Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And, possibly, as a result of this, most sellers view their current jobs as a gig. I seldom hear career pathing discussions from sales leadership. For a few, possibly sales management. Assuming I perform well, what jobs might I be promoted into, what different, higher level roles might I compete for?”

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JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

Photo by ELG21 via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: What Do Buyers Want Regarding House Sales In 2024? Our collaborative blog offers insights into what buyers seek in house sales in 2024. Smart Home Technology It has become essential for sellers and buyers to integrate home technology.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

In an instant, sales organizations saw their operations and teams rendered dramatically less productive. In addition to an uncertain economy, organizations now face dispersed sales teams and a lexicon of new phrases. They could have “a human energy crisis,” with sellers “in Goblin Mode,” on “bare-minimum Mondays.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Once a viewer is hooked with an initial come on, he/she looks a little closer at what the seller is actually selling. Without the initial hook, a lot of would-be consumers won't take a second out of their day to check out something for sale. Too much competes for their attention. Whether a buy is made or not remains to be seen.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Just as Olympic athletes train to reach peak performance, so do sales teams. In fact, research shows, it takes an average of three months for a new seller to be ready to interact with buyers, nine months for them to be competent to perform, and 15 months for them to become a top performer ( source ).

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA, is a service that Amazon offers to businesses and individual sellers on its platform and third-party sellers. 66% of Amazon’s top 10,000 sellers utilize FBA. 66% of Amazon’s top 10,000 sellers utilize FBA.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

This is the time when those who appreciate the top athleticism in the world are in their element – during the Summer Olympics. Double-amputee Oscar Pistorius appealed for the right to compete in the Olympics. She had competed in 2004, winning Silver, and 2008, also winning Silver. So what lessons are here for sellers?

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With ironic humor, I relayed that while I can write blogs and books, poetry was never my style – but the one exception is I seek out poetic justice! Regarding sales and getting Hired, laughter calms the nerves of everyone in the conversation and encourages further engagement. It’s my secret to sales success.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I have written articles and blogs against BANT (as a lead qualifying criterion) for years. A couple of months ago I read a blog by Ardath Albee entitled “BANT is Bunk, BS and Irrelevant”. I summarized Ardath’s thoughts, and mine, in a blog published on July 11, 2013. BANT is dead in most complex B2B sales. Build on it."

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MARCH 28, 2014

After reading Guy Kawasaki’s post about Arianna Huffington’s book, “Thrive – The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder” it got me thinking about how to correlate it to the sales department in a mid-sized or SMB business. Sales is focused on growing revenues, and making money while doing it.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 15, 2021

Designing an effective sales onboarding program can be challenging. Sales leaders need sellers ramped as quickly as possible and on top of that, they’re challenged to provide effective and fresh learning to their existing salesforce so they’re educated on changing markets, new products or solutions and an ever-changing landscape.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 5, 2022

Note: Andy Paul provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Can You Sell Without Selling Out?’. Andy Paul is a bestselling author, sales leader, speaker, and global sales advisor focused on human-first selling. Andy’s latest book, Sell Without Selling Out , is on sale at Amazon now. It was my very first sales job. Cold calls?

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Deal coaching and skill coaching are both strategic techniques for guiding sellers on how they can be more effective. Deal coaching focuses on the deals in front of a seller, and the open opportunities they have and are actively working. What is skill coaching? First, let’s start with a quick overview of what skill coaching is.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Talking Long-Term – Acting Short-Term – Sales eXchange – 109. Last week I wrote about the follies of having a shorter sales cycle , beyond the points highlighted, I think it raises another trend in sales these days. December 2007.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sales + the pandemic = video. For sellers in particular, video has become a ‘need-to-have’ channel of communication. This means skills for impactful communication over video are an essential part of our updated sales competency toolkit. Bonus: Learn when to use video in the sales process (with video examples!).

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Score More Sales

MAY 5, 2014

Think of the skills and attributes that make you great in sales: You need to be a language expert – being able to convey great messaging. You need to be a sales expert – in basic sales competencies. If you are on a sales team, do you have group goals about how the team is to improve? Value Creation.

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Negotiation Ideal Customer Profile B2B Conference 203

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Jen Mueller, sideline reporter for the Seattle Seahawks had a quick conversation with Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson recently and shared a lesson for us all in sales about the power of the words we choose to use. How come sellers don’t take a scientific approach when it comes to the power of words? Let’s be blunt.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Our collaborative Blog offers valuable insights on, ‘Shady Dealings: The truth about why no one trusts your current e-commerce store.’. Content such as blog posts, social media, podcasts, Etc.). Image by Karolina Grabowska: CC0 Licence. 3 Suggestions for Overcoming the Lack of Trust. #

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Outsourcing Services Consumer Face-to-face Social Media 78

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MAY 27, 2013

An example would be a sales rep in telecommunications understanding where their telecom and data prospects (and customers) spend time online – so they can see and hear them talking about what’s new with employees bringing devices from home and how that might factor into data issues at their clients’ corporate offices.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 17, 2022

Gordon provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Are You Ready to Break the Bias?’ The insights are essential for business growth and the precursor for successful sales. When I started my career in sales in the early 1990s, it was because I had a product to sell. On the Scale Your Sales highly-rated podcast.

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JULY 17, 2013

That happened for me on Monday at the Sales 2.0 Conference Boston – a gathering of sales experts, practitioners, sales leaders and sellers all coming together to talk about what is the latest in professional selling. Lots of sales leaders say this – and I have heard it for years.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For many sales organizations, coaching is a tricky subject. As an ongoing activity, it is sandwiched between more exciting events, like onboarding and sales training. But sales coaching also suffers from a secondary malady. As sales coaching and training experts, let us dispense with one persistent myth.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2022

I’m a huge fan of F1 Racing. It’s just fascinating to watch, learn about the teams, drivers, cars. I love looking at the racing strategies. In the early 2000’s I was fortunate in beginning to see a little of the behind the scenes work of the F1 teams. I was on the founding team of an AI software tool.

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Score More Sales

MAY 5, 2014

Think of the skills and attributes that make you great in sales: You need to be a language expert – being able to convey great messaging. You need to be a sales expert – in basic sales competencies. If you are on a sales team, do you have group goals about how the team is to improve? Value Creation.

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Negotiation Ideal Customer Profile B2B Conference 175

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Writing my first book that broke many records was a proud achievement, including quickly becoming an International Best-seller and then Evergreen, forever lasting. Learn from Every Experience, and Everyone Sales Tips: What Can History Teach Us? My Story A news story prompts today’s post, ‘What can history teach us?’

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Hiring Lead Rank Networking Face-to-face 101

HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 1, 2010

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made? Sales Techniques.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 17, 2022

The author is an expert in their field and we are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Your sales team drives your company’s revenue with its lead generation efforts. However, sales teams tend to have high turnover rates ( 34% on average ). 4 things to include in a sales compensation plan.

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MAY 8, 2013

Going through the motions in a sales position is bad for you as a sales rep and it is not good for your company, either. One of the best things a company can do to get this message across is to have the company president or CEO stand in front of new sales reps (on-boarding training, perhaps?) and make this clear. Everyone does.

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Inside Sales Licensing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 212

Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Note: Miriam Tovar provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Do You Create Customer Loyalty with Outstanding Online Order Packaging?’. The seller and buyer rarely interact one-on-one, and communication is often through email or other online messaging platforms. Packaging Attracts Clientele! How Your Online Order Packaging Can Help.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In the midmarket, there are big hurdles, with lack of a cohesive social media plan being a big one (65% of respondents said this), better understanding of ROI from these efforts needed, and many competing priorities and initiatives going on. See the whole study here. Thoughts on moving forward in the digital to physical world.

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Study Influencer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 216

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Two-thirds (or 68% to be exact) of the top 10% of salespeople in this database are proficient at the competency of staying in the moment. Two-thirds (or 68% to be exact) of the top 10% of salespeople in this database are proficient at the competency of staying in the moment. What Does Staying in the Moment Mean in Sales?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Success , Value , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion?

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In 2023, many sales organizations will focus on measuring and improving sales productivity. But first… What is sales productivity? Simply put, sales productivity is how efficient and effective your sales reps are at hitting a variety of revenue milestones and goals. Forrester’s 2021 B2B Buying Study ).

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Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2018

I spend a lot of time on the phone talking to prospects about the value of informed conversation; the value of an automated cadence with built-in analytics capabilities; and the value of agile lead management processes that let marketing apply learnings to do an even better job of providing the leads sales needs. Our people do as well.

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