tool is included – a sample rollout communication plan. Q1 performance is way off of 2012’s mark, the new product strategy is failing, and Sales Rep behaviors are erratic. New processes/procedures/tools that enable the plan – look at new dashboards the Reps will use. Fast forward to April of 2013. The reason?

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Tips from the Sales Trenches: Is Inside Sales Demeaning?

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Your feedback will make it most constructive so feel free to comment and we can get other perspectives here. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. This is the tip: 17.

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Is Your End of the Year Desperation to Increase Sales Showing?

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With less than two months to close the books on 2012, desperation is beginning to kick in for those small business owners, entrepreneurs and salespersons who have yet to fully increase sales. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Alexa is a a trending tool to monitor Internet traffic and progress.

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How to Increase Sales – Invest in Your Professional Development

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” I will be key facilitator for this webinar on August 28, 2012 at 4pm est assisted by Miles Austin who is also an expert in the field of sales and technology. Sales Training Coaching Tip: By the way, did you know the Attribute Index is one of the very few formal assessments that is totally objective in construction?

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