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When it’s OK to give a customer a gift – and when it’s not

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Now, this study was conducted in an industry where lavish gifts – for example, an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Hawaii — had once been the norm. When salespeople were calling on a prospect for the first time, the free samples actually hurt sales. But here’s the twist: That happened only with existing customers.

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Driving Good Sales Behaviors: 4 Tips to Incentivize a Sales Team & Achieve Targets

Sales Hacker

In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals. For example, it’s harder (though not necessarily difficult) to game a “number of meetings” goal than an activity one.

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TSE 1236: The Next Wave: Customer-Facing Solutions

Sales Evangelist

He’s been working for tech companies, working at Chilli Piper since 2016. In sales, even before the first meeting, an opportunity has to be created to book a time and engage with a prospect. The easiest example would include inbound products, called the concierge. The prospect was left wondering who would get in touch and when.

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Rio Olympic Games – The Road to Gold

OpenSymmetry

It’s hard to believe that the 2016 Rio Olympic Games are coming to an end. These knowledge-focused reps pre-emptively contact prospects with a solution before prospects recognize their need for one. Incent to Drive Success. How the right mix of personality, behavior, and compensation drives success. The Consultant.

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Why You’re Not Closing Sales (and How to Fix It)

MarketJoy

When you show true empathy to your prospects during the sales process, you’ll create a long-lasting relationship which in turn will convert into more sales. Personalize every message by researching your prospects and take a consultative approach to sales. They know that sales is a prospecting game; not numbers game.

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How to Get Your Sales Team to Actually Use CRM Software

Hubspot Sales

Today’s the day you begin tracking prospect interactions, logging deal data, and leveraging that information to sell more, better, and faster. In fact, the CRM is one of the most popular sales tools today (among social prospecting, data and list services, email engagement, phone, and sales cadence tools).

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The ultimate sales guide to setting and discussing pricing

OnePageCRM

For example, don’t change the adwords campaign as you move through this process. Ways to pitch your price to a prospect (Behavioural economics). Lead with a high price and let it ruminate in the prospects mind, before revealing the actual price they’ll pay. But they used a different incentive… Alternative currencies.