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Slow Sales? Training May or May Not Be the Solution.

The Sales Hunter

Is your company and/or sales team in a bit of a sales slump? I know it may surprise you to hear me say this, but sales training is not always the solution. Unfortunately, training is often pegged as the solution for everything. Obviously, I do often see where organizations could benefit greatly from training.

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Consultative Selling, Commitment and Training - Like Oil & Water

Understanding the Sales Force

So why didn''t the training on consultative selling stick? That same finding is used to determine how quickly a new salesperson will ramp up and apply what they learned from training. When you provide sales training, it''s not just new skills that you ask people to learn. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Stop Using Your Brain as Your CRM

The Sales Hunter

You must use your CRM system to its full potential or you are robbing yourself and your company of more success. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Salespeople say they can remember info for one simple reason — they’re lazy and don’t want to go through the work of recording the information.

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Sales Managers: You Are Responsible for Your Organization’s Culture

The Sales Hunter

Your company’s culture is far more important than you realize and don’t think for a moment it’s somebody else’s job. Watch a company when they bring in a new CEO from outside the company. Same thing goes for departments within a company when an outside manager takes over. Notice how thing change.

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Does Your Sales Meeting Have an ROI?

The Sales Hunter

Is the field sales force going to leave the meeting with a more positive impression and respect for the company and leaders they work with? Has each person who is going to present been properly trained in how to present and is their message going to resonate with the audience? Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Missing on the "Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers"

Understanding the Sales Force

Here's why: He said to hire for characteristics and train for competencies. And when we train for competencies, that should be fine-tuning, not wholesale development. Selling skills! c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan I thought that the second half was as bad as the first half was good.

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8 Secrets to What Top Salespeople Want in an Employer

The Sales Hunter

A sharp sales manager who is a strategic thinker and has clout in the company. A solid company. This doesn’t always mean a big company. Top gun salespeople aren’t going to avoid going to work for a small company, as long as it has a solid business plan with solid backing. No micro-managing. Why should they?

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