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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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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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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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Top Ten Ways to Immediately Improve Sales Tool Adoption

The ROI Guy

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Sales (12918). Tools (2872). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). MORE >> Tools. 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Training (4995).

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Systems/Processes/Tools. Marketing/Sales Integration. Sales Automation/Tools. Marketing Automation/Tools. Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency. Recruiting/Onboarding.

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Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Conference #S20C

SBI

How Gamification Leads to Improved Sales Performance. Challenge Your Company to Think Differently about Sales Enablement. Sales Management. Your Crystal Ball: What This Year’s Sales Incentives Tell You about 2013. Calling All Sales Leaders: How to Build and Maintain a Successful Sales Organization.