Lead411

APRIL 10, 2023

How to write Blog Articles that Attract Customers Orbit’s survey shows that only 22% of blogs produce good marketing results. You’ll find them in this article. Authorship Having an author adds credibility and context to an article. Link his or her name to the profile page where readers can explore other articles.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 25, 2014

Especially this Friday when you get my powerful rant below, as well as two bonus articles! The Selling Power Blog has my new article on why consultative selling is so difficult. And over at Top Sales World , my article on the premature announcement that SPIN Selling is dead is one of the top 10 articles for last week.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 24, 2016

If you are a subscriber to my weekly ezine, then you know I publish a new article every week. That’s fifty-two new tips, scripts, strategies, and current techniques to help you succeed selling over the phone. Enjoy and Happy New Year! A common request I get is how to handle the initial resistance statement “We are all set.”

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2023

I believe we are at another inflection point in the evolution of professional selling. Ironically, this next wave of tech-powered selling may seem to some like a step backwards. So how do we get to this new era of AI-enabled personal selling? The articles below can start us off in the right direction. Are you authentic?

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Lead411

APRIL 10, 2023

You’ll find them in this article. Authorship Having an author adds credibility and context to an article. Link his or her name to the profile page where readers can explore other articles. Table of contents Compose the content for the article and place it at the beginning of the article.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you don't know Dinger, you can learn about his listening skills in this article. Speaking of creatures of habit, there's Bob, and he's up to his old tricks. If you don't know who Bob is, you can learn about his sales misadventures i n this article on not properly selling a trial , and this article about not selling value.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Here’s a recap of the best sales articles from 2018 from Sales Hacker! The 18 best sales articles of 2018 from Sales Hacker. This article will help you build the most compelling sales deck possible. That means you can’t afford to slip up during sales conversations. More on that later…). With an average of 6.8

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Summary Video Article: Title: The Power of Face-to-Face Sales: Building Trust and Rapport Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction​ In today’s digital age, where virtual meetings have become the norm, it can be challenging to encourage salespeople to embrace face-to-face conversations.

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SBI

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Here are some of Smart Selling Tools stats for 2017: Published over 100 articles on our blog. What follows are some of our most popular blog posts, and LinkedIn write-ups. The Sales Tech space has grown dramatically as evidenced by the publication of our 2017 Sales Tech Landscape with 500 solutions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today's article has a collection of links to help you, your sales managers and your salespeople become more effective. A new book by Adon Rigg, Insightful Selling , launched today. See this important article for more on the truth about cold-calling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. Up until the moment of the shooting, Wallace believed that a bullet-proof vest would stop a bullet and save his life. It will be worth it! But that’s not the analogy I’m going to make.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I recently attempted to learn to golf – again. I visited a Pro Shop and confidently told the Pro that I was pretty good with my Driver, 4 Iron, 7 Iron, and Pitching Wedge, but not very good with my.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 7, 2012

I know that for many of you, your sales efforts require that you prospect and sell to professional buyers and purchasing departments. Below are 7 articles I’ve written that dig into the unique dynamics of working with buyers and purchasing departments. Selling to Purchasing Departments. Here’s to great selling!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

Note to my readers: Because of my heavy client load, I am reducing my blog articles to bi-weekly starting today. Wouldn’t it be convenient to have a list of 5 questions you could use to get your prospect talking, to get them to open up about how they’re feeling and what you might need to concentrate on? Happy Selling!

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Last week, I posted an article on the Impact of Relationship Building Challenges in Sales. The article explored what happens to salespeople who are skilled at selling, but aren’t very good at building relationships, as well as those who are great at building relationships, but aren’t very skilled at selling.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 28, 2020

That’s my favorite quote from David Meerman Scott’s insightful article, “ The 2020s: From the Lonely Chaos of Digital to an Era of Humanity.”. This was even the premise of my second book, Pick Up the Damn Phone!: That’s not how social selling works. Maybe, if you sell widgets. How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” ” Intrigued, I clicked on the link.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Up to this point, this kind of research has generally been too time-consuming for the average salesperson. 10 Key Ways to Leverage Your Business Ecosystem to Close More Deals There are several creative ideas in this article about using an “ecosystem” of partners that can help you get into accounts and close business.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 18, 2021

It's short article Friday. Typically, founders of start ups put it all on the line - everything - their house, savings, loans from friends and family and perhaps bank loans, angel investments and more. According to NetShopISP, there are about 305 million total startups created globally each year and around 1.35 Oh-oh, now what?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

And although I’m beginning by referencing the sermon, this is not an article about Religion. Back then I attended Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services – the two holiest days of the year – but rarely showed up for Friday night or Saturday morning Sabbath services. Well was the sermon about salespeople?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

When they learned that our core offering is evaluating their existing sales team they became excited about what that would mean for addressing their two biggest selling challenges. In this article, I thought it might help if I share a bit of what they learned about their sales team.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 14, 2023

NOTE: While this article talks about using this technique as an interview question to determine what kind of sales rep you’re about to hire, it’s also a great technique for managers to use to diagnose what is wrong with reps who may not be hitting quote consistently. So, what is the most effective way to sell a pencil?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article was easy to write because the movie contrasts the best and worst salespeople. Commonality with Sales While I thought it had a lot in common with selling, the twelve central figures: Were not professional investors although they did invest in GameStop. They did not give up. Did not trade as a full-time job or hobby.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 13, 2022

For instance, NBC reports that astrologers predict 2022 will bring “enlightenment, glow-ups, and some serious rebirths and that we should expect for secrets to be revealed, the marginalized to rise up, and chances for a phoenix to rise from the ashes.” Salespeople will become proficient in virtual selling.

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Every week it seems that I either run across, or I am introduced to, some really great new apps and articles that pertain to social selling. Backed up files are never where I expect them to be and it seems to slow down my computer at the least opportune of times. For some time now I have been curating “Ultimate Guide” articles.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2020

It means pushing back when a client tells you what they want, and you know the consequences will be dire if you don’t speak up. The rest just want to sell you their products—the heck with caring about who you are. Read Joe’s article for more on “ Trust in the Time of COVID-19.” In a word, it’s fidelity.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Even if you use social selling techniques that get you a referral or help you connect to a potential buyer using your mutual background, it is still likely to take some follow up before you confirm a meeting time (or virtual meeting time these days). For higher end consultative selling I would recommend a cadence along these lines.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 27, 2022

People want to set themselves up for success in the New Year, so December can be a great time to sell solutions and products that help them do just that. This article received a 2022 MVP Award from Sales Pro Central , putting me in the company of such strategic business writers as Dave Kurlan and Closer IQ. (Be Don’t Do This.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I don't usually write about retail selling and today's article is not about retail selling except to make a couple of important points. You've been in a store like this and you know exactly how you have reacted to that. It includes thinking all of the following: Stop! I don't care! Oh wait, I can go away! There's more?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

Instead of discounting, get better at selling value. They were looking but not biting, nibbling but not following through, interviewing but turning down offers, or hired and not showing up for their first day of work. If you are a CEO, take this article to heart and hire stronger salespeople today.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I came up with the following: Water - you can get an unlimited amount of drinking water from the tap but we not only buy bottled spring water, we buy FIJI, one of the most expensive brands, because it tastes so much better. I was thinking about all the things we pay for that used to be free and are still free, yet we pay for them anyway.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

They address the reluctance of sales reps to return to face-to-face selling and the importance of embracing in-person meetings. The Importance of Face-to-Face Selling According to HubSpot research, 65% of consumers still prefer a face-to-face meeting. Sales leaders should also model the behavior they expect from their salespeople.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 6, 2024

Feedly is a news aggregator which means that you can subscribe to the blog on selected websites, based on your interests, and then keep up with new articles when they are published. For example, I follow news on selling and on CRM. I also follow articles on my personal interest … guitars. Same for Buffer.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 25, 2020

You wake up, the sky is blue, the sun is shining, you open the door and it's freezing cold outside. In early April, during the earlier stages of the virus-required lockdown, I wrote this article about some of the remote selling challenges that companies were experiencing. Things aren't always what they appear to be.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 29, 2014

From our Frugalnomics Survival Guide, the articles you voted as the most popular and important in 2014: 5 Tips for Crafting Provocative E-Mails That Work! Stay up to date on the latest articles and collaborate with others in the LinkedIn Value Marketing and Selling Discussion Group.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 27, 2023

Even though this article begins as a baseball article, in the fourth paragraph it quickly morphs into a sales article. The questions which, according to some veteran salespeople, “don’t fit” shows how little THEY know about selling. ” Most simply don’t know how to sell!

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2024

The short answer is to start showing up in different places. I read very diverse articles and books. In fact books on sales and selling represent the smallest portion of my reading. In fact books on sales and selling represent the smallest portion of my reading. In your social channels, search for different content.

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