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Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. Last week I was speaking at a conference on: “ Building and Maintaining Sales Motivation ”, after the program several individuals came up to discuss my concept of a “Drive Statement. Then engage several team members to assist you in developing a sales theme or Drive Statement.

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New Product? Don’t Forget to Update the Sales Compensation Plan

SBI Growth

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. So how do we incent this behavior? Average Sales Cycle.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago.

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Do You Sell Using a “Push” or “Pull” Strategy?

The Sales Hunter

When we say “pull,” it refers to creating incentives at the customer level that encourage them to buy the product. Take a look at your sales process. A “pulling” sales strategy where you allow the customer to pull you along will result in not only more sales, but also more sales at a higher profit.

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No Product Differentiation? No Problem. A CEO Who Found Another Way to Grow

SBI Growth

We partnered with a consulting firm to help us identify the right sales resources, define the sales processes, and determine the proper metrics and sales incentives.”. We built a Key Account Sales organization that focused on customer retention first, penetration second and customer conversions third.”.

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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

Brian: Why I Started My Business I was in corporate life from the time I graduated college in 2000, all the way up until 2020, and the last four jobs that I had in the corporate world were inside sales and customer service. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling.

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Sales Leaders Can Close Big Deals in Q4 by Reducing Customer Risk

SBI Growth

You need to close a few of the big ones in the late stages of your sales process to hit your number this year. Click here to get free advice on how your peers are planning for a busy Q4 and 2013. Early stage sales activity won’t get you to the number. According to your reps the pipeline is full of deals. Q4 is difficult.

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