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How to Easily Motivate and Incentivize Sales Pipeline Building

Understanding the Sales Force

Let me explain and then I’ll pivot to selling. Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Owning Your Role as Sales Leader with Torrance Hart (S2:E3)

Alice Heiman

12:35] A big project inspires a big pivot. [17:02] A born entrepreneur, Torrance spent eight years in the Air Force before launching Teak & Twine in 2015. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Highlights of this Episode: [1:05] Strategic gifting for sales, marketing, and HR. [7:07] 17:02] An important realization. [25:00]

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The Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 20 Featuring David Bauders

Allego

In 2015, he established a second company, SPASIGMA, to fill that gap and meet distributed sales teams’ need to access virtual sales training and sales enablement support. Host Mark Magnacca: “Can you describe a personal pivot point or a moment of learning that changed your approach as CEO of SPARXiQ? From This Episode.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Building a Customer-Focused Sales Strategy with Erik Frank (S1:E14)

Alice Heiman

Whether you have been in business for five years or 100, your customers’ perspective will always play a pivotal role in the success (or failure) of your business. Do they understand your products and services? How do they want to buy from you? So, are you listening to their valuable feedback?

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The Two Biggest Ways Deal Structures Have Changed in 2020

Crunchbase

Reasons why leadership roles have joined calls or engaged in the process include: Reduced spending decisions Making strategic pivots that require a deep investment They have more time to engage with prospects and customers. Collectively, these changes may have played a role in buyers increasingly requesting longer payment terms.

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How to Personalize at Scale

Sales Hacker

After another 12 hour day of prospecting on October 1, 2015, I laid on the floor of my studio in downtown SF, stared at the ceiling for about an hour, and asked myself 3 questions that would forever change the trajectory of my career in Sales Development: 1. Is sending “boilerplate” templates getting me the results that I want?

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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Jeb: On Entrepreneurial Journeys I remember when I first started Sales Gravy 13 years ago, we were in the middle of the Great Recession and I had to make a pivot in my career. Our training was basically watching a guy do it for two days.