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Trust and the Rise of the Transparent Seller

Sales and Marketing Management

Today, the world of sales is once again shifting under our feet. Many in the sales world are worried about how technology’s rapid advancement towards AI (Artificial Intelligence) will harm the sales profession. One 2015 Forrester article predicted that 95% of B2B sales jobs will be replaced by AI by 2020. .

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Sales Tips: Minimize the Expensive "Four-Legged" Sales Calls

Customer Centric Selling

When requesting them, sellers should be able to explain who they want the SE to call on, why it’s necessary and the objective of these calls as part of the sales cycle. Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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Sales Tips: How to Start Your New Year Right

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Get Your 2015 Started Right. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. To avoid starting 2015 with unqualified pipelines, consider taking a hard look at quotes or proposals more than 60 days old. I hope this can help you make 2015 a prosperous year.

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Sales Tips: Do You Know the Difference Between Buyers and Researchers?

Customer Centric Selling

Bottom-up selling makes long sell cycles and lower win rates more likely. A Sales Benchmark Index study concluded 52% of sales cycles result in “no decision” meaning that no vendor is awarded the business. Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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How to perform Customer Base Triage and Why It Matters

Babette Ten Haken

Lengthy sales cycles and subsequent product and service contract lifecycles create a false sense of product-fit security. Last week, I spoke to a client about her plan for ISO 9001:2015 certification. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. Click To Tweet.

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PowerViews with Tony Jaros: The New Demand Waterfall, Alignment & SLAs

Pointclear

Now is that going to be something, for instance, we have a workshop, we walk out of the room, and then we forget about it seven days later? ’ And the biggest thing that it takes in many cases is consistency.

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SiriusDecisions Interview - From Pitching Products to Selling Value

The ROI Guy

The Q&A discussions focused on the latest SiriusDecisions sales enablement research and why it is so important to review and adjust current sales enablement strategies and investments in order to be effective in 2015. We hear a lot about Sales being under more pressure in the coming year.