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The Six Skills of Great Sales VPs

SBI Growth

Get a copy of our 6 Sales VP Essential Skills Scorecard when you register for this event: How To Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute. Skills Training: Unless directed, the sales manager takes an ad-hoc approach to skills. She recommends reading the latest books or product training.

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New hire sales training – an investment worth making

Sales Training Connection

New hire sales training. Question two – Have you taken a serious look at updating your new hire sales training to keep up with the changes? Here we are talking about sales skills training not product or welcome-to-the-company training. Five designs have proven to be particularly effective for new hire sales training.

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B2B sales – is more better?

Sales Training Connection

The professors constructed six persuasive scenarios and had hundreds of undergraduates read the scenarios and play the buyers role. Because of the type of sale and the buyers, the study construct does raise some flags about its applicability to B2B selling. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®. And, as usual, this yields a word of caution.

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Hiring Best Practice: Test Before You Offer

SBI Growth

Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Feedback - the Review Panel provides constructive criticism to the candidate and evaluates the overall performance using the Scorecard. You can decide if the gap between what you see and what you need can be trained. Sales can learn a lesson here. The Proving Ground.

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6 traps successful women avoid in b2b sales

Sales Training Connection

They focus on the substance of the issue and how to constructively fix it. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. ©2014 Sales Momentum®. While these women do not seek out conflict, they don’t shy away from conflict.

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How healthy is your office?

Sales and Marketing Management

On the professional level, athletes are paid exorbitant salaries, thus it only makes sense for owners to seek the best return on their investment by supplying elite training equipment that can help draw out every bit of their skills.

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Sales role plays – do them right then they work

Sales Training Connection

From time to time we hear disparaging words about the use of role-plays in sales training programs. Too often, the person playing the customer at each table during sales training is a program participant. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection.