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Letting Others Shine Can Get You Sky-High Referral Rates

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Ruhlin Decades ago, sales professionals hit upon a mantra to understand how to woo prospects: “What’s in it for me?” Such a negative viewpoint only fosters a feeling of distrust for sales experts, making it tough to close deals and garner referrals. Don’t focus on a speedy sale. Appreciate the little guys.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts low IT spending growth for 2016

The ROI Guy

Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. And those opportunities you thought were progressing through the waterfall / sales process to “wins”? the Prospect has a pain worth addressing and a significant cost of “Do Nothing”.

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Is Your Online Brand Different than Your In-Person Brand?

No More Cold Calling

In B2B sales, it’s important to make a good first impression. If you want to be seen as a trusted resource—a top-notch B2B sales pro with expertise to share, not just a product to push—you can’t use social media to blast strangers with sales pitches. None of us in B2B sales has much patience. You are your brand.

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The Year in Review: Top Posts of 2015

The Brooks Group

Our achievements this year included: Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Training Industry. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Selling Power Magazine. Triad’s Best Place to Work, Triad Business Journal. Fast 50, Triad Business Journal. Top 7 Articles of 2015 .

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Sales Training is a “Process” not an Event

ROI4Sales

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. The real problem : .

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Hard for you to say you’re sorry?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer Have you ever had a service problem with a customer and worried about the damage it could do to your relationship and long-term revenue prospects? And, worse, maybe they will spread the word throughout their network and negatively influence other prospect or customer decisions. Maybe they won’t renew.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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