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[Sales Alchemy]: Turning a “No” into a “Yes”

No More Cold Calling

That’s why I resonated with the wake-up-call from this week’s guest blogger, Art Sobczak. He challenges sales professionals to ditch the rote responses, get real, and face buyer objections as soon as possible. While preparing for a recent client training session, I listened in on some of the sales team’s calls.

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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Sales

Hubspot Sales

You've come to the right place to learn what it's like to have a career in sales, and it's about much more than the close. Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. There's the hustle to find leads, the hundreds of calls, and the high of delivering a flawless pitch. What's a typical sales career path?

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Sales Hiring: The Ultimate Guide for Maximum Success

Vengreso

HBR developed a great graphic on “How to Evaluate a Job Candidate for a Sales Position”. It, however, was back in 2015. The success of your #business depends on the success of your #sales #hiringprocess. Also, to assess candidates’ interpersonal skills , you can conduct a role-play through a series of sales phone calls.

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Sales Hiring: The Ultimate Guide for Maximum Success

Vengreso

HBR developed a great graphic on “How to Evaluate a Job Candidate for a Sales Position”. It, however, was back in 2015. The success of your #business depends on the success of your #sales #hiringprocess. Also, to assess candidates’ interpersonal skills , you can conduct a role-play through a series of sales phone calls.

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Ode to The Salespeople Customers Can't Wait To Meet?

The Sales Association

Salespeople – Thank you for challenging my thinking and not backing down and being a ‘yes’ person. To date I have accumulated more than eight years in the sales industry beginning in Business to Business and Business to Customer sales and extending into direct, inside, and outside sales.

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B2B Marketing Guide

OutboundView

B2B Marketing and Sales teams need to be testing things like outbound marketing, paid advertising, PR, events, etc. This should give your sales team more time to execute calls and customize emails instead of list building. Back in the day, you’d say dial until you’re blue in the face. Social Media.

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Inbound or outbound sales—which one should you focus on?

Close.io

With inbound, the prospect does the searching, the reading of an article, the attending of a webinar, or the scheduling of a free consultation call. The prospect initiates the contact, and that could be as simple as submitting their email for a free ebook, and then later an inbound sales person might email or call them.