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5 Ways to Leverage User-Generated Content for Local Social Media Engagement

BuzzBoard

A sincere photo or review from a user can forge a sense of trust and community more than a professionally constructed promotional post. Gain a competitive edge by fostering constructive connections through user-generated content. However, UGC’s success highly banks on the audience type.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Spence Wixom

Partners in Excellence

My offer with Accenture in San Francisco vanished so I took a flyer on an analyst job at a boutique investment bank just outside of Newport Beach. I was selling smaller machine shops / mechanical contractors / specialty construction companies to larger machine shops / mechanical contractors / specialty construction companies.

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Weekly Sales Meetings Suck. Here Are 5 Ways to Improve Them

Sales Hacker

But it doesn’t have to be — it can be inviting and constructive. The exercise should take no more than 15 minutes, and afterward, peers can share constructive feedback and improvement points. 3) Rehearse your story bank. DO: Develop a healthy, wealthy story bank. Effective Sales Meetings Are 5 Steps Aways.

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Talent Management Continues to be The Sand Dune for Businssess

Increase Sales

Now pull out 75% and recognize for those employees you are not earning a return on investment, but rather bleeding dollars, think profits, all the way to the bank. Think for a moment of your total payroll. Then add in all the other benefits and your negative profits have probably doubled. Share on Facebook.

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Strategies and Skills: How to Be a Good Sales Manager

LeadFuze

Effective Management Practices for Sales Teams Gaining a mastery of the selling craft is not enough to become an effective sales manager; rather, it necessitates comprehension of one’s team, setting concrete objectives and constructing an atmosphere that promotes development.

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How to Create a Winning Sales Process: 7 Essential Steps

CloserIQ

Constructing a customer avatar – which represents your ideal customer persona – is an essential part of this stage. Handle objections and obstacles. There are a handful of common objections that salespeople should be aware of. Objection: It’s too expensive. Objection: I don’t want to be tied into a contract.

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Using Sales Data: Data Driven Sales Coaching

LeadFuze

A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. When Constructing Pipelines, Disregard Their Technological Intelligence. Transforming inert facts into tactical objectives. How tactical objectives establish your relevance as a sales coach. A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry.

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